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George Gershwin

George Gershwin

Pays d'origine: États-Unis d'Amérique
Date d'anniversaire: 26 septembre 1898
Date de décès: 11 juillet 1937

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Girl Crazy
Chef d'orchestre: Garry Walker
Orchestre: Orchestra of Opera North
21 septembre 2023 | Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Huddersfield Town Hall
Strike Up The Band
Chef d'orchestre: Garry Walker
Orchestre: Orchestra of Opera North
21 septembre 2023 | Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Huddersfield Town Hall

À propos de George Gershwin

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the second of four children from a close-knit Russian Jewish immigrant family. At the age of 16, the young George quit school and began his musical career as a song-plugger on New York's Tin Pan Alley. He was soon writing his own songs and his first published work When You Want ‘Em, You Can't Get ‘Em, demonstrated innovative new songwriting techniques and earned him all of five dollars. Soon after, however, he met a young lyricist named Irving Ceaser and together they would compose a long list of popular songs including Swanee, which scored Gershwin his first big national hit.

Swanee would be followed in short order by a series of nearly forty-five more songs; among them Somebody Loves Me and Stairway to Paradise, as well as the twenty-five-minute opera, Blue Monday. Composed in five days, Blue Monday, though a work of Gershwin juvenilia, offered hints of great musical development to come.

Gershwin's first collaboration with his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin, produced the Broadway hit Lady Be Good which included such standards as Fascinating Rhythm and The Man I Love. It was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for the rest of the composer's life and would elevate the musical comedy to an American art form. Musicals including Oh, Kay! and Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, were created increasingly alongside more serious symphonic works as Gershwin aimed to make his mark in the concert world.

Gershwin's jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue for piano and orchestra premiered in New York's Aeolian Hall at a concert entitled "An Experiment in Music" when the composer was still in his twenties. It would prove to be his most popular symphonic work. Among those in attendance at the premiere were Jascha Heifitz, Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Stokowski and Serge Rachmaninov. Gershwin followed this success with his Piano Concerto in F and the now legendary tone poem An American in Paris which he wrote during an extended stay in Paris. French music, in particular the composers Debussy and Ravel, would prove to have a lasting influence on Gershwin's classical music. Critics were often at a loss as to where to place Gershwin's classical music in the standard repertoire and some simply dismissed him, but the music always found favor with the general public. He was very soon widely acclaimed in the concert world as piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer.

Back on Broadway, George and Ira Gershwin continued to experiment with novel ideas and their hit show Of Thee I Sing dealt pointedly with social issues of the time, becoming the first musical comedy to win the Pulitzer Prize. This feat was soon followed by the premiere of Gershwin's folk opera and most ambitious work to date Porgy and Bess which had only moderate success. Now recognized as one of the seminal works of American opera, it includes such timeless favorites as It Ain't Necessarily SoI Loves You, Porgy, and Summertime.

Shortly after the premiere of Porgy and Bess, Gershwin moved to Hollywood to score a series of successful films but while there became ill. At the time of his premature death at the age of 38, Gershwin had plans to return to New York and was contemplating work on a new symphony, opera, and ballet. These compositions were not to be. Today he remains one of America's, indeed one of the world's, most beloved composers.

2023 marks the start of the the first scholarly critical edition of his works as part of the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition. It is the result of the Gershwin Initiative of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Gershwin Heirs Association and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and published by Schott Music. Mark Clague is the editor-in-chief.

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  • Girl Crazy
    Chef d'orchestre: Garry Walker
    Orchestre: Orchestra of Opera North
    21 septembre 2023 | Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Huddersfield Town Hall
  • Strike Up The Band
    Chef d'orchestre: Garry Walker
    Orchestre: Orchestra of Opera North
    21 septembre 2023 | Huddersfield (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Huddersfield Town Hall
  • Porgy and Bess
    Chef d'orchestre: Piotr Sulkowski
    Orchestre: Orkiestra Opery Krakowskiej
    23 septembre 2023 | Kraków (Pologne) , Opera Krakowska
  • An American in Paris
    Chef d'orchestre: Steve Bingham
    Orchestre: Ely Sinfonia
    23 septembre 2023 | Ely (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Ely Cathedral
  • Rhapsody in Blue
    Chef d'orchestre: N.N.
    Orchestre: Students of Conservatorio di Bologna
    24 septembre 2023 | Bologna (Italie) , Teatro, Auditorium Manzoni
  • Cuban Overture
    Chef d'orchestre: Joseph Bastien
    Orchestre: Sinfonietta de Lausanne
    28 septembre 2023 | Lausanne (Suisse) , Salle Métropole
  • Rhapsody in Blue
    Chef d'orchestre: Christian Fitzner
    Orchestre: Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Wernigerode
    29 septembre 2023 | Wernigerode (Allemagne) , Konzerthaus Liebfrauen
  • Porgy and Bess
    Chef d'orchestre: Xenophon Kelsey
    Orchestre: St Cecilia Orchestra
    30 septembre 2023 | Ripon (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Ripon Cathedral
  • Porgy and Bess
    Chef d'orchestre: Xenophon Kelsey
    Orchestre: St Cecilia Orchestra
    30 septembre 2023 | Ripon (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Ripon Cathedral
  • An American in Paris
    Chef d'orchestre: Xenophon Kelsey
    Orchestre: St Cecilia Orchestra
    30 septembre 2023 | Ripon (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Ripon Cathedral
  • The Real McCoy - Promenade
    Chef d'orchestre: Stefan Blunier
    Orchestre: Orchester der Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim
    6 octobre 2023 | Mannheim (Allemagne) , Spinelli, Hauptbühne
  • An American in Paris
    Chef d'orchestre: Masanobu Kashiwagi
    Orchestre: Soka Gakkai Fuji Symphony Orchestra
    6 octobre 2023 | Tokyo (Japon) , Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
  • Lullaby
    Chef d'orchestre: Simon Crawford-Phillips
    Orchestre: Musica Vitae
    6 octobre 2023 | Växjö (Suède) , Nygatan 6
  • Lullaby
    Chef d'orchestre: Simon Crawford-Phillips
    Orchestre: Musica Vitae
    7 octobre 2023 | Tingsryd (Suède) , Söderportkyrkan
  • Porgy and Bess
    Chef d'orchestre: Dominic Grier
    Orchestre: Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra
    8 octobre 2023 | Worthing (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Worthing Assembly Hall
  • Cuban Overture
    Chef d'orchestre: Dominic Grier
    Orchestre: Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra
    8 octobre 2023 | Worthing (Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et Irlande du Nord) , Worthing Assembly Hall
  • Lullaby
    Chef d'orchestre: Simon Crawford-Phillips
    Orchestre: Musica Vitae
    8 octobre 2023 | Malmö (Suède) , Palladium
  • The Real McCoy - Promenade
    Chef d'orchestre: Stefan Blunier
    Orchestre: Orchester der Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim
    9 octobre 2023 | Frankenthal (Allemagne) , Congress-Forum
  • Lullaby
    Chef d'orchestre: Simon Crawford-Phillips
    Orchestre: Musica Vitae
    10 octobre 2023 | Kungsbacka (Suède) , Kungsbacka Theatre
  • Lullaby
    Chef d'orchestre: Simon Crawford-Phillips
    Orchestre: Musica Vitae
    11 octobre 2023 | Halmstad (Suède) , Culture house Najaden
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