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Lucas Debargue: Gershwin Variations album review – freshness and flair

Alongside supple and distinctive accounts of Rhapsody in Blue and the Piano Concerto and Preludes, the French pianist showcases his jazz chops in reinterpretations of Gershwin’s timeless songs

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

What links Billie Eilish and George Gershwin? The Saturday quiz

From Barclays, Cadbury and Clarks to Nith and Wampool, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10

Good Night, Oscar at the Barbican: 'Sean Hayes gives an astonishing performance'

4/5 Will and Grace’s Sean Hayes stars as trouble pianist Oscar Levant in a fast-paced, zinger-packed play which has an unforgettable climax

Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2025

Newcastle Music Festival rolls into second week with dazzling line-up

Saxophones, choirs, swing and Gershwin.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 9, 2024

LSO/Rattle review – Adams’ Frenzy debuts but Roy Harris’s Third is the real discovery

In an all-American programme, works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2024

A century on from Rhapsody in Blue, debates about cultural ‘theft’ rage still

Societies are robbed of subtlety and depth when racism is conflated with the borrowing of ideas

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024

Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts | Behold the ultimate English gentleman

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ personal collections go under the hammer in September, revealing some quirks and that his heart always belonged to jazz

The Hindu · Jul 21, 2023

Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89

Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as the Philly Pops’ conductor for more than three decades, has died

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2023

BBCNOW/Coorey review – mills to bells and rain: Colin Riley conjures the Welsh landscape

Steve Reich’s tribute to New York was neatly paired with a Gershwin, with the world premiere of Colin Riley’s powerful seven-movement ode to Wales the concert’s centrepiece

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023

Travel for Two: Chiseled into a mountain wall, Omni Grove Park Inn is the perfect slope-side retreat

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— With summer just getting started and heat and humidity practically smothering most of the country like a fat wool blanket, now is the time to plan a romantic getaway to higher, cooler elevations. The historic, stunningly serene Omni Grove Park Inn, in the heart of western North Carolina’s…

Tribune News Service · Jul 4, 2022