Just received this lovely keyboard work from Steve Gans yesterday. I would like to call it An American in Portland, and use it as the theme, or one of the themes, of East Portland Blog. And so it shall be, says I, at least here among the electrons of East Portland Blog.
But, closer to reality, Steve describes it this way, “It is Gershwin. It’s an excerpted piece of An American in Paris, his tone poem that was later adapted into a musical with Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron and (one of my mom’s favorites – Oscar Levant).” Steve has transposed/adapted/reimagined this excerpt of Gershwin’s tone poem for keyboards.
Enjoy. (Left click on the link to play the mp3, right click on it to save it to your computer, and from there, I hope, to your iPod):
