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An American in Paris
1928 composition by George Gershwin
This article is about the 1928 George Gershwin composition. For other uses, see An American in Paris (disambiguation).
An American in Paris is a jazz-influencedsymphonic poem (or tone poem)[1] for orchestra 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 during the Années folles.
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 Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic.[2][3] It was Damrosch who had commissioned Gershwin to write his Concerto in F following the earlier success of Rhapsody in Blue (1924).[4]
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An American in Paris: The History of the Greatest Ballet Ever Committed to Film
bio Spotlight: Gene Kelly’s 17-minute ballet in the Oscar-winning film “An American in Paris’ (1951) remains to be as ambitious and groundbreaking as ever.
The An American in Paris ballet was considered one of the most ambitious musical sequences captured on film
In 1949, revered producer Arthur Freed bought the rights to the late George Gershwin’s musical suite An American in Paris for MGM, with hopes of building a rulle around the idea. He would then gather a group of extraordinary artists to work on the project. Song-and-dance man Gene Kelly was hired as the leading man and choreographer. Brilliant
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An American in Paris (film)
1951 film by Vincente Minnelli
An American in Paris is a 1951 American musicalromantic comedy film inspired by the 1928 jazz-influencedsymphonic poem (or tone poem)[4]An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron (her film debut), 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 Johnny Green, and Saul Chaplin, the music directors.
The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music.[5] MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from George's brother Ira in the late 1940s, since George died in 1937.[5] Some of the tunes in this catalog were included in the movie, such as "I Got Rhythm" and "Love Is Here to Stay".[5]