The George Gershwin reader /

A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnson, John Andrew, Wyatt, Robert, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Readers on American musicians.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • In person, my brother was a good deal like his music / Ira Gershwin
  • George Gershwin was my brother / Frances Gershwin Godowsky
  • Did you ever feel that a composer resembled his music? / Kay Swift
  • Variations on a Gershwin theme / Oscar Levant
  • George Gershwin through the eyes of a friend / Verna Arvey
  • Gershwin Bros.
  • Childhood of a composer / Isaac Goldberg
  • Letter to Max Abramson / George Gershwin
  • Pianist, playing role of Columbus, makes another American discovery : Beryl Rubinstein says this country possesses genius composer / Dolly Dalrymple
  • Letter to Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin
  • Whiteman judges named : committee will decide 'what is American music'
  • An experiment / Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBride
  • A concert of jazz / Olin Downes
  • Letter to George Gershwin / Carl van Vechten
  • The Gershwins in Britain / James Ross Moore
  • Which came first? / Ira Gershwin
  • Lady, be good! / Philip Furia
  • Letter to Lou and Emily Paley / Ira Gershwin
  • That certain feeling / Alec Wilder
  • George Gershwin, an American composer who is writing notable music in the jazz idiom / Carl van Vechten
  • New York Symphony at Carnegie Hall / Samuel Chotzinoff
  • Mr. George Gershwin plays his new jazz concerto / Lawrence Gilman
  • Paul Whiteman gives 'vivid' grand opera; jazz rhythms of Gershwin's '135th Street'
  • Our new national anthem ; Jazz is the voice of the American soul ; Does jazz belong to art? ; Mr. Gershwin replies to Mr. Kramer / George Gershwin
  • The ewe lamb of widow jazz / Abbe Niles
  • D'Alvarez-Gershwin recital / Carleton Sprague Smith
  • Someone to watch over me / Allen Forte
  • George Gershwin accepts 100,000 Movietone offer : Fox to pay that sum for film version of musical comedy; composer gets bid of 50,000 for Rhapsody in blue rights
  • Letter to Mabel Schirmer / George Gershwin
  • An American in Paris : narrative guide / Deems Taylor
  • Gershwin's new score acclaimed / Olin Downes
  • Fifty years of American music : younger composers, freed from European influences, labor toward achieving a distinctive American musical idiom ; The composer in the machine age / George Gershwin
  • Jazz, the critics, and American art music in the 1920's / Mary Herron Dupree
  • Making music / George Gershwin
  • Satire to music / Robert Benchley
  • George Gershwin / John Harkins
  • Of thee I sing, Kaufman-Ryskind musical comedy satire at the Music Box / Arthur Ruhl
  • A music master talks of his trials
  • From William Grant Still : a study in contradictions / Catherine Parsons Smith
  • George Gershwin's 'I got rhythm' / Richard Crawford
  • The Gershwin myth / Allan Lincoln Langley
  • George Gershwin as orchestrator / William Daly
  • George Gershwin plays his second rhapsody for the first time here with Koussevitsky and Boston orchestra / Olin Downes
  • Letter to Rose Gershwin / George Gershwin
  • George the ingenuous / Alexander Woollcott
  • Letter to Emily Paley ; Letter to Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin
  • The future of Gershwin / Frederick Jacobi
  • From "America's folk opera" / Joseph Swain
  • Selected correspondence / George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward
  • George Gershwin arrives to plan opera on Porgy
  • Porgy and Bess, native opera, opens at the Alvin : Gershwin's work based on Dubose Heyward's play / Brooks Atkinson and Olin Downes
  • Rhapsody in Catfish Row : Mr. Gershwin tells the origin and scheme for his music in that new folk opera called 'Porgy and Bess' / George Gershwin
  • From an interview by Robert Wyatt / Todd Duncan
  • From an interview by Robert Wyatt / Anne Brown
  • Hollywood : an ending / Edith Carson
  • Gershwin analyzes science of rhythm / Isabel Morse Jones
  • Radio pays a debt / Nanette Kutner
  • A foggy day / Alec Wilder
  • Letters to Zenna Hannenfeldt ; Letters to Mabel Schirmer ; Letter to Emily Paley ; Letter to Henry Botkin ; Letter to Rose Gershwin ; Letter to Rose Gershwin / George Gershwin
  • Letter to Irene Gallagher / George A. Pallay
  • Report in Variety
  • George Gershwin / Arnold Schoenberg
  • Hail and farewell : career and position of George Gershwin in American music / Olin Downes
  • Poem / Irving Berlin
  • Tribute / Jerome Kern
  • Gershwin left $341,089 estate to his mother; 'Rhapsody in blue' appraised at 'greatest value' and opera rights of 'nominal interest' to the residue
  • Letter to Rose Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
  • Music by slide rule
  • Gershwin on Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
  • Gershwin, Schillinger, and Dukelsky : some reminiscences / Vernon Duke
  • Why don't you run upstairs and write a nice Gershwin tune? / Leonard Bernstein
  • George Gershwin / Duke Ellington
  • George Gershwin : yes, the sounds as well as the tunes are his / Wayne Shirley.