#georgegershwin

[projazznet]

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

~ George Gershwin

📸George Gershwin by Carl Van Vechten, Wikimedia Commons

[ivovynckier]

Woody Allen had Tom Pierson write the biggest possible arrangements of George Gershwin's music for his masterpiece "Manhattan".

That album is must-have for film buffs!

[portraitsgallery]

George Gershwin, Self-Portrait.

[musicainextenso]

Let’s continue our exclusive Famous Overtures Week, here at Musica in Extenso! Through the whole series, we shared some really fantastic masterpieces; today as well we prepared some jazzy melodies, an impressive symphonic overture from the famous american composer, George Gershwin.

The Cuban Overture - originally titled Rumba - it was a result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1932. Gershwin composed the piece in July and August 1932. The work under the title Rumba received its premiere at New York's now-demolished Lewisohn Stadium in 16 August 1932, as part of an all-Gershwin programme held by New York Philharmonic. 

Today on Musica in Extenso:

George Gershwin

Cuban Overture

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

 Conductor: Richard Hayman 

Enjoy! - Editor-in-Chief

[williamjoyce]

This weeks lunch sketches 1)Raise Your Glass You Amphibians! (opus #7 toccata not in fuge) from George Gershwin and Cole Porter’s unfinished opera “Froggy Went a’ Courtin’ and He Got Squiffed” 2)An Amphibian of Indeterminate Malice 3)An Alien Tadpole Of Considerable Cheer 4)Poseidon King of the Sea Apparently Vexed 5)Hack! Hack! Cough!: I Nearly Joke To Death On a King Cake Baby* 6)Froggy in progress 7) Froggy in Close Up 8)Froggy reprise. Now raise your glass you humans! It’s Friday!!! . . .. ... *in Louisiana during the Mardi Gras it is a tradition to eat a delightful confection called a King Cake. Hidden inside every cake is a tiny plastic baby. Legend has it that If you bite into the piece of this cake that contains the hidden baby you will have good luck for the coming year. Like most things concerning Mardi Gras there are some risks. But it usually works out...Sorta. HAPPY FRIDAY! . .. ... #mardigras #sketchofday #ink #frogs #frogsofinstagram #georgegershwin #coleporter #drawingoftheday #tgifridays #tgif #kidslit #rotg #michiganjfrog https://www.instagram.com/p/BvBzVmaBX5L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cxqnsaoii04e

[thekeysofalicia]

This week me and my date went to Carnegie Hall to see Lang Lang @chickcorea  and the Philadelphia philharmonic orchestra perform #RhapsodyinBlue by #GeorgeGershwin. Minds have been blown!! 💥💥💥 Check my IG story for more 🎹🎹

[classicsheetmusiccovers-blog]

Swanee by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar #1919 #swanee #gershwin #georgegershwin #fonts #font #vintage #vintagesheetmusic #sheetmusicart #sheetmusic #music #art #tinpanalley #minimalism

[projazznet]

Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin

Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin is a 1958 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the music of George Gershwin.