The Life and Music of George Gershwin
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
George Gershwin’s story is like the story of so many American immigrants. His mother and father, Moishe and Rose Gershowitz, were Russian Jews who came to New York City in the 1890s looking for a better life and to escape persecution at home. Soon they became the Gershwines, and in 1898, Jacob Gershwine was born. Later on he changed his name to sound just a little bit more American, and the name George Gershwin was on its way to immortality. In just a few short years, the Gershowitz’s had become the Gershwins, and the story of George Gershwin was beginning to be written. On today’s show we’ll talk about some of Gershwin’s greatest works, including his Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue, and Porgy and Bess, but we’ll also talk about the collision between Classical and Pop music, a Russian Jew imbibing the purely American form of Jazz, and Gershwin’s place in the modern classical and jazz repertoire, and in America. Join us!
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| 0:04.8 | My name is Joshua Weylerstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Music Director of the Phoenix |
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| 0:45.1 | So I already have to make a little bit of a correction from last week, which was I said |
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| 0:51.6 | I'm actually going to have three more episodes for you starting with this one on George |
| 0:55.7 | Gershwin. |
| 0:56.7 | That is because I am heading to Greece for the Kalamata International Music Days Festival, |
| 1:01.7 | where I'll be conducting another arrangement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. |
| 1:05.7 | I already have done one, the absolutely wonderful arrangement by Ian Farrington, and now I'm |
| 1:10.8 | doing a completely different one by Klaus Simon. |
| 1:13.9 | So it's a bit confusing having three different scores flying around, but it's going to be |
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