The recording was made in February of 1968 when Ella was on tour in Berlin. Now listen to one of greatest jazz vocalists the world has ever known, Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied in this recording by the Tee Carson Trio. Listen first to the following recording by operatic soprano Kathleen Battle, singing with the Montréal Symphony under the direction of Charles Dutoit.
This song has become a standard for sopranos in both opera and jazz, and illustrates how perfectly Gershwin was able to blend elements of the jazz idiom with the classical operatic form. The piece we chose for Music Memory this year is a song entitled “Summertime,” from Gershwin’s opera, Porgy and Bess. His 1917 novelty rag, Rialto Ripples, was a commercial success, and in 1919 he scored his first big national hit with the song, "Swanee." It was published in 1916 when Gershwin was only 17 years old and earned him $5. His first published song was When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em. He earned $15 a week selling newly published songs to passers-by. George quit going to school at the age of 15 and became a “song plugger” for a publishing firm on New York City’s Tin Pan Alley. The sound and the way his friend played captured his imagination and before long, George’s parents had purchased a piano so George and his older brother, Ira, could take lessons. At the age of 10, he heard a violin recital given by a friend. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935).Īs a young boy, George showed little interest in music and spent the first few years of his life running around with his boyhood friends, roller skating and misbehaving in the streets. His most popular melodies are widely known.
George gershwin compositions archive#
Acquired as part of the Jazz Archive at Duke University.George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Audio and moving image materials are primarily concert recordings featuring Foster from the 1970s through the 1990s. The personal files consist of autobiographical writings, correspondence, photographs, business records, publicity, reviews, and news clippings and subject files on musical collaborations, music teaching, organizations and individuals, and family history.
George gershwin compositions series#
The compositions series are organized into Letter-Sized, Legal-Sized and Oversized subseries.
The collection is arranged in the following series: Compositions by Frank Foster, Compositions by Others, Personal Files, and Audio and Moving Image Materials. The papers consist chiefly of scores and parts composed or arranged by Foster for big bands and other large jazz ensembles, including works written for the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1950s-1960s and again in the 1980s-1990s, as well as works for The Loud Minority, and numerous other bands and organizations for which Foster was commissioned to compose. The Frank Foster Papers span the dates 1930 to 2013, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1950s to 2009. Also present are personal files consisting of correspondence, photographs, business records, publicity, reviews, and news clippings and subject files on musical collaborations, music teaching, organizations and individuals, and family history. The Frank Foster Papers consist chiefly of scores and parts composed or arranged by Foster for big bands and other large jazz ensembles from the 1950s through 2009. Foster III is a saxophonist, flautist, big band leader, educator, and Grammy Award-winning jazz composer and arranger, professionally active in music since the 1940s.
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