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| Artist Focus | ...With Tom Service. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. The multi-talented Wayne Marshall begins by conducting the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in music by GEORGE GERSHWIN ... |
| Big Band Special | ...Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band performing the music of GEORGE GERSHWIN's Porgy & Bess in concert at the Town Hall, Birmingham.... |
| By Popular Demand | ...GEORGE GERSHWIN: A Stairway To Paradise 1... |
| Celebrating The Musical | ...9.04pm The Real History of Opera: Porgy and Bess - Huw Edwards uncovers the history and social context behind GEORGE GERSHWIN's revolutionary work.... |
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| Composer Of The Week | ...At the beginning of the 21st century GEORGE GERSHWIN remains one of the most popular composers the UNITED STATES has ever produced. His music has universal appeal and his orchestral works are regularly played in concert halls the world over. Unlike many composers, there was no starving in a garret for Gershwin. Fame and success came early on in his lifetime. His parents were emigres from RUSSIA, who arrived in NEW YORK by boat in the 1890s. By 1919, aged twenty, Gershwin had already produced his first million seller hit, a song called Swanee. Taken up by Al Jolson and put into his own revue Sinbad, the song brought the house down, and the young composer's career took off.... |
| Dress Circle [radio Scotland] | ...Billy Differ introduces Radio Scotland's musical theatre show, featuring classics from GEORGE GERSHWIN and Rodgers and Hammerstein, plus a chat with theatre director Walter Paul.... |
| Fascinating Rhythms | ...The GEORGE GERSHWIN Story... |
| Fred Astaire - Step By Step | ...With the voices of Fred, Adele and Ava Astaire, Larry Adler, and Rita Hayworth, and GEORGE GERSHWIN at the piano.... |
| George Gershwin (1898-1937) | |
| Gershwin In Focus | ...To Gershwin, show tunes were as important as concert works, and he saw no contradiction in writing both. Pianist Jack Gibbons follows Gershwin's development as a composer and investigates the close stylistic relationship between the works written for Broadway, for Hollywood and for the concert hall. The programme includes illustrations at the keyboard and from original recordings. With Ben Kingsley as GEORGE GERSHWIN.... |
| Hard Times - The Short, Sad Life Of Stephen Foster | ...Stephen Foster died at the age of 37, after a fall; in his wallet was 38 cents and a scrap of paper that read, "Dear Friends and gentle hearts." But his real legacy was the foundation of American popular song; without Stephen Foster, no GEORGE GERSHWIN, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter or Bob Dylan even.... |
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| Jobim - The Man From Ipanema | ...Guy Barker presents a journey into the life, music and worldwide legacy of Antonio Carlos Jobim, regarded as the GEORGE GERSHWIN of Brazil and one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.... |
| Musical New Year | ...GEORGE GERSHWIN's great American 'folk opera', a bittersweet love story, set in the Deep South, that remains a powerful and controversial mirror of America's evolving attitudes about race, culture and class. In this production by Washington National Opera, Wayne Marshall conducts a cast that includes Gordon Hawkins as Porgy, Indira Mahajan as Bess, Angela Simpson as Serena, Terry Cook as Crown and Jermaine Smith as Sportin' Life.... |
| Page To Performance | ...GEORGE GERSHWIN's I Got Rhythm was a hit right from its first appearance in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy. It stopped the show night after night, thanks to the vocal powerhouse that was Ethel Merman.... |
| Paul Whiteman And The Rhapsody | ...Writer on jazz John Fordham traces the link between the Paul Whiteman Band and the music of GEORGE GERSHWIN, which reached a climax in the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in NEW YORK in 1900.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...With music from Irving Berlin (born 1888), GEORGE GERSHWIN (born 1898), Lionel Hampton and Louis Jordan (both born in 1908) as well as a celebration of the birthdays of Burt Bacharach and Quincy Jones. Vocal contributions are from Carleen Anderson, Christine Tobin, Cleveland Watkiss, Liane Carroll, Madeleine Bell, Nigel Kennedy, Melody Gardot and Nate James.... |
| Real History Of Opera [radio Wales] | ...Huw Edwards explores the story behind GEORGE GERSHWIN's revolutionary opera, Porgy and Bess, which focuses on the lives of a poor black community in the heart of America's deep South at the beginning of the 20th century.... |
| Rhapsody In Blue | ...Five stories with music to celebrate the 80th anniversary of GEORGE GERSHWIN's masterpiece.... |
| Richard Rodney Bennett - 70th Birthday Composer Portrait | ...Choral music has been a constant in Richard Rodney Bennett's output since his earliest days as a composer. Complementing Rolf Hind's performance of Noctuary for solo piano (based on Scott Joplin's Elite Syncopations), the BBC Singers perform a wide-ranging selection of Bennett's choral pieces, sacred and secular, several of them composed specially for the group, including arrangements of songs by GEORGE GERSHWIN and Duke Ellington.... |
| Soul Music | ...GEORGE GERSHWIN's classic piece is explored by his biographer Rodney Greenburg and opera singers Harolyn Blackwell and Lesley Garrett.... |
| Woman's Hour | ...GEORGE GERSHWIN (Composer)... |