September 26th is George Gershwin's Birthday!
So how can you celebrate?
🏙️ Watch George Gershwin play his own compositions. Here's I Got Rhythm.
🏙️ Sight-play his jazz standards like his first hit, Swanee.
🏙️ Choose a Gershwin piece to start learning as a repertoire piece.
- Here are my personal suggestions!
- S'Wonderful (improvisation transcription)
- Prelude No. 1
- Rhapsody in Blue for solo piano
🏙️ Listen to Rhapsody in Blue.
🏙️ Watch Kim Yuna win the Olympics skating to Concerto in F.
🏙️ Watch An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly.
🏙️ Visit The Music House Museum in Traverse City, MI to listen to Gershwin playing Rhapsody In Blue on the 1925 Webber Duo-Art reproducing piano.
🏙️ Listen to Alan Berg's Lyric Suite.
🏙️ Learn to improvise jazz.
🏙️ Play tennis.
🏙️ Paint a portrait.
🏙️ Read a biography about George Gershwin.
What are some of your own ideas to celebrate Gershwin's birthday?
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