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Overall, Kurdziel-Formato, a director who has worked mostly in Europe, takes a far darker tone than did Wheeldon in the technicolor Broadway original. You could conceive of "American in Paris" as offering audiences a romantic respite, but that is not what this particular interpretation is doing. Rather, throughout its ballets, it is playing with the idea of a citizenry suffering from a collective post-fascist, post-traumatic stress disorder, trying desperately to put their lives back together. I don't mean to overstate that filter; if you love the film, you'll find plenty of romance and joy here, but the gifted set designer Kevin Depinet and the costumer Karl Green clearly are exploring the contrast between the pluralistic Paris so many of us love and its fragility in the wake of the Nazis and their apologists. " Read Full Review Chicago Sun Times - Highly Recommended ".. isn't over when it's over. That bitter pronouncement opens Drury Lane's lavish production of "An American in Paris, " the 2014 musical inspired by the 1951 movie of the same name. With music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Craig Lucas, the musical is a love letter to the resilience and beauty of Paris in the wake of the Nazi occupation. " Daily Herald - Highly Recommended ".. Lane Theatre's dreamy regional premiere of "An American in Paris" takes pains to set itself apart from the Tony Award-winning Broadway production. And one noticeable difference is how Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, a director and choreographer rooted more in the world of musical theater than classical ballet, has given a brassier, showbiz sheen to this stage adaptation of the frothy 1951 Academy Award-winning film musical. " Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended ".. don't have to know the classic 1951 movie musical to be disappointed by this 2015 stage version, but it helps. Where the original (directed by Vincente Minnelli from a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner) was lighthearted and funny and utterly charming, the 2015 version is dark and complicated and only intermittently funny. The problem lies with Craig Lucas's book, though given the intensely collaborative nature of Broadway musicals one never knows if Lucas dreamed up the myriad bad choices in his story or was strong-armed into making them. " Let's Play at ChicagoNow - Highly Recommended ".. music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, based on the book by Craig Lucas, Drury Lane Theatre brings to its stage, a perfection of song and dance that will bring a smile to your face and delight your soul, in 'An American In Paris. '" Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended ".. a teen, I fell in love with an LP ( that is a long playing album of music) "Levant plays Gershwin" that my brother gave me for my birthday. On this marvelous album, Gershwin's "Concerto in F", "Rhapsody In Blue" and "An American in Paris". I guess I listened to this album a great deal as over the years I wore out several. The music always stood out in my mind and when I was older, I watched the movie "An American In Paris" starring Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant and Leslie Caron. While the story is beautiful, it is the music that captures one's heart and soul. When the Broadway tour came through, I made sure that we caught this Tony Award winning show. It is a different type of musical filled with breathtaking dance and for those who love dance, a true delight is on the stage at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook. " Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended ".. sheer entertainment, this wonderful musical production can�t be beat. It tells an unabashedly romantic story, set against the City of Lights, and made even more magical by the Gershwins� lush score. This multi Tony Award-winning musical is sure to be embraced by every theatre fanatic, as well as devotees of the classic film. It features superb choreography and singing, performed by a phenomenally talented cast and surrounded by gorgeous sets and costumes. Audiences are guaranteed to leave the theatre humming songs like �They Can�t Take That Away From Me, � �I�ll Build a Stairway to Paradise, � �But Not For Me� and �I�ve Got Rhythm. � Who could ask for anything more? This is simply a Gershwin-ner of a production. " Chicagoland Theater Reviews - Recommended "... A touring production of "An American in Paris" visited the Chicago Loop in the summer of 2017 and my feeling about the show matched the revival in Oakbrook Terrace-fine dancing and music fighting it out with a tiresome story. So if you can tolerate the talking portion of the show, you should have a rewarding time. " PicksInSix - Highly Recommended ".. an evening with this terrifically talented company-under musical director and conductor par excellence Chris Sargent-and you'll be saying "Oui! Oui! " all the way home. " Read Full Review. This is probably one of my favorite videos. ESPECTULAR! con lo que me gustó siempre el mambo! ARRIBA VENEZUELA. Just love his music, I grew up with Dave Brubeck. If you have only only 3 minutes and 10 seconds to spare - IMO; the best part is at the very end of the Somewhere adagio. from 20:10. An american in paris music download. Gershwin asked Maurice Ravel to train him in classical composition techniques. Ravel refused, for fear that such training would stifle Gershwin's originality. This makes me cry. Bernstein conducting Bernstein is one of the greatest things ever. Watching & listening. man. Such great stuff! I actually like WSS less than I enjoy Candide or Mass, mostly because it's so overdone. 