For instance, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was never featured in the Follies, and the number " Pretty Girl " was written for the 1919 Follies, not the first edition of the revue, as shown in the film.

An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.

It made its first domestic tour in 1882, introduced educational concerts for young people in 1891, and gave the premieres of works such as Gershwin's Concerto in F and Holst's Egdon Heath.

Tibbett performed the roles of Porgy and Jake in the first album of selections from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, two roles which, on stage, are usually performed by black singers.

His first release " You Send Me ", ( the B-side of a reworking of George Gershwin's " Summertime ") spent six weeks at # 1 on the Billboard R & B chart.

The orchestra's first recordings were made in July 1935 for RCA Victor, including the first complete recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Duncan was George Gershwin's personal choice as the first performer of the role of Porgy in Porgy and Bess in 1935 and played the role more than 1, 800 times.

In addition to her operatic recordings, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of Gershwin's Oh, Kay !.

In 2005, Phantom Regiment took a step away from classic music repertoire and explored George Gershwin's symphonic Classical / Jazz work, Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris ( although this is not the first time the corps has had success with this approach, as evident with " I Pagliacci ", 1991, and " Goin ' Home ( Largo from New World )", 1989 ).

In the 20th century, examples include: Agustín Barrios's Julia Florida ; the second movement of Villa-Lobos's Trio No. 2 ( 1915 ) ( which contains a Berceuse-Barcarolla ); the first movement of Francis Poulenc's Napoli Suite for solo piano ( 1925 ); George Gershwin's Dance of the Waves ( 1937 ); Ned Rorem's three Barcaroles for piano, composed in Morocco ( 1949 ); " The Kings ' Barcarole " from Leonard Bernstein's Candide ( 1956 ); and " Agony " from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

The early 20th century also saw the creation of the first African-American Broadway shows, films such as King Vidor's Hallelujah !, and operas such as George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

In 1951 she sang Bess in the landmark, first complete recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

The first was Jerome Kern's Show Boat ( in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company ) in 1989, and productions of Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd followed in 1998.

Though a short piece, with a running time of between twenty and thirty minutes, Blue Monday is often considered the blueprint to many of Gershwin's later works, and is often considered to be the " first piece of symphonic jazz " in that it was the first significant attempt to fuse forms of classical music such as opera with American popular music, with the opera largely influenced by Jazz and the African-American culture of Harlem.

The first variation is a broad, slow restatement by the piano, beginning with a long trill followed by a glissando-like run up the keyboard, in florid anticipation of the solo clarinet run at the beginning of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue written later in 1924.

Decca Presents Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess consists of two volumes of records, the first from 1940, and the next from 1942.

The 1940 album was the first to record selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess as sung by members of the original Broadway cast from 1935.

This 1951 recording of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was the first " complete " recording of the work from beginning to end, not a series of selections of popular songs from the work.

This 1956 recording based on George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was the second " complete " recording of the opera after the 1951 version recorded several years earlier, and the first recording of the work to feature jazz singers and musicians instead of operatic singers and a classical orchestra.

* Porgy and Bess ( Decca 2006 ), the first recording of the score as Gershwin arranged it for the original 1935 Broadway production ( incorporating all of Gershwin's opening night cuts ).

Wilson first worked with Benny on the broadcast of April 6, 1934, concurrent with a short stint as announcer on George Gershwin's series, Music by Gershwin.

His first major national TV success came at the age of seventeen when he was chosen to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on Paul Whiteman's TV Special.

At about age two, Brian heard George Gershwin's " Rhapsody in Blue ", which had an enormous emotional impact on him.

A 1925 piano roll captured Gershwin's performance in a two piano version.

In 1951, Australian-born composer Percy Grainger, who was an admirer, performer and arranger of Gershwin's music, completed a twenty minute piece for two pianos titled Fantasy on George Gershwin's " Porgy and Bess ".

