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Gayane Suite No. 2, XI: Sabre Dance / Aram Khachaturian; Hooked on America - 4:07 Rhapsody in Blue / George Gershwin; Camptown Races / Stephen Foster; Rhapsody in Blue / Gershwin; An American in Paris / Gershwin; Rhapsody in Blue / Gershwin; Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World", I: Allegro molto / Dvořák; Old Black Joe / Foster
Rhapsody in Black and Blue is a short ten-minute film that was created and released in 1932, starring Sidney Easton [1] and Fanny Belle DeKnight. [1] It is an early example of a "music video", showcasing the tunes I’ll Be Glad When You Are Dead You Rascal You and Shine, [2] sung and played by well-known jazz artist Louis Armstrong.
In 1931, Alberta Nichols wrote the music and Mann Holiner wrote the words for a song titled "Till the Real Thing Comes Along" which was featured in a Broadway revue titled Rhapsody in Black. The review, produced by Lew Leslie , was similar to the famous Blackbirds reviews of the late 1920s and 1930s, and featured Ethel Waters , who introduced ...
KPFK (90.7 FM) is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, which serves Southern California. It was the second of five stations in the non-commercial, listener-sponsored Pacifica Radio network.
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life is a 9 + 1 ⁄ 2-minute musical short produced in 1935 that features Duke Ellington’s early extended piece, "A Rhapsody of Negro Life". The film, Billie Holiday ’s screen debut, was directed by Fred Waller and distributed by Paramount Pictures .
Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody is a jazz musical composition written by James P. Johnson in 1927 about a neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. [1] It was a response to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue . It was initially composed for the piano, but was first performed at Carnegie Hall as a jazz-like orchestral arrangement. [ 2 ]
The resulting piece, "Rhapsody in Blue," became Gershwin's most famous composition. Arts consultant Jeffrey James claims that Blue Monday is the "genesis of the Rhapsody", and "the missing link in Gershwin's evolution into the Rhapsody in Blue" as well as a source to his Preludes, Piano Concerto and Porgy and Bess. [9]
From 1995 to 2012, Smolin was the host of The Music Never Stops, a psychedelic radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles, California [1] for which Smolin won the first ever Jammy Award for "Best Radio Show" in 2000. [2] Smolin's program was also nominated for an LA Weekly Music Award in 2004 in the "Best Radio Show" category. [3]