Gershwin: Music in the Heart of Noise
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2019
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This was requested by Charlie Evangelista, Logan Campbell, Ronnie Roddy Jr., Biped Productions, Patrick De Noia, and JC The Composer. See all requests at lentovivace.com/classicalnerd....
📚 Sources/further reading:
“George Gershwin: His Life and Work” by Howard Pollack
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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- George Gershwin: Impromptu in Two Keys, performed by Thomas Little
- George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Mauro Bertoli and the Texas Festival Orchestra
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- George Gershwin: Swanee, performed by Al Jolson in the 1945 film Rhapsody in Blue
- George Gershwin: Three Preludes, performed by Thorsten Hammer
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- George Gershwin: Swanee, Fascinating Rhythm, S’Wonderful, I Got Rhythm, and The Man I Love (from Songbook), performed by Tom Pascale
[free recordings courtesy pianosociety.com]
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GERSHWIN! my high school orchestra teacher loved his music, and had us watch an american in paris at one point! thank you for making this video :)
This series is one of my favorites on RUclips. Thanks for doing these!
I remember during the 1970's Aaron Copland coming over to The UK to conduct a concert of American works. I eagerly listened to the concert on the radio , as I love Copland's music and a lot of American music in general. Apart from some of his own music he conducted a really stunning performance of the Roy Harris 3rd symphony. Then, after the interval he finished the concert with The Gershwin concerto in F which was utterly DIRE.( I mean, embarrassingly bad). One critic wrote of it afterwards: "The orchestra went one way and the piano went another". I already had The Ormandy recording so I knew what a great piece it really was, (There is nothing worse than hearing great music played badly is there?). Funny how things like that stick in your mind forever.
I'm not surprised. Copland had no respect for Gershwin.. He & his "school" were arguably very envious (Gershwin was not only a successful popular & "serious" American composer; he was the wealthiest composer in all of history!), Unlike Copland & his minions, Gershwin was wildly popular in his day, & he was arguably a much better composer--in fact, a great one. Interestingly, the influential music critic Virgil Thompson (one of Copland's boys) could say few nice things about Gershwin--publicly & in print--but composer George Antheil said that Thompson admitted privately to him that Gershwin was American's greatest composer. And he was right!
Beautifully done. Wish I had you as a teacher in college.
I always notice the church books on the top shelf :) Perhaps a video specifically about (relatively contemporary) church music at some point?
Frankly, that's too broad of a topic for me to feel comfortable approaching, especially since my church music experience is in more traditional services.
really wanna hear that quarter-tone prelude
You really do an excellent job with these. Thanks for doing them.
Thank you very much!
Great presentation, Thomas! Minor detail: I think the pronunciation is ‘POOR-ghee’ (hard ‘g’ as in “gasoline”) rather than ‘POOR-gee.’ Keep up the fine work!
So well done!!!
Nit a moment wasted
Why was it Gershwin's responsibility to 'challenge ' prevailing mores, attitudes etc.?
There is nothing odd about the section of the Rhapsody shown at 19.16. The chords work perfectly as tonal harmony. The outer voices move chromatically in opposite directions, but the harmony moves around the circle of fifths in the usual manner. The first measure can be analyzed as being in E and the chords labeled F#7 B7 E7 C#7 C7 B7 (II7 V7 I7 VI7 bVI7 and V7). The second measure does exactly the same thing in the key of Bb.
3:06 I screamed "WHAT" at this. Imagine...
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Rhapsody In Blue and Pachobel's Canon In D are my 2 absolute favorite pieces ever. I've loved them both since I was little. I confess I differ in opinion with Bernstein, as I love the "laughing" clarinet in the original 1924 recording.
Could you do a video on the Welsh composer William Mathias?
Wow👏🏻
8:24 Have you seen the movie King of Jazz? (it's available on the Criterion Collection)
Plans for Porgy and Bess changed. And then changed. And then changed again. The original announcement in the paper said that he would now start working on a black-face opera to star Al Jolson as Porgy. We know that was not the final result.
When you think of unique musical forms of the Twentieth Century two come to mind. One is the music of George Gershwin especially his masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue. The other is rock and roll. Both forms of music give you equal satisfaction but Gershwin's music does it with far fewer songs.
Thank you for the upload. Always educational and entertaining. I'm wondering if Charles Hambitzer may be of your interest to research and present in the future. I'm really into the lesser sung heroes that contributed much from behind the scenes.
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Finally
Rhapsody in Blue is my favorite Gershwin piece.
Do you know any other pieces from him ?
Great, engaged, and insightful analysis. Your swing eigths point is very trustworthy to my mind. I have played both pieces with orchestra and I wouldn’t dream of swinging them. Would make it intolerably corny. The fact that Rhapsody overshadows his Concerto in F is simply that it’s “better”, I think 😊 The concerto to me seems like a string of banal, vaudeville type themes….
