With the exception of several minor speaking roles, all of the characters are African-American. The music combines elements of popular music of the day, with a strong influence of African-American music, of the period, with techniques typical of opera, such as recitative , through-composition and an extensive system of leitmotifs.
Porgy and Bess contains some of Gershwin's most sophisticated music, including a fugue , a passacaglia , the use of atonality , polytonality and polyrhythm , and a tone row. Even the "set numbers" of which " Summertime ", "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" and " It Ain't Necessarily So " are well known examples are some of the most refined and ingenious of Gershwin's compositions. For the performances, Gershwin collaborated with Eva Jessye , whom he picked as the musical director. The work was first performed in ; it was a box-office failure in the middle of the Great Depression.
Gershwin's extended score, which would marry ballet with jazz in a new way, runs over an hour in length. It took Gershwin several months to compose and orchestrate. Gershwin had a ten-year affair with composer Kay Swift , whom he frequently consulted about his music. The two never married, although she eventually divorced her husband James Warburg in order to commit to the relationship. Swift's granddaughter, Katharine Weber, has suggested that the pair were not married because George's mother Rose was "unhappy that Kay Swift wasn't Jewish".
Early in , Gershwin began to complain of blinding headaches and a recurring impression that he smelled burning rubber. He was at the time working on other Hollywood film projects while living with Ira and his wife Leonore in their rented house in Beverly Hills. Leonore Gershwin began to be disturbed by George's mood swings and his seeming inability to eat without spilling food at the dinner table. She suspected mental illness and insisted he be moved out of their house to lyricist Yip Harburg's empty quarters nearby, where he was placed in the care of his valet, Paul Mueller.
The headaches and olfactory hallucinations continued. On June 23, after an incident in which Gershwin tried to push Mueller out of the car in which they were riding, he was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for observation. Tests showed no physical cause and he was released on the 26th with a diagnosis of "likely hysteria". His troubles with coordination and mental acuity worsened, though.
On the night of July 9, Gershwin collapsed in Harburg's house, where he had been working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies. He was rushed back to Cedars of Lebanon, [32] and fell into a coma. Only then did his doctors think that he was suffering from a brain tumor. Leonore called George's close friend Emil Mosbacher and explained the dire need to find a neurosurgeon. Mosbacher immediately called pioneering neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing in Boston, who, retired for several years by then, recommended Dr. Walter Dandy , who was on a boat fishing in Chesapeake Bay with the governor of Maryland.
Mosbacher then called the White House and had a Coast Guard cutter sent to find the governor's yacht and bring Dandy quickly to shore. Gershwin's friends and fans were shocked and devastated.
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A memorial concert was held at the Hollywood Bowl on September 8, , at which Otto Klemperer conducted his own orchestration of the second of Gershwin's Three Preludes. Gershwin was influenced by French composers of the early twentieth century. In turn Maurice Ravel was impressed with Gershwin's abilities, commenting, "Personally I find jazz most interesting: I have heard of George Gershwin's works and I find them intriguing.
George Gershwin asked to study with Ravel.
When Ravel heard how much Gershwin earned, Ravel replied with words to the effect of, "You should give me lessons. Gershwin's own Concerto in F was criticized for being related to the work of Claude Debussy , more so than to the expected jazz style. The comparison did not deter him from continuing to explore French styles.
The title of An American in Paris reflects the very journey that he had consciously taken as a composer: He also asked Schoenberg for composition lessons.
Schoenberg refused, saying "I would only make you a bad Schoenberg, and you're such a good Gershwin already. He attended the American premiere of Wozzeck , conducted by Leopold Stokowski in , and was "thrilled and deeply impressed". Russian Joseph Schillinger 's influence as Gershwin's teacher of composition — was substantial in providing him with a method of composition.
There has been some disagreement about the nature of Schillinger's influence on Gershwin.
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After the posthumous success of Porgy and Bess , Schillinger claimed he had a large and direct influence in overseeing the creation of the opera; Ira completely denied that his brother had any such assistance for this work. A third account of Gershwin's musical relationship with his teacher was written by Gershwin's close friend Vernon Duke , also a Schillinger student, in an article for the Musical Quarterly in What set Gershwin apart was his ability to manipulate forms of music into his own unique voice.
