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

The clarinet gesture that opens Rhapsody in Blue could likewise be thought of either way: it was originally planned as a glissando ( Gershwin's score labels each individual note ) but is in practice played as a portamento though described as a glissando.

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

Whiteman was perhaps best known for having premiered George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924, and the orchestrator of that piece, Ferde Grofé, continued to be an important part of the band in 1928.

* Dave Brubeck dedicated " The Duke " ( 1954 ) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others, both during Ellington's lifetime ( such as by Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, 1957 ) and posthumously ( such as George Shearing on I Hear a Rhapsody: Live at the Blue Note, 1992 ).

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.

* Maurice Ravel is played as a " bit role " by actor Oscar Loraine in the 1945 Gershwin film biography Rhapsody in Blue.

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

He gives her a slight smile segueing into final shots of the skyline with some bars of Rhapsody in Blue playing again.

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

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 ".

Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including " Wang Wang Blues ", " Mississippi Mud ", " Rhapsody in Blue ", " Wonderful One ", " Hot Lips ", " Mississippi Suite ", and " Grand Canyon Suite ".

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

Leonard Bernstein conducted the orchestra, and also played the piano solos, in Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Cover of the original sheet music of the two-piano version of Rhapsody in Blue.

Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that " The Rhapsody in Blue ( 1924 ) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works.

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.

The title Rhapsody in Blue was suggested by Ira Gershwin after his visit to a gallery exhibition of James McNeill Whistler paintings, which bear titles such as Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and Arrangement in Grey and Black ( better known as Whistler's Mother ).

People in the audience were losing their patience, until the clarinet glissando that opened Rhapsody in Blue was heard.

Whiteman later adopted the piece as his band's theme song, and opened his radio programs with the slogan " Everything new but the Rhapsody in Blue.

Your Rhapsody in Blue is not a real composition in the sense that whatever happens in it must seem inevitable.

And it's still the Rhapsody in Blue.

Daffy Rhapsody instead premiered in 2012, preceding Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

* November 7-Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is premiered

His orchestral works include the overture Cervantes, performed at Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in 1877, three Scottish Rhapsodies, a violin concerto premiered by Pablo de Sarasate at the Birmingham Festival of 1885, a " Scottish " concerto for piano ( 1897 ), a suite, London Day by Day ( 1902 ), and a Canadian Rhapsody ( 1905 ).

When Rhapsody premiered at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, one journalist cried out at a press conference, " Why was the bomb dropped in the first place?

Thirty years after its premiere, William Grossman and Jack Farrell denounced the entire Aeolian concert, including Rhapsody in Blue, saying the " clumsily syncopated ' jazz ' was gradually replaced with ponderous pseudosymphonic harmonies played over dance rhythms, culminating in the concert rendition of Gershwin ’ s Rhapsody in Blue, one of the most ludicrous of the popular attempts during the 1920s to merge jazz and ' serious ' music ".

* February 24 – An Experiment In Modern Music concert at Aeolian Hall, New York – première of Rhapsody in Blue.

He also wrote a considerable body of songs and piano music, as well as symphonic suites and other concert music, of which his Welsh Rhapsody ( 1904 ) is perhaps best known.

For the 2012 Queen concert film Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest ’ 86.

* Margaret Lockwood in Cornish Rhapsody which comes from the British War Time Film " Love Story " and starred Margaret as a lady concert pianist.

In late 1879, Hans Richter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in a subscription concert that included the Third Slavonic Rhapsody.

Damrosch had been present at the February 12, 1924 concert arranged and conducted by Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall in New York City titled An Experiment in Modern Music which became famous for the premiere of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, in which the composer performed the piano solo.

In a formal concert, Tom, a piano virtuoso, is giving a piano recital of " Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 " by Franz Liszt.

Moeran's Rhapsody No. 2 for the 1924 centenary concert ( based on a Norfolk folksong ), Frank Bridge's Enter Spring in 1927, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Job: A Masque for Dancing in 1930, Arthur Bliss's Morning Heroes also in 1930 and Benjamin Britten's Our Hunting Fathers in 1936.

In 1986, Rhapsody Films and producer Roberta Grossman released Sippie Wallace: Blues Singer and Song Writer, a documentary about Sippie Wallace, who is represented in this film portrait by means of concert footage, interviews, historic rare recordings and photographs.

The same year Warner Bros. released Rhapsody Rabbit, MGM produced a very similar Tom and Jerry cartoon called The Cat Concerto, which features Tom being distracted by Jerry while playing in a concert.

The concert included the world premiere of Lecuona's Black Rhapsody.

The energetic Karelian Rhapsody was the first Finnish orchestral work to be published in Finland, and a long-time favourite in radio concert programs.

His concert music includes works written for the guitarist John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ.

She was presented with the award by the Consul General in Hong Kong on 5 October 2007, during the Sinfonietta ’ s Birthday Rhapsody concert.

Other live concert performances for BBC Radio include Bitter Sweet, Radio Rhapsody, and Big Band Special with the BBC Big Band, and many appearances as guest vocalist on BBC Radio 2 ’ s Friday Night is Music Night.