Latest George Gershwin Stories
SuperbTicketsOnline.com has announced that it is offering prime seats for one of Broadway's most popular musicals. Wicked tickets are available for every show at the Gershwin Theatre. BROOKFIELD, Wis., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Prime Wicked tickets are selling in high numbers at SuperbTicketsOnline.com for shows taking place at the Gershwin Theatre. This incredible musical has been performed here since 2003 and will for the foreseeable future. Shows are scheduled every...
NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1(st) Annual Broadway Royale New Year's Eve Event's Diamond, Platinum & Sapphire Guests, Special Guest Stevie Wonder, Singer Mary Millben, Stars of Broadway and the World will christen the 2013 New Year with the "Pink Diamond" of Champagnes 'Cuvee Billionaires Row' Brut Rose Grand Cru. The evening's star studded Times Square dinner event will be Hosted by 2012 Tony Award Winner Dale Badway (www.FAME-WALL.COM, Producer Gershwin's Porgy...
NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Noted artist Janusz Kapusta, presents his most stunning artistic invention at the Gershwin Hotel in New York, March 21-April 20. The artist, a member of the Polish-American Business Club, reconstructs "the infinity of K-Dron," an image and 3-D installation that marks the first ever interior installation at the Gershwin lobby. For years, the Gershwin Hotel has been collaborating with artists/thinkers who break through the borders of...
"An American in Paris," "Rhapsody in Blue," and Hancock's improvisation on a Gershwin standard fill the bill NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock launched the LA Phil's 2011/12 season with a sparkling George Gershwin gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall in September. "This is the first time as a professional musician that I'll be playing a piece that's essentially classical...
State-of-the art technology lets Triangle audiences hear Gershwin himself play. Durham, NC (PRWEB) August 19, 2011 Zenph Sound Innovations and Raleigh Little Theatre announce dates for their newest live production, Zenph Presents Jazz Legends: Gershwin At The Piano. The show provides the thrill of actually being in the room to hear and watch George Gershwin play. The Wall Street Journal described Zenph's work as "a technological miracle," and The Newport Daily News reviewed the Gershwin...
BURBANK, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- It's an unprecedented meeting of two legendary musical minds, separated by 70 years. Pioneering musical genius Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, has teamed up with George Gershwin, in Wilson's Disney Pearl debut CD, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin. Featuring timeless classics like "Rhapsody in Blue," "I've Got Rhythm" and "Summertime," the album makes history with "The Like in I Love You" and "Nothing But Love," two new songs Wilson...
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Hiromi Kanda doesn't just sing the standards, she embodies them. On her new album, Hiromi in Love--to be released March 16th on the Music Gate label --and the sensational videos that accompany the recordings, due April 13th on DVD, the stirring vocalist transforms each classic into a work of art. With an elegant visual style that matches the grandeur of the songs--timeless Great American Songbook gems such as "My Funny Valentine," "In the Wee...
Singer Stevie Wonder is to debut his latest song at a special concert at the Library of Congress in Washington, the library said. Honored as this year's Gershwin Prize recipient by the Library of Congress, Wonder will perform Monday for the first time his new track, which was specially commissioned by the library and is to be performed alongside a full orchestra. The invitation-only concert is being produced by American Idol band leader Rickey Minor and kicks off a week of festivities...
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- To pay tribute to the melting pot ideal in the music of George Gershwin and the seminal spirit of the 2008 presidential election, MusicalFare Theatre, an award-winning musical theater company based in Buffalo, N.Y., has premiered "American Rhapsody." The Buffalo News hailed the production, on stage through Feb. 8, as "a gushing love letter to George Gershwin with a gigantic CC to Barack Obama" and declared it "masterfully conceived." So inspired by...
MORE than 40 children are to take audiences on a trip through a century of music in a show. Starset theatre group will perform The Decades concert in Durham Gilesgate Sports College next week. The production will showcase tunes from 1900s music hall, through Gershwin, rock and roll and the Sixties, to the Spice Girls and Robbie Williams. Singing, drama and dance will be involved. The youngsters, aged five to 18, have been in rehearsal for 16 weeks. Show director Elissa Hudson said: ?It?s...
