** George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm ( book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin ) premiere in New York, NY.

Much of the recitative of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, for instance, is merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's play Porgy set to music as written-in prose-with the lyrics of the arias, duets, trios and choruses written in verse.

There are lyrics done in Ira Gershwin's neatest style ... Best of all, there is Mr. Gershwin's score.

" 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 ".

" The Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin contains a typescript draft of the lyrics with Ira Gershwin's handwritten changes.

Three of Gershwin's songs (" They Can't Take That Away From Me " ( 1937 ), " Long Ago and Far Away " ( 1944 ) and " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 )) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won.

In 1958, Davis and Evans were back in the studio to record Porgy and Bess, an arrangement of pieces from George Gershwin's opera of the same name.

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.

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.

In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, but her character's singing parts were dubbed by opera singer Loulie Jean Norman.

Certain similar elements were already evident, even influences from Western classical music like Gershwin's Cuban Overture with its characteristic ' Latin ' clave rhythm.

Yet the recording is now regarded by many as one of the greatest reinterpretations of Gershwin's music in any musical style, because Evans and Davis were each devoted to going outside the " mainstream " of commercial expectations for jazz musicians.

Bennett's arrangements were largely based on Gershwin's original orchestrations for the opera.

Her later years were devoted to transcribing, performing, and annotating Gershwin's music, which she did until being diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1991.

Two of Gershwin's most successful works at this time were the scores to the 1920 and 1921 productions of George White's Scandals, a popular annual revue.

Adaptation was quite faithful to the novel, though some minor changes were made, such as time ( 1937, around the time of Gershwin's death ) and setting ( the adaptation took place in the Welman household, whereas the book took place in criminal court ).

) 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 ".

He transformed Gershwin's musical canvas with the colors and many of the creative touches for which it is so well known.

RCA Victor made several studio cast recording albums as well, including a Lerner and Loewe series with Jan Peerce, Jane Powell, and Robert Merrill, as well as a 1963 album of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with its 1952 revival leads, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, but a different supporting cast.

Accompanying the critical acclaim for Orpheus ' live appearances are numerous distinctions and awards, including a 2001 Grammy Award for Shadow Dances: Stravinsky Miniatures, a 1998 Grammy nomination for its recording of Mozart piano concerti with Richard Goode, the 1998 " Ensemble of the Year " award by Musical America, as well as performances on Herbie Hancock's Grammy-winning Gershwin's World.

During the 1930s, Johnson also sang the role of Frazier in the original production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, taking roles in other dramas as well.

Arts consultant Jeffrey James claims that Blue Monday is the " genesis of the Rhapsody ", and " the missing link in Gershwin's evolution into the Rhapsody in Blue " as well as a source to his Preludes, Piano Concerto and Porgy and Bess.

Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in a recording for Columbia ( now Sony Classical ) of Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet fantasy overture at the hotel on January 28, 1957, as well as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris in 1959.

The use of the samplers extends the idea of using everyday sounds in music, indebted to the taxi horn in Gershwin's An American in Paris, the sirens used by Varèse, and Antheil's airplane propeller within the classical tradition as well as to rock and roll and rap.

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

Ira Gershwin's wife Lee was present and, horrified by Davis ' vulgarity, implored Goldwyn, " Swear on your life you'll never use him.

In 1942, Arturo Toscanini invited him for a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was a resounding success and made him a household name.

Feinstein's extended tenure enabled him to also get to know Gershwin's next-door neighbor, singer Rosemary Clooney, with whom Feinstein formed an intensely close friendship lasting until Clooney's death.

Broadway theatre contributed some of the most popular standards of the 1930s, including George and Ira Gershwin's " Summertime " ( 1935 ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's " My Funny Valentine " ( 1937 ) and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's " All the Things You Are " ( 1939 ).

On February 12, 1924, Herbert was one of the featured composers at New York's Aeolian Hall, in an evening entitled An Experiment in Modern Music that included the world premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by the Paul Whiteman orchestra.

The result was Pas de Dieux, based on Greek mythology, combined with the music of George Gershwin's Concerto in F. It was a major success, and led to his being honoured with the Chevalier of the Legion d ' Honneur by the French Government.

George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue broke new musical ground by combining American jazz piano with symphonic sounds.

Upon hearing Gershwin's reply, Ravel suggested that maybe he should study with Gershwin.

During the 1920s, Fred and Adele appeared on Broadway and on the London stage in shows such as George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good ( 1924 ) and Funny Face ( 1927 ), and later in The Band Wagon ( 1931 ), winning popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic.

The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

The concert was held at East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, with a program including the national anthems of both North Korea ( Aegukka ) and the United States ( The Star-Spangled Banner ), the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World ", George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Georges Bizet's Farandole, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, and the popular Korean folk song Arirang.

In 1924 Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was premiered by Whiteman's orchestra with George Gershwin at the piano.

Rhapsodies often incorporate passages of an improvisatory nature ( although written out in a score ), and are irregular in form, with heightened contrasts and emotional exuberance ; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is typical in that it certainly has large contrasts in musical texture, style, and color.

Coupled with Doráti conducting Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture ( London / Decca Jubilee 430712 )

** Gershwin's Second Rhapsody for Orchestra with Piano arranged by Grofé, with Lincoln Mayorga on the piano ( premiere recording )

He also conducted broadcast performances of Copland's El Salón México ; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with soloists Earl Wild and Benny Goodman and Piano Concerto in F with pianist Oscar Levant ; and music by other American composers, including marches of John Philip Sousa.

* April 21-Electric re-recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, with Gershwin at the piano.

He and his new wife went on tour to Paris in 1928, where he played the European premiere of George Gershwin's Concerto in F at the Paris Opera, with Gershwin in the audience.

Their individual ties to George Gershwin --- Jolson introduced Gershwin's " Swanee " --- undoubtedly had much to do with their rapport.

The song was sung in various recordings by Ella Fitzgerald, becoming ( with the Gershwin's " Oh, Lady Be Good!

During the summer of 2008, he also toured with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra to China, playing Gershwin's " Rhapsody in Blue.

He performs a song and dance solo with umbrella and cape to Gershwin's " Let's Kiss and Make Up.