Gershwin in a sentence

Glazier began his studies of the piano at age 6. At 12, Glazier was invited by composer Ira Gershwin to play a Gershwin tune on the piano that once belonged to his brother, composer George Gershwin.

After transatlantic letters back and forth as to whether Ravel took students and how much he charged, Ravel looked at Gershwin's prior year earnings and sent a telegram to Gershwin jokingly saying he (Ravel) should study with Gershwin!

I have heard of George Gershwin's works and I find them intriguing."sfn The orchestrations in Gershwin's symphonic works often seem similar to those of Ravel; likewise, Ravel's two piano concertos evince an influence of Gershwin.

Included were recordings of "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Gershwin on piano; "An American in Paris", from 1927 with Gershwin on celesta; and "Three Preludes", "Clap Yo' Hands" and Someone to Watch Over Me", among others.

Ravel's high praise of Gershwin in an introductory letter to Boulanger caused Gershwin to seriously consider taking much more time to study abroad in Paris.

The album consists of ten George and Ira Gershwin songs, bookended by passages from "Rhapsody in Blue", along with two new songs completed from unfinished Gershwin fragments by Wilson and band member Scott Bennett.

The headaches and olfactory hallucinations continued, and on June 23, after an incident in which Gershwin tried to push Mueller out of the car in which they were riding, Gershwin was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for observation.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

As with many artists who ranged between pop and classical styles — Bernstein, Gershwin and André Previn among them — Brubeck had trouble maintaining an audience for the full scope of his output.

I didn’t buy the business with Gershwin (John Zdrojeski), who makes ghostly visitations that exacerbate Levant’s envy and self-doubt.

On July 11, 1937, composer George Gershwin died of a brain tumor in Beverly Hills, California.

Six Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement prize), three Oscars, a combined 125 Top 40 hits in the U.S. and the U.K., the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, entry into the Songwriters Hall of Fame — the list goes on.

You won’t find any serious engagement with these issues in the New York Times now that Gershwin is ensconced in the pantheon of national mythology.

George Gershwin's symphonic poem "An American in Paris" followed, before Jacques Ibert's "Restaurant au Bois de Boulogne" from the symphonic suite "Paris" provided the finale.

Now committed to writing a jazz piece for piano and orchestra, Gershwin considered at first that he might write an extended blues, but soon rejected that idea in favor of a rhapsody.

The Sharps and Flats Show Choir recorded a video of George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" that played before the first two opening season concerts of the Winston-Salem Symphony in conjunction with World Alzheimer's Day.

Granz biographer Tad Hershorn relates that the Armstrong/Fitzgerald recording of “Summertime” made Gershwin weep.

His Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone: Live from Florence, streams on September 13, as a benefit for Berkshire Theatre Group.

They were heading to Gershwin's apartment after.

A hearing planned for Monday with federal Judge Gershwin Drain was postponed due to a snowstorm.