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The Gershwin Hotel Updates Facade and Renames to 'The Evelyn,' Remembers Art and Music Past
The changing face of New York City normally turns into a debacle, but seemingly the Gershwin Hotel changed its name and not many seemed to notice. The prominent hotel named after the famous composer will from now on be known as the "Evelyn."The Evelyn derives it names from a "sexy chorus girl from the early 1900s — Evelyn Nesbit," and is meant to represent the changing landscape of New York but more specifically the neighborhood it is located in.But the name change is a strategy of a much larger plan to upgrade most of the historic buildings in the Triumph Hotel portfolio. Earliest Form of Polyphonic Notation Discovered on Accident on the Bottom of a Religious Portrait in the U.K.
If musical practice etymology is your penchant then a new discovery has left some scholars floored. A few lines of music scribed on an old painting has revealed, possibly, the earliest example of polyphonic choral music, where voices sing different melodies combining to make a singular composition.