Of the other two, the Prelude in G had been eliminated by the publisher Wyatt because somewhat similar music had already appeared in Gershwin's Concerto in F. The other was excluded for unknown reasons.

These are sometimes called piano " piano reductions ", because the multiplicity of orchestral parts — in an orchestral piece there may be as many as two dozen separate instrumental parts being played simultaneously — has to be reduced to what a single pianist ( or occasionally two pianists, on one or two pianos, such as the different arrangements for George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue ) can manage to play.

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 1947.

A theme from George Gershwin's orchestral composition An American in Paris

The second theme is more after the manner of some of Mr. Gershwin's colleagues.

For its theme song, the band chose George Gershwin's song " Summertime ", and other hit records in addition to their theme included " South Rampart Street Parade " ( its biggest hit ), " March of the Bob Cats ", " In a Little Gypsy Tea Room ", " Whispers in The Dark ", " Day In, Day Out ", " Down Argentine Way ", " You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby ", " Dolores " and " New San Antonio Rose " ( last three with Bing Crosby ).

The song was later expanded and used as the theme in Gershwin's last concert piece Variations on " I Got Rhythm " in 1934.

The trombone solo in Wrong Way contains an interpolation of the theme from George Gershwin's " Rhapsody in Blue ".

Using a large ensemble and exploring many styles of music, Whiteman is perhaps best known for his blending of symphonic music and jazz, as typified by his 1924 commissioning and debut of George Gershwin's jazz-influenced " Rhapsody In Blue ".

The late pianist Earl Wild prepared a virtuoso piano arrangement in the manner of Liszt, entitled, Fantasy on Gershwin's " Porgy & Bess ".

After reportedly paying to have his score for Captain from Castile recorded with the Fox orchestra, Newman conducted a series of albums for Capitol Records, including a recording of George Gershwin's Variations on " I Got Rhythm ".

:< nowiki >**</ nowiki > The music introducing the French and their ambassador includes the opening bars of Gershwin's own " An American in Paris ".

" I Can't Get Next to You " features all five Temptations trading verses about how having all the powers in the world means nothing if a man cannot impress the woman he loves — very similar to the lyrics of Ira Gershwin's 1935 standard " I Can't Get Started With You ".

) since Gershwin's 1935 " Porgy and Bess ," with one of the most serious, lyrically seductive scores since Rodgers and Hammerstein were creating their midcentury, midcult epics ".

In jazz and jazz harmony, " rhythm changes " refers to the chord progression occurring in George Gershwin's song " I Got Rhythm ".

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1953 – The first U. S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).

In new episodes after the 2011 revival Beavis is now allowed to say fire again ; the first words uttered by Beavis in the first video segment of the 2011 premiere episode were: " Fire!

In the first episode of Daria, she and her family move from Beavis and Butt-Head's hometown of Highland to Lawndale — the only references to the original show is a single mention of Highland in the first episode, with Daria saying Lawndale can't be a second Highland " unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too ".

A naturalistic study from first admission for mania or mixed episode ( representing the hospitalized and therefore most severe cases ) found that 50 % achieved syndromal recovery ( no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis ) within six weeks and 98 % within two years.

* " The Car " ( The Assistants episode ), the first episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom

The first episode in that book deals with the story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the enamoured sea-god seeks a love filtre to win Scylla's love, only to have the sorceress fall in love with him.

Ken Barlow ( Coronation Street ) | Ken Barlow in the first episode of Coronation Street.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

After the first episode in 1960, the Daily Mirror printed: " The programme is doomed from the outset ... For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week.

Only one character from the first episode remains, Ken Barlow ( William Roache ).

Daran Little, for many years the official programme archivist, claims that the first episode to be transmitted in colour was episode 930 shown on 24 November 1969.

The ITV network, like BBC1, began full colour transmissions on 15 November 1969 and it is therefore possible that the first transmitted colour episode is number 928 shown on 17 November.

The first episode aired on July 9, 2008.