To search the press groups, associations, businessmen, sponsor for site” News-art-culture.com”.You can say not when to speech of jazz ? You can ent er in world of music without listen jazz? You can have the pleasure for the varies musical genres? Gershwin? The harmony , the sentiment…. romanticism! George Gershwin is birth to Brooklyn in 26th September 1898 and is died to Hollywood in 11 th July 1937, he is been a composer , pianist, director of orchestra in United States. His compositions have cross the blues genres from classic music , becoming in time the initiator of American musical.
Known with a great success he remains remembered of big orchestral compositions as” Rhapsody in Blue, An American to Paris, Porgy and Boss” writing the major part of his vocals , theatricals work to spectacles on Broadway in collaboration with his brother Ira Gershwin.
THE FAMILY , THE TALENT , HIS PASSION FOR THE MUSIC
Fleeting in thinks , capricious in notes , complex in jazz. It’s Gershwin , a soul from music! He has write for Broadway , for European concert hall , for the big public, his compositions are utilized in films and television, begun a standard of jazz in varies variants.
His origins are Jewish ( Russian an Lithuanian emigrant) crossing the world with his very name Jacob Gershowitz , after he become know as George Gershwin , love the music together his family , starting to play for dix years without a method for pianoforte. Afterward he take the lessons of pianoforte for two years in a dilettantism manner without Academy , searching to reproduce the listened melody to concerts for orchestra.
He study the classic method from European masters , his idols rested Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Scott Joplin , to a 15th years abandons the studies , play the piano and writes the compositions under Jerome H. Remick and Co( an important society from musical newyorchese industry noted as Tin Pan Alle) with 15th dollars to week. The first composition publicized is been When You Want’ Em You Can’t Get’Em, afterward a only 19th years he know the musical glory being nominated the composer for the big musicals od Broadway.
In the year 1917 he know the commercial success with Rialto Ripples ( regtime) after Swanee , the first composition to international level. Writes for Paul Whiteman ( King of symphonic jazz ) a composition with the accents of jazz adapted to orchestra. He collaborates together with his brother Ira Gershwin for the theatricals musicals( Lady Be Good) with all compositions , sounds colons and animate episodes following of orchestras in all world. The” Rhapsody in Blue “ remains the composition more appreciate for pianoforte and orchestra , a classic composition that combine five melody different alternated the classicism to jazz.
The idea is concretized from a travel made in train with destination Boston, where affirms: : “ In train , the metallics rhythms and noise when in one composer reactions more as a stimulus suggested him suddenly in a kind clear to complex construction of Rhapsody to start at the end.
The great success are countless as the music for the musical Tip-Toes for Liberty Theatre Broadway , 182 of pieces to Winter Garden at Theatre of London , the musical of success Oh, Kay( inspired of story of love by Composer Kay Swift), Funy Fare the musical Rosalie( a composition characterized more ambitious in his work), Porgy and Bess( a modern melodrama with the pieces Summertime), An American to Paris( the more big American opera in Europe of century XX ), Girl Crazy, The Can’t Take That Away from Me( nominated together at brother Ira for the prize Oscar) .
THE STYLE , WHERE GO THE THINK BY GERSHWIN?
In world is know and adorated for his innovations , harmony and quality from sings , the compositions that demonstrate the big knowledge from classic technic in varies changes of tonality and sonority as are in folk music, particularly in jazz.
Maurice Ravel his idol refuses to take the lessons for rigor from classic music having fear him to alteration to construction of his jazz. The style is sophisticate , the musicals themes are more varies, the principal innovations are in combination of classic elements ( the perfection of style, the strong of compositions’ complexity), the rhythms and the jazz’s melody from American music.
After an incurable disease ( cancer to brain) he die to Hollywood in 11 July 1937.He composes together brother Ira more of 700 pieces , influences with his music Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, for his big musical merit he comes reward with the medal of gold of Congress, becoming the more riche composer of all time , the Broadway theatre today is honored with his name.
THE WORKS, THE THEATRALS MUSICALS AND CINEMATOGRAPHICS
Tango for pianoforte , Lullabay, Blue Monday, Rhapsody in Blue, Concert in fa majeur, An American to Paris, Cuban Overture, Porgy and bess, Walkie the Dog, La, la, Lucille, Midnight Whirl, Poppyland, A Dangetous Maid, By and By, The Rainbow, Lady be Good , Oh, Kay ,Girl Crazy, The Sunshine. Traie, Voglio danzar con te, Follie di Hollywood, Bacciami stupido….
Gershwin not can be without his innovations. His talent , the beautiful of his music is in jazz, a perfect composition with classic music. To can impose a rigore to music? Never! The innovations , the new styles, the perfect harmony have made in Gershwin’s music a greatness for all the musical genres from opera to theatric musical and cinematographic.
It’s great: as his talent, as his passion. Love the music , he becomes romantic after remains capricious in sounds of jazz. Adorated , sang of singers and of orchestras , an American idol when passed the Ocean in Europe writing and plays “ An American to Paris”. A man loved from his opera, from his music , remembered in time as a romantic extravagant.
Likely in sounds of jazz… Gershwin overturn all time, the music is dominate , of front of sentiments.

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