08-25-2012, 01:03 PM
The talent of our own home grown genus, Mr. George Gershwin, is a national treasure to be cherished. This is just a "taste" of Rhapsody in Blue, what I think is Gershwin's crowning achievement.
Not the best recording, but if you feel in anyway moved by it you can find it from many, many sources. (I post this for the visual quality of the pianist)
Note to Tennis Mom and Clone: Close your eyes and remember all the street scenes you have taken in while just going about a normal life in The Big Apple. This was Gershwin's love poem to the City, his real love. He wrote if for everyone who has ever enjoyed "a bagel and a smear", perused a used book store for too long, had lunch with the lions in front of the best city library ever, or visited Macy's on a cold December day.
For those of us who have only visited by way of books, magazines, novels, movies, photo's and video's, we too feel the embrace of this wonderful music. Never intimate, we still feel the tug of it's power.
Not the best recording, but if you feel in anyway moved by it you can find it from many, many sources. (I post this for the visual quality of the pianist)
Note to Tennis Mom and Clone: Close your eyes and remember all the street scenes you have taken in while just going about a normal life in The Big Apple. This was Gershwin's love poem to the City, his real love. He wrote if for everyone who has ever enjoyed "a bagel and a smear", perused a used book store for too long, had lunch with the lions in front of the best city library ever, or visited Macy's on a cold December day.
For those of us who have only visited by way of books, magazines, novels, movies, photo's and video's, we too feel the embrace of this wonderful music. Never intimate, we still feel the tug of it's power.