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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free press monday october 8, 1973 Gershwin s music refuses to grow old by Tom Shales Washington special tons in 1933, George Gershwin wrote it is impossible for the Public at Large to assimilate real greatness he did t know he was talking about himself he thought he was merely Good a popular songwriter trying to Cross the Boundary into the serious realm and Excel at both. Now we know. He did it. No body else has done it As Well. The composer of rhapsody in Blue in Paris concerto in of porgy and Bess and Mehra Cable you should be celebrating his 75th birth Day soon but we will have to celebrate it for him. Gershwin died on july 11, 1937, at the age of 38, of a brain tumor. Gershwin music played and Sung now even More than it was in the jazz age it dominated refuses to grow old. Good As it nagging ques Tion remains where would Gershwin have gone from there no one will Ever know. This year the Gershwin Hom age accelerates. Celebration of his birthday began in february with the issuance of a commemorative . Postage stamp Gershwin s Uncertain smile in profile and the porgy characters behind taskmaster on himself. I saw my tear up. Sheet music and say this stinks like anybody else. But once he thought he had it he loved it and he in tenuously and charmingly assumed everybody else loved it or. Green remembers the him. This week athenaeum will publish the Gershwin by Rob Ert Kimball and Alfred Simon a readable coffe table spectacular of Gershwin if Memorabilia. Doubleday will offer an updated and revised edition of the Gershwin years the authoritative and evocative 1958 appreciation by Edward Jab 1 o n s k i and Lawrence d. Stewart. In new York private parties by Gershwin friends and rela Tives will try to capture the Luster and vitality of the Par ties George gave when he lived on Riverside drive and played the piano All night for guests. At the new cultural Centre a Gershwin on film festival will feature a birthday showing of the 1945 Warner first time he saw Gershwin play. It was that february night in 1924 when Paul Whiteman stages an Experiment in modern music at aeolian Hall and George saved the show with a piece he d written in three weeks parts of it improvised on the spot called rhapsody in Blue. In the audience for that performance says one of his biographers were such fellow composers As Sergei Rachmaninoff Igor Stravinsky Fritz Kreisler Victor Herbert and John Philip Usa. I was t aware of anything but says or. Green. I heard this piece that e major theme came along and i m a sentimental Slob any Way i was bathed in tears Whiteman isaid later that he d started to cry too while con ducting and did t come to until he was several pages into ihe1 score. It s the most recorded Das Sical piece of the 20th Century but is it really "serious1 music or. Green thinks so i George was t doing wha anybody else was doing no Copland or Schoenberg or any of them. t creating a new vocabulary. He was using what were in the Best sense o this word the convention a Means of saying things must Cally. But that s what make Gershwin All the More remark Able he was Able to endow the conventional with a fresh Ness that was totally fresh. It not a whole new grammar. H used the same Means available to Gershwin always feared h was t enough Job. H e wanted to study wit Maurice is. Sail to have told him George Why be a second rate rave when you can be a first rat Bros musical rhapsody in Blue. Biography or. Green says once a the music that is Gershwin s greatest legacy is still loud ebullient and contemporary. A new Rock abridgement of the rhapsody a Moog version was released last year is climbing the top 40 charts and an album of Gershwin piano music played by William Bol com nonesuch is one of the top Selling classical los at least four Gershwin albums will appear incoming weeks., including a two disc Bobby and. A song recital by George s sister Frances Monr Routh Ever but the biggest news still unofficial ,7- is a forthcoming announce meet by the metropol Itan opera that next year Gershwin s porgy and Bess a financial Flop when it opened on Broadway in 1935, will at last be produced by the met As Gershwin always hoped it would be. Leonard Bernstein is rumoured to be a top Choice for conductor. Accepted by the highbrow at last Gershwin would have been pleased. Not Only have Gershwin s concert works been accepted but the songs he wrote with his brother Ira Are also being recognized for the Art they went an Are Ira hoho Lyric in 1937, who s got the last laugh he he he let s at the past laugh a a a who s got the last laugh Ira born two years before George is still alive though not Well in a House on. Box Bury drive in Beverly Hills. He does not give interviews any More says a nurse who an Swers his Telephone could he just come to the phone and say Gershwin Telegram asking the French composer i accept him As a Pupil and ask ing How much he woul wired Back ask ing George How much Mone he d made the previous year George said an Ravel wired Back what i you charge to teach c r it i c s complained Abou Gershwin s f r my a Peeve they quibble Over Whethe the concerto in f was really concerto arid whether pors and Bess was really an oper that was a lot of Bull says