Bernstein plays Gershwin

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Writing about Gershwins iconic Rhapsody in Blue, Leonard Bernstein suggested that it might not be a real composition in the sense that whatever happens in it must seem inevitable, or even pretty inevitable

A propos de lemblématique Rhapsody in Blue de Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein écrivait: Ce nest peut-être pas une vraie composition, au sens où tout ce qui arrive doit paraître inévitable, ou lêtre vraiment

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[Snidely1000]

I've heard a lot of performances of this piece, including Gershwin himself playing it. Bernstein's version is my hands-down favorite.

[TheAtkinsoj]

@mikakrstic Oh, I'm sorry. I totally didn't realise you owned Gershwin.

What a pity that a large portion of his music has been uploaded to YouTube, where literally millions of people can listen to it for free.

This must suck for you Yanks, who apparently 'own' Gershwin's music.

I feel so bad for you.

I'm going to listen to Rhapsody in Blue again now.

You poor, ignorant individual.

[Elmo1835]

@TheAtkinsoj I apologize for my ignorant, stupid, conceited American. He is a disgrace to this great country.

[KidneyShanker]

United Airlines thinks they wrote this masterpiece.

[eleni1968]

Listening to Berstein's thoughts on Beethoven, I understand why he felt the way he did about Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" note @ top .I think Gershwin was coming at classical music from the sensibility of a modernist and not as a classical musician. The difference is a modernist will take different traditions / styles and marry them together to create a new language / idiom in the same genre. A classically trained musician will never leave the genre or change the vocabulary and grammar of it.

[galaxion2]

This is what you would call a master at work.

[AceBG27]

Love this at the end of Manhattan.

[redhedbedhed]

i'm in the process of learning this piece, and seeing this makes me simultaneously want to master it and curl up into a ball and die.

[clairelille]

"RHapsody ..."of course , sorry !

[clairelille]

C'est mon interprétation préférée de " Rapsody in Blue ", en tout cas celle qui me touche le plus ...

[missycake1]

Beautiful - but why is it cut short?

[TheStockwell]

@sargeanton2 Bernstein makes two cuts in the music and slows the tempo to a crawl at one point. No big deal, but what he left out is good music. The original jazz band version of the Rhapsody is much more Gershwinesque than the orchestral version. The Bernstein version is what started my love for Gershwin's music but try to hear the original some time. On YouTube, you can search "Rhapsody peter wilson" for a sample.