George Gershwin continued to write exciting compositions that would help define modern American music.
乔治·格什温继续写作激动人心的作品,这些作品帮助定义了美国现代音乐。
As we reported last week, George Gershwin published his first song when he was just eighteen years old.
上周我们和大家讲了,乔治·格什温在他还只有十八岁的时候,发表了他的第一首歌曲。
But Gershwin sought to do something new: 「Jazz, they said, had to be in strict time.」
但格什温寻求创新:「人们说爵士乐生命力有限,它只能用在舞曲中。」
He puts the hamster on the bar and it runs to the end of the bar, down a barstool, across the room, up the piano, jumps on the key board and starts playing Gershwin songs.
他把仓鼠放到吧台上,仓鼠嗖跑到吧台边上,跳到一把椅子上,然后穿过房间,上了钢琴,在琴键上跳着演奏‘格什温’的歌。
In the play, Ethel Merman sang a song George Gershwin wrote just for her. It was called 「I Got Rhythm.」
在这部音乐喜剧中,埃塞尔。摩曼演唱了一首乔治·格什温专门为她创作的歌曲,这首歌曲就是《IGotRhythm》(《我有节奏》)。
Gershwin also wrote an opera, 「Porgy and Bess.」 It was based on a book by DuBose Heyward.
格什温还创作了一部歌剧《Porgy andBess》(《波吉和贝丝》),这是根据杜波斯。海沃德的一部小说创作的。
At its first performance, Gershwin improvised the piano part.
在第一次演出时盖希文临时谱写了钢琴的部分。
George Gershwin died in nineteen thirty-seven, just days after doctors learned he had brain cancer. He was only thirty-nine years old.
1937年,就在医生发现他患有脑癌的几天后,乔治·格什温就去逝了,年仅39岁。
Gershwin wrote the piece for jazz band leader Paul Whiteman.
格什温的这首乐曲是为爵士乐队的领导者保罗·惠特曼写得。
He worked with his brother Ira Gershwin on many musical projects.
在很多作品中他与兄弟埃勒格什温合作。
Here「s an interesting fact, when Gershwin was commissioned to write the piece, he wrote it so speedily he didn」t have time to compose the part for piano.
这里有一个有趣的事实当盖希文被委托写这首曲子的时候他写的很快以至于他没有时间去谱写钢琴伴奏版。
「Rhapsody in Blue」 made George Gershwin famous all over the world. Several hundred thousand copies of the printed music sold immediately.
乔治·格什温创作的《蓝色狂想曲》闻名全世界,其唱片立即销售了数十万张。
Many songs that George Gershwin wrote for musical plays and movies have remained as popular as ever.
乔治·格什温为音乐喜剧和电影所创作的许多歌曲至今仍然深受人们的喜爱。
Gershwin was satisfied that he had shown that jazz music could be both serious and popular.
格什温对他能够表现融合严肃和通俗音乐在一起的爵士乐而感到非常满意。
Besides Dvorak, Gershwin and Wagner, the orchestra played the 「Star-Spangled Banner」, which was heard respectfully.
除了德沃夏克,格什温和瓦格纳等音乐以外,爱乐乐团还演奏了美国国歌《星条旗永不落》,听众也在毕恭毕敬地倾听。
Today, we can still hear Gershwin playing 「Rhapsody in Blue.」 an old mechanical piano recording has been reproduced exactly on this recording.
今天,我们仍然能够聆听格什温演奏的《蓝色狂想曲》,有一张钢琴唱片完整地纪录了他的演奏。