The George Gershwin reader /
A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Readers on American musicians.
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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.