or. Green. Now he taken his place among the a time masters. you know Bun Triflis Gers win a saturday night pop in Europe he is Vered they love Gershwin s masterpiece porgy and. Bess. Though died thinking it a Commerce failure Tufe opera was later r Vived and critics who a derided it reversed their Opi ions. It toured the world g re at Success and in d Cember 1955, opened screaming ovations in mosco1 it was that touring products that launched the operatic c reer of leontyne Price. In a foreword to the Gers wins composer Richa Rodgers blames the failure porgy on Gershwin s ins tence that it be a full fled opera Replete with recitative it was when Cheryl Crawfo Shell Canada limited invitation to tender for Sale removal of building Vived it later As a musical that muscle memory of George a that it gained such i coming Success and shiver 1 or. Rodgers rites. Todd Duncan agrees. The Ginal porgy in the 1935 pro u c t i o a he estimates he Ayed the part r. Duncan plucked from Ano Amity to play the role was a usic teacher at Howard uni Hersity until Gershwin heard bout him. Or. Duncan now ves in Washington and aches music in his Home. Broadway would t come to ear porgy because Gershwin n s i s t e d. On calling it Aji he says and the Era lovers would t come be Ause they thought it was or. Duncan now was 32 when he played orgy. He did t go after the Art and did t think much of Gershwin when the composer St approached him. I was Young and stupid am Aive. I thought George was n pan Alley arid beneath me he was just a show person and i was studying Schuber and after he d heard Duncan ing Gershwin told him in a be Bess sings in the show you re my but or Duncan says he told Gershwin i have to hear your Musi and when i first heart i thought it was horrible he cheap and bumpy. Tha overture it Dee a Date Dah. I thought it a but As Gershwin continued and Ira joined him to sing or Juncan the score he began to realize what a great work i Vas. George had a Rotten terrible voice but if you Lis ened you really heard some Hing. That s Why i think i h t Over All the it right out of his of croat right out of his being earned it from him and i Hay under the municipal Board act notice of application to cancel Par of registered plan no. 2635.and.fo registration of two new plans of sul division of part of River lots 2 to both inclusive Parish of St. Jame City of Winnipeg Manitoba. Take notice that the undersigned has filed with the municipal Board a Winnipeg an application for cancell lion of All that portion of plan no. 2833 contained within the limits outlined Pink on two proposed plans of us division covering part of River lots 2 6, both inclusive of the Parish of s James prepared by Hans Ferdinan Henry Neumann of the City of i nip Egi in the province of Manitoba Manitoba land Surveyor and sworn by him Wirthe 21st Day of March 1973 and further take notice that the undersigned has made application for the registration of the said to proposed plans of subdivision. Application will be heard by to municipal Board at 10 n o clock in u Forenoon on wednesday the 17th Day october 1973, at building tuned Avenue. Winnipeg Manitoba. The property affected by this apply Tion is situate in the Community of s James ass Chibola and it bounded Gene ally of the North by Saskatchewan Avenue on the East by Hamilto Myrthe South and West copies of the said plan to be cancell and the said two proposed plans of us division Are on file and May be inspected by any person at the office of t Secretary of the municipal Board of t province of Manitoba at building 31 139 Tuxedo Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba any person having any interest in 1 matter May appear to make reprise a Lions at the time and place Herci Nabo Sel Forth dated at Winnipeg in Manitoba this 4th Day of october. . 1973. Simkin Cantor Goltsman 4 Rosenberg solicitors for the applicant. Hello there is a pause he is not up to no but Ira always retiring and forever dodging the spotlight when George was alive continues to watch Oyer the Gersh win heritage and occasionally releases for publication works that George left behind. George was the opposite of the owes his brother a Dandy a Ham accepted a chronically constipated gregarious and frenetic Dynamo. His famous parties at the very heart of the 1920s, were All night affairs with George at the piano playing his songs and puffing a huge Cigar. Friend and pianist Oscar Levant observed an evening with Gershwin is a Gershwin eve another line about Gershwin attributed to Levant has also been credited to Alexander Woolcott Aind Groucho Marx two other guests. When George wondered aloud one night if his music would be played a Hundred years from then somebody replied it will be George if you re still around to play once you invited George to a recalls Gershwin protege and composer conductor John Green you sounded the death Knell on Conversa Tion. He was incessantly at the piano Bench and playing to everybody s Joy and Delight. Conceited that the wrong word. You can t love anybody unless you love yourself and a Georgo was the happiest Guy with himself. He was gentle Lovely virile neat he smelled Good. He was a gentleman. He loved what he did he thought it was great. Not that he was t a hard sealed tenders will be received by the undersigned until 12 o clock noon october 18, 1973 for the Sale and removal of buildings located at lots 10-19 Block 9, plan 5916 Winnipeg . More commonly known As West Side St. Anne s re. Between Fem Wood and Len nox Avenue. Bidders May pick up a copy of the demolition specifications from r. Kury 333 Broadway Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba phone 942-3171. Bidders Are advised that keys for View Ingol the building May be obtained from Shell Canada District office at 333 Broadway Avenue. The lowest or any tender not necessarily . Kury Shell Canada limited 333 Broadway ave. Winnipeg Manitoba notice of proposed tender Call for town Centre Complex Churchill Tow site redevelopment for the province of Manitoba this notice is to advise All interested parties of proposed tender Call on or shout monday. 