Music & Nightlife | Herbie Hancock will 'Swing' Gershwin with SSO | Seattle Times Newspaper

When composer George Gershwin played the world premiere of "Rhapsody in Blue," he hadn't even finished all the piano parts.
So he improvised them.
To this day, no one knows precisely what Gershwin played that afternoon of Feb. 12, 1924, at New York's Aeolian Hall.

In some ways, then, it makes perfect sense that another improviser, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, is performing the piece with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. While Hancock has no intention of adding anything new to this concert-hall favorite — in fact, Hancock performs it reading from the score — in a phone interview last week, the 14-time Grammy winner explained that he does "swing" parts of it. More on Hancock from the source: Reported by Paul de Barros  Seattle Times jazz critic

Music & nightlife | Herbie Hancock will 'swing' Gershwin with SSO | Seattle Times Newspaper

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Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable.^[1] Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "unforgettable screen performances". She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.
Garbo launched her career with a leading role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She immediately stirred interest with her first silent film, Torrent , released in 1926; a year later, her performance in Flesh and the Devil, her third movie, made her an international superstar.^[2]  

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