SP2439 Rhapsody In Blue: The Music of George Gershwin

SP2439 Rhapsody In Blue: The Music of George Gershwin

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29995 W 12 Mile Rd Farmington Hills, MI 48334 United States

3rd Floor

5/9/2024 (one day)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT on Th

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During his short life and meteoric rise to fame, George Gershwin composed some of the greatest music of the 20th century. The creation of mainstream music places him alongside that of Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, and Cole Porter. However, Gershwin was more than a just a pop and jazz composer, his Porgy and Bess is considered one of the greatest American operas of all time. Stu Johnson will follow George Gershwin's career through slides and recorded renditions of "I Got Rhythm,” "But Not for Me," "Summertime," "Love Is Here To Stay," and many, many more.

Johnson, Stuart

In 2007, as an outreach of the Michigan Jazz Record Collectors (MJRC), Stu Johnson began and continues to lecture on jazz and jazz-related topics at numerous locations throughout the Metro Detroit area including libraries, the Adult Learning Institute, the Music Theatre class at U of D-Mercy, SOAR LLI, MORE Macomb, other senior groups and organizations, and at a convention of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors.