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	George Gershwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was in Hollywood, while working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, that George Gershwin collapsed and, on July 11, 1937, died of a brain tumour at the age of 38.
		Gershwin's own Concerto in F was criticised as being strongly rooted in the work of Claude Debussy, more so than in the jazz style which was expected.
		Most of the musicals Gershwin wrote are also known for their intrumental music, among them the March from Strike Up The Band and overtures to many of his later shows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gershwin (1588 words)

	MSN Encarta - George Gershwin
		Gershwin, George (1898-1937), American composer, whose musicals and popular songs are among the finest in those genres and whose compositions in art-music forms are infused with the idioms of jazz and popular music.
		Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1898.
		Gershwin's songs are marked by uncommon harmonic inventiveness, and he was one of the first to introduce into popular songs the rhythms and melodic twists of jazz.
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	George Gershwin: American Genius (1898-1937)
		Gershwin produced serious works that were daring for their time but which today have become classics of piano, orchestral, and opera literature.
		Gershwin greatly admired the songs of Irving Berlin, and among his earliest musical heroes were Franz Liszt and the great pianists who were then appearing in New York, such as Josef Lhevinne, Josef Hoffmann, and composer-pianist Ferrucio Busoni.
		Gershwin was obviously influenced by fl spirituals, gospel music, and African-American dance rhythms, which pervade this intriguing story of love, murder, and longing in a manner unparalleled in opera history.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /gershwin (2892 words)

	George Gershwin and the Rhapsody in Blue, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		Gershwin began to dabble in composition and moonlighted as a vocal accompanist.
		Gershwin later recalled that he formed the concept of the piece on the way to Boston, inspired in part by the rhythmic noises of the train ride.
		Gershwin's understanding with Whiteman was that he would nod to him when his solos were over and the next orchestral portion was to begin.
	www.classicalnotes.net /features/gershwin.html (3232 words)

	George Gershwin
		Gershwin was one of the first to introduce into popular songs the rhythms and melodic twists of jazz.
		Gershwin had traveled to Paris in the hopes of studying with the great teacher Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him saying he was fine the way he was.
		Gershwin was ahead of his time, the overture premiered a year or two ahead of the popularization of Cuban rhythms by Xavier Cugat.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/GeorgeG.html (1391 words)

	Ira Gershwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
		Mere mention of the name "Gershwin" brings to mind the sophisticated glamour of the '20s and '30s, personified by the brothers who helped to give those decades their musical voice.
		The George and Ira Gershwin Collection in the Library of Congress is the world's preeminent body of primary source materials for the study of the life and work of the Gershwins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ira_Gershwin (1475 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of immigrant parents.
		Gershwin spent the first years of his professional life as a piano player in "Tin Pan Alley," a place where musical songs were pitched to music executives in hopes of selling the rights to them for a modest amount of cash.
		Gershwin's compositions were a huge success that brought him to be considered within the same rank as other great composers of the day.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/gershwin.html (534 words)

	Learning Center \| NYC Opera
		George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898, the second of four children born to Morris and Rose Gershovitz.
		Gershwin was more interested in music than intellectual pursuits, and eventually left school at fifteen to join a music publisher for $15.00 a week.
		Gershwin then began publishing music under a pseudonym and eventually left publishing in 1917 to travel the vaudeville circuit as a pianist.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/resource/biographies/gershwin_george.aspx?detect=yes (758 words)

	Great Performances . Artists . Ira Gershwin \| PBS
		Gershwin (1896-1983) captivated audiences worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s with his provocative lyrics and librettos.
		Indeed, Ira Gershwin went by the name "Izzy" as a child and always believed his proper name to be Isidore, until he applied for a passport in 1928 and learned his true given name.
		Gershwin, who aspired to be a writer, published early works under a variety of pseudonyms including Bruskin Gershwin, which was the name he affixed to his short story "The Shrine," when it appeared in February 1918 in SMART SET, an H.L. Mencken publication.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_igershwin.html (634 words)

	About Gershwin
		These ebullient and complex early Gershwin piano-roll arrangements give an indication of his extraordinary keyboard prowess, and this only a few years after his first introduction to the piano; to reach such a level of pianistic skill in such a short time is staggering.
		Gershwin’s work in the opposing worlds of the musical theater and concert hall were eventually united in his masterpiece, his opera Porgy and Bess, completed in 1935.
		The whole of Gershwin’s vast experience in the theater, in song-writing, and in orchestral composition was brought to bear on this, the greatest achievement of his life.
	www.jackgibbons.com /gershwin.htm (860 words)

