Title : George Gershwin: Greatest Hits
Author : Gershwin, George
Release Date : 19940809
Binding : Audio CD
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Buyer Reviews : To someone who came along as a teenage boy in the early 1940's this CD has all of the elements of surprise, musical history, highly intense performances and ways to evoke memories of many emotional highlights of my Youth. When we tackled Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' at Smoky Mtn Music Camp we were preparing for an outdoor Sunday Concert. Pianos were played by two friends who have presided over Music Dept at Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee. In the Trombone section was a skinny kid with too much hair and too big an ego! When our esteemed conductor began the opening bars the Clarinet Soloist was my close friend Danny Boy who later became a NC Doctor! He may likely be playing the clarinet for his own amazement in someone's Dixieland Band!
On this wondrous CD there are historic names like Bernstein, Kostelanez, John Williams and Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductors. Andre Previn, Yo-Yo Ma and Sarah Vaughan as Soloists. I would have a hard time choosing which could be called my favorite! It would depend on the day they are playing in my car... traveling to Columbia Seminary classes or GA Diagnostic Prison for lunch with Chaplain friends! I will probabably sing along with the Rhapsody as I did in 1949 when Oscar Levant soloed with Chattanooga Orch and my young wife was playing in the first violin section! Still yet I am totally wiped out when anyone as intensely romantic as Sarah Vaughan sings 'Summertime' or 'I Loves You, Porgy!'
Is it not amazingly wondrous that someone could create so much enjoyable music in his short life time of 39 years? I could never depart with this all-time favorite 10-Star Recording! Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
