czwartek, 12 lutego 2015

Rhapsody in Blue.

12 lutego 1924 roku odbyla się premiera Rhapsody in Blue czyli Błękitnej rapsodii George'a Gershwina. Utwór uczynił kompozytora sławnym i bogatym.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHdRkeEnpM
Rhapsody In Blue, by George Gershwin, performed for first time
The audience packed a house that could have been sold out at twice the size," wrote New York Times critic Olin Downes on February 13, 1924, of a concert staged the previous afternoon at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. Billed as an educational event, the "Experiment In Modern Music" concert was organized by Paul Whiteman, the immensely popular leader of the Palais Royal Orchestra, to demonstrate that the relatively new form of music called jazz deserved to be regarded as a serious and sophisticated art form.
Read more:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rhapsody-in-blue-by-george-gershwin-performed-for-first-time
O historii powstania utworu możecie przeczytać po polsku tutaj  http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/688/Artykul/513948,Blekitna-Rapsodia

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