15th october 1973, for the construction Over approximately a two year duration for the town Centre Complex Churchill Manitoba. Plans and specifications As prepared by the architects the Churchill consortium -10 Donald Street North Winnipeg Manitoba r3c 1l5. The Complex is a Multi level Multi function building and will be in excess of Square feet. Gershwin singing tie admired the Man As Well the composer. A photo of irs win hangs in or. Dun a n s music room a graphed for Todd Duncan great Singer a great porgy and a grand fellow from his mining composer George he was hard to please but Ever says or. Dun n. He was so meticulous cd a Dresser i was very in Essed with this Chesterfield Dian gentleman. But he did t in Hollywood five months be like the Way i dressed at All. Fore Gershwin s death. He he wanted to buy new clothes gave the greatest party i Ever for me i said i was t a big restaurant on the ested. We made a going joke strip. It Cost him and out of Gershwin was impressed with or. Duncan from the first time he Beard him. He told re porters in 1936, Todd Sang for me and although i had Paul Robeson in mind for the part at the time something told me Here right Here u your porgy " or. Duncan visited Gershwin every movie Star was there. I was staying at his Home then. He did t enjoy Hollywood i could Tell that. He was dying to get Back to new biographers have discounted As myth the idea that Holly Wood killed Gershwin that his moving from the adulation of new York to the ruthlessness of the movie capital destroyed him. But Green says there May be some truth to the theory. I do think this the Holly Wood period in George s life was very frustrating because some of the idolatry and some of the very special Pedestal on which Gershwin had existed in new York eroded away. He was t the towering giant he had to speculate on what Gersh win might have done is patently futile but the question re Mains irresistible in rhapsody in Blue Robert Alda As Gersh win envisions setting the Gettysburg address to Gershwin himself told report ers he wanted to try an opera with a cowboys and indians theme and write a Ballet. Or. Duncan remembers Gershwin telling him he was a born comedian and that George was working on some thing that would give me a Chance to play High comedy he pointed to a drawer and said it was in there but i never saw Public notice ministry of transport Canada St. Andrews Airport Manitoba department of Public works of Canada tenders baled tenders addressed to t Hief financial and administrate services department of Public Woi f Canada loth floor one Thornl ourt Edmonton Alberta and i arsed it. Smith . Fede housing 74 30 units 3-4 bedroom detached 7-3 bed room detached and 20-3 bed-1 Wom will be received until . . October Ender documents can be obtained on Deposit of j250.co in the form of a certified Bank Cheque made pay ble to the receiver general of Canada through the following offices of the department of Public works of 10th floor one Thornton i court Edmonton Alberta 201 fed eral building 289 main Street Winnipeg Manitoba 902 Spadina cres cent Saskatoon sask. 701 financial building Regina sask. 400 customs bldg. Lith ave. 1st Street . Calgary Alberta the depart ment s offices in yellowkn1fe and it. Smith . May be seen at the construction association offices in Edmonton Winnipeg Cal Gary Whitehorse y.t., Daw son Creek ., Grande Rairie and peace River Al Berta the amalgamated construction association of Vancouver . As Well As the department s offices n Hay River and Inu Vik . Project manager or. L. R. Humphrey . Edmonton the Deposit will be released on return of Jie documents in Good condition within one month from the Date of tender opening. To be considered each tender must be submitted on the forms supplied by the department and must be accompanied by the Security specified in the tender j documents. Bid depository the building contains the for electrical and Mec trades will submit their tenders health Centre 30 Beds the Edmonton bid depository located at the Edmonton construction association 10415 Princess Elizabeth Edmonton Alberta to close dental later than forty eight 48 hours recreation school High school 13 to the time set for the closing of the submitted through the Edmon gymnasium 60 x bid depository shall be in accor swimming Pool 26 x m1 with the Standard Canadian bid theatre 300 principles and procedures Arena 300 sea Federal government projects Sec Curling 4 edition april 1, 1970. Bowling Alley 4 lowest or any tender not necessarily games All functions Are inter connected by in door Street system the Churchill r. A. Melnyck chief financial and administrative v services the honourable Jean Marchand. Minister of transport wishes to announce that the St Andrew Airport zoning regulations . 