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George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (Original Post)
elleng
Jun 2018
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TEB
(12,957 posts)1. You elleng
And my wife must be from the same tribe
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)2. That song encapsulates the 20th century's spirit of progress.
elleng
(131,413 posts)4. It sure does.
ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)5. Played That Song In A Competition
When i was 15 or 16, i'm not sure what year that was.
It was a slightly jazzier version, with more syncopation than the original but i stayed pretty true to the spirit of the song.
The biggest change was the first turn after the part everyone knows from the United commercial. The left hand part kind of swung the piece with a quasi-boogie feel.
I loved playing that piece.
DFW
(54,506 posts)6. I remember when Peter Sellers sang George Gershwin
MariaCSR
(642 posts)7. He wrote that while riding on the train.
Either to NYC or from, I forget which.
It's one of my most favorite classical pieces. It's almost the first "mashup" of classical and jazz.