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COLUMBIA
GERSHWIN, GEORGE (Composer-Pianist) (1898-1937)
The world was shocked by the untimely death of George Gershwin on the eleventh of July, 1937. Gershwin’s career is the tale of a poor boy’s rise to the top of the musical world. As a lad, he studied the piano in his father’s ghetto restaurant, becoming a _ brilliant virtuoso, and as a young man he worked as a “‘song-plugger’’ for a publishing house where his first successful tunes were written. His musical comedies are among the best-loved, and his haunting, original style, combining the blues with other more serious forms, has produced creations which are often considered the epitome of American music.
Although Gershwin wrote for Broadway, his ambition was to ‘‘make”’ 57th Street. This he did; in fact, he took it by storm with the Rhapsody in Blue, and later, the American in Paris, and finally, the Piano Concerto in F. In his short career of thirty-nine years he also wrote an overwhelmingly popular opera, Porgy and Bess, the libretto derived from DuBose Heyward’s play, ‘“‘Porgy”’.
GIESEKING, WALTER (Piano)
Few pianists tower so clearly above their fellow-artists as does Walter Gieseking, whose incredible artistry magnetizes audiences wherever he performs. Gieseking is doubtless the greatest living keyboard master so far as subtlety, delicacy and nuance are concerned. This is achieved principally through his wonderful command of the dynamics, which enables him to give different weights to each tone produced.
He was born at Lyons in 1895, and studied under Karl Leiner at the Conservatory in Hanover. Since 1923 he has concertized throughout the world. Gieseking is best known for his interpretations of Debussy and other impressionists, but he is equally celebrated for his performances of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Liszt.
HARTY, SIR HAMILTON (Conductor) Sir Hamilton Harty, best known as conductor of the Halle Orchestra from 1920 to 1933, is doubtless Ireland’s finest living musician.
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