Gershwin
Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him; he subsequently composed An American in Paris. He then returned to New York City and wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward. It was initially a commercial failure but came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic.
Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores until his death in 1937 from a malignant brain tumor. His compositions have been adapted for use in films and television, and several became jazz standards recorded and covered in many variations.
Gershwin
VARIOUS "Piano Music by American Composers"
Recorded c.1944, 1941
Total duration: 46:57
Jeanne Behrend, piano
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue
Three Preludes
Short Story
Concerto in F
An American in Paris
Second Rhapsody
Cuban Overture
Porgy and Bess
“I Got Rhythm” Variations
Studio Recordings ∙ 1924 - 1949
Total duration: 2hr 30:48
Various Artists - see full track listing for details
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
GERSHWIN Preludes Nos. 2 & 3
Recorded in 1945
Total duration 17:05
Oscar Levant, Piano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY, GLINKA, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, LIADOV
GLAZUNOV From the Middle Ages
DUBENSKY Stephen Foster – Theme, Variations and Finale
DUBENSKY Fugue for 18
Violins
CESANA Negro Heaven
GERSHWIN-BENNETT Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
KHATCHATURIAN Gayaneh – Ballet Suite ENESCU 2 Romanian Rhapsodies
DVOŘÁK 4 Slavonic Dances
BRAHMS 3 Hungarian Dances
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams'
KALINNIKOV Symphony No. 1
HAYDN L’Isola Disabitata – Overture
HAYDN Symphony No. 73, “La Chasse”
GRIEG Sigurd Jorsalfar – Suite
GRIEG Peer Gynt – Suite No. 2
GRIEG Symphonic Dances
DELIBES Coppélia - Suite
DELIBES Sylvia - Suite
KHACHATURIAN Masquerade - Suite
music by Kreisler, Sgambati, Weber, J. Strauss II
Studio recordings, 1941-53
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fabien Sevitzky
GLAZUNOV From the Middle Ages
DUBENSKY Stephen Foster – Theme, Variations and Finale
DUBENSKY Fugue for 18
Violins
CESANA Negro Heaven
GERSHWIN-BENNETT Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
Recorded 1941-1945
Total Duration: 69:09
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Fabien Sevitzky
BIZET L'Arlésienne
BIZET Carmen
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
Live recordings, 1943 & 1945
Total duration: 72:34
NBC Symphony Orchestra
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