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On June 10, 1924, Gershwin and Whiteman's orchestra created an acoustic recording running 8 minutes and 59 seconds and issued by the Victor Talking Machine Company. A year later, Gershwin recorded his performance on a 1925 piano roll for a two-piano version.
12. Feb. 2024 · Am 12. Februar 1924 bringt George Gershwin seine „Rhapsody in Blue“ zur Uraufführung. Das Konzert in der New Yorker Aeolian Concert Hall geht in die Musikgeschichte ein. Doch eigentlich hatte...
13. Feb. 2024 · George Gershwin’s work has remained popular, but it is also controversial: for some it introduced jazz into the concert hall, while others consider it to be a white musician’s crass and racist...
Entstehungsgeschichte. Der Bandleader Paul Whiteman hatte schon am 1. November 1923, rund vier Monate vor der Uraufführung, ein Konzert in der Aeolian Hall veranstaltet, das Jazz und Klassik einander gegenüberstellte. Es war ein passabler Erfolg, so dass Whiteman beschloss, ein noch ambitionierteres Projekt in Angriff zu nehmen.
The Historical Gershwin by George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
12. Feb. 2024 · Paul Whiteman, the man behind the concert, was the most popular bandleader of the 1920s. Nicknamed the ‘King of Jazz’, his ensemble was essentially a large dance orchestra, that often enlisted jazz musicians to its line-up. It was Whiteman who eventually twisted Gershwin’s arm and persuaded him to accept the job.
9. Feb. 2024 · As the story goes, Paul Whiteman had attended that recital and it was on the basis of his having heard Gershwin in his dual role as composer and pianist that he asked Gershwin to write what was initially advertised in the New York Tribune as a “jazz concerto.”
