Helbling Verlag Best of Gershwin

Helbling Verlag Best or Gershwin at a glance

The influential composer, pianist and conductor George Gershwin (1898 - 1837) is one of the most important musicians of the 20th century and made formative contributions to American music, Broadway and film music. He was known for skillfully blending popular music with classical music and creating great crossovers. furthermore, he composed the two famous operas "Porgy and Bess and "Blue Monday".

Helbling Verlag Best or Gershwin contains exquisite best-of-his-world hits like "Summertime", "The Man I Love" and more. The songs have been arranged with medium difficulty and are ideal for piano students from the fourth year of lessons onwards as well as passionate amateur pianists. Supporting fingerings, pedalling suggestions, and chord indications are provided to simplify working through the songs, while notated improvisational parts allow you to impressively demonstrate your skills on the piano. Another bonus of this edition is six mini-workshops and genre-specific exercises for artful interpretation.

Contents:

• IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO
• SUMMERTIME
• FASCINATING RHYTHM
• OH, LADY BE GOOD!
• EMBRACEABLE YOU
• I GOT RHYTHM
• THE MAN I LOVE
• 'S WONDERFUL
• HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON?
• NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT