Gershwin

by Leon, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9781904341239
• ISBN10: 1904341233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Summary

This volume forms part of the "Life and Times" series of compact andccessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musicaligures.;This title is about the life and work of American composer Georgeershwin (1898-1937). Gershwin was the brige between serious music and lightntertainment, the creator of "Rhapsody in Blue", "Porgy and Bess" and "Anmerican in Paris". The book evokes the pace and colour of New York in the920s and 1930s and places Gershwin at the centre of the Jazz Age. His riserom a talented son of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's Lower Eastide to his unassailable position as the leading composer of his time makesershwin the embodiment of the American dream.

Table of Contents

Dedication Prelude: Our Love Is Here To Stay Looking for a Boy 1898-1914

Soon 1914-1917

Bidin' My Time 1917-1920

Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? 1920-1923

Rhapsody in Blue 1923-1925

Concerto in F 1925-1928

An American in Paris 1928-1929

Strike Up the Band 1929-1933

I Loves You, Porgy 1933-1935

Shall We Dance? 1935-1937

But Not For Me 1937

Chronology Major Works Picture Sources

Selected Songs

Index

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