	George Gershwin's Biography
		"Gershwin was not only a creator of the golden age of American musical theater but also a successful composer of music for the concert hall, beginning with the triumphant premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in 1924.
		He gave the first performance of his Concerto in F at Carnegie Hall in 1925 and traveled to Europe in the 1920s (meeting Berg in Vienna and Ravel and Stravinsky in Paris); part of his symphonic poem An American in Paris (1928) was composed on one of these visits.
		"Gershwin was outgoing, a sportsman, an art collector and amateur painter and irresistible to women; he was also wealthy, from royalties, concert fees, and his weekly radio show.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Fields/8616/composerfiles/gershwin.html (491 words)

	Classical Net - Gershwin - Biography
		Gershwin represented all this, of course, and so much more: his serious compositions, which confounded the critics at first performances, remain highly popular in the concert repertoire, and his stage and film songs continue to be jazz and vocal standards.
		Gershwin's music was his personal digestion of European, jazz, and fl styles, characterized by melodies at once catchy and beautiful, accentuated by wonderfully complex rhythmic patterns.
		Gershwin admired Irving Berlin, and among his earliest musical heroes were Liszt and the great pianists then playing in New York, artists such as Josef Lhevinne, Josef Hoffmann, and composer-pianist Ferrucio Busoni.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/articles/gershwin/biography.html (979 words)

	The Library's Gershwin Collection
		Ira Gershwin's favorite photo of his brother George (by Edward Steichen) appeared in Vanity Fair in 1927; Ira works on the score for the film A Star Is Born, 1954.
		In March, the Gershwin room opened in the Library's Jefferson Building, where it serves as a permanent exhibition area for materials relating to the brothers.
		Even the mention of the name "Gershwin" brings to mind the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s, personified by the brothers who helped to give a musical voice to the time.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9809/gershwin.html (1393 words)

	Le Trio Gershwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gershwin's popularity and fame put his picture on the cover of Time magazine, but he never forgot his immigrant roots and the hard times of the Great Depression.
		Despite complaints of continual headaches (falsely assumed to be related to some form of neurosis), he worked up until his death on July 11, 1937 in Hollywood at the much too early age of 39.
		George Gershwin left behind him an enormous legacy that embraces every music genre, from music hall, to variety, to jazz and classical.
	www.baylinartists.com /gershwin.htm (822 words)

	American Masters . George Gershwin \| PBS
		eorge Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family.
		Over the course of the next four years, Gershwin wrote forty-five songs; among them were "Somebody Loves Me" and "Stairway to Paradise," as well as a twenty-five-minute opera, "Blue Monday." Composed in five days, the piece contained many musical clichés, but it also offered hints of developments to come.
		Gershwin followed this success with his orchestral work "Piano Concerto in F, Rhapsody No. 2" and "An American in Paris".
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/gershwin_g.html (570 words)

	Hall of Fame: Lisa-ann Gershwin
		A preliminary phylogeny of Pelagiidae (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa), with new observations of Chrysaora colorata comb.
		Gershwin, L. Systematics and biogeography of the jellyfish Aurelia labiata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa).
		Gershwin, L. Clonal and population variation in jellyfish symmetry.
	www.medusozoa.com /lgershwin.html (208 words)

	George Gershwin
		George Gershwin and his older brother, Ira, elevated the Broadway musical to new and distinctive heights.
		Gershwin was the son of Morris and Rosa, nee Bruskin, Gershwin.
		Gershwin felt that all modern jazz was built upon the rhythms and melodic turns and twists that came directly from Africa.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/gershwin.html (573 words)

	Gershwin Fantasy
		Gershwin, however, was preoccupied with other projects, and in 1937, two years after the premiere of Porgy and Bess, he developed a brain tumor and died at the tragically young age of 39.
		Gershwin's music has always been in his life, he says; he grew up listening to it and has often played these arrangements as encores.
		This is a recreation of one of those rolls, as exact a rendition of Gershwin's playing as the technology of his time could manage (helped a bit by the technology of our own).
	www.sonyclassical.com /music/60659/liner_eng.html (940 words)

