Word: gershwin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ANDRE PREVIN BROUGHT SMILES to the crowd at Symphony Hall last Saturday, guest-conducting an all-American program of Gould, Copland, Schuman and Gershwin. He composes as well, and at the concert it showed: he shaped the music as if it were...
...best seat in the house for Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" wasn't for sale: it would have to have been suspended directly above the piano. Since Previn was conducting and playing, he found it necessary to remove the lid of his $100,000 Bosendorfer Imperial, yet by removing it he ensured that all his glorious sound would travel straight up, not out into the audience...
Most of these people can't sing any better than you or I, but that's part of the movie's charm and a lot of its point. They all want their life to be set to a soaring score by Kern or Gershwin; they all want to believe that there is an authentic possibility of romance when they visit Paris or Venice; they all hope for the kind of transformative musical epiphanies that would suddenly be vouchsafed Kelly or Astaire as they soft-shoed through their happier--or anyway more stylized--realities...
Collaboration is the lifeblood of the musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...
...film is the logical culmination of one of Allen's obsessions: the classic American popular song. After commissioning music for his first three movies, he decided that creating original scores was "such an ordeal" that it was easier to pop in recordings of Gershwin and Porter standards--the music he grew up with and, he admits, never grew out of: "My interest in music ended with the music...