George Gershwin News

Although they premiered only 19 years apart, the contrast between Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra" and George Gershwin's "Concerto in F" -- the two works the Las Vegas Philharmonic performed Saturday -- is striking.

David Itkin, music director and conductor of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, leads his group in May.

George Gershwin with brother Ira and Fred Astair on the Hollywood set of the musical Shall We Dance , 1937.

This coming weekend Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra tries to make the case for George Gershwin's place in the classical canon.

There's a game my friends like to play, when the cameras come out at parties, called "Little Face, Big Face." Little Face is the sweet, family-portrait smile.

The Clearwater Community Concert Association is proud to present the dynamic woodwind/piano duo, Ebony and Ivory, to open the 2009-2010 concert season.

DreamWorks is tuning up a biopic on composer George Gershwin. Company has picked up a screenplay by "Memoirs of a Geisha" scribe Doug Wright about the iconic musician.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

The Miss Clark County Outstanding Teen Pageant and Miss Clark County Pageant are today.

The role of Porgy, the crippled beggar in "Porgy and Bess," has always been hard to pull off as he changes from grump to lover, but a Cape Town Opera version opening in Britain this month sets him a Herculean challenge: To get back his Bess, Porgy has to make his way from Soweto to New York City...in a goat cart.

Both the Oregon Symphony and the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem, the group that brings the symphony to the capital, are grappling with the effects of the harsh economy.

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson sings Sept. 30, 2004, in Minneapolis in support of Smile.

He plans to finish and record at least two such pieces on an album of Gershwin music he hopes to release next year.

A publication from the French general knowledge "Tu Sais..." book series , entitled "Tu Sais... Jazz," contains a final chapter on rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

The Spuyten Duyvil Library, 650 W. 235th St., will screen the classic Gene Kelly vehicle An American in Paris at 1 p.m. Also featuring Leslie Caron and Nina Foch, the musical follows an American soldier who stays in France after World War II to become an artist.

In his 1999 memoir, -A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music.

Music lovers won't have to travel over the bridge to visit far flung locales and special places.

Pianist Thomas Pandolfi brought the music of George Gershwin to life for an enthusiastic audience, Friday evening, in the 1891 Fredonia Opera House.

In his 1999 memoir, -A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music.

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