George Gershwin, from Broadway to Porgy and Bess

ECUJE, 119 Rue La Fayette

Born in New York into a Jewish family that fled pogroms in Russia, George Gershwin deeply shaped American music. With his brother Ira, he wrote songs that became jazz standards. But his work goes far beyond Broadway. Rhapsody in Blue, the Concerto in F, An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess attest to his ambition to bridge popular music, jazz and the classical repertoire. Lionel Eskenazi will explore these three facets of his work, while also recalling the vibrant cultural life of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s as well as …