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Topic: RHAPSODY IN BLUE  (Read 1917 times)

Offline lichristine

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RHAPSODY IN BLUE
on: February 16, 2007, 04:18:14 PM
:) If anyone has some information and particularly analysis, I would love it and greatly greatly appreciate it, as it's a cornerstone of a research paper I'm writing. :)
"I could fly or fall but to never have tried at all
Scares me more than anything in the world
I could hit or miss, but to just sit here like this
Scares me more than anything in the world"
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Offline rach n bach

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Re: RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 04:44:15 PM
Tell me if this helps....

https://www.classicalnotes.net/features/gershwin.html

If you can get your hands on "Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue" by David Schiff you will have everything you will ever need... 

RnB
I'm an optimist... but I don't think it's helping...

Offline gammarayson

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Re: RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Reply #2 on: February 17, 2007, 07:50:23 AM
This talk is worth hearing:https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml
Best wishes

Offline lichristine

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Re: RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Reply #3 on: February 27, 2007, 10:14:40 PM
thanks peeps!
"I could fly or fall but to never have tried at all
Scares me more than anything in the world
I could hit or miss, but to just sit here like this
Scares me more than anything in the world"
-JG
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