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There are definitely some elements of an autobiography in "An American in Paris, perhaps focusing more on the life of George in Paris, where Rhapsody in Blue did not go into many details. My husband was just reminding me that someone once told Scorsese to "write about things that he knew." This movie seems that way. Gene Kelly "Jerry Mulligan" was so natural and wonderful in what he did and that adds much to this movie. Leslie Caron (Father Goose) Lise Bouvier" the woman that Jerry Mulligan falls in love was also a great dancer. That scene where she dances with the chair is beautiful. Oscar Levant (Rhapsody in Blue) was great pianist and composer besides been and actor. He also plays a pianist along with Robert Alda (Imitation of Life) who played George Gershwin in "Rhapsody in Blue. Robert Alda was also the father of brilliant actor Alan Alda. I recommend this movie, the music is great, I just love musicals. 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An American in Paris Theatrical release poster Directed by Vincente Minnelli Produced by Arthur Freed Written by Alan Jay Lerner Starring Gene Kelly Leslie Caron Oscar Levant Georges Guétary Nina Foch Music by George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin Musical direction: Johnny Green Saul Chaplin Cinematography Alfred Gilks Ballet: John Alton Edited by Adrienne Fazan Production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributed by Loew's Inc. [1] Release date October 4, 1951 (New York) [2] January 11, 1952 (USA) Running time 113 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $2. 7 million [3] Box office $7 million [3] An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Saul Chaplin, the music director. The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music. [4] MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from George's brother Ira in the late 1940s, since George died in 1937. [4] Some of the tunes in this catalog were included in the movie, such as " I Got Rhythm " and " Love Is Here to Stay ". [4] Other songs in the movie include " I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise " and " 'S Wonderful ". The climax of the film is "The American in Paris" ballet, a 17-minute dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwin's An American in Paris. [4] The ballet sequence cost almost half a million dollars to shoot. [4] It was filmed on 44 sets in MGM's back lot. [4] An American in Paris was an enormous success, garnering eight Academy Award nominations and winning six (including Best Picture), as well as earning other industry honors. In 1993, it was selected for preservation by the United States Library of Congress in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [5] It is ranked #9 among AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals. Plot [ edit] American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan ( Gene Kelly) is an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook ( Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist and longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel ( Georges Guétary). At the ground-floor bar, Henri tells Adam about his cultured girlfriend, Lise Bouvier ( Leslie Caron). Jerry joins them later, before going out to sell his art. A lonely society woman and heiress, Milo Roberts ( Nina Foch), finds Jerry displaying his paintings in Montmartre and takes an interest in him and his art. She brings him to her apartment to pay for his works, and invites him to a dinner party she is throwing later that night. After singing with French children on the way home (" I Got Rhythm "), Jerry goes up to Milo's apartment. He quickly finds out the "party" is actually a one-on-one date, and tells Milo he has no interest in being a paid escort. When he attempts to leave after giving her money back, she insists she is only interested in his art. They go to a crowded bar, and Milo offers to sponsor an art show for Jerry as a friendly gesture. Some of Milo's friends arrive, and while sitting with them, Jerry sees Lise seated with friends at the next table, and is instantly smitten. He ignores Milo and her acquaintances, and instead pretends to know Lise already and dances with her. She is standoffish and gives Jerry a wrong phone number, but is innocently corrected by someone at her table. Milo is upset by Jerry's behaviour and suddenly decides to go home. On their way home she tells Jerry he was very rude cavorting with a girl he does not know while in her presence; tired of Milo, Jerry gets out of the car and bids her farewell. The next day, Jerry calls Lise at her work, but she tells him to never call her again. Jerry and Milo meet at a cafe, and she informs him a collector is interested in his paintings and she arranged a showing later that day. Before going