“I Got Rhythm” - George Gershwin, arr. Richard Elliott | Piping Up: Selects (Richard Elliott)
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2023
- Richard Elliot presents his own arrangement of George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm,” performed on the Aeolian-Skinner Organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square (Salt Lake City, Utah).
George Gershwin began his career as a “song-plugger”-basically a low-ranking salesman in the American sheet-music industry known colloquially as Tin Pan Alley. But by the time he was twenty years old, Gershwin was already writing songs for Broadway shows, and he quickly became America’s most famous songwriter of the 1920s and ‘30s.
In the song “I Got Rhythm,” Gershwin may have pirated some its most recognizable features-especially the opening four notes of the melody-from the lesser-known Black composer William Grant Still. Eventually, though, it would become one of Gershwin’s best-known songs, although only after a slow start… literally. He wrote the song in 1928 for the musical “Treasure Girl,” where it was performed at a noticeably slower tempo, and the song didn’t catch on. A couple of years later, in 1930, Gershwin sped up the tempo, swung the rhythms a little more, and “I Got Rhythm” was one of the biggest hits from the show “Girl Crazy.”
Gershwin wrote his own Variations on “I Got Rhythm” for piano and orchestra in 1934, and the song has been arranged many times for various ensembles and combinations. Tabernacle Organist Richard Elliott wrote this jaunty, puckish organ arrangement of “I Got Rhythm” in 2011 for the Tabernacle Choir’s tour of the eastern United States, and it has become an audience favorite at his organ recitals ever since.
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I liked having the historical context of the piece.
Wow! What a great theatre organ sound! Bravo!
Glad you like it!
Grazie from Italy 🇮🇹
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Fantastic job, Brother Elliott! And love hearing the background of the song!
Glad you enjoyed it
So... will we be hearing your arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue for the organ as well? Dropping a hint like that at the end can't come without due follow-up.
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Who can play 4 at the same time!