George Gershwin - Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FINALE)
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- Delicious (1931) is an American Pre-Code Gershwin musical romantic comedy film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, directed by David Butler, with color sequences in Multicolor, now lost.
Gaynor plays a Scottish girl emigrating by ship to America who runs afoul of the authorities and has to go on the run, falling in with a ragtag group of immigrant musicians in Manhattan. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929). Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise.
The Second Rhapsody is a concert piece for orchestra with piano by American composer George Gershwin, written in 1931. It is sometimes referred to by its original title, Rhapsody in Rivets.
The Second Rhapsody was seldom performed in the twentieth century, and only in recent years has critical and popular attention turned to the work.
In 1930, George Gershwin, together with his brother Ira Gershwin, was invited to go to Hollywood to provide the music for the film Delicious. After completing work on most of the film's songs and "The Melting Pot" sequence, George began sketching music to accompany an extended visual montage, where a character wanders the streets of New York. The initial title of this sequence was Manhattan Rhapsody, and renamed during the course of the film's production to New York Rhapsody, and finally to Rhapsody In Rivets. Gershwin completed the sketch just prior to returning to New York in late February 1931.
In New York, Gershwin began working on a full score of the Second Rhapsody on March 14, 1931, and completed the score on May 23. He was proud of this work, and commented: "In many respects, such as orchestration and form, it is the best thing I have written."
For use in the Delicious film sequence, the score was edited to fit into the sequence's length of seven minutes, eliminating more than half of the original music. This editing was possibly done by Hugo Friedhofer, a staff musician at the Fox film studio who had worked with Gershwin on his early sketch of the Rhapsody. Gershwin himself later deleted the opening trio with piano, cello and violin.
The piece received its premiere in Boston Symphony Hall by Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Serge Koussevitzky on January 29, 1932, with the composer himself playing the piano part. The New York premiere was given a few days later.
(Wikipedia)
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Original audio: • George Gershwin (1898-...
(Performance by: Jeffrey Siegel at the piano, with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin)
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1) I'm really, really sorry if this video is very delayed. Aside from my laziness to make videos and my work schedule, my thumb was very swollen for whatever reason this week, and had checked it up too late, so it might be a long time for me to recover. I am also unlucky to find film music by composers other than the ones I had already featured for the tribute, so I finally decided to put this in and properly close the tribute.
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long time no see lol
Technically it was only Candlemas yesterday (I think) so you're only too late for the greater Christmas season by a day!
@klop422
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“A Natale ho sempre regalato il jazz, d'altra parte non so fare altro.” - George Gershwin
my absolute favourite Gershwin piece!
Very nice !
May G. Gershwin rest in peace forever.
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sometimes... I feel like I am really improving my compositions... And becoming pretty good at it... And then I listen to this... And remember that I am extremely, extremely crap
Feels good
haha I am a composer to and I experience exactly the same thing over and over again when listening to the classics
join the club...
One of my favorite pieces of music. So underrated…
7:21 amazing how somewhat it can resemble the distant world of Mahler’s 10th symphony. incredible Gershwin, gift to humankind.
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Gershwin had some great polytonality at 2:37 -- and that was pre-Schillinger...
@Adam Schiff
"During his time with Schillinger, Gershwin studied all the aspects of music theory, harmony, and form
that would typically be presented in a college freshman-level music theory course. But
Schillinger also exposed Gershwin to polytonality, polymodality, and pandiatonicism. "
A pure beauty!
Indeed
9:24 is giving me very interesting ideas about how sound can morph into shapes. The triplets to me sound like chunks that would absorb into whichever hall this was recorded in. BRAVO
Okay, maybe not as tuneful as Rhapsody in Blue, but definitely worth hearing. I found an online commentary that made a good case for hearing the earlier version of this music in its cinematic context, 1931's "Delicious." If memory serves, Gershwin himself did the orchestra for this piece - love the addition of the harp! - as he had for the Concerto in F and the I Got Rhythm Variations. Thanks for posting!
Rhapsody in Blue has so many melodies combined together. Whereas here, there are less melodies and more structured. I'd say the Second Rhapsody is a better composition than Rhapsody in Blue, because clearly we can here the theme, development, variations, second theme, etc., whilst in Rhapsody in Blue, it is more messy.
The Gershwins had an unhappy experience in Hollywood. They did not go back until after 'Porgy and Bess' was premiered and they were hired to produce scores for 'Shall We Dance', 'A Damsel in Distress' and 'The Goldwyn Follies'.
By then George's concertizing made the moguls afraid he was going longhair. He complained: 'It has come to this- Sam Goldwyn saying "Why can't you write hits like Irving Berlin?"'
Had he lived, Gershwin would have been feted by the Hollywood of the 1940s which went wild for fusion: 'Fantasia', Joan Crawford in 'Humoresque', 'Stranger in Paradise', the Warsaw Concerto, Jose Iturbi playing boogie-woogie, etc.
@@antimon40 "Anything that doesn't adhere to strict structure and century old standards is bad" 🤓
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I could see why it isn't as famous as the Rhapsody in Blue but it's a wonderful piece
Why ?
@@Dylonely_9274 It doesn’t have the same lyricism or eccentricity of the Blue
@@Dylonely_9274 I did listen to all of Gershwin's works for orchestra dozens of times. Perhaps due to personal taste, I don't like the texture of the orchestra mainly, the strings sounds muddy in my opinion. I do notice the form of thematic transformation and I like Gershwin's manner of doing so. I like his Cuban Overture and Concerto in F more.
@@SCRIABINIST You've good taste and way to see music. I prefer his Piano Concerto and his An American in Paris more (althought I love all of Gershwin's masterpieces).
I'm getting tango-y vibes at times that I didn't find in rhapsody in blue, love this piece too! (hard to top that though)
That's the Gershwin of the Cuban Overture coming through. He was a musical sponge.
Thanks for uploading!
Just saw The Milwaukee Symphony jam this.
ooooh nice. do you know who's the player?
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Vezényel:Leonard Slatkin
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An ad @10:00. A pox on this social network.
Is this meant to sound similar to rhapsody in blue or just co incidence? Reminds me of it multiple times
This is Gershwins second rhapsody so it has some ties to the origina
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Hey !
Can you please upload Blumenfeld op.54 please ? The only version on YT is in bad quality :/
Alka-Young Yes please! Blumenfeld is an extremely unknown, extremely underrated composer.
Another unjustifiably neglected piece of genuine Americana.
*you can hear individual instruments in this excellent quality recording*
_#Gershwin__ - __#2ndRhapsody_
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