Review | OCM Unable to Swing for Stellar Jazz Soloists
On Feb. 25, Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) presented Jazz & Jeans in Montreal’s Pierre Mercure Hall. A program of great symphonic jazz repertoire—from Gershwin…
Browsing: George Gershwin
Review | Marc-André Hamelin & OSM Swing in The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was an age of dramatic social and economic change, fabulous fashion, and of course, great music. A century onwards, Orchestre symphonique de…
Swing, Klezmer and Beyond
Long before the term “world music” became en vogue, jazz was already international. Nowadays it draws more liberally than ever on every possible genre, from…
Kirill Gerstein Bends Gershwin’s Rhythms
Gershwin: Rahpsody in Blue, concerto in F (Myrios) On first hearing, this seemed nothing special – a Russian-Jewish pianist, Kirill Gerstein, tackling the two Gershwin…
Glimmerglass 2017 – The Afterglow
Retrospective of the Glimmerglass Festival mainstage season of Summer 2017: Xerxes, by G.F. Handel (libretto by Minato and Stampiglia); The Siege of Calais by Gaetano…
Daily News Roundup: 11 July 2016
+ This Day in Music: George Gershwin died this day in 1937. + The 37th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal was…
CD Review – Michael Finnissy: Gershwin arrangements for piano (White)
George Gershwin’s songs are so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine an experience of his work untouched by adaptations, whether in film or in…
This Day in Music – 1937: Death of George Gershwin
Gershwin, one of the main catalysts for jazz to become America’s music, was a composer and pianist who bridged popular and classical modes. His prolific…
