O, I can’t sit down (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, 1935) (1993)
Originally ‘dished-up’ for 3 pianists at 1 piano by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1950); version for piano two-some by Michael Blake & Sally Rose
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BD 0922
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 3 minutes
Première
First performance: 1994; St John’s Smith Square, London, United Kingdom; Sally Rose and Michael Blake piano, 4 hands
Programme
We made a more economical version - 4 rather than 6 hands - of Percy Grainger's transcription of O, I can't sit down as an encore in piano duet concerts in the 1990s. The third pianist's seating issue was immediately solved.
Originally ‘dished-up’ for 3 pianists at 1 piano by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1950); version for piano two-some by Michael Blake & Sally Rose
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BD 0922
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 3 minutes
Première
First performance: 1994; St John’s Smith Square, London, United Kingdom; Sally Rose and Michael Blake piano, 4 hands
Programme
We made a more economical version - 4 rather than 6 hands - of Percy Grainger's transcription of O, I can't sit down as an encore in piano duet concerts in the 1990s. The third pianist's seating issue was immediately solved.
