Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: 20th Century Classical Composers - (nf) Gershwin Message-ID: <624@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 17:50:54 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.624 Posted: Mon Feb 27 17:50:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 12:43:18 EST References: <2594@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 18 Gershwin wanted to study with ravel, but ravel refused, saying "Why do you want to be a 2nd rate ravel instead of a first rate Gershwin?" Gershwin was really upset by this, but later he found what he believed to be indications that Ravel's music was influenced by Gershwin. (You can make a pretty good case for this, although Ravel may just have been influenced by the mainstream of Jazz that Gershwin inhabited.) Gershwin left a great deal behind, especially if you are willing to examine his songs, as well as the late orchestral pieces, to find more of the same gorgeous harmonies and rhythms. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)