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50 Gershwin Classics: Piano/Vocal/Chords

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This is one tremendous find! THe Gershwins wrote some very memorable tunes, and the piano arrangements (also includes vocals and guitar chords) are lush and exquisite! I have been looking for a book of Gershwin for piano awhile now and this is PERFECT! Lots of fun and pleasure, though it is not "EASY PIANO". Moderate ability is required, but you can always fake it by playing the chords and melody line. I love it!

This volume contains a large selection of Gershwin classics ranging from standards such as "Embraceable You" and show tunes like "I Got Rhythm" to pieces originally composed for orchestra including "An American In Paris" and "Rhapsody in Blue." They are presented at a level that is relatively easy for an intermediate player to master. If anything I would have preferred arrangements that were a bit more challenging and complex. Nevertheless, there are many gems here that are a steal at this price.

My adult son likes to play his piano strictly for enjoyment, and is particulary fond of old show tunes.

He was very pleased to receive this collection and tried out some of the tunes over the holiday.

I am not a musician and so I cannot comment on what is really the heart of this work, the sheet music, its arrangements etc.
I would however say that it is a pleasure to look at the lyrics of the great Gershwin songs. And it is too a great pleasure to hum in mind and heart the tunes which still keep a lot of people humming and hoping in the world.
The Gershwins were the greatest brother team music ever knew.
Ira later on worked with many other first- rate composers and was a master of writing lyrics.
But it is the great George Gershwin taken from us early whose music seems to define not simply a whole era of music, the hope of jazz, and classic combined in a new folk popular swinging
and refined elegance.
The American soul for all time.