Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
George Gershwin
Born: September 26th, 1898
Died: July 11th, 1937
Country of origin: United States of America
Upcoming:
Rhapsody in Blue
Conductor: Renchang Fu
May 26th, 2012 | Philharmonie - Berlin - Germany
An American In Paris
Conductor: Renchang Fu
May 26th, 2012 | Philharmonie - Berlin - Germany
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News
05/07/2012
Work of the Week - Alvin Singleton: Different River
Alvin Singleton’s newest orchestral creation, Different River , receives a warm welcome by Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in its debut performances this month. The new piece will open the concert, serving as contemporary complement to iconic American masterworks by George ...
05/03/2012
Alvin Singleton’s Different River Debuts in Atlanta
Alvin Singleton’s newest orchestral creation, Different River , receives a warm welcome by Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in its debut performances this month, opening an evening of music that also features George Gershwin and Aaron Copland and serving as contemporary compliment ...
04/03/2012
Here to Stay: The Gershwin Concert Experience Thrills Audiences Across the US
The Omaha Symphony presents Here To Stay: The Gershwin Concert Experience this month, becoming just the most recent in a long line of presenters who have produced this concert event to great success including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Columbus Symphony and many others. ...
02/23/2012
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Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...
02/20/2012
Work of the Week - Kurt Weill: 2. Sinfonie
The Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, Germany begins on 24 February with Hotel Montparnasse, an evening of ballet loosely based on the time that Weill spent exiled in Paris before immigrating to America in 1935. Set in the Montparnasse district of 1930s Paris, the ballet will bring the French ...
02/06/2012
Work of the Week - George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue uniquely describes the American spirit of the 1920s. Gershwin was one of the first composers who combined Jazz and classical music. The Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria tours Germany with this masterpiece for piano and orchestra. The Eurogress ...
10/28/2010
schott aktuell - the journal 6/2010 online
PURE ORCHESTRA p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-5: World premieres: Toshio Hosokawa: danses imaginaires II · Douglas Cuomo: Black Diamond Express Train to Hell · Bernard Rands: Three Pieces for Piano · Nino Rota: Concerto per violoncello ed orchestra · Enjott Schneider: ...
07/21/2010
Summertime, And the livin' is easy
George Gershwin: Summertime - Sheet music for string quartet - There is hardly any other lullaby in the field of classical music - apart from Brahms' 'Guten Abend, gute Nacht' - that has gained such popularity as George Gershwin's 'Summertime'. It is a song from ...
02/19/2010
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Cityscapes in Music Contents: p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premieres: Fazil Say: Istanbul Symphony in Dortmund (D) · Victor Kissine: Post-Scriptum in San Francisco, CA · Alvin Singleton: Almost a Boogie in Brookline, MA · Peteris Vasks: Credo in Bremen (D) ...
01/05/2010
Work of the Week - George Gershwin: An American in Paris
You would be hard-pressed to find an American composer whose combination of Jazz and Classical music is as effective or successful as that of George Gershwin. The orchestral work An American in Paris is arguably Gershwin’s greatest achievement of this synthesis, perhaps only second to the ...
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