1973-1368. May have been made pursuant to the Anthonty of Section 6 of the aeronautics act chapter a-3, r.s.c., 1970. The zoning regulations limit the height of new structures or additions to existing structures in areas immediately adjacent to the Airport. Property owners within the limits of the outer surface whose outer Periphery is established from a Root circumference of feet from the Airport reference Point will be restricted in any construction within the outer surface described in the zoning regulations to an Elevation of 150 feet above the Airport reference Point Elevation and More restricted limitations within the runway approaches and transitional surfaces. The Rightson any person affected by the zoning regulations Are regulated under subsections 10 land 11 of Section 6 of the aeronautics act. Precise detail of the nature and scope of the St. Andrews a in port zoning regulations May be determined by examination of the registered instrument As recorded in the land titles office for the District of Winnipeg on August under no. A zoning regulation respecting St. Andrews Airport Short title 1. These regulations May be cited As the St Andrews Airport zoning regulations. Interpretation 2. In these regulations. Airport Means St. Andrews Airport in the Rural municipality of St. Andrews in the province of Manitoba Airport reference Point Means the Point determined in the manner set out in part i of the schedule approach surface Means an imaginary inclined plane extending upward and outward from the end of each strip along and at right angles to the projected Centre line thereof which approach sur face is More particularly described in Park Nihof the schedule outer surface Means an imaginary surface located above and in the immediate Vicinity of the air port which horizontal surface is More particularly described to Park in of the schedule minister Means minister of transport strip Means the rectangular portion of the Landing area of the Airport including the runway prepared for the take off and Landing of aircraft in a particular direction which strip is More particularly described in part v of the schedule and transitional surface Means an imaginary inclined plane extending upward and outward from the lateral limits of a strip and its approach surfaces which transitional surface is More particularly described in part i of the schedule. The purposes of these regulations the Airport reference Point is deemed to be 757 feet above sea level. Application 1 these regulations apply to All the lands including Public Road allowances adjacent to or in the Vicinity of the Airport the outer limits of which lands Are described in part ii of the schedule other than such lands As from time to time form part of the Airport. General 5 no person shall erect or construct on any land to which these regulations apply any building Struc lure or object or any addition to any existing building Structure or object the highest Point of which will exceed in Elevation at the location of the highest Point any of the surfaces hereinafter set out that project immediately Over and above the surface of the land at that location namely a the approach surfaces b the outer surface or c the transitional surfaces. Schedule parti description of Airport reference Point St. Andrews Airport being a Point at the intersection of a Vitae drawn parallel to and Distant 500 feet measured Southwest Erly at right angles from the Centre line of runway 12-30 and a line drawn parallel to and Distant 500 feet measured northwesterly at right angles from the Centre line of runway 06-24. Part description of outer limits of lipids commencing at the intersection of the water s Edge of the West Bank of the red River with the southwestern Boundary of River lot 48 in the Parish of St. Pauls thence northwesterly along the said southwestern Boundary of River lot 48 to the southwestern Comer thereof thence northwesterly in a straight line across the allowance for Road Between the River lots and the lots in the outer two Miles in the said Parish of St. Pauls to the Southeastern Comer of lot 48 in the said outer two northerly along the Eastern Boundary of lots 48 49.50 51 and 52 in the said outer two Miles to the Southeastern Corner of lot 53 in the said outer two Miles thence northwesterly along the southwestern Boundary of the said lot 53 to the intersection thereof with the Northwestern Omin Dary of the lands shown on a plan of Survey filed in the Winnipeg land titles Offlee As plan number 3174 thence northeasterly along the said Northwestern Boundary of the said plan number 3174 across lots and 59 Tath Couter two Miles in the said Parish of is Pauls to the intersection thereof with the southwestern limit of the Goveri Mcnol Road allowance As established Between the said Parish of St. Pauls and the Parish of St. Andrews thence northeasterly n a straight line across the said government Road allowance to the intersection of the northeastern limit of the said Road allowance with the Northwestern Boundary of the lands As shown on a plan of Survey filed to he