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This is the definitive Gershwin songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of George Gershwin's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords in a large 216 page volume. This is the first in a brand new series entitled "The Platinum Collection". All the songs within this book are newly engraved and have been thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best published edition. No other series can claim to be as definitive as "Faber Music Ltd Platinum Collection". ... Read more

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Solos, Duets and Trios with Piano Accompaniment--BUT NOT FOR ME--EMBRACEABLE YOU--FASCINATING RHYTHM--A FOGGY DAY--I GOT RHYTHM--LIZA--OH, LADY BE GOOD--MINE--and others ... Read more

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This fabulous folio contains authentic transcriptions of these titles: Drifting Along with the Tide
* Kickin' the Clouds Away
* So Am I
* Swanee
* Sweet and Low-Down
* That Certain Feeling. Some of the pieces have been arranged for two pianos, four hands, and will require two copies for performance. ... Read more

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Book & CD. Take seven of George and Ira Gershwin's classic songs, add Mark Hayes' stunning and unpredictable arrangements, and it all adds up to a winning collection for singers and listeners alike. Songs include: "By Strauss," "Clap Yo' Hands," "I Got Rhythm," "Love Is Here to Stay," "The Man I Love," "Summertime," and "They Can't Take That Away from Me." ... Read more

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Arranged by John Brimhall. Within this fabulous collection, 26 songs have been esquisitely and perfectly set at the easy piano level. Titles include: Bess, You Is My Woman * Embraceable You * (A) Foggy Day * I Got Rhythm * Liza * Oh, Lady Be Good * Someone to Watch Over Me * Summertime * 'S Wonderful * They All Laughed and more! ... Read more

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Alicia Zizzo has abridged and edited some of the more popular themes from Gershwin's major works. Included are: Blues Theme from An American in Paris, Blues Theme from I Got Rhythm Variations, Theme from Lullaby, Themes from Rhapsody in Blue, Themes from Blue Monday, and Themes from Concerto in F. The abridged versions are for intermediate to advanced players. This is great material for concertizing. ... Read more

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A terrific collection of songs by George Gershwin that the composer has arranged as piano solos. Ideal for the intermediate pianist and a great insight into the mind of one America's greatest composers.

Titles: The Man I Love
* Ill Build a Stairway to Paradise
* Do It Again
* Fascinating Rhythm
* Oh, Lady Be Good
* Somebody Loves Me
* Sweet and Low Down
* Clap Yo Hands
* Do Do Do
* My One And Only
* S Wonderful
* Strike Up the Band
* I Got Rhythm
* Who Cares?
* That Certain Feeling
* Liza ... Read more

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Military Dancing Drill
* Strike Up the Band!
* Mademoiselle from New Rochelle
* I've Got a Crush on You. Nine great songs in all. ... Read more

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These preludes are very popular with pianists as well as audiences. They are all short and use jazz as their inspiration. ... Read more

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Chapters: Musicals by Frank Loesser, Musicals by George Gershwin, Musicals by Howard Talbot, Musicals by Jerome Kern, Musicals by Jerry Ross, Musicals by Leonard Bernstein, Musicals by Richard Adler, Musicals by Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, Gypsy: a Musical Fable, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a Little Night Music, Assassins, Into the Woods, Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Follies, Company, Saturday Night, Show Boat, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Guys and Dolls, Sunday in the Park With George, Passion, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, of Thee I Sing, Merrily We Roll Along, Damn Yankees, the Pajama Game, Road Show, Where's Charley?, the Most Happy Fella, the Cabaret Girl, Crazy for You, Oh, Boy!, Oh, Kay!, Shall We Dance, on the Town, the Arcadians, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Music in the Air, a Chinese Honeymoon, Pardon My English, Very Good Eddie, the Boy, Sally, Girl Crazy, Very Warm for May, Tip-Toes, the White Chrysanthemum, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, the Girl Behind the Counter, Never Gonna Dance, Let 'em Eat Cake, the Frogs, Roberta, Greenwillow, Funny Face, Show Girl, La La Lucille, Kwamina, Sunny. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 418. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical's plot and story is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York City in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation Americans from Puerto Rico taunted by the Jets, a working-class white group who consider themselves the true Americans....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33928 ... Read more

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Includes: Ask Me Again
* Beautiful Gypsy
* Do What You Do!
* I Found a Four Leaf Clover
* Naughty Baby
* Oh Gee!-Oh Joy!
* Seventeen and Twenty-One
* She's Just a Baby
* So What?
* Something About Love
* Strike Up the Band for U.C.L.A.
* Swanee
* Under a One-Man Top
* Vodka
* You Are You
* You've Got What Gets Me and many, many more! ... Read more

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The first musical production to win the Pulitzer Prize (1932). Gershwin's songs include: Wintergreen for President
* Love Is Sweeping the Country
* The Senator from Minnesota and more. ... Read more

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"Satire is What Closes on Saturday Night"
That's what Of Thee I Sing's co-author and director, George S. Kaufman, is reported to have grumbled. However, Of Thee I Sing proves his saying wrong: this Broadway musical about presidential politics adopts a consistently satirical tone and was a huge hit. It was also first musical to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (and was the longest-running musical that George Gershwin would ever see in his lifetime.)

