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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Gershwin"”.
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Counterpoint and linearity as manifested in the music of George Gershwin
The music of George Gershwin has remained ensconced in concert programs ever since the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. His music possesses everything that popular music has, namely memorable, catchy tunes and a clear-cut sense of direction. Although a tonal composer, many of his harmonies are …
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A director's approach to the new Gershwin musical Crazy for You.
In 1992, The "new" Gershwin musical Crazy for You premiered on Broadway to rave reviews. The musical production, adapted from the 1930 Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, featured a new book by Ken Ludwig, choreography by Susan Stroman, and a score compiled from the music catalog of George and Ira …
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Doctoral thesis recital (lecture) piano
… Wild" -- From Seven virtuoso etudes / George Gershwin ; arr. Earl Wild.
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Master's thesis recital (violin)
… -- Selections from Porgy and Bess / George Gershwin ; transcriptions by Jascha Heifetz.
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Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm: The Rise of the Jazz Musical
… period following the war, it was George Gershwin who paved the way for jazz to become America's only indigenous music. Yet, the current definition of jazz is so racially polarized that it has lost focus on the music. This work explores George Gershwin's role in creating a jazz culture in …
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet, Flute, Bassoon
… Mühlfeld. Harvey's Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin focuses more on a jazz and theatrically inspired side of the clarinet. Copland's Clarinet Concerto, composed for Benny Goodman, incorporates classical, jazz, and North and South American elements. All of these works exemplify the woodwind …
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Effective modeling of throughput time in semiconductor assembly processes
… flow-line analytical model developed by Gershwin [8] and Burman [2], obtaining average TPTs which are 27% of factory-floor measured average TPT with numerical computational times of under a second.
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Defying gravity: queering the witches of Oz
… decade as it holds strong in his home at the Gershwin Theatre in New York City and sells out touring locations across America and internationally, earning over one million dollars per week. This study, using the musical Wicked as a fragmented text and ideological cluster criticism as a …
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Annie Hall e Manhattan : Woody Allen e a cidade de Nova Iorque
… pais de Woody Allen,de Woody Allen e de George Gershwin, entre outros, na sociedade WASP. Woody Allen nunca negou as suas raízes judaicas, mas nasceu em Nova Iorque e considera-se um americano com ascendência judaica. Tem ideias muito próprias sobre o Judaísmo e sobre os judeus americanos. No …
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Development of a manufacturing Applet's user interface to enhance its properties as a teaching tool
… of this field of engineering, Dr. Stanley Gershwin has developed a java applet to serve as a learning tool in teaching students about the processes that occur within manufacturing systems. Since these manufacturing systems are often large complex networks of machines and buffers, it can be …
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Talent and Technique: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and John Paul II's Mayday 1984 Address to New York Gay and Lesbian Socialists' League at Cooper Union's Great Hall (Transcribed into Verse from Unauthorized French and Italian Versions of the Official Soviet Translation of the Polish Original by Norman MacAfee) for Tenor Solo, Chorus (SATB), and Eight Players
… major-minor and a whole-tone collection. Since Gershwin was mostly untrained at the time and the <em>Rhapsody</em> was his first large work, the question arises as to how he was able to achieve such sophistication. The answer proposed is that through improvisation he was able to tap his great …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
This thesis interrogates George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (1935) as propaganda that has shaped the dominant historical narrative regarding American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
… Major by Maurice Ravel, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, as arranged by Jascha Heifetz, and Points on Jazz by Dave Brubeck. The second recital (lecture recital) featured works influenced by ragtime and stride piano. The program included The Garden of Eden and Graceful Ghost Rag by William …
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American musical theater songs in the undergraduate vocal studio : a survey of current practice, guidelines for repertoire selection, and pedagogical analyses of selected songs
… between registers "Someone to Watch Over Me" (Gershwin) "Where or When" (Rodgers) "O1' Man River" (Kern)•Managing a large range and mature quality "Maria" (Bernstein)"Memory" (Lloyd Webber) "One More Kiss" (Sondheim)Conclusions in Chapter Nine include: (1) teachers should judge musical theater …
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Throughput analysis and bottleneck management of production lines
… predict and improve the factory performance (Gershwin, 2000). The studies are based on either analytical approaches or simulation-based approaches. Success stories from some companies, for instance General Motors, which applied these techniques in combination, motivate our study. </p> <p>In …
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Emma Lou Diemer : solo and chamber works for piano through 1986
… her stated models, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Gershwin, in their programmatic titles, energetic rhythms, and full keyboard sound. In them one can see her affection for low sustained resonant tones and for Prokofiev-like brilliant high register sounds. She frequently used chord structures in …
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Evolving design & Control Strategies for Production Systems
… of the recently developed Control Point Policy [Gershwin, 1999] with a view to its application in multi part type flexible manpower lines and Flexible Machining Lines. A flexible manpower line forms an individual cell of a Linked-Cell Manufacturing System (L-CMS), developed within the Toyota …
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Studien zur amerikanischen Oper im mittleren 20. Jahrhundert
Diese Arbeit umfaßt grob den Zeitraum ab dem Börsenzusammenbruch 1929 bis Mitte der 1960er Jahre. Zu dieser Zeit entstanden die wohl typischsten Werke der amerikanischen Oper. Aus einer wirtschaftlich bedrängten Lage waren die amerikanischen Opernkomponisten gezwungen, wirkungsvolle und …