Alicia Zizzo is a pianist who has worked for a number of years, in cooperation with the Gershwin family and arch-Gershwin expert Edward Jablonski, to resurrect some of George Gershwin's piano music from the dark corners into which some of it has been squirreled away owing to various circumstances. Gershwin was an incredibly busy and popular guy; he pumped piano in the offices of music publishers for hours demonstrating numerous forgotten songs by other aspiring composers, produced more than a 120 hand-played piano rolls -- ...
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Alicia Zizzo is a pianist who has worked for a number of years, in cooperation with the Gershwin family and arch-Gershwin expert Edward Jablonski, to resurrect some of George Gershwin's piano music from the dark corners into which some of it has been squirreled away owing to various circumstances. Gershwin was an incredibly busy and popular guy; he pumped piano in the offices of music publishers for hours demonstrating numerous forgotten songs by other aspiring composers, produced more than a 120 hand-played piano rolls -- mostly not his own compositions -- served as rehearsal pianist for most, if not all, of his Broadway shows and played countless after-hours parties, often not stopping until the last guests were leaving. The summation of all this activity -- and more -- is that George Gershwin was a composer who didn't always have the time to completely write out, down to the last note, the scores he produced, and he also left many projects behind that he intended to use but never did, and as he died...
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