Overture to Shall We Dance
- Overture to Shall We Dance
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The Overture to Shall We Dance was written by George Gershwin in 1937 as the introduction to his score for Shall We Dance. Performance time runs about 4 minutes.
- "The opening [number] is in Gershwin's best big-city style; propulsive, nervous, bustling with modern harmonies; it might have easily been developed into a full-scale composition except that time was growing short."
- from Gershwin: A New Critical Biography; Jablonski, Edward 1998 pg.304
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- Compositions by George Gershwin
- 1937 compositions
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