He took the jazz he discovered on Tin Pan Alley into the mainstream by splicing its rhythms and tonality with that of the popular songs of his era. Although George Gershwin would seldom make grand statements about his music, he believed that "true music must reflect the thought and aspirations of the people and time. My people are Americans. My time is today. Recognizing the profound and positive effect of popular music on culture, the prize is given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins.
Early in his career, under both his own name and pseudonyms, Gershwin recorded more than one hundred and forty player piano rolls which were a main source of his income. The majority were popular music of the period and a smaller proportion were of his own works. Once his musical theatre-writing income became substantial, his regular roll-recording career became superfluous. He did record additional rolls throughout the s of his main hits for the Aeolian Company's reproducing piano, including a complete version of his Rhapsody in Blue. Compared to the piano rolls, there are few accessible audio recordings of Gershwin's playing.
The recorded balance highlights the banjo playing of Van Eps, and the piano is overshadowed. The recording took place before "Swanee" became famous as an Al Jolson specialty in early Gershwin recorded an abridged version of Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra for the Victor Talking Machine Company in , soon after the world premiere. Gershwin and the same orchestra made an electrical recording of the abridged version for Victor in However, a dispute in the studio over interpretation angered Whiteman and he left.
The conductor's baton was taken over by Victor's staff conductor Nathaniel Shilkret. Gershwin made a number of solo piano recordings of tunes from his musicals, some including the vocals of Fred and Adele Astaire, as well as his Three Preludes for piano. Gershwin's role in the recording was rather limited, particularly because Shilkret was conducting and had his own ideas about the music. When it was realized that no one had been hired to play the brief celeste solo, Gershwin was asked if he could and would play the instrument, and he agreed.
Gershwin can be heard, rather briefly, on the recording during the slow section. Gershwin appeared on several radio programs, including Rudy Vallee 's, and played some of his compositions. This included the third movement of the Concerto in F with Vallee conducting the studio orchestra. Some of these performances were preserved on transcription discs and have been released on LP and CD. In , in an effort to earn money to finance his planned folk opera, Gershwin hosted his own radio program titled Music by Gershwin.
He presented his own work as well as the work of other composers. He also recorded a run-through of his Second Rhapsody , conducting the orchestra and playing the piano solos. Gershwin recorded excerpts from Porgy and Bess with members of the original cast, conducting the orchestra from the keyboard; he even announced the selections and the names of the performers. In RCA Victor asked him to supervise recordings of highlights from Porgy and Bess ; these were his last recordings. In addition, there is newsreel footage of Gershwin playing "Mademoiselle from New Rochelle" and " Strike Up the Band " on the piano during a Broadway rehearsal of the production of Strike Up the Band.
The comedy team of Clark and McCullough are seen conversing with Gershwin, then singing as he plays. The film contains many factual errors about Gershwin's life, but also features many examples of his music, including an almost complete performance of Rhapsody in Blue. The B-side of the LP featured nine other recordings. In , Columbia Records released an album featuring Gershwin's piano rolls of Rhapsody In Blue , accompanied by the Columbia Jazz Band playing the original jazz band accompaniment, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
There are a total of ten recordings on the album. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, "Rhapsody in Blue" was performed in spectacular fashion by many pianists. The film begins with a monologue by Allen: To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. In October , it was reported by Rolling Stone that Brian Wilson was completing two unfinished compositions by George Gershwin, [51] released as Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin on August 17, , consisting of ten George and Ira Gershwin songs, bookended by passages from "Rhapsody in Blue", with two new songs completed from unfinished Gershwin fragments by Wilson and band member Scott Bennett.
Gershwin died intestate , and his estate passed to his mother. The estate supported the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act because its cutoff date was shortly before Gershwin had begun to create his most popular works. The copyrights on all Gershwin's solo works expired at the end of in the European Union , based on its life-plusyears rule. In , The Guardian determined using "estimates of earnings accrued in a composer's lifetime" that George Gershwin was the wealthiest composer of all time.
In September , a partnership between the estates of Ira and George Gershwin and the University of Michigan was created and will provide the university's School of Music, Theatre, and Dance access to Gershwin's entire body of work, which includes all of Gershwin's papers, compositional drafts, and scores. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the American composer.
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