Virtuoso Voices™ - Andrew Litton (Gershwin What If?)  0:36
October 2006 CD



Music Suggestion:  Suitable for Andrew Litton’s recording of Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” (Delos DE 3216 and Delos DE 1606)  (Also appropriate for other recordings of “An American in Paris”, but with an adjusted Outro.)



Suggested Host Intro:
Conductor Andrew Litton says George Gershwin perfectly captured the American Spirit in “An American in Paris”, and it’s a work he both celebrates and laments in a personal way.


Litton Clip:  
“The fact that it has taxi horns in it and jazz elements of course makes certain critics sneer and laugh with derision,  But I’m a huge fan of that work and I just would have loved it, obviously, if we hadn’t been deprived of this great composer’s life so early to see what else he would have given us because I think... and I think if we look at what Giuseppe Verdi was writing when he was thirty-six compared to what he was writing when he was 60 and 70 we just would have had a totally different kind of genius, and I equate Verdi with Gershwin very strongly in that they were both were masters of theatre and they were both were masters of melody.“


Suggested Host Outro:
Conductor Andrew Litton.  This is Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”.  Andrew Litton conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.





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