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Dec 14, 2021 · Ravel spent several nights with Gershwin, listening to jazz at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, where dancers did the lindy hop to hot jazz from some of the nation's greatest bands. Ravel also visited Connie’s Inn and the nearby Cotton Club, where he heard Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Discover Ravel Plays Ravel / Gershwin Plays Gershwin by George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Jul 19, 2017 · Ravel’s music seems to pay homage to Gershwin’s Concerto. The first movement is filled with the sound of the blues, with its ambiguous shifts between major and minor. The final movements of both works share a similar rapid, driving feel.
Dec 6, 2000 · Find release reviews and credits for Ravel Plays Ravel / Gershwin Plays Gershwin - George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel on AllMusic - 2000
The orchestrations in Gershwin's symphonic works often seem similar to those of Ravel; likewise, Ravel's two piano concertos evince an influence of Gershwin. George Gershwin asked to study with Ravel.
Oct 1, 1998 · By David Schiff. October 1998 Issue. WHENEVER George Gershwin met a famous composer, so the stories go, he would ask for lessons. He is said to have requested them from Varèse, Schoenberg,...
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May 3, 2021 · In 1928, Gershwin performed for Ravel at the great French composer’s 53rd birthday. The party’s hostess recalled that Ravel was astonished by ‘the facility with which George scaled the most formidable technical difficulties and his genius for weaving complicated rhythms and his great gift of melody.’