to the showing, he goes to the parfumerie where Lise works and she consents to a late dinner with him. She does not want to be seen eating with him in public, but they share a romantic song and dance on the banks of the Seine River in the shadows of Notre Dame. However, she quickly rushes off to meet Henri after his performance (" I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise "), where Henri tells her he has been asked to go on a tour of America and asks her to marry him. Later, Adam humorously daydreams he is performing Gershwin's Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra for a gala audience in a concert hall. As the scene progresses, Adam is also revealed to be the conductor, other members of the orchestra, and even an enthusiastic audience member applauding himself at the end. Milo gets Jerry an art studio and tells him she has planned an exhibition of his work in three months. He initially refuses the studio because he does not have the money for it, but eventually accepts it under the condition he pay Milo back when his art proceeds allow him. Roughly a month later and after much courting, Lise abruptly runs off when she and Jerry arrive by taxi at his apartment. When Jerry complains to Adam, Adam is shocked to realize both Henri and Jerry are involved with the same woman. Henri and Jerry discuss the woman they each love ( " 'S Wonderful "), unaware she is the same woman. That night, Jerry and Lise reunite in the same place on the banks of the Seine close to Notre Dame. She informs him she is marrying Henri the next day and going to America. Lise feels a sense of duty to Henri, to whom she feels indebted for keeping her safe during World War II. She and Jerry proclaim their love for each other. Feeling slighted, Jerry invites Milo to the art students' masked ball and kisses her. At the raucous party, with everyone in black-and-white costumes, they meet Henri and Lise, and Jerry finally tells Milo about his feelings for Lise. Henri overhears Jerry and Lise saying goodbye to each other, and realizes the truth. As Henri and Lise drive away, Jerry daydreams about being with Lise all over Paris to the tune of the George Gershwin composition An American in Paris. His reverie is broken by a car horn, the sound of Henri bringing Lise back to him. They embrace as the Gershwin composition (and the film) ends. Cast [ edit] Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan Leslie Caron as Lise Bouvier Oscar Levant as Adam Cook Georges Guétary as Henri "Hank" Baurel Nina Foch as Milo Roberts Eugene Borden as Georges Mattieu John Eldredge as Jack Jansen (uncredited) Anna Q. Nilsson as Kay Jansen (uncredited) Hayden Rorke, best known for playing Dr. Alfred Bellows on the TV series I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970), has an uncredited part as a friend of Milo. Noel Neill, who had already portrayed Lois Lane in the two Columbia Pictures forties Superman serials, and would later do so again on the TV series The Adventures of Superman, has a small role as an American art student who tries to criticize Jerry's paintings. Jazz musician Benny Carter plays the leader of a jazz ensemble performing in the club where Milo first takes Jerry. Madge Blake, best known for playing Bruce Wayne 's aunt Harriet Cooper on the TV series Batman (1966–1968), has an uncredited part as a customer in the perfume shop in which Lise works. Judy Landon, better known for her appearance in Kelly's next musical Singin' in the Rain (and as the wife of Brian Keith), and Sue Casey appear as dancers in the "Stairway to Paradise" sequence. Dudley Field Malone plays an uncredited Winston Churchill. Music and dance [ edit] " Embraceable You " – Lise " Nice Work If You Can Get It " – Hank " By Strauss " – Jerry, Hank, Adam " I Got Rhythm " – Jerry " Tra-la-la (This Time It's Really Love) " – Jerry, Adam " Love Is Here to Stay " – Jerry, Lise " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise " – Hank Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra – Adam, The MGM Symphony Orchestra "  'S Wonderful " – Jerry, Hank An American in Paris Ballet – Jerry, Lise, Ensemble The 17 minute ballet sequence, with sets and costumes referencing French painters including Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Maurice Utrillo, Henri Rousseau, and Toulouse-Lautrec, [6] is the climax of the film, and cost the studio approximately $450, 000 to produce. [7] Some of the backdrops for this sequence measured 300 feet wide and 40 feet high. [8] Production on the film was halted on September 15, 1950. Minnelli left to direct another film, Father's Little Dividend. Upon completion of that film in late October, he returned to film the ballet sequence. [9] Reception [ edit] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave a mostly positive review largely on the strength of the closing dance number which he called "one of the finest ever put upon the screen", as well as Leslie Caron's performance, writing that the film "takes on its own glow of magic when Miss Caron is on the screen. When she isn't, it bumps along slowly as a patched-up, conventional music show. " [10] Variety called the film "one of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in years... Kelly is the picture's top star and rates