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Three movement works, each spun from motifs from different Gershwin songs. The first two movements are lyrical while the finale is an extremely virtuosic transformation of Gershwin's two piano preludes into 12-bar blues in e-flat minor.
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3 Violins or 2 Violins, Viola (reading treble clef)
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For Cyrus Beroukhim
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Gershwiniana is the first of several pieces of mine based on works by other commposers. In these pieces I take motifs or other fragments from these compositions and then re-work them into something completely new. My intention is not to comment on the original works, but simply to use them as a Springboard The first movement of Gershwiniana, Song Without Words, is based on the opening motif of Gershwin's song Nice Work if You Can Get It, whose words are "Holding hands at midnight"; it was my realization of the similarity between the opening phrases of the movement I had already begun and the Gershwin song that led me to write a group of pieces based on Gershwin. The second movement, Canons, takes the opening motif from Love is Here to Stay (the words here are "It's very clear") and, like the first movement, it completely changes Gershwin's harmony. While both these movements are lyrical and use only white notes, the finale, Blues-Etude, is extremely virtuosic, taking fragments from two of Gershwin's Preludes for piano and turning them into a series of twelve-bar blues in E flat minor.
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Recorded by various artists, Naxos 8.559618 (2002)
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