Some rare footage of Gershwin nailing a piano solo in 1930s New York has been uncovered, and it’s enough to rekindle your love of music all over again. It’s rare that we ever get the chance to see one ...
Ann Arbor — A piano owned and played by George Gershwin and shipped to the University of Michigan for restoration work will be unveiled during a free public concert Friday at Hill Auditorium in Ann ...
A screenshot of the University of Michigan's new Gershwin Initiative website. According to The University Record, a free public concert on October 10 at 8:30 p.m., at U-M's Hill Auditorium, will mark ...
If you’ve never heard of George Gershwin — and there aren’t many who haven’t — you’ve no doubt heard some of his songs, either in movies or on stage. He was renowned for his composing and piano ...
The last Steinway grand piano owned by famed American composer George Gershwin – the one on which he most likely composed “Porgy and Bess” – has a new life. Donated to the University of Michigan ...
Gershwin at the Piano isn’t as memorable a theatrical endeavor as its prededecessor, the Art Tatum tribute Piano Starts Here. Forced to resort to a Plan B after another company cancelled its Sunday ...
On January 26, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the UM Gershwin Initiative presented a centennial concert of works by George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira ...
A free public concert featuring the fully restored 1933 Model A Steinway grand piano, once owned and played by George Gershwin, will be Oct. 10 in the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in Ann ...
The contents of a box Kerzner uncovered at Amherst College ultimately contained George Gershwin's lost musical. (photo by Jacob Kerzner, courtesy University of Michigan Communications) It’s been just ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra George Gershwin, Composer Orion Weiss, Piano JoAnn Falletta, Conductor Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Rhapsody No.2 JoAnn Falletta, Conductor Buffalo Philharmonic ...
At the center of “Rhapsody in Blue” — the dramatically banal but musically rich 1945 film biography of George Gershwin — is a re-creation of the title work’s 1924 premiere. Bandleader Paul Whiteman, ...
Gershwin Songbook, Movements: Swanee George Gershwin, Composer Frank Braley, Piano Gershwin Songbook, Movements: Nobody but you Frank Braley, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Gershwin Songbook, ...