every inch of his billing. His diversified dancing is great as ever and his thesping is standout. " [11] Harrison's Reports deemed it "an excellent entertainment, a delight to the eye and ear, presented in a way that will give all types of audiences extreme pleasure". [12] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it "the best musical movie I've ever seen", praising its "spirit of crisp originality and sophistication rarely found in a screen musical". [13] John McCarten of The New Yorker called it "a thoroughly pleasant musical film... Never too tightly confined by its slender story, 'An American in Paris' skips from love in the moonlight to handsome ballets with the greatest of ease, and Mr. Kelly is always ready, willing, and able to execute a tap dance. " [14] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "merely a good musical, far more attractive than most, but considerably less than the material seemed to promise. This is due in part to unimaginative use of the Paris settings—a very obvious tourist's view—and to the rather curious way in which the story, after building up interest in Jerry's painting and in his one-man show, simply shelves the whole issue. " [15] Reviewing the film in 2011, James Berardinelli wrote that it "falls into the category of a weak Oscar winner. The movie is enjoyable enough to watch, but it represents a poor choice as the standard-bearer of the 1951 roster... It's a fine, fun film with a lot of great songs and dancing but there's nothing about this production that causes it to stand out when compared to one of dozens of musicals from the era. " [16] Box office [ edit] According to MGM records, the film earned $3, 750, 000 in the U. S. and Canada and $3, 231, 000 in other countries during its initial theatrical release. This resulted in the studio making a $1, 346, 000 profit. [3] Awards and honors [ edit] Academy Awards [ edit] Wins Academy Award for Best Picture: Arthur Freed, producer Academy Award for Best Art – Set Decoration, Color: E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, and Edwin B. Willis Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color: John Alton and Alfred Gilks Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color: Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture: Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner Nominations Academy Award for Best Director: Vincente Minnelli Academy Award for Best Film Editing: Adrienne Fazan Golden Globes [ edit] Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture: Vincente Minnelli Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Gene Kelly Others [ edit] Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award that year for "his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film". [17] It was his only Oscar. The film was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. [18] In 1993, An American in Paris was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". American Film Institute recognition 1998: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – #68 2002: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions – #39 2004: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs – #32 " I Got Rhythm " 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – #9 AFI also honored star Kelly as #15 of the top 25 American male screen legends. Digital restoration [ edit] In 2011, the film was digitally restored by Warner Bros. for its 60th anniversary. [19] [20] Stage adaptations [ edit] 2008 adaptation [ edit] A stage version of the musical was adapted by Ken Ludwig, and began previews at the Alley Theatre ( Houston) on April 29, 2008, officially opening on May 18 and running through June 22. The production, directed by Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd with choreography by Randy Skinner, starred Harry Groener and Kerry O'Malley. The musical had many of the film's original songs, and also incorporated other Gershwin songs, such as "They All Laughed", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", and "Love Walked In". [21] [22] 2014 adaptation [ edit] In 2014, a stage adaptation premiered in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet, with Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan and Leanne Cope as Lise Bouvier (here renamed Lise Dassin and turned into an aspiring ballet dancer). The production, which ran from November to January 2015, was directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, written by Craig Lucas and designed by Bob Crowley. The musical then transferred to Broadway, with previews at Palace Theatre beginning on March 13, 2015, before officially opening there on April 12. [23] [24] [25] In popular culture [ edit] The epilogue of the 2016 musical film La La Land references the set design and costuming of An American in Paris, which director Damien Chazelle called "a movie that we just pillaged. " [26] References [ edit] ^ An American in Paris at the American Film Institute Catalog ^ "An American in Paris - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 20, 2018. