Rhapsody In Blue
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Browse piano sheets by George Gershwin on Zen Virtual Piano. On February 12, 1924, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra premiered Rhapsody in Blue at Aeolian Hall in New York, with George Gershwin at the piano. Whiteman had asked Gershwin to write an original work for a concert of modern music, and Gershwin was hard at work on a musical comedy, Sweet Little Devil, at the time. Being asked for an original work while already busy on a comedy suggests a composer in demand across more than one kind of stage. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1898, the second son of Russian immigrants. As a boy he was anything but studious, and it came as a wonderful surprise to his family that he had secretly been learning to play the piano. A boy who was secretly learning the piano and then left school to plug songs suggests a young man with two lives running in parallel. He studied piano with the noted instructor Charles Hambitzer, who introduced him to the works of the great classical composers. Lessons with a teacher who opened the classical masters to him add a second world to the Tin Pan Alley one. In 1914 he left high school to work as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, and within three years his song âWhen You Want âEm, You Canât Get âEm; When You Have âEm, You Donât Want âEmâ was published. In 1924 he teamed up with his older brother Ira, and âthe Gershwinsâ became the dominant Broadway songwriters, creating infectious rhythm numbers and poignant ballads and fashioning the words to fit the melodies. âThe Gershwinsâ as a single label for two brothers shows how thoroughly the partnership was treated as one voice. The brothers created a succession of musical comedies, including Lady, Be Good! (1924), Oh, Kay! (1926), Funny Face (1927), Strike Up the Band (1927 and 1930), Girl Crazy (1930) and Of Thee I Sing (1931). Four titles between 1924 and 1927 show how steadily the brothers were producing for the stage. He wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, though his orchestral and piano compositions are important as well.
Browse piano sheets by George Gershwin on Zen Virtual Piano.
On February 12, 1924, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra premiered Rhapsody in Blue at Aeolian Hall in New York, with George Gershwin at the piano. Whiteman had asked Gershwin to write an original work for a concert of modern music, and Gershwin was hard at work on a musical comedy, Sweet Little Devil, at the time. Being asked for an original work while already busy on a comedy suggests a composer in demand across more than one kind of stage.
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1898, the second son of Russian immigrants. As a boy he was anything but studious, and it came as a wonderful surprise to his family that he had secretly been learning to play the piano. A boy who was secretly learning the piano and then left school to plug songs suggests a young man with two lives running in parallel. He studied piano with the noted instructor Charles Hambitzer, who introduced him to the works of the great classical composers. Lessons with a teacher who opened the classical masters to him add a second world to the Tin Pan Alley one.
In 1914 he left high school to work as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, and within three years his song âWhen You Want âEm, You Canât Get âEm; When You Have âEm, You Donât Want âEmâ was published. In 1924 he teamed up with his older brother Ira, and âthe Gershwinsâ became the dominant Broadway songwriters, creating infectious rhythm numbers and poignant ballads and fashioning the words to fit the melodies. âThe Gershwinsâ as a single label for two brothers shows how thoroughly the partnership was treated as one voice.
The brothers created a succession of musical comedies, including Lady, Be Good! (1924), Oh, Kay! (1926), Funny Face (1927), Strike Up the Band (1927 and 1930), Girl Crazy (1930) and Of Thee I Sing (1931). Four titles between 1924 and 1927 show how steadily the brothers were producing for the stage. He wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, though his orchestral and piano compositions are important as well.
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On February 12, 1924, at Aeolian Hall in New York, with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and George Gershwin at the piano.
In 1914 he left high school to work as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, and within three years one of his songs was published.
Georgeâs older brother, with whom he teamed up in 1924 to become the dominant Broadway songwriters, fashioning the words to fit the melodies.