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Levant in An American in Paris (1951) Oscar Levant, great friend to Gershwin and an exellent interpreter of his music, gives it a riveting performance of Gershwin, his own Sonatina, and other "modern" music. Besides being one of George Gershwin's closest friends, he was a true renaissance man ala 1920s,30s& 40s. He was a gifted composer, brilliant solo pianist, wise-cracking movie actor, (he played Gene Kelly's pianist buddy in the movie version of "American in Paris") and an author. This set includes a great rendition of Gershwin's Three Preludes Oscar Levant in a Recital of Modern Music Oscar Levant, piano Recorded December 17, 1941, and January 20, 1942, in Liederkranz Hall, New York CityLabel: Columbia Masterworks – MM-508Format: 4 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, AlbumGenre: ClassicalStyle: ModernA1 Prelude IComposed By – Gershwin*A2 Prelude IIIComposed By – Gershwin*B Prelude IIComposed By – Gershwin*C Les Collines D'AnacapriComposed By – Debussy*D Jardins Sous La Pluie = Gardens In The RainComposed By – Debussy*E1 Etude IComposed By – Jelobinsky*E2 Etude IIComposed By – Jelobinsky*F1 Prelude In A MinorComposed By – Shostakovitch*F2 Polka (From "Age Of Gold")Composed By – Shostakovitch*G Menuet (From "Sonatine")Composed By – Ravel*H Sonatina - First Movement: Con RitmoComposed By – Levant*Orig Issue Columbia Album MM-508, COMPLETE 4x 10" 78 rpm records w orig album and notes.Condition Records: EXCELLENT close to pristine faint scuffs, plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet faint breathing, album GREAT binding and sleeves sound, front cover rubbed, top corner a bit roughA SUPERB COPYOscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian, and actor. He was known for his performances in the films Rhapsody in Blue (1945), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), An American in Paris (1951), and The Band Wagon (1953). He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for recordings featuring his piano performances.[1] He was equally famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and later in movies and television, as for his music. He was portrayed by Sean Hayes in the Broadway play Good Night, Oscar, written by Doug Wright.[2][3][4]Early lifeLevant was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1906, to Orthodox Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia.[5] His father, Max, was a watchmaker who wanted his four sons to become either dentists or doctors. His mother, Annie, was a highly religious woman whose father was a rabbi who presided over his daughter's wedding to Max Levant.[5]:?4–5?Oscar Levant moved to New York in 1922, following the death of his father. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski, a well-established piano pedagogue. In 1925, aged 18, Levant appeared with Ben Bernie in a short sound film, Ben Bernie and All the Lads, made in New York City with the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. In the mid-1920s Levant recorded extensively for Brunswick with the Ben Bernie Orchestra.CareerLevant traveled to Hollywood in 1928, where his career took a turn for the better. During his stay, he met and became friends with George Gershwin. From 1929 to 1948, Levant composed the music for more than twenty movies. During this period, he also wrote or co-wrote numerous popular songs that made the hit parade, the most noteworthy being "Blame It on My Youth" (1934), now considered a standard.Levant in An American in Paris (1951)Levant began composing seriously around 1932. He studied under Arnold Schoenberg and impressed Schoenberg sufficiently to be offered an assistantship (which he turned down, considering himself unqualified).[6] These formal studies led to a request by Aaron Copland to play at the Yaddo Festival of contemporary American music on April 30 of that year. Successful, Levant began composing a new orchestral work, a sinfonietta.Levant made his debut as a music conductor in 1938 on Broadway, filling in for his brother Harry in sixty-five performances of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s The Fabulous Invalid. In 1939, he was again working on Broadway as composer and conductor of The American Way, another Kaufman and Hart production.[7] He was a talented pianist and was well known for his recorded works of Gershwin, and numerous classical composers. During a time in the 1940s, he was the highest paid concert pianist in the United States.[8]Also, at this time, Levant was becoming known to American audiences as one of the regular panelists on the radio quiz show Information Please. Originally scheduled as a guest panelist, Levant proved so quick-witted and popular that he became a regular fixture on the show in the late-1930s and 1940s, along with fellow panelists Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran and moderator Clifton Fadiman. "Mr. Levant," as he was always called, was often challenged with musical questions, and he impressed audiences with his depth of knowledge and facility with a joke. Kieran praised Levant as having a "positive genius for making offhand cutting remarks that couldn't have been sharper if he'd honed them a week in his mind. Oscar was always good for a bright response edged with acid."[9] Examples include "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin," "I think a lot of [conductor/composer Leonard] Bernstein—but not as much as he does," and (after Marilyn converted to Judaism when she married playwright Arthur Miller), "Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.” [10][11][12]Georges Guétary, Levant, and Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (1951)Levant appeared in feature films, starting from the 1920s until the mid-50s, often playing a pianist or composer. He had supporting roles in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; An American in Paris (1951), starring Gene Kelly; and The Band Wagon (1953), starring Astaire and Cyd Charisse.[13] Oscar Levant regularly appeared on NBC radio's Kraft Music Hall, starring singer Al Jolson. He not only accompanied Jolson on the piano with classical and popular songs, but often joked and ad-libbed with Jolson and his guests. This included comedy sketches. Their individual ties to George Gershwin—Jolson introduced Gershwin's "Swanee"—undoubtedly had much to do with their rapport. Both Levant and Jolson appeared as themselves in the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945).In the early 1950s, Levant was an occasional panelist on the NBC radio and television game show Who Said That?.[14] Levant hosted a talk show on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles from 1958 -1960, The Oscar Levant Show,[15] which was later syndicated. It featured his piano playing along with monologues and interviews with guests such as Fred Astaire and Linus Pauling. Full recordings of only two shows are known to have survived,[16] one with Astaire, who paid to have a kinescope recording of the broadcast made so that he could assess his performance. 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Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, Oscar Levant
Format: Record
Material: Shellac
Genre: Chamber Music, Classical, Jazz
Record Label: Columbia
Record Size: 10"
Style: Allemande, Ars Nova, Brass, Caprice, Character Piece, Concerto, Duet, Etude, Film Score/Soundtrack, Fugue, Instrumental, Minuet, Music Hall, Nocturne, Octet, Partita, Passacaglia, Prelude, Quartet, Quintet, Rhapsody, Septet, Serenade, Sextet, Sinfonia, Sonata, Suite, Toccata, Trio, Waltz
Speed: 78 RPM
Release Title: GERSHWIN Preludes Oscar Levant in a Recital of Modern Music
Catalog Number: MM-508, MM 508, MM508, M-508
