Word: gershwinã
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...plenty of hamburgers and bratwurst, but the main attraction was a Korean pop concert featuring A-listers the Brown Eyed Girls and SG Wannabee. The crowd was a mix of Korean and American army families. The 8th Army Band featured both Korean and American soldiers, and they played both Gershwin??s “Summertime” and Korean folk songs. The festival was a balance between two very proud cultures; hopefully such understanding can be reached on more serious military matters as well...
...know the organization he helped save is now thriving, entering its 200th year.BICENTENNIALITYAs part of the festivities, James Yannatos, the music director of the HRO, is including several perennial audience favorites in the season’s program, such as Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and George Gershwin??s “An American in Paris.”Other works planned for this season have close Harvard ties. On the programs for the November and March concerts are “Overture to The Great Gatsby,” composed by John H. Harbison...
...gave a great vocal performance on “A Wandr’ing Minstrel I” from Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Anderson later returned with Catherine L. Vaughan ‘08 for Gershwin??s “Of Thee I Sing.” In “Croon-Spoon,” from Marc Blitzstein’s “Cradle Will Rock,” the different performance experience of singers John D. Kapusta ’09 and Kathy D. Gerlach...
Bernstein even found time to write a new arrangement of Gershwin??s legendary "Rhapsody in Blue." The piece will have its world premiere at the festival...
...healing effects of music”—Gershwin was able to transmute his energy and mischief into prolific art, and in collaboration with his brother Ira, wrote some of the most enduring music of his era. Kogan posits that the sorrow and despair found in some of Gershwin??s later works may be due to a depression the composer suffered before his premature death at the age of 38. When asked if he thought depression could be a source of creativity, Kogan answers, “Mental illness is overemphasized as a source of creativity?...