Alicia Loc: NYC

This is quite a performance.

http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=18460

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Very talented at such a young age....Love the song :thumbup: :thumbup:

CowboyMilt

That kid is GREAT...sounds exactly like I think I do...It's just a matter of knowing when to suck & when to blow & keep you tongue out of the way...then practice, practice, practice....

Alicia Loc: NYC

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The song is Rhapsody in Blue composed by one of America's greatest, George Gershwin. He and his brother, Ira, composed a great deal of music for Broadway shows. I believe it was composed for the film, An American in Paris. You cannot truly get the feeling unless you hear the complete orchestral version. The clarinet is incredible and truly comes through with the most plaintiff cry. You can Google it easily. I think you'll really enjoy it the way it was originally orchestrated. Although the young boy is an incredible musician, his choice of an orchestral piece is astonishing. Do look it up for a real treat.

Alicia Loc: NYC

I discovered this critique on another forum. It truly, if just for me, expresses the meaning behind Rhapsody in Blue and Gerswin.

This is SO...AMERICAN! I saw a documentary once on the Jazz age and they said that he wanted to score the America spirit of inovation and invention .....think of cities, industry, invention....machines, the factories and blue collar workers toiling every day at their work.....you can almost SEE it in the music. Extraordinary!!! Consider also that he wrote the music for Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris! Along with his brother Ira (amazing in his own right) they wrote the music for Show Girl, Girl Crazy!, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm, and Of Thee I Sing (which won the very FIRST Pulitzter Prize for a Musical Comedy!!!) NOT too shabby!!!!