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Film Music Blog Reviews Gershwin & Kern
The blog Film Music: The Neglected Art has a new review for our latest release Gershwin & Kern: “The first part of the CD includes the four major songs from “Porgy and Bess” featuring the clarinet of Joan Enric Lluna. It is written as a showcase for the talents of the virtuoso and he doesn’t…
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KDFC State of The Arts features Gershwin & Kern
KDFC’s “The State of The Arts” features the new Gershwin & Kern recording and interviews ASQ’s own Zak Grafilo. Take a listen: From KDFC: “The latest CD by the Alexander String Quartet pairs two kings of the American popular song: George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. A suite of tunes from Porgy and Bess, which began…
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Alexander String Quartet Plays Six Famous Songs of Jerome Kern
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Alexander String Quartet – Gershwin & Kern – Release Day!
Release Day! Gershwin & Kern The Alexander String Quartet & Joan Enric Lluna Foghorn Classics CD2008 The Alexander String Quartet, now in its 31st season and among the world’s premiere chamber ensembles, releases a vibrant new recording of much-loved music by George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on its Foghorn Classics label. The quartet is joined…
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Songs of Jerome Kern – Gershwin and Kern
New Alexander String Quartet release Gershwin & Kern features six songs by Jerome Kern. Here are some brief notes on these well-known songs: The transcriptions of six Kern songs for string quartet heard on this disc were copyrighted in January 1942, nearly four years before Kern’s death, and the published score notes that these songs…
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Stream Gershwin’s “Lullaby for String Quartet” for a limited time!
Stream the final track from Gershwin & Kern, Lullaby for String Quartet, by George Gershwin for a limited time via SoundCloud! Take a listen now to the full work before we take it down after the release date on the 14th! Gerswhin & Kern: Track 11 — Lullaby for String Quartet (Gershwin): The conclusion of…
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Song-Pluggers of Gershwin and Kern
We continue looking through the liner notes of the Gershwin & Kern recording as we approach it’s impending release — August 14th! Today, we share author Eric Bromberger’s notes on Gershwin and Kern as contemporaries: George Gershwin and Jerome Kern were contemporaries, and their careers ran along parallel paths. Both began their careers as “song-pluggers,”…
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Stream “The Way You Look Tonight” from Gershwin and Kern!
We’re just over a couple of weeks away from the Gershwin & Kern CD release, but in the meantime, you can get a sample of the album with this full streaming track: Track 6: “The Way You Look Tonight” by Jerome Kern Stream via SoundCloud
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Gershwin & Kern Track Listing
Since the nice review from Fanfare Magazine for our upcoming Gerswhin & Kern release was published, folks have been asking about what exactly is on this new CD. So today, we’re sharing the full Gershwin & Kern track listing! George Gershwin: From the “Porgy & Bess” Suite” – arranged by Carl Davis: Summertime A Woman…
