Editing An American in Paris (section)

==Preservation status==
On September 22, 2013, it was announced that a musicological [[Historical editions (music)|critical edition]] of the full orchestral score would be eventually released. The Gershwin family, working in conjunction with the [[Library of Congress]] and the [[University of Michigan]], were working to make scores available to the public that represent Gershwin's true intent. It was unknown whether the critical score would include the four minutes of material Gershwin later deleted from the work (such as the restatement of the blues theme after the faster 12 bar blues section), or if the score would document changes in the orchestration during Gershwin's composition process.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-critical-edition-of-george-and-ira-gershwins-works-to-be-compiled/ |title=New, critical edition of George and Ira Gershwin's works to be compiled|work=[[PBS NewsHour]]|date=September 14, 2013 |access-date=April 6, 2016}}</ref>

The score to ''An American in Paris'' was scheduled to be issued first in a series of scores to be released. The entire project was expected to take 30 to 40 years to complete, but ''An American in Paris'' was planned to be an early volume in the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.umich.edu/ami/gershwin/?page_id=59 |title=The Editions » Gershwin |website=Music.umich.edu |date= September 8, 2013|access-date=April 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2013/09/george-and-ira-gershwin-critical-edition_20.html |title=Musicology Now: George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition |website=Musicologynow.ams-net.org |date=September 17, 2013 |access-date=April 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215122523/http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2013/09/george-and-ira-gershwin-critical-edition_20.html |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Two [[urtext edition]]s of the work were published by the German publisher B-Note Music in 2015. The changes made by Campbell-Watson were withdrawn in both editions. In the extended urtext, 120 bars of music were re-integrated. Conductor Walter Damrosch had cut them shortly before the first performance.<ref>{{cite web |title=''An American in Paris'' Urtext | url=https://www.bnote.de/?set=werk_detail&kompid=246&bnnr=16963&lc=en|website=Bnote.de |access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>

On September 9, 2017, The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of the long-awaited critical edition of the piece prepared by Mark Clague, director of the Gershwin initiative at the University of Michigan. This performance was of the original 1928 orchestration.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.eamdc.com/news/critical-edition-of-george-gershwins-an-american-in-paris-debuts-with-the-cincinnati-and-atlanta-symphony-orchestras/ |title= Critical Edition of George Gershwin's ''An American in Paris'' Debuts with the Cincinnati and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras |date=September 1, 2017 |access-date=July 18, 2021}}</ref>