George & Ira Gershwin News

A NY City Center Encores! presentation of a musical in two acts with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan.

DENTON , Texas -- Works by music legends Miles Davis, Harold Arlen and George and Ira Gershwin will be among the featured songs for the debut concert of the new director of the University of North Texas Jazz Singers - Tim Brent.

Reflecting on that fact at an August concert at FedEx Field, the 67-year-old smiled and told the crowd, "We've got bigger amps now!" Images He also has a bigger mantle as of Monday, when the Library of Congress named him its third recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Corky Hale, the world renowned and critically acclaimed Jazz pianist, harpist and singer, and producer of Corky Hale Productions in association with producer Jeff Lass of Palisades Records, announces the release of a new CD of timeless romantic ballads entitled, Corky Hale...And Friends - I'm Glad There Is You, featuring vocalists Corky Hale, Sally ...

The last thing you would expect George and Ira Gershwin's classic score for "Girl Crazy" to be is dull.

BECKI NEWTON and CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS The 2009-2010 City Center Encores! season kicks off Nov.

Hello and welcome back to my ongoing series on the history of the Broadway musical and this week's installment which concerns the dates of November 8 through the 15th as we head into the holiday season on Broadway.. In this part you will find the premiere of two of the greatest hits of the early Broadway musical including the longest running show ...

Paul McCartney has been chosen to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a U.S. Library of Congress official confirmed Sunday.

Kent State University kicked off the Salem Concert Series Sunday afternoon by mixing a little art with a lotta jazz from the KSU Jazz Ensemble.

What: 'Crazy for You' presented by Hortonville High School drama students Click here to sign up for news, weather and sports text alerts.

HORTONVILLE - A musical production packed full of singing, dancing and laughs is set to open next week at the high school.

The U.S. Army Field Band's Jazz Ambassadors entertained a near-capacity audience Monday evening with a stirring musical performance at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center .

Ana Gasteyer, Wayne Knight, Marc Kudisch and spouses Becki Newton and Chris Diamantopoulos will star in the Encores! concert staging of Gershwin tuner "Girl Crazy." The 1930 musical, which has a score by George and Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, follows a New Yorker stuck in a small Western town.

Depression-jittery audiences stay away, and it runs just 90 performances.

Jerry Costanzo is Currently working on his next CD, entitled Can't We Be Friends .

Sutton Foster will star as Nurse Fay Apple in the Encores! revival of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' little-seen 1964 cult musical, "Anyone Can Whistle." Foster's Broadway credits include lead roles in "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Shrek," "Young Frankenstein," "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "Little Women." Running for five performances April ...

Goodman Theatre in Chicago serves Animal Crackers , the 1928 Marx Brothers musical comedy.

Brian Wilson, who co-founded the Beach Boys and wrote many of the band's greatest hits, has signed with Walt Disney Records.

Disney Records said the music was "unlike anything the world has seen" Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been given permission to rework unfinished pieces of music by George Gershwin.

Michael Feinstein, known as the 'ambassador of the Great American Songbook' and four-time Grammy Award nominee, will perform a selection of tunes from Broadway and film classics at a benefit concert for the George Eastman House.