Little wonder his double bill with the New York Philharmonic was a celebration of Gershwin.
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" On that occasion, Mr. Thibaudet was featured in two George Gershwin classics: the Concerto in F, and the "Rhapsody in Blue.
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When George Gershwin heard her sing, he cast her in the major role of Serena in his new opera, Porgy and Bess.
Hart and Gershwin, after all, are credited with loosening up songwriting conventions and helping pioneer a more colloquial, natural-sounding approach to lyrics.
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Before Porgy opened, Gershwin took five of the leading players into a recording studio to conduct parts of the opera with an orchestra.
At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.
By any objective measure, we would call them failures, and yet as I said, I am sure Gershwin was all right with that.
Bennett said it was a good opportunity to put music from Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and George and Ira Gershwin back in the spotlight.
The danger of emerging ballistic missile threats was underscored by Dr. Larry Gershwin , National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Since her death, she's been largely overlooked, except for Gershwin mavens.
George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein incorporated jazz elements into orchestral works.
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For a lyricist, Ira Gershwin was a pretty darn good historian.
He believes Hart was sloppy, Hammerstein soppy (too many easy metaphors like birds, dreams, flying), Coward condescending, Gershwin too striving and Lerner too limited in his palette.
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In particular, Gershwin noted the possibility of short-cuts that might permit developing countries to acquire long-range missiles far more quickly than if they were obliged to develop them indigenously.
The "songbook" albums in which Ella Fitzgerald recorded her interpretations of the collected works of such classic songwriters as Harold Arlen, George Gershwin and Johnny Mercer were Granz's idea.
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We also want to thank the Gershwin family, as well as the Library of Congress, and Dr. James Billington, as well as PBS, for helping to put this together.
In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
Mr Mehldau is steeped in the classical repertoire of jazz, and he reveals new colours and complexities in works by that genius Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin and even Radiohead, a pop group.
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" "I asked myself a couple of questions: 'How can we take the style we do and communicate it to people who grew up on Gershwin and people who grew up on the Beatles?
"The French have always embraced Gershwin, " he explains.
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And I was hoping that it would get that response, because one of the things I wanted to accomplish with this project was to take Gershwin tunes that have really kind of become hackney for people to hear.
She obsessed over the Gershwin songbook.
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He embraces the busiest borough but shows it through the nostalgic prism (in black-and-white and set to the strains of Gershwin) of his protagonist and alter ego, Isaac Davis, a prosperous TV writer who yearns to break free and write his novel.
Gershwin's development was amazing.
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Not only did they add both English and Spanish lyrics to what had been an instrumental, but they also combined Viva Tirado with elements of both Frankie Valli's hit ballad, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, and Summertime, the classic number from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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