#George gershwin song list full#

Overture to Of Thee I Sing (1931), for orchestra.Premiered at the Boston Symphony Hall by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. Working title for the work was Rhapsody in Rivets. Second Rhapsody (1931), for piano and orchestra, based on the score for a musical sequence from Delicious (film).Other musical sequences went unused that Gershwin created for Delicious, as Fox Film Corporation declined to use the rest of his score. Different music than the Rhapsody in Rivets sequence, which later was expanded and rescored into the Second Rhapsody. Dream Sequence (1931), a five-minute interlude for orchestra and chorus, meant to portray a mind reeling into the dream state.An American in Paris (1928), a symphonic tone poem with elements of jazz and realistic sound effects, premiered in Carnegie Hall by the New York Philharmonic, Walter Damrosch conducting.March from Strike Up the Band (1927) is a very popular musical interlude from the 1927 stage musical of the same title.Overture to Strike Up the Band (1927/revised 1930), the longest and most complex of the overtures for Gershwin's broadway shows, several sections are polytonal/ atonal.Concerto in F (1925), three movements, for piano and orchestra, premiered in Carnegie Hall by the New York Symphony Orchestra, Walter Damrosch conducting.Premiered by Samuel Dushkin at The University Club of New York in New York City. Short Story (1925), for violin and piano, an arrangement of two other short pieces originally intended to be included with the Three Preludes.Featured in numerous films and commercials. Both versions were orchestrated by Ferde GrofГ©.

#George gershwin song list full#

Rhapsody in Blue (1924), Gershwin's most famous classical work, a symphonic jazz composition for Paul Whiteman's jazz band & piano, premiered at Aeolian Hall, New York City, better known in the form orchestrated for full symphonic orchestra.A suite from Blue Monday was later arranged for piano by pianist and Gershwin scholar Alicia Zizzo and has been recorded.Reorchestrated by Ferde GrofГ© and retitled 135th Street in 1925 for a performance at Carnegie Hall.Blue Monday (1922), a one-act opera featured in George White's Scandals of 1922 at the Globe Theatre, Paul Whiteman conducting, orchestrated by Will Vodery.Originally, a class assignment from his music theory teacher. Lullaby (1919), a meditative piece for string quartet.Note: All orchestral/operatic pieces are orchestrated by Gershwin unless otherwise specified. 4.2 Works interpolating Gershwin songs posthumously.4.1 Works featuring original Gershwin songs for shows by other composers.