 | This is my post from this week's Tuesday Blog. No. 79 of the ongoing ITYWLTMT series of audio montages can be found in our archives at http://archive.org/details/InMemoriamGeorgeGershwin |
Much of my activities this month (see the “teaser”
below) are commemorating the World Premiere of George Gershwin’s folk
opera Porgy and Bess, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this
year. In a couple of weeks, I will be sharing something specific on that opera
on the Tuesday Blog, but this week we dip into the Podcast Vault,
and recycle an all-Gershwin program.
The bulk of the montage provides a series of adaptations and settings of some of Gershwin’s famous tunes, going from virtuoso etudes by Earl Wild to jazz adaptations by Benny Goodman and Miles Davis. The latter, from his Porgy and Bess concept album, will get further discussion in a couple of weeks.
Two tracks feature Gershwin as a pianist, both in-person and virtually. According to an article by Jack Gibbons for Piano Magazine , “by all contemporary accounts Gershwin’s piano playing was phenomenal; such legendary virtuoso pianists as Rachmaninov and Josef Hofmann were deeply impressed with the natural ease and inventiveness of his playing. […]The examples of his playing that have survived – including some electric recordings, recordings of radio broadcasts, two sound films, and a considerable number of piano rolls – reveal a youthfulness, a vigour, a 'pep' which guaranteed to make him the centre of attention at any social gathering.”
We hear Gershwin play one of his three piano preludes, and from a vintage piano roll, Gershwin attacks his famous Rhapsody in Blue at a break-neck pace.
Happy Listening!
The bulk of the montage provides a series of adaptations and settings of some of Gershwin’s famous tunes, going from virtuoso etudes by Earl Wild to jazz adaptations by Benny Goodman and Miles Davis. The latter, from his Porgy and Bess concept album, will get further discussion in a couple of weeks.
Two tracks feature Gershwin as a pianist, both in-person and virtually. According to an article by Jack Gibbons for Piano Magazine , “by all contemporary accounts Gershwin’s piano playing was phenomenal; such legendary virtuoso pianists as Rachmaninov and Josef Hofmann were deeply impressed with the natural ease and inventiveness of his playing. […]The examples of his playing that have survived – including some electric recordings, recordings of radio broadcasts, two sound films, and a considerable number of piano rolls – reveal a youthfulness, a vigour, a 'pep' which guaranteed to make him the centre of attention at any social gathering.”
We hear Gershwin play one of his three piano preludes, and from a vintage piano roll, Gershwin attacks his famous Rhapsody in Blue at a break-neck pace.
Happy Listening!
ITYWLTMT Montage #79 - In Memoriam -
George Gershwin
(Originally published on Friday, 9 November 2012)
(Originally published on Friday, 9 November 2012)
Royland Earl WILD (1915 –2010)
7 Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin Songs (1973) - Selections
Earl Wild, piano
George GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
Prelude no. 2. in C-Sharp Minor
George Gershwin, piano
Strike Up the Band (From the Musical Comedy, 1927)
André Kostelanetz & His Orchestra
Facinating Rhythm (from Lady, Be Good!) / Someone To Watch Over Me (from Oh, Kay!, 1926)
Morton Gould (piano) & His Orchestra
Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (from Show Girl, 1929)
Benny Goodman (clarinet) & His Orchestra
Mine (from Let 'Em Eat Cake, 1933)
Dick Hyman, piano with uncredited accompaniment
They Can't Take That Away from Me (from Shall We Dance, 1937)
Charlie Parker (Saxophone) With Strings (Carnegie Hall 1950)
Porgy and Bess (1935)
Instrumental arrangements and sung selections
Overture & Medley
Russell Garcia & His Orchestra
Summertime
Oscar Peterson, piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, double bass
Jake Hanna, drums
I Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You, Porgy)
Miles Davis – trumpet & flugelhorn
Gil Evans – musical director
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Robert McFerrin & Adele Addison
MGM Studio Orchestra
Andre Previn, conducting
There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
Cab Calloway
MGM Studio Orchestra
Andre Previn, conducting
Blues (Arrangement of An American In Paris, 1928)
Harry James (trumpet) & His Orchestra
Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and jazz orchestra (1924)
George Gershwin, piano roll (Aeolian Company, 1925)
Columbia Jazz Band
Michael Tilson-Thomas, conducting
- Original Bilingual Commentary: http://itywltmt.blogspot.ca/2012/11/...-gershwin.html
- Detailed Playlist: https://archive.org/stream/pcast079-Playlist
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