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study. ^ a b c d e f Mcgovern, Joe (February 2017). "The Musical That Changed movies". Entertainment Weekly (1451/1452): 82–87. ^ "National Film Registry". National Film Registry (National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress). Retrieved May 24, 2018. ^ Koresky, Michael. "An American in Paris and Gigi". Retrieved December 28, 2016. ^ McGee, Scott. "An American in Paris: Articles". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 28, 2015. ^ Marshall, Kelli (2015-05-19). "An American in Paris: Onstage and Onscreen". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 2019-12-02. ^ "An American in Paris: Notes". Retrieved December 28, 2015. ^ Crowther, Bosley (October 5, 1951). "The Screen: Four New Movies Open". The New York Times: 38. ^ "An American in Paris". Variety: 6. August 29, 1951. ^ " ' An American in Paris' with Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron and Oscar Levant". September 1, 1951: 138. ^ Coe, Richard L. (November 7, 1951). " ' American in Paris' Has Many Virtues". The Washington Post: B9. ^ McCarten, John (October 6, 1951). "The Current Cinema". The New Yorker: 73. ^ "An American in Paris". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 18 (212): 323. September 1951. ^ Berardinelli, James (January 24, 2011). "An American in Paris". ReelViews. Retrieved June 20, 2018. ^ King, Susan (March 16, 2017). "Gene Kelly's widow recalls magic of the film 'An American in Paris' as the stage version comes to SoCal". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 17, 2018. ^ "An American in Paris". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved October 8, 2011. ^ Braxton, Greg (October 21, 2010). "Restored 'An American in Paris' to open TCM Classic Film Festival". LA Times. ^ "An American in Paris re-released after digital restoration". BBC. 2 November 2011. ^ "The Gershwins' An American in Paris Again Extends Houston Run". 2011-10-08. Archived from the original on 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-08. ^ "The Gershwins' An American in Paris: 2007-2008 Season". Alley Theatre. Retrieved October 8, 2011. ^ Gans, Andrew. " An American in Paris Will Open at Broadway's Palace in 2015" Archived July 25, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, July 17, 2014 ^ Beardsley, Eleanor (December 25, 2014). "The French Go Crazy For 'An American In Paris ' ". NPR. ^ Mackrell, Judith (December 8, 2014). "Return to rive gauche: how Christopher Wheedlon adapted An American in Paris". The Guardian. ^ Harris, Aisha (December 13, 2016). "La La Land's Many References to Classic Movies: A Guide". Slate. Retrieved May 13, 2017. 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Vincente Minnelli Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant Edit Storyline Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound. Written by Scott Renshaw <> Plot Summary Plot Synopsis Taglines: Adventures Of An Ex-GI In The City Of Romance. Art Students' Ball Biggest, Most Daring Ever Filmed. Screen's Most Spectacular Musical! See more  » Details Release Date: 11 November 1951 (USA) Also Known As: An American in Paris Box Office Budget: $2, 723, 903 (estimated) Opening Weekend USA: $182, 606, 19 January 2020 Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $272, 619 See more on IMDbPro  » Company Credits Technical Specs Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Sound System) Color: Color (Technicolor) See full technical specs  » Did You Know? Trivia This was cinematographer John Alton 's first film in color, having built up a solid reputation for his b&w noir work. See more » Goofs We see Adam in his studio three times. When we first see him, alone, he is playing a black baby grand. The second time, he is playing a brown baby grand upon which Jerry dances. In the third Adam studio sequence he is alone, again, playing the black grand. Perhaps the brown piano was fashioned to accommodate and withstand Jerry's dancing on it. See more » Quotes [ first lines] Jerry Mulligan: This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G. I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. See more » Crazy Credits And Presenting The American In Paris Ballet See more » Alternate Versions In 1995 a restored version was prepared for release on video/laserdisc, with the 18-minute ending ballet soundtrack reprocessed in stereo. See more » Soundtracks How Long Has This Been Going On? (1928) (uncredited) Music by George Gershwin Played as background music See more » Frequently Asked Questions See more ». An American in Paris download free. Themes from An American in Paris An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s. Walter Damrosch had asked Gershwin to write a full concerto following the success of Rhapsody in Blue (1924). [1] Gershwin scored the piece for the standard instruments of the symphony orchestra plus celesta, saxophones, and automobile horns. He brought back four Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928, in Carnegie Hall, with Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic. [2] [3] He completed the orchestration on November 18, less than four weeks before the work's premiere. [4] He collaborated on the original program notes with critic and composer Deems Taylor. Background [ edit] Although the story is likely apocryphal, [5] Gershwin is said to have been attracted by Maurice Ravel 's unusual chords, and Gershwin went on his first trip to Paris in 1926 ready to