world music, jazz, popular music

Gershwin, the Hit Factory

Classic jazz evening with Béla Szalóky

no interval
Festival Theatre
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • NEW ORLEANS SWING FESTIVAL

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The concerts of the 13th New Orleans Swing Festival will pay tribute to some of the greatest figures of the Jazz Age. The festival's final evening will evoke the essential figure of George Gershwin and his work, which forms a bridge between classical and jazz music. While many of those interested in these genres may believe they are deeply familiar with the composer of Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, few truly know where he came from and what nourished his art. Nor is it widely known that while he was born in America, Gershwin was of Russian Jewish descent, and that as a child he was mostly interested in sports, not music. However, after his parents bought a piano for his older brother, George Gershwin sat in front of the instrument all day improvising.
A Hungarian composer, Edward Kilenyi, played an important role in his studies, who from 1915 onwards taught Gershwin how to write music, musical theory and instrumentation and also introduced him to the works of Chopin, Liszt and Debussy. As a young man, he worked in a New York music store as a 'song plugger' - someone who played and sometimes even sang the hits of the day for shoppers. This is how he got to know the ins and outs of hit production, and the full repertoire of the popular music of the era.
The quintet assembled by Béla Szalóky, and complimented by the two outstanding international guests Frank Roberscheuten and Rossano Sportiello, will show us what an important role one of the most influential composers of the 20th century played in the formation of classic jazz and swing.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest
  • trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone
    Béla Szalóky
  • saxophone
    Árpád Dennert
  • guitar
    István Gyárfás
  • double bass
    János Lutz
  • drums
    Áron Tálas
  • piano
    Rossano Sportiello

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