	INKPOT CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: THE COMPLETE GERSHWIN (VoxBox)
		Gershwin is above all an American composer, and his much-celebrated works show the importance of the dominant music of his time, that is, American "jazz".
		The way in which the themes come together is similar to the combinations of themes in Gershwin's "Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra"...
		Using the theme in every way possible, Gershwin portrays his famous song as in its original state, as a waltz, as a broadway show stoppper, as an oriental song, and in many other ways.
	inkpot.com /classical/gershwincpte.html (1250 words)

	Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: George Gershwin
		Gershwin frequently sang and played it at parties, particularly when any of the violinists who inspired the title was present.
		Among Gershwin's papers is a copy of part of the original manuscript of the song and on the page where Kreisler is mentioned, the violinist signed, "with kindest regards of Fritz Kreisler." Accompanying it is a signed photograph of the virtuoso with his famed violin.
		The Gershwins refer, of course, to the unusual number of Jews among the world's greatest violin virtuosos, especially the Russian-born students of the great violin teacher, Leopold Auer, to whom due credit is given in the song.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/loc/Gershwin.html (512 words)

	Gershwin, George (1898 - 1937) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a period in which national American music was developing with composers of the calibre of Aaron Copland and others trained in Europe, George Gershwin, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, went some way towards bridging the wide gap between Tin Pan Alley and serious music.
		Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, written in 1924 for Paul Whiteman and his jazz band, marries jazz with something of the classical form, an avenue further explored in Gershwin's Piano Concerto of the following year.
		Gershwin's piano music includes the three Preludes, written in 1926, pieces that retain a modest place in modern American piano repertoire.
	www.naxos.com /composer/gershwin.htm (206 words)

	Gershwin Theatre
		The Gershwin Theatre is located on the south side of 51st Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
		At 1,900 seats, the Gershwin is the largest of the Broadway theaters, but it's not just the seating capacity that makes it seem so mammoth.
		The house was dubbed the Gershwin Theatre on June 5, 1983, in honor of the famous brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who created such classics as Of Thee I Sing and Porgy and Bess.
	www.nytix.com /Links/Broadway/Theaters/gershwin.html (666 words)

	George Gershwin
		Gershwin, who was hard at work on a musical comedy, barely finished his composition in time.
		Gershwin, fascinated by the DuBose Heyward novel Porgy, recognised it as a perfect vehicle for opera using jazz and blues rhythms and idioms.
		Today Gershwin's works are sung and played with ever greater frequency than they were in his brief lifetime.
	www.nodanw.com /biographies/gershwin_george.htm (595 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Gershwin Plays Gershwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gershwin's crisp touch, clear-cut and unsentimental phrasing, and rhythmic verve comes through more convincingly in these flat discs than in his much-vaunted piano rolls.
		That Gershwin (1896-1937) died so young from a malignant brain tumor was a tragic loss to the world of music.
		Gershwin never recorded a complete Concerto in F. For the best-ever version of that, you have to buy the Roy Bargas/Bix Beiderbecke/Paul Whiteman account on a Pearl CD called "Gershwin and Grofe," which also has the first-ever recordings of Grofe's Grand Canyon & Mississippi Suites (a lot of fun!).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000WW1?v=glance (1396 words)

	George Gershwin biography - 8notes.com
		It was in Hollywood, while working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, that George Gershwin collapsed and, on July 11, 1937, died of a brain tumour.
		Gershwin also was intrigued with the an eclectic set of works as those of Alban Berg, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Milhaud and Schoenberg.
		George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937), arranged by Ada Richter.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/gershwin.asp (1366 words)

	Gershwin, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gershwin wrote some of the most original and popular musical works produced in the United States.
		In many compositions Gershwin combined traditional musical forms with jazz and folk themes and rhythms.
		Le compositeur américain George Gershwin au piano, sur le toit de son hôtel de Miami Beach en 1930 La saison d'Opéra en Il.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gershwin.asp (493 words)

	Today in History: September 2
		George Gershwin signed his name to the completed orchestral score of the opera, Porgy and Bess.
		Gershwin joined in their "shouting" which involved rhythms created by hands and feet as accompaniment to the spirituals.
		George Gershwin wrote of his composition, "I think the music is so marvelous, I don't believe I wrote it." Most reviewers welcomed the opera.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep02.html (1003 words)

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