study with Ravel. After his initial student audition with Ravel turned into a sharing of musical theories, Ravel said he could not teach him, saying, "Why be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin? " [6] That 1926 trip, however, resulted in a snippet of melody entitled "Very Parisienne", [7] that the initial musical motive of An American in Paris, written as a 'thank you note' to Gershwin's hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer. Gershwin called it "a rhapsodic ballet"; it is written freely and in a much more modern idiom than his prior works. [8] Gershwin strongly encouraged Ravel to come to the United States for a tour. To this end, upon his return to New York, Gershwin joined the efforts of Ravel's friend Robert Schmitz, a pianist Ravel had met during the war, to urge Ravel to tour the U. S. Schmitz was the head of Pro Musica, promoting Franco-American musical relations, and was able to offer Ravel a $10, 000 fee for the tour, an enticement Gershwin knew would be important to Ravel. [9] [ citation needed] Gershwin greeted Ravel in New York in March 1928 during a party held for Ravel's birthday by Éva Gauthier. [10] Ravel's tour reignited Gershwin's desire to return to Paris which he and his brother Ira did after meeting Ravel. [7] Ravel's high praise of Gershwin in an introductory letter to Nadia Boulanger caused Gershwin to seriously consider taking much more time to study abroad in Paris. Yet after playing for her, she told him she could not teach him. Nadia Boulanger gave Gershwin basically the same advice she gave all of her accomplished master students: "What could I give you that you haven't already got? " [11] [12] This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra to follow his Rhapsody in Blue. Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers, among them Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist Pablo Picasso. [13] Composition [ edit] Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called "Very Parisienne", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer. He described the piece as a "rhapsodic ballet" because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works. Gershwin explained in Musical America, "My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere. " [12] The piece is structured into five sections, which culminate in a loose ABA format. Gershwin's first A episode introduces the two main "walking" themes in the "Allegretto grazioso" and develops a third theme in the "Subito con brio". [14] The style of this A section is written in the typical French style of composers Claude Debussy and Les Six. [10] This A section featured duple meter, singsong rhythms, and diatonic melodies with the sounds of oboe, English horn, and taxi horns. The B section's "Andante ma con ritmo deciso" introduces the American Blues and spasms of homesickness. The "Allegro" that follows continues to express homesickness in a faster twelve-bar blues. In the B section, Gershwin uses common time, syncopated rhythms, and bluesy melodies with the sounds of trumpet, saxophone, and snare drum. "Moderato con grazia" is the last A section that returns to the themes set in A. After recapitulating the "walking" themes, Gershwin overlays the slow blues theme from section B in the final "Grandioso". Response [ edit] Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris. He stated that Damrosch's sluggish, dragging tempo caused him to walk out of the hall during a matinee performance of this work. The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with "a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses. " Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere. Gershwin responded to the critics, "It's not a Beethoven Symphony, you know... It's a humorous piece, nothing solemn about it. It's not intended to draw tears. If it pleases symphony audiences as a light, jolly piece, a series of impressions musically expressed, it succeeds. " [12] Instrumentation [ edit] An American in Paris was originally scored for 3 flutes (3rd doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, ratchet, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns labeled as A, B, C and D with circles around them, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, (all saxophones doubling soprano saxophones) and strings. [15] Although most modern audiences have heard the taxi horns using the notes A, B, C and D, it has recently come to light [16] that Gershwin's intention was to have used the notes A ♭ 4, B ♭ 4, D 5, and A 4. [17] It is likely that in labeling the taxi horns as A, B, C and D with circles, he may have been referring to the use of the four different horns and not the notes that they played. A major revision of the work by composer and arranger F. Campbell-Watson simplified the instrumentation by reducing the saxophones to only three instuments, alto, tenor and baritone. The soprano saxophone doublings were eliminated to avoid changing instruments and the contrabassoon was also deleted. This became the standard performing edition until 2000, when Gershwin specialist Jack Gibbons made his own restoration of the original orchestration of An American in Paris, working directly from Gershwin's original manuscript, including the restoration of Gershwin's