George Gershwin: American in Paris

Arr. Naohiro Iwai. Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. George Gershwin (1898-1937), der sein Musikerleben in der Welt des Entertainment begann, verdiente sich mit seiner berühmten Rhapsody in Blue (1924) den Eintritt in die großen „klassischen“ Konzerthallen. An American in Paris, das einige Jahre später folgte, beschreibt auf musikalische Art und Weise einen Ausschnitt von Gershwins Europareise im Jahre 1928. Naohiro Iwais Blasorchesterarrangement beweist, wie gut sich das Stück auch für diese Besetzung eignet! / Niveau : 4 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. George Gershwin Great Musicians Serie / Jazz / Recueil / Piano

The Boosey and Hawkes Solo Piano Collection provides the intermediate pianist with exciting repertoire in accessible yet authentic arrangements.This collection contains 33 American classics arranged for the intermediate pianist, including well-known themes from the stage, screen and concert hall by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim and many more. / Piano

Fantaisie Sur An American In Paris de G. Gershwin. Par DI BACCO GAETANO. George Gershwin est sans aucun doute le compositeur du XXe siècle qui a créé un point de rencontre entre la culture musicale européenne et populaire américaine. Ses grands chefs-d'oeuvre en témoignent, notamment Un Américain à Paris écrit lors de son séjour à Paris où il part apprendre les techniques de composition académiques européennes. Sa rencontre avec Maurice Ravel, compositeur et orchestrateur parmi les plus représentatifs de la musique européenne du XXe siècle, est historique. Four saxes in Paris est un hommage à George Gershwin et à son poème symphonique An american in Paris, duquel est tirée cette fantaisie, qui comprend 3 saxophones dans la partition orchestrale (alto, ténor et baryton qui jouent également 3 saxophones sopranos). Dans cet arrangement, le quatuor de saxophones parvient étonnamment à reproduire tout le “sound” et le “swing” de ce chef-d'œuvre : français dans la première partie, américain dans la seconde : les deux âmes du saxophone ! Depuis 1984 avec le Quartetto di Sassofoni Accademia (Gaetano Di Bacco, Enzo Filippetti, Giuseppe Berardini et Fabrizio Paoletti) en plus de la redécouverte du répertoire original, j'ai réalisé plusieurs arrangements pour quatuor de saxophones, mettant en évidence les particularités de cette formation, contribuant ainsi au grand développement technico-exécutif dont témoigne cet arrangement./ Répertoire / 4 Saxophones

Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. An American in Paris * Bidin' My Time * By Strauss * Embraceable You * Funny Face * Isn't It a Pity * I Got Rhythm * In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden * Maybe * My Cousin in Milwaukee * Slap That Bass * Swanee * They All Laughed * Love Is Sweeping the Country * High Hat and many more. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Piano, Voix, Guitare et Clavier

The melodies from George Gershwin's (1898-1937) musicals from 'Porgy and Bess' from orchestral pieces like 'Rhapsody in Blue' or 'An American in Paris' we all know them! But the career of the young musician started as a pianist in a music publishing house where he was to encourage customers to buy music by playing it. Soon he began to compose music himself and caught the attention of the Broadway which paved the way to his international career. Inspired by Frédéric Chopin's 24 Préludes he began to write his own 'Preludes' for the piano in the mid-1920s: Of the five preludes composed by him he used two for the violin composition 'Short Story' and presented the otherthree at a concert on 4 December 1926. These 'Preludes' combine classical moments and jazz elements into an effective whole and can be played individually or as a little jazz sonata (fast slow fast). Thanks to the present arrangement the charming miniatures are now available in a version for solo instrument and piano accompaniment.

Retrouvez une collection d'oeuvres et de 18 arrangements originaux par George et Ira Gershwin pour piano solo. Cet ouvrage est une réédition. / Piano

Le poème symphonique Un Américain à Paris brosse le portrait d?un Américain visitant la capitale française. L?oeuvre débute par un thème jovial : le promeneur descend les Champs-Élysées. Assis à la terrasse d?un café du Quartier Latin l?Américain a le mal du pays. Un blues intensément mélancolique et solidement rythmé traverse la trame. Puis il fait la rencontre d?un compatriote ; la musique s?envole et se réinstalle dans l?exubérance de la première partie. La musique triomphe dans une ambiance typiquement française. Une oeuvre superbement arrangée par Franco Cesarini.

A Treasury of Favorite Songs to Play-This collection contains 26 timeless classics from the masters of musical theatre George and Ira Gershwin. All of the pieces in My First Gershwin Song Book are arranged for easy Piano and presented with beautiful full-colour illustrations. A biography of the Gershwin brothers is included along with vintage photographs of them performing. Songs include: An American in Paris But Not for Me Embraceable You Fascinating Rhythm I Got Rhythm Love Is Here to Stay The Man I Love Rhapsody in Blue Someone to Watch over Me Summertime They Can't Take That Away from Me and more.

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

Includes: I Got Rhythm Variations (Jazz Variation) * An American in Paris (Blues Theme) * Prelude II * Concerto in F (Second Movement) * Rhapsody in Blue (Slow Theme) * Second Rhapsody (Slow Theme).