{"id":3241,"date":"2009-10-10T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:57:21","slug":"a-gershwin-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/10\/a-gershwin-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"a gershwin’ safari?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since we’re doing an all-Gershwin pops show this weekend, this news bite<\/a> was apropos:<\/p>\n

In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations,” the other the Jazz Age creator of “Rhapsody in Blue,” former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937.<\/p>\n

He plans to finish and record at least two such pieces on an album of Gershwin music he hopes to release next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we’re doing an all-Gershwin pops show this weekend, this news bite was apropos: In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations,” the other the Jazz Age creator of “Rhapsody in Blue,” former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,137,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-popular-music-music","category-recordings-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1424,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/13\/upcoming-classical-concert-thoughts\/","url_meta":{"origin":3241,"position":0},"title":"upcoming classical concert thoughts","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend comes Classical 4, which features an interesting program: Too Hot Toccata by Aaron Jay Kernis, Concerto in F by George Gershwin, and Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony. 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