In that meeting, Gershwin asked Ravel to be his teacher, to which Ravel responded that it was better to be a first-rate Gershwin than it was to be a second-rate Ravel.

Some critics described the piece as formless, and claimed that Gershwin only glued his melodic segments together into one piece.

Gershwin had agreed that Ferde Grofé, Whiteman's pianist and chief arranger, was the key figure in enabling the piece to be successful, and critics have praised the orchestral color.

Though Crazy for You was inspired by an earlier Gershwin musical, Girl Crazy, which opened in 1930, theater critics and the American Theater Wing ultimately considered it to be a " new musical.

* Baby It's Cold Inside – The song heard before Mama Carlson orders Johnny to play something by Gershwin was replaced, and their dialogue during that scene was also overdubbed, as was Herb's.

Harburg " Over the Rainbow ", " It's Only a Paper Moon "; with Ted Koehler " Stormy Weather ", " I've Got the World on a String ", " I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues ", " Let's Fall in Love "); with Johnny Mercer (" Blues in the Night ", " That Old Black Magic ", " One for My Baby ", " Come Rain or Come Shine ", " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive "; and with Ira Gershwin " The Man that Got Away ")

Other works he played in harmonica arrangements were by Bartók, Beethoven ( Minuet in G ), Debussy, Falla, Gershwin ( Rhapsody in Blue ), Mozart ( slow movement from the Oboe Quartet, K. 470 ), Poulenc, Ravel ( Boléro ), Stravinsky and Walton.

In 2008, he performed as the featured piano soloist in Beethoven ’ s Choral Fantasia with the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland under the direction of Roger Doyle, and Gershwin ’ s Piano Concerto in F with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Christoph Campestrini.

The program included two Russian folk songs and works by Beethoven, Vivaldi, Saint-Saëns, Rakhmaninov, and Gershwin.

Although Ohlsson is especially noted for his performances of the works of Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, he has a broad range from Bach and Busoni to Copland and Gershwin.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

These included Phase 4 Stereo recordings of Gustav Holst's The Planets and Charles Ives's 2nd Symphony, as well as an album entitled " The Impressionists " ( music by Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Honegger ) and another entitled " The Four Faces of Jazz " ( works by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud ).

A performance of her symphonic Gershwin program with the New Jersey Symphony in 1980 was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award in 1981 for " Individual Achievement-Special Class ".

Also in 1986, on Independence Day in a program nationally-televised on PBS she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in a medley of songs composed by George Gershwin

* Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue ( Katchen ), London Symphony Orchestra ( 1968 ), DECCA SXL 6411

The day after the concert, Damrosch contacted Gershwin to commission from him a full-scale piano concerto for the New York Symphony Orchestra, closer in form to a classical concerto and orchestrated by the composer.

2007 / 08 repertoire has included Tchaikovsky Symphony 5, Mozart Symphony 39, Gershwin piano concerto, Borodin Symphony 2, Mendelssohn Symphony 4, and Grieg A minor piano concerto.

** Symphony No. 2 ( 1944 ) ( Gershwin Memorial Award, 1945 ) withdrawn

In 2006, Mauceri conducted the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a concert performance of Porgy and Bess that featured cuts and other changes that Gershwin himself had made in the opera during rehearsals leading up to its premiere by the Theatre Guild.

According to Gershwin, the Frenchman retorted, " Why do you want to become a second-rate Ravel when you are already a first-rate Gershwin?

" Merman was fairly blasé about her notices, prompting George Gershwin to ask her mother, " Have you ever seen a person so unconcerned as Ethel?

The opening clarinet glissando came into being during rehearsal when ; "... as a joke on Gershwin, Gorman ( Whiteman's virtuoso clarinettist ) played the opening measure with a noticeable glissando, adding what he considered a humorous touch to the passage.

Gershwin composed the piece on commission from the New York Philharmonic.

Nimoy intended the crew's introduction to the streets of San Francisco to be accompanied by something reminiscent of George Gershwin, but Rosenman changed the director's mind, and the scene was scored with a contemporary jazz fusion piece by Yellowjackets.

The piece received its premiere in the concert, An Experiment in Modern Music, which was held on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano.

He asked Gershwin to contribute a concerto-like piece for an all-jazz concert he would give in Aeolian Hall in February 1924.

Gershwin was finally persuaded to compose the piece.

Since there were only five weeks left, Gershwin hastily set about composing a piece, and on the train journey to Boston, the ideas of Rhapsody in Blue came to his mind.

After a few weeks, Gershwin finished his composition and passed the score to Whiteman's arranger Ferde Grofé, who orchestrated the piece, finishing it on February 4, only eight days before the premiere.

Paul Whiteman asked Gershwin to write a " jazz concerto " which became the Rhapsody in Blue ; like a concerto, the piece is written for solo piano with orchestra: a rhapsody differs from a concerto in that it features one extended movement instead of separate movements.

Rhapsody in Blue displays Gershwin ’ s gifts of both rhythmic invention and melodic inspiration, as well as his ability to write a piece with large-scale harmonic and melodic structure.

Gershwin also made versions of the piece for piano as well as two pianos.

Although Gershwin himself spoke of the rhapsody as " a musical kaleidoscope of America ", Rhapsody in Blue has often been interpreted as a musical portrait of New York City ; it is used to this effect in the films Manhattan and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as extensively in this context in a segment from the film Fantasia 2000, in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld, to critical acclaim.

George Gershwin was in the process of writing a piece of music dedicated to her when he died in 1937.

Blue Monday was one of Gershwin's premature works and lacks the musical and dramatic sophistication of his later musicals and Porgy and Bess, but jazz conductor Paul Whiteman, who conducted the original performance of the piece in 1922, was so impressed by it that he asked Gershwin to compose a symphonic jazz piece for Whiteman to conduct at a concert Whiteman was planning.

This piece preserves some of the darkest and most complex music Gershwin ever wrote.

Gershwin himself referred to the piece as " a sort of blues lullaby.

Short Story is a piece for violin and piano composed by George Gershwin in 1927.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.

" about the Whiteman concert caught his attention, in which the final paragraph claimed that " George Gershwin is at work on a jazz concerto, Irving Berlin is writing a syncopated tone poem, and Victor Herbert is working on an American suite.

Two audio recordings exist of Gershwin performing an abridged version of the work with Whiteman's orchestra: an acoustic recording made June 10, 1924, released on two sides of Victor 55225 and running 8: 59 ( this recording includes the original clarinetist, Ross Gorman, playing the glissando ) and an electrical recording made April 21, 1927, released on both sides of Victor 35822 and running 9: 01 ( about half the length of the complete work ).

Decades later, Ira Gershwin told American songwriting historian Sheila Davis about a contribution Lawrence made to honing the lyrics of the song " My Ship " in Lady in the Dark.

She also widely performed her one woman show in which she told anecdotes about the many great men in American musical theatre history whom she had personally known, notably George Gershwin who had proposed marriage ( according to an interview in American Heritage magazine ), Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, interspersed with a few of the songs that made each of them famous.

There has been some disagreement about the nature of Schillinger's influence on Gershwin.

Before meeting George Gershwin in 1925, she was said to have been elitist about classical music.

Gershwin frequently consulted Swift about his musicals and other works.

When Henri and Lise drive away, Jerry daydreams about being with her all over Paris to the tune of the George Gershwin composition An American in Paris.

His most enduring composition may be the opera Porgy and Bess, a story about two blacks, which Gershwin intended as a sort of " folk opera ", a creation of a new style of American musical theater based on American idioms.