George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe that if I don't want to.
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe that if I don't want to.
The program is full of Gershwin. We're going to perform music from Gershwin's songbook - essentially his greatest hits.
By the time I got to Chicago with 'Gershwin' I knew the stamina required, ... But this show has a whole different set of demands -- it's really a concert -- and I won't know how well I can sustain six performances a week until I perform it for a while.
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
After tens of millions of abortion 'procedures,' has America lost anything Another Edison, perhaps A Gershwin A Babe Ruth A Duke Ellington As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all.
When Gershwin premiered Rhapsody in Blue, ... too spontaneous, that it created formal gaps. And it's important, therefore, to be able to play in the moment when performing this work, but also to have a clear sense of when time is passing. It's image-filled, but that's New York.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
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