Customer Reviews for The Gershwin Collection
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Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 1, 2008
So immediately satisfying and crowd-ready
This delightful book is performance-ready. Arrangments are sufficiently ornamented to please the ear of a Gershwin lover. Keys are accessible for the singer who wants to deliver an authentic, classy rendition.
16 of 31 people found this review helpful.
Finn Hornum
Location: from Philadelphia, PA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
May 6, 2008
Great Tunes Easy to Play and Listen to.
The Gershwin album offers a fine selection of the many great tunes and lyrics by the Gershwin brothers. They are not overly difficult to play and my family enjoys listening to them.
15 of 27 people found this review helpful.
Bruce
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
May 1, 2008
My Priorities
1. I found few of the songs I am familiar with. 2. I am a sight reader, and the level of difficulty is higher than I expected for most of the songs.
14 of 30 people found this review helpful.
Halb
Location: from Largo,
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
May 1, 2008
a fine selection
As a Gershwin fan I never get tired of his music and the 38 pieces gives me an excellent library to enjoy playing over and over.
16 of 30 people found this review helpful.
Henrietta Katz
Location: from Baltimore
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
April 3, 2008
Nice collection
This volume contains all the songs I was looking for which were scattered into two volumes in another set. I'm a singer and can't comment on the difficulty of the accompaniments/arrangements, but the vocal lines are generally in medium-tessitura keys and have tricky harmonic twists here and there, as most great jazz standards do.
16 of 29 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Utah
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 19, 2008
I love this book!
Never been happier with a song collection. Gershwin is one of my favorites and they really got a good sampling of his work in this book. The piano parts aren't too complicated, but still have that fun funky Gershwin touch. I would recommend this book to anyone!
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from South Carolina
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
November 5, 2007
New at this
I've begun taking voice lessons in the last year and don't have enough experience to truly evaluate this collection. I like Gershwin's music and my favorites are in the book; from that point of view it's excellent.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Christine Frey
Location: from Dallas, Texas
January 11, 2007
Fun to play, and to hear
My husband said, "Your mother is getting better!" when he heard me playing from this book. I played straight through, and loved every piece - even the one I'd never heard before. The others were all old favorites. The arrangements are tuneful, but simple, so in some places I could simply sight read, and in others I could add my own embellishments. I want more collections like this one!
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.