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Wilson completes unfinished Gershwin
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 October 2009
Brian Wilson has been asked to complete two pieces of music by George Gershwin, which the composer was working on at the time of his death in 1937. It is hoped that they will be finished in time to appear on a new compilation of Gershwin music next year.
Gershwin’s great nephew and trustee of the George Gershwin family trusts, Todd Gershwin told the Los Angeles Times: “George for his time was a visionary. He certainly crossed genres and musical lines, tried things that hadn’t been done before and Brian Wilson has done exactly the same thing”.
Wilson added: “[I’m] thrilled to death. I’m proud to be able to do it. Hopefully I’ll be able to do them justice”. Although he added that it was taking a little while to get to grips with the material: “I can’t decipher the verse from the chorus from the bridge, so I’m going to try to insert some new music into them. I might even write some music for an introduction”.