Winnipeg land titles office As plan number 3163 thence northeasterly along the North Boundary of the said plan number 3163 across lots 3.4.5 and part of lot6 in the outer two Miles in the said Parish of St. Andrews to the intersection thereof with the northeastern bound. By of the lands As shown on a plan of Survey filed in the said land titles office As plan number 8696 thence northwesterly and northerly along the northeastern and Eastern Boundary of the said plan number 8696 across lots 6.7, 8 and 17 to the intersection thereof with the South limit of the four mile Road Between the Parish of St. Andrews and township 13 Range 3 East of the principal Meridian thence Easterly and northerly along the several South and East limits of the said Road following its courses to the intersection of the South limit of the said Road with the northeastern Boundary of lot 62 in the outer two Miles of the said Parish of thence southeasterly Long the said northeastern lot thence southeasterly in a straight Vitae across the two mile Road to the most northerly Corner of River lot 69 thence southeasterly along the northeastern Boundary of the said River lot 69 to the intersection thereof with the Southeastern limit of a Road As shown on a plan of Survey filed in the said land titles office As plan number 3404 thence southwesterly and southerly along the Southeastern and Eastern limit of the said Road As shown on the said plan no. 3404 to the intersection thereof with the northeastern Boundary of River lot 62 thence southeasterly along the northeastern Boundary of the said River lot 62 to the intersection thereof with the Northern limit of River Road As shown on a plan of Survey filed in the said land titles office As plan number 8374 thence southerly in a straight line across the said River Road and continuing across the red River to the intersection of the northeastern Boundary of River lot 215 in the said Parish of St. Andrews with the water s Edge on the South Shore of the said River thence southeasterly along the northeastern bound Ary of the said lot 215 to the intersection thereof with the Northwestern limit of a Road As shown on a plan of Survey filed in the said land titles offices plan number 3136 thence southwesterly along the said Northwestern limit across lots 219.220 and 221 to the intersection thereof with the northeastern Boundary 8 River lot 222 thence southeasterly along the said northeastern Boundary of River lot 222 to the intersection thereof with the Northwestern limit of the right of Way land s of the Canadian National railways formerly the Winnipeg and Northern railway in the said River lot 222 thence southwesterly along the said Northwestern limit across River lots 222 to 288 both inclusive and continuing along the said limit across River lots 60 to 70 both inclusive in the said Parish of St. Pauls to the intersection thereof with the southwestern Boundary of the said River lot 70 thence northwesterly along the said southwestern Boundary to the intersection thereof with the in Iii Jiuu j p., n t n Linn in acc tin Oaire front of River lots and 48 to the Point of comment lenient. Which outer limits of land Are shown on department of transport plan no. T2854. Part Iii description of each approach surface de Centre line of each strip two Hundred 200 feet above the Elevation at the end of each strip measured vertically and ten thousand feet from the end of each strip measured horizontally the outer ends of each imaginary horizontal line being two thousand feet from each projected Centre line which approach surfaces Are shown on department of transport plan no. T2854. In description of the outer surface being an imaginary surface consisting of a a common plane established at a constant Elevation of one Hundred and fifty 150 feet above the assigned Elevation of the Airport reference Point and _ b where the common plane described in paragraph la is less than thirty 30 feet above the surface of the ground on imaginary surface located thirty feet above the surface of the ground which outer surface is shown on department of transport plan no. T2854. Part v dec Ripdos of strips each strip is described As follows Ai the strip associated with runway 06-24 is one thousand 110001 feet in Width five Hundred 5001 feet being on each Side of the Centre line of the runway and five thousand five Hundred 5500 feet in length b the strip associated with runway 12-30 is one thousand 10001 feet in Width five Hundred 500 feel being on each Side of the Centre line of the runway and three thousand four Hundred 3400 feet in in the strip associated with runway 18-36 is one thousand 11000 feet in Width., five Hundred 1500 feet being on each Side of the Centre line of the runway and five thousand on Hundred 5100 feet in length. Which strips Are shown on department of transport plan no t2854. Part i description of each transitional surface being a surface consisting of an inclined plane having a ratio of one 11 foot measured vertically to seven 7 feet measured horizontally at right angles to the Centre line and Centre line produced of each strip rising from the lateral limits of each strip and its approach surfaces to an intersection with the outer surface or another transitional surface of an adjoining strip All As shown on department of transport plan no. T2854 ;