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.

Gershwin scored his concerto for 2 flutes and a piccolo, 2 oboes and an English horn, 2 B flat clarinets and a B flat bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns in F, 3 B flat trumpets, 3 trombones and a tuba, 3 timpani-32 ", 29 " and 26 " ( one player ), 3 percussionists ( first player: bass drum, bells, xylophone ; second player: snare drum periodically muffled and with regular and brush sticks, wood block, whip ; third player: crash cymbals, suspended cymbal with sticks, triangle and gong ), solo piano and strings.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

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 based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

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.

Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

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Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.

* 1896 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist ( d. 1983 )

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

American singer, pianist, musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive.

Also in the 20th century, American composers like Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Carlisle Floyd began to contribute English-language operas infused with touches of popular musical styles.

The group had hoped to cover a number of different artists, but only two albums from this period saw completion and release-1984's George and James ( dedicated to George Gershwin and James Brown ) and 1986's Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series ( featuring tributes to Hank Williams and John Philip Sousa ).

* December 6 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist ( d. 1983 )

* July 11 – American popular composer George Gershwin dies in Los Angeles of a brain tumor, age 38.

* July 11 – George Gershwin, American composer ( b. 1898 )

* September 26 – George Gershwin, American composer ( d. 1937 )

He also met the American composer George Gershwin in New York and went with him to hear jazz in Harlem, probably hearing some of the famous jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington.

George Gershwin included a celesta solo in the score to An American in Paris.

Whilst there, he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922.

He met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922.

Inspired by the time Gershwin had spent in Paris, it evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s.

Instead, Ravel recommended that Gershwin see Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Ravel's high praise of Gershwin in an introductory letter to Boulanger caused Gershwin to seriously consider taking time to study abroad in Paris.

Gershwin arrived in Paris in March 1928.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

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George Gershwin uses this effect in An American in Paris.

Coupled with Bernstein conducting Gershwin ’ s Rhapsody in Blue ( with Bernstein at the piano ) and An American in Paris ( Sony 63086 )

In 1945, he led the orchestra in recording sessions of the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé in Carnegie Hall ( supervised by Grofé ) and An American in Paris by George Gershwin in NBC's Studio 8-H.

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.

* George Gershwin ( 1898 – 1937 ), American composer, author of famous works like Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

George Gershwin includes it in a few pieces ; such as Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.

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.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.

Over the next fourteen years, Gershwin continued to write the lyrics for many film scores and a few Broadway shows.

Gershwin, along with George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, was a recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Of Thee I Sing.

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

The second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was awarded to Stevie Wonder by U. S. President Barack Obama on February 25, 2009.

Steiner worked in New York for eleven years as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of Broadway operettas and musicals written by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, and George Gershwin, among others.

In 1985, her staging of Singin ' in the Rain, played at the Gershwin for 367 performances.

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).

Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named " Ella " in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing.

Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress ' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.

On March 1, 2007, Simon made headlines again when he was announced as the first recipient of the recently-created Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

In 2007, Simon received the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.

) Hart continued to write plays after parting with Kaufman, such as Christopher Blake ( 1946 ) and Light Up the Sky ( 1948 ), as well as the book for the musical Lady In The Dark ( 1941 ), with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

Living for many years in Beverly Hills, California, in the house formerly owned by George and Ira Gershwin, in 1980, she purchased a second home on Riverside Drive in Augusta, Kentucky, near Maysville, her childhood hometown.