soprano saxophone parts removed in F. Campbell-Watson's revision; Gibbons' restored orchestration of An American in Paris was performed at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on July 9, 2000 by the City of Oxford Orchestra conducted by Levon Parikian [18] William Daly arranged the score for piano solo which was published by New World Music in 1929. [19] [20] Preservation status [ edit] On September 22, 2013, it was announced that a musicological critical edition of the full orchestral score would be eventually released. The Gershwin family, working in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the University of Michigan, were working to make scores available to the public that represent Gershwin's true intent. It was unknown if the critical score would include the four minutes of material Gershwin later deleted from the work (such as the restatement of the blues theme after the faster 12 bar blues section), or if the score would document changes in the orchestration during Gershwin's composition process. [21] The score to An American in Paris was scheduled to be issued first in a series of scores to be released. The entire project was expected take 30 to 40 years to complete, but An American in Paris was planned to be an early volume in the series. [22] [23] Two urtext editions of the work were published by the German publisher B-Note Music in 2015. The changes made by Campbell-Watson were withdrawn in both editions. In the extended urtext, 120 bars of music were re-integrated. Conductor Walter Damrosch had cut them shortly before the first performance. [24] On September 9, 2017, The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of the long-awaited critical edition of the piece prepared by Mark Clague, director of the Gershwin initiative at the University of Michigan. This also featured a restoration of the original 1928 orchestration, except that it upheld the deletion of the contrabassoon part, an alteration usually attributed to F. Campbell-Watson. [25] Recordings [ edit] An American in Paris has been frequently recorded. The first recording was made for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gershwin was on hand to "supervise" the recording; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio. Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording. This recording is believed to use the taxi horns in the way that Gershwin had intended using the notes A-flat, B-flat, a higher D and a lower A. [16] The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music. In 1945, Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the piece for RCA Victor, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer. The Seattle Symphony also recorded a version in 1990 of Gershwin's original score, before he made numerous edits resulting in the score as we hear it today. [26] Harry James released a version of the blues section on his 1953 album One Night Stand, recorded live at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago ( Columbia GL 522 and CL 522). Use in film [ edit] In 1951, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the musical film An American in Paris, featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem (arranged for the film by Johnny Green), costing $500, 000. [27] [28] References [ edit] ^ " An American in Paris ", by Betsy Schwarm, Encyclopædia Britannica ^ George Gershwin. "Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Orchestra: An American in Paris" (PDF).. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016. ^ Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: Makoto Ozone to Perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in One-Night-Only Concert All-American Program Also to Include Bernstein's Candide Overture and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Gershwin's An American in Paris: April 22, 2014 at Accessed June 20, 2017 ^ Richard Freed. " An American in Paris: About the Work". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved December 5, 2012. ^ Schwartz, Charles (1973). George Gershwin: His Life and Music. ISBN   9780672516627. [ page needed] ^ Schiff, David (October 1, 1998). "Misunderstanding Gershwin". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 11, 2018. ^ a b "An American in Paris". Gershwin Enterprises. 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September 8, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2016. ^ "Musicology Now: George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition".. September 17, 2013. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2016. ^ " An American in Paris Urtext".. Retrieved December 14, 2015. ^ "Musical Opinion review of Gershwin Spectacular". Retrieved January 6, 2020. ^ Bargreen, Melinda (June 28, 1990). "Entertainment & the Arts | Recordings | Seattle Times Newspaper".. Retrieved April 6, 2016. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study ^ " An American in Paris: Onstage and Onscreen | JSTOR Daily". JSTOR Daily. May 19, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2017. Further reading [ edit] Rimler, Walter. George Gershwin – An Intimate Portrait. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009. chapter 6: Paris, pp. 28–33. 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