Broadway's A-Team created this show: script and concept by Kaufman and Morrie Ryskin, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, scenery by Jo Mielziner. Charles Previn (Andre's cousin) as musical director. Sam Harris produced. Victor Moore and William Gaxton were the stars.

If you are looking for the full Piano-Vocal score, a rather nice one was released by New World Music in 1932 and may have been later reprinted by Alfred Music.

If you are looking for the script, Knopf released it in hardback in the 1930's and Samuel French has had an acting edition in print for many years in paperback.
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The story of arguable America's most famous composer. ... Read more

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"A Musical Genius, Without A Doubt"
"This young fellow has the spark of musical genius, which is definite in his serious moods, he has the fire of originality. I really believe that America will at no distant date honor him for his talent and that when we speak of American composers, George Gershwin's name will be prominent on our list." ~ Beryl Rubenstein, concert pianist and faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, from an interview in 1922 ~

This book, "George Gershwin: His Life & Music" by Ean Wood is one of the most interesting and informative books ever written about the composer's musical career as well as his short but so remarkable life. This book gives details about his family, his first job as a pianist/song plugger at Jerome H Remick & Co., his life in the entertainment world, his most notable Broadway shows, and his most famous masterpiece and an excellent work of art, "Rhapsody In Blue," which he composed in ten days.

It has been noted that Jerome Kern was the one who inspired George Gershwin to switch from pop songs to Broadway musicals. Irving Berlin, a brilliant songwriter himself was also an inspiration to Gershwin, who was born with two supreme gifts - the ability to write memorable tunes and an instinct for setting them with rich and unexpected harmonies.

Gershwin's success as a composer comes from his being passionate about music, his obsessive drive to create music, his swift musical development, his keen listening habits, his love of piano playing, his love for classical concerts, his continuous search for musical knowledge, his love of listening to music of every genre, and most of all his excellent musical instinct. He was revered and adored by his music teacher, Charles Hambitzer, who described him as a musical genius, without a doubt.

"George Gershwin made the piano do things for him ... not only he played what was written, he was improvising all the time. He could make the piano laugh, make it sad, he loved the keys, he loved to experiment. He was original." ~ Mabel Pleshette, friend ~

What I admired most about Gershwin apart from his wonderful music is his love of painting. His art mentor was his cousin, Henry Botkin, a respected painter and art connoisseur who gave him advice in choosing paintings. Gershwin had an incredible collection of modern art in America. Some of his favorite painters are also my very own favorites, i.e. Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. He had tried his creative hands on painting and portraiture was always his specialty. Somebody had told Gershwin at a dinner party that "he never needs to write another note, because he could make a fortune with his palette and brush." One lady asked him: "Isn't it amazing that one man should possess a genius for two of the arts?" But to him, painting is more a mere pastime. Writing music was his first and foremost love.

He was also portrayed as someone who "in many ways led a spartan existence." He rarely drank and smoked cigars in moderation. He was like an athlete and had always liked to keep fit. The permanent fixtures in his apartment were a small gym, a punch ball, a rowing machine and a dartboard. Not to mention of course a small silver upright piano that was a gift to him.

Gershwin's circle of close friends includes writers, composers and lyricists like Vernon Duke, Arthur Kober and Howard Dietz. They were called the "Paley Salon." They meet regularly every Sunday for a dinner at Gershwin's apartment and discussed art and music. Oscar Levant, whose hero was Gershwin, also became a prominent member of the "Paley Salon." He also recorded "Rhapsody In Blue" so beautifully and he put his heart completely to it and giving it a whole range of feelings. When the record was released, he waited for a feedback from Gershwin and when he didn't hear from him, he took the initiative to call him. Gershwin asked him to bring the record for him to listen to and after listening to it, the verdict was, "I like mine better."

"No man can be great unless he loves music."~ Max Levant (father) as told to Oscar Levant (son) ~

Although Gershwin died young at the age of 38, he made an incredible mark in the history of audio visual arts - writing good music and painting. After his death, 37 of his original paintings were exhibited at a one-man-show at the Harriman Gallery in New York, as one of his wishes. He had written over 1,000 songs for theatre and motion pictures and about 40 musical comedy scores. His music is timeless and will be heard and appreciated by every generation.

This is one of the best ever biographies I've read and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

"George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to."~ John O'Hara ~

Just the facts
I'm not a musicologist or a Gershwin expert, but I was hoping to find a bio about him that would really enthrall me.This one didn't, but I'm not sure any of the ones available about him would.Chronologically tracing his life and works, this book summarizes major plots, themes, and players in a fairly cut and dried fashion.To a Gershwin newcomer, all the words start to run together after awhile, and I would imagine that a Gershwin fan might find all the recaps a bit trying. Wood does give some interesting tidbits along the way, like how Gershwin and Ellington collaborated without ever managing to exchange a word in their lifetime, but you'll have to wade through the summaries and what-happened-whens to get to them.If you're looking for a good biography to curl up with, I couldn't recommend this one. If you're specifically looking to learn about Gershwin, though, this may be as good a place to start as any.Gershwin doesn't seem to have been a well-documented (or documenting) character, despite his celebrity.Given that, Wood's work may do as comprehensively concise a study as one could hope for. ... Read more

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