And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
's wonderful, 's marvelous, 's Gershwin! One of the finest compositions ever written, played beautifully here, and one of my all-time favorites. Thanks.
And if you can't listen to this, and see in your head a montage of a thousand vignettes of everyday life in New York City circa 1920, your soul is blind. This entire piece is a poem to the Big Apple, Gershwin's birthplace and home for most of his life.
BTW, this composition turns 100 in 2 more years. Imagine hearing it fresh in 1924, starting with the signature smart-ass "Look at me!" clarinet glissando solo opening, one of the most instantly recognized openings in orchestral history.
Just achingly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much.
This made my Saturday evening. Real American music at its pinnacle.
ReplyDeleteDamn.
ReplyDeleteThats not a piano. Its an extension of her soul....
Fun fact. Mitch Miller (of sing along with Mitch) was in the orchestra when this premiered.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Gershwin, himself, would have been in awe of that performance. Wow!
ReplyDeleteThis is the finest music ever written. I cannot listen to it without crying at the end. Magnificent version, thank you.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteWOW!! Talk about feeling the music. Just fabulous
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning... Thank you for finding and presenting this. I am rarely in awe of my species, but sometimes, it is unavoidable....
ReplyDeleteMike in Canada
's wonderful, 's marvelous, 's Gershwin!
ReplyDeleteOne of the finest compositions ever written, played beautifully here, and one of my all-time favorites.
Thanks.
And if you can't listen to this, and see in your head a montage of a thousand vignettes of everyday life in New York City circa 1920, your soul is blind.
DeleteThis entire piece is a poem to the Big Apple, Gershwin's birthplace and home for most of his life.
BTW, this composition turns 100 in 2 more years.
DeleteImagine hearing it fresh in 1924, starting with the signature smart-ass "Look at me!" clarinet glissando solo opening, one of the most instantly recognized openings in orchestral history.
Khatia is doing it all from memory!
ReplyDeleteBest rendition of the United
ReplyDeleteAirlines theme I ever heard, or saw.....thanks
The New York of yesterday.
ReplyDeleteWhat a way of bringing it to life for us today.
God, that was good!
Heltau