Posted on 07/11/2023 9:19:41 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
George Gershwin was a wonderful free and disciplined incarnation of the American spirit.
"Why should I limit myself" he said, "to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"
He understood that he represented his era:
“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”
With Irving Berlin and Paul McCartney, he dominated the crafting of great popular melody in his century, saying:
“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”
The capacity for Great Music is a gift to us from God.
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You are, of course correct, Dr. S. Commitment to one love or one at a time allows for a more complete appreciation of all the love she could bring you.
Apparently here, George Gershwin seems to be using ‘women’ as a metaphor for ‘Muse’ or inspiration.
He felt free to combine Big Band, with Jazz, and Vaudeville and even some religious music.
George had his own style early on.
In fact, it was so obvious that he had good natural instincts as a composer, George was rejected by a well known music teacher because of it.
Nadia Boulanger, a music teacher from France turned George down as a student.
Why? Because she was afraid that her rigourous classical study would ruin George’s jazz influenced style, a style that seemed to flow from him with very little effort.
Nadia Boulanger was teacher to several musicians of influence in the 20th Century.
Among them, Maurice Ravel, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland and Phillip Glass (Glass being One of my favorites!)Quincy Jones..
There is an interesting biography written about Ms Boulanger;
Nadia Boulanger; A Life In Music by Leonie Rosenstiel.
However, despite my approach, the representative of the Estate with whom I spoke regarding the outstanding debt decided to be condescending and disrespectful in the extreme, referring to me as an imbecile and an idiot and a talentless fool therefor not qualified to speak about the exalted Gershwin family who were geniuses and whom were owed immense gratitude by the American people for the music they created and gave to this country.
The representative refused to acknowledge the debt. I found having to have made that call as part of my responsibilities with the bank to have been both alarming and shattering in terms of my respect for and appreciation of the music the Gershwin brothers created.
I do not recall who the person was, with whom I had spoken, but I believe he did the family a great injustice that day when he spoke to me in that way.
I have never recovered from it and to this day it colors how I react to their music.
𝘈𝘮𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯
I know it’s just a typo, and it’s also early in the morning, but I’m stealing that.
That’s a real shame, and very understandable that you still feel uncomfortable over something that shouldn’t have been that way. You were doing your job.
I wish my brother George was here.
That sounds like someone projecting their own feelings of inadequacies onto others. They were trying to use a barrier of bluff and haughtiness to divert attention from them not having made proper payment. Something of significance was being covered up.
They wanted to injure you personally, damage your professional pride, distract you, make you wonder if perhaps it was actually you who made the error. All for the purpose of throwing you off the scent and stopping you from asking any more of those annoying and probing questions.
Faintly similar to a person who’s being openly abused by someone, and the victim privately (though wrongly) wondering if perhaps the abuser is right. Maybe I do deserve this treatment. Most of us have encountered such fools at certain points of our lives.
Nadia Boulanger was a single degree of connection to everybody who was anybody in music.
“I wish my brother George was here.”
What’s up, doc? (Is this the way to Albuquerque?)
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“I know it’s just a typo, and it’s also early in the morning, but I’m stealing that.”
In the best traditions of Babe Ruth and Darryl Strawberry.
Thank you.
“If you have as many women as you want, you can never know the depth of the kind of love that can only come from having one woman, and she having you exclusively. One of the benefits of marital love is a shared life together. For better or worse is a consolation as well as a sometimes annoyance.”
You speak here of the bedrock of sustainable society.
But the real world of God’s glorious creation contains exceptional individuals who move past those limits and many lesser mortals who dream of moving past them.
The social discipline of matrimony is very very important.
But so is freedom.
I could be wrong, but I think this poster is saying he had a close brother named George, who has passed on, and he misses his brother. Since the topic had the same name, this triggered his memory again.
George Gershwin had a brother named Ira, who was a lyricist and cowrote with George Gershwin on a number of songs.
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