| Show Gershwin Whose Rhapsody in Blue Marked High Point in Development Of Modern Music Composes Encore New Work Will Be Given Premiere Premiere Premiere Pre Pre- Pre Pre- by Boston Symphony Symphony Symphony Sym Sym- phony Orchestra By CHARLES nor NONCE Associated Press Pres S Staff rr Writer NEW YORK Jan 19 George H-George George Gershwin whose Rhapsody in Blue marked a high point In the thc development develop ment went of ot modern Amer American music has written an encore The Second Rhapsody it is called and md it will be played by the Boston symphony orchestra on January 29 and md 30 and will be heard in Carnegie hall in New York on February 5 almost eight years to the day from irom the time his first rhapsody created musical history under Paul Whiteman's White White- mans man's baton at Aeolian hall halt The new work which like the 1924 Opus will employ some syncopation some blue embellishments and some jazz started out as incidental music to a motion picture but broadened into nto its present form as Gershwin developed dc dc- de- de i his theme The Thc preliminary title was Rhapsody of Rivets buthis but bu this was outgrown as the work ork pro pro- gressed The composer began the position lost year ear in Hollywood while under contract to supply music for a talkie A As this required only a few songs song Gershwin decided also to do clo n a serious erious piece of ot work and put seven weeks week into it EXPLAINS S TIIE THEME IC In the picture n a composer cometo comes come to the United States said Mr Gershwin Gersh Gersh- win as lS he turned from the piano n in his modernistic penthouse apartment overlooking the broad sweep of oC th the thc Hudson and I d decided to write some som music which would express the composers composer's composers composers composer's com com- posers poser's emotional reaction to New Nc York The music was to run as a an underlying theme through a certain part of or the picture The sound or riveting on New York skyscrapers provided the theme Th The movie producer was to use as much of the thc material as he wished and h he took look four minutes of or it IL The entire rhapsody now runs about 15 minutes A After ler I had finished the rivets riven theme I got cot into n a broad flowing movement which strikes me as IS almost religious ious in effect The work developed devel- devel beyond the first conception and ando so o the title tHIe was changed ed A oA composer shouldn't tr try to make maken a n title mean too loo much Take the Rhapsody in m Blue for lor instance Everybody has read a meaning into it except me mc Gershwin wrote only the piano score in Hollywood The orchestration orchestra orchestra- tion was developed after aCter his return to New York The new rhapsody ody is not a con n of ot my first the composer said It is broader and deeper It has but four movements whereas the Rhapsody in Blue was a of or a number of ot themes written hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- riedl for a set event WONT WON'T BE l AS S POPULAR And it will not be as popular The new work will be played by bythe bythe the regulation orchestra including pianos There will be no saxophones The riveting effects will wm be taken by bythe bythe bythe the trombones and allied instruments Gershwin who never touched a piano until he was WEIS 12 years old and who set et himself to a serious study of musical technique and orchestra orchestra orchestra-I tion after he already had won success I in Tin Pan alley was Va born In to Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn September 20 1898 1998 in a nonmusical nonmusical non non- musical family At lil iii he s c n 11 f non non-I in Remick's at 15 a l week and md his first active e contact with me toe theater was playing the piano at rehearsals re re- of or Miss 1917 1917 In 1919 the son song Swance sung by Al Jolson in Sinbad lifted Gershwin Gershwin Gersh Gersh- win into fame tame and fortune overnight o A succession of or musical comedy successes suc suc- successes follow i to 10 the current hit Of or Thee I Sing I IThe The now concert by Paul I Whiteman and his band on February 12 1921 introduced Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue undoubtedly his best known and best liked lion tion Later came The Concerto in IF F the Jazz Preludes and An American In Paris CO CONSTANTLY STA WORKING Gershwin constantly is working studying pressing toward a higher musical goal Yes I would like to write a n grand r opera he said but the difficulty lis is in getting a good libretto Even in musical comedy the libretto Is the main thing Good music cannot carry a poor libretto A As Asa f a relaxation Gershwin has hasl turned to painting lie He took It up just the other da day and his first oil la a portrait was turned out in three days Previously he hc had done some pen Ipen and md ink work I |
