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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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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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Looking ahead to the Jerome Kern & George Gershwin Recording
Coming this August — Gershwin & Kern Recorded at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California and Produced by Grammy Award winning composer Judith Sherman. This recording presents some very familiar and much-loved music in an unexpected format. Ten of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin’s greatest songs — songs almost everyone has heard (and probably sung)…