Ridiculous. Für Elise and Rondo All Turca are the most famous ones from the two most famous composers, does it still mean that they are better than their other works such as operas, symphonies or concertos ?
Rhapsody In Blue is more accessible, but not as ingenious and successful than the piano concerto and even An American in Paris, Second Rhapsody and Porgy & Bess. It simply kept his popularity since his first performance.
There is probably something wrong with your apprehension if you believe that the concerto seems to be "banal"…
Swingin’ a bit modern! Likes it.
Any interest in doing Robert Russell Bennett?
He seems in a peculiar position. But I adore his Suite of Old American Dances, and I feel the more people learn about him, the better.
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Since you did a video on Imogen Holst, why don’t you do one on her father Gustav? (BTW, love this series!)
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how about Hans Rott (1 August 1858 - 25 June 1884).....pre-dated Mahler's symphonies?
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To be fair, flossing a giraffe is probably a lot easier than cutting player piano rolls.
You are absolutely brilliant. You capsulize.so much in a short time.
How about a program on Joseph Schilllinger? I carried a volume to Paris 1972 to study with Mme. Boulanger. I had high hopes my 3 lessonss in Dubois Ttraite would give me priority. It did for a short while. One day she crucified me for my messy fuguetta in 4 differ clefs.
What's an 9
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A 9?
Hi, great videos as always.
PS: you don't have to pronounce the D en Dvorak
I can see Bernstein's point, but at the same time it's a strangely academic viewpoint from him. The Rhapsody is...a rhapsody and fits the mold perfectly. One could argue that B.'s comment could be made for some of Liszt piano pieces too
I think Bernstein had a love / hate relationship with the music of Gershwin. I think he knew he couldn't measure up as a melodist or as a composer, and he was influenced by the mainstream American school of composition at the time, which was highly academic and snobbish (with Copland as "Dean of American music"). Bernstein tended to "decompose" Gershwin. His performance of Rhapsody in Blue is a taffy-pull, and American in Paris is the only other work by Gershwin that Bernstein deigned to record.
Ira kind of looks like Sorabji
Apparently "Americanophile" is indeed a word, according to Merriam-Webster.
Salutations, good chap! Recent subscriber! Awesome channel! Really love the content, and your attention to the minutiae of your chosen field. Did have one question, which I hope you'll not find inane or redundant:
Is there a particular reason why you - a music channel - seldom sample and supply your videos (especially in bits where a visual of the score is present) with the auditory corollaries of the particular composer, theory, technique, etc.? Or, when you seem to add it, the mixing between your voice keeps it frustratingly buried in the background?
Of course, I grant you; RUclips's unholy pact with the spirit of copyright, casting eldritch strikes upon everything under the sun, is a well noted and a royally painful phenomena. But wouldn't much of the content you'd utilize be public domain? Sure, the current automatic cut off year is 1923, so this cat's most famous work is just a year late, and it permanently makes a vast swath of compelling and unique 20th century music inaccessible without express permissions. Yet anything of the romantic period and backward is fair game, yeah?
Goes without saying (thus I say so) that I am still digging through your back catalog and may infer some answers for the above in time. I just had a moment where that element stuck out in my mind, and thought I'd investigate straight from the source.
Again, love the channel! Looking forward to your output! Have a wonderful weekend!
You hit the nail on the head with RUclips's copyright system. There have been several episodes where I've had to take _out_ examples because the Content ID algorithm claims something. When these claims are false (which they often are), I have to submit a counter-claim that explicitly debunks _their_ claim, and then wait for up to a month to get it cleared ... not by some kind of third-party arbitrator, but by whatever corporate entity originally claimed the copyright (and they have a vested interest in keeping that claim, false or not).
You're certainly right about 1923 being the cutoff year, although I've used more recently published score samples because educational material is an explicit exemption under fair use statutes (and claiming a clip of a score in a video is something that the system, as of yet, cannot do). The problem lies more in finding recordings that don't get nabbed by the system. Mixing them in the far background keeps that from happening, and prevents the music from obscuring what I'm saying (as happened in early episodes).
I figure that, if someone's truly interested in a piece I mention, it's pretty easy to find a recording of it somewhere, so while it's something that I've tried to do as much of as possible, staying in good graces with RUclips's system is a higher priority for me for the long-term sustainability of the channel. For instance, it's easy to find a performance of _Rhapsody in Blue,_ for instance, but relatively few that tackle the history and context of both it and its composer.
The cut off date is now 1929.
Criticism by Prokofiev...ugh!..... is a feather in his cap!
7:15 And not Rube Goldberg ;)
William Primrose maybe?? Violas need more recognition
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Surprised no one's suggested Arvo Pärt or Terry Riley for the pool. Give the minimalism some representation ya goons >:((
I've got a longstanding policy not to add living composers to the request pool because their careers aren't yet over and thus doing proper historical retrospectives is impossible.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation!
Third!
Or first to say first.
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I'm sorry that Gershwin and Ives didnt get along
Wdym?
Yankophile