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Prelude No.2
Джордж Гершвин Lyrics
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@frankmann7110
We sang George's 100th Birthday at Blossom Festival with TCO as our backup band, for the Blossom Chorus...
Alvie Powell was our soloist.
Semper Fi Porgy! He owned that role.
Wow. Pinch me, did that happen, Summer '98?
I guess so, I see it in the program notes.
Gershwin had wanted it premiered there for his friend Rodzinski, but his NYC backers threw a fit.
But we sang it in '98!
I am busking this prelude. So very cool.
Gershwin forever, the American blue 💙 genius!
@tomdeneckere
When I was young, I had teachers who told me ‘THIS is how you play Mozart’ or ‘THIS is how you play Bach’. I can assure you: nobody plays Mozart or Bach now as they did back then. Which of course doesn’t mean they weren’t right. I could have been that lucky guy with just the teachers who were right about the ways to play all composers. And the rest of the world just has gone astray. I think not.
Also, I have read books by really smart people about all they got to know about performance practice and historic correctness. However, hearing them perform doesn’t always make me happy, nor are they always interesting (unless you are interested in assessing how good they are in putting their money where their mouth is).
Third, composers have been caught admitting that they liked performances of their pieces that were very different from their own. Good composers, too.
I do think there is merit in knowing as much as you can about a piece and using that knowledge to prepare ways of interpreting or performing them. 'As much as I can' is of course a function of how smart I am, what sources I have access to, but also: how much time I have to prepare for a performance. If you don’t have much time, a lot of ‘improvisation’ enters the picture, where you adapt to circumstances, and make split-second decisions about how to continue or ease into a new section, during rehearsals as well as during performance. As a fulltime accompanist, I have to do that a lot. In my experience, being a good, saught-after musician is not only about playing everything ‘right’ but also being flexible and finding the right balance between imposing your style or knowledge and being humble and make concessions in the interest of the performance.
Apart from that, it can also be fun to ‘just play’ a piece without giving too much thought to it. Like when sometimes you go to the bakery ‘just’ to buy bread, not asking yourself if bread is exactly the thing that your body needs, considering what you ate over the last week, or if maybe you could buy the cheaper bread and donate some money to charity instead of buying the more expensive bread, or if the baker herself meets all your moral rules and hygienic standards. That is life. That, also, is the life of a musician.
If my performance gave you the impression that ‘THIS is how you play Gershwin’, I apologise. That was not my intent. It is a live performance that I remember well and that was almost accidentally recorded. I am proud of it because I know in what circumstances I did it and because people at that time thought and felt that it fitted the circumstances. And I think it sounds good! ❤🎶
@klockwood3441
I think Gershwin’s music is much underrated. This melody is so haunting. I play it a lot.
@McCherrill
I completely agree. He is vastly underrated. The pace of his music is like no other
@edenwalkermusic
I love this song so much. I've been working on playing it on and of for the past four months, and nothing is more rewarding than sitting at the piano and playing it through perfectly. It's the most amazing feeling in the world.
@Dylonely42
The hauntingly beautiful blue lullaby.
@thehydronator3021
Gershwin always wrote the most beautifully melancholy music.
@dillonheimerl5683
1:16...the voicing. Just perfect.
@Gxyz222
When that man, George Gershwin is playing piano, you can't help but shut up and listen.
When an aspiring up and comer plays Gershwin, and plays him well, we shut up, we listen, and after the last note is sustained, we get up and we cheer!
Because the world's next great piano player might just be among us!
@cartermccullough107
Love this piece, I just got it assigned for piano lessons and I’m super excited to play it
@haileyz.
Me too
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