Sometimes a jewel becomes more valuable when people can wear it. That is a thought I had the other day when I was permitted to play the Gershwin Steinway that resides in a workshop at the School of ...
Some rare footage of Gershwin nailing a piano solo in 1930s New York has been uncovered, and it’s enough to rekindle your love of music all over again. It’s rare that we ever get the chance to see one ...
The last Steinway grand piano owned by famed American composer George Gershwin – the one on which he most likely composed “Porgy and Bess” – has a new life. Donated to the University of Michigan ...
ANN ARBOR (WWJ)-- George Gershwin's legacy is his music, having composed some of the most iconic music in American history, including Rhapsody In Blue, Porgy and Bess, and Three Preludes. Now Gershwin ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you’ve never heard of George Gershwin — and there aren’t many who haven’t — you’ve no doubt ...
Gershwin at the Piano isn’t as memorable a theatrical endeavor as its prededecessor, the Art Tatum tribute Piano Starts Here. Forced to resort to a Plan B after another company cancelled its Sunday ...
Over in London for a match, I was strolling through Harrods in Knightsbridge, as you do, when I heard a piano playing. I followed my ear through the displays of iconic opulence to see just who was ...
Father/son piano duo Donald and Barron Ryan, can play everything from jazz to the Beatles to Chopin. But for their March 2 concert at the James Lumber Center in Grayslake, they will celebrate all ...
The new piano arrived in Buffalo from the Steinway factory in Queens, NY. Eric Huebner, pianist of the New York Philharmonic and Chair of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Music, accompanied ...