You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Curating Music History: An American in Paris (Gershwin)
He is very clearly jazz influenced. I suspect that anyone who has much film or ad watching history would recognize Rhapsody in Blue. Its interesting how musical forms that are once fringe, suddenly become so mainstream that no one notices. Witness how many soundtracks now are minimalist, yet when Cage and Glass started making minimalist music it was considered fringe and even unlistenable. As someone who sat through the second performance ever of Music in 12 Parts by Glass, I never felt it unlistenable. Instead, it was a mark of things to come.
Proud member of #steemitbloggers @steemitbloggers
Wow, I'm generally not a fan of Philip Glass... But recently I've heard a few things that have made me reconsider...
Jazz is (was) the popular music of the time, I think it was Bernstein that said that Art music needed to draw from the music of culture that it was being performed in, and not from an adopted culture (in this case, European culture, not being completely at home in America).