'Rhapsody in Blue,' Gershwin's musical melting pot, at 100 - NPR
2024年2月12日 · She and Puerto Rican composer and saxophonist Edmar Colón have taken Gershwin's hundred-year-old melting pot idea into the present, collaborating on Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined, an expanded ...
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue | Carnegie Hall
2023年12月1日 · “I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America,” said the 25-year-old composer, “of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, our metropolitan madness.” Although it was written for the concert hall, Gershwin’s masterpiece spoke in the unrefined accents of Brooklyn and Harlem.
'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot ...
2024年2月12日 · George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" was a musical melting pot. NPR's Tom Huizenga reports. TOM HUIZENGA, BYLINE: That concert was an attempt to make jazz palatable to the classical music...
'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot ...
2024年2月12日 · She and Puerto Rican composer and saxophonist Edmar Colón have taken Gershwin's hundred-year-old melting pot idea into the present, collaborating on Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined, an expanded version of Gershwin's original that folds in a generous measure of Afro-Cuban flavors as well as Chinese music. The work received its world premiere last ...
'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot ...
2024年2月12日 · Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago during a concert, "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City. This is a reconstruction of the concert song list.
A musical melting pot: Louisiana’s original art form
2019年10月31日 · It’s a worldwide art form, and it’s an art that has impacted the world.” Despite jazz not being as popular as it was when it first began, it continues to be influential in Louisiana and around the world. “You had the swing era of the late 1930s and 1940s, where at that time, jazz was America’s popular music,” explained Brothers.
A musical melting pot: Minimalism and the Oregon Symphony
2023年10月25日 · It is a musical melting pot of ideas taken from all over the world, blended together into something wholly unlike anything else. And like many great works of art, it reflects us backwards and lets us see elements of minimalism in music before anyone knew what that was, such as Aaron Copland’s wide, pastoral string harmonies having a ...
'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot ...
2024年2月12日 · She and Puerto Rican composer and saxophonist Edmar Colón have taken Gershwin's hundred-year-old melting pot idea into the present, collaborating on "Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined," an expanded...
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and …
2024年2月7日 · Gershwin once described “Rhapsody” “as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America – of our vast melting pot.” The problem with the “melting pot” metaphor is that it asks immigrants to ...
Music’s Melting Pot | American Spaces
Music’s Melting Pot. The American Ingenuity Award winner Esperanza Spalding explores the connection between history and music.