{"id":320,"date":"2016-01-28T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:50:48","slug":"no-5-gershwin-on-jazz-and-rhapsody-in-blue-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Gershwin on Jazz and <i>Rhapsody in Blue<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MusicalCanadaCover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"MusicalCanadaCover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MusicalCanadaCover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MusicalCanadaCover-473x710.jpg 473w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MusicalCanadaCover-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MusicalCanadaCover-153x230.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinPortrait-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"GershwinPortrait\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinPortrait-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinPortrait-191x230.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinPortrait.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Musical Canada<\/em>\u00a0vol. 6, no. 10 (October, 1925)]<\/p>\n<p>The first jazz recording was made in 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band playing \u201cLivery Stable Blues\u201d as you can hear here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Original Dixieland Jazz Band Livery Stable Blues\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9chC3kBlDdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was an immediate hit, bringing jazz to mainstream attention.\u00a0 Within seven short years of this milestone recording, Gershwin composed his jazz-influenced <em>Rhapsody in Blue. <\/em>Paul Whiteman and his band organized the premiere concert of the <em>Rhapsody,<\/em> which took place at New York\u2019s Aeolian Hall on February 12, 1924 (92 years ago next month) with Gershwin as piano soloist. Over the next 10 years, <em>Rhapsody in Blue<\/em> would continue to be popular, earning Gershwin more than a quarter of a million dollars from performances, recordings, and rental fees.<\/p>\n<p>The performances generated a debate about whether these uniquely American jazz elements were at home in a new mixture of popular music and that of the European concert tradition. After the <em>Rhapsody\u2019s<\/em> London premiere, Gershwin was interviewed by Herbert S. Greenhalgh for the BBC\u2019s <em>Radio Times <\/em>with the interview later reprinted in <em>Musical Canada<\/em> (October 1925, 13-14). In this interview Gershwin offers not only his views on jazz and the intermingling of musical genres, but also his opinion on syncopation in Bach, Stravinsky and the future of modern music, as well as personal insights about his night-owl working tendencies, his musical sketchbook, and his enthusiasm over the future of a new exciting technology: the \u201cwireless\u201d (i.e. radio).\u00a0 See excerpts from this interview below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"InterviewPart1\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1-650x477.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1-313x230.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart1.jpg 1141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2-351x710.jpg\" alt=\"InterviewPart2\" width=\"300\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2-351x710.jpg 351w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2-148x300.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2-506x1024.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2-114x230.jpg 114w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart2.jpg 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"InterviewPart3\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3-650x710.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3-936x1024.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3-210x230.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart3.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4-513x710.jpg\" alt=\"InterviewPart4\" width=\"282\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4-513x710.jpg 513w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4-166x230.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/InterviewPart4.jpg 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Musical Canada<\/em>, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1925): 13-14]<\/p>\n<p>One can see the popularity of Gershwin through illustrations in music journals; this caricature accompanied Virgil Thomson\u2019s 1935 article in <em>Modern Music<\/em> (December 1935) dealing with Gershwin\u2019s symphonic compositions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-333 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinCaricature-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"GershwinCaricature\" width=\"232\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinCaricature-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinCaricature-368x710.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinCaricature-119x230.jpg 119w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GershwinCaricature.jpg 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<em>Modern Music<\/em> XIII, no. 1, (November-December 1935): 15]<\/p>\n<p>This video is the original 1924 recording of <em>Rhapsody in Blue<\/em> performed by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s35IqfLn1Pk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s35IqfLn1Pk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in this interview, Paul Whiteman talks about George Gershwin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Whiteman talks about George Gershwin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jEgJZ7inUrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>RIPM Search Tip:<\/u><\/em><\/strong> To read the entire article, use the \u201cbrowse\u201d mode in the RIPM <em>e<\/em>-library for the periodical <em>Musical Canada<\/em>, specifically the October 1925 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 [Musical Canada\u00a0vol. 6, no. 10 (October, 1925)] The first jazz recording was made in 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band playing \u201cLivery Stable Blues\u201d as you can hear here: It was an immediate hit, bringing jazz to mainstream attention.\u00a0 Within seven short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[18,19,20],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curioschronicles","tag-gershwin","tag-jazz","tag-rhapsody-in-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}