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George Gershwin
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Author : Howard Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-01-15
George Gershwin written by Howard Pollack and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-15 with Music categories.
This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century and, along with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, helped make the golden age of Broadway golden. Howard Pollack draws from a wealth of sketches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, books, articles, recordings, films, and other materials—including a large cache of Gershwin scores discovered in a Warner Brothers warehouse in 1982—to create an expansive chronicle of Gershwin’s meteoric rise to fame. He also traces Gershwin’s powerful presence that, even today, extends from Broadway, jazz clubs, and film scores to symphony halls and opera houses. Pollack’s lively narrative describes Gershwin’s family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38. Unlike Kern, Berlin, and Porter, who mostly worked within the confines of Broadway and Hollywood, Gershwin actively sought to cross the boundaries between high and low, and wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music, jazz, and Broadway met and merged. The author surveys Gershwin’s entire oeuvre, from his first surviving compositions to the melodies that his brother and principal collaborator, Ira Gershwin, lyricized after his death. Pollack concludes with an exploration of the performances and critical reception of Gershwin's music over the years, from his time to ours.
George Gershwin
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Author : Rodney Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon
Release Date : 1998-04-23
George Gershwin written by Rodney Greenberg and has been published by Phaidon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This expert biography places Gershwin's music within the context of his frenetic lifestyle to show how a teenage song-plugger became internationally renowned in a career that spanned a mere two decades. It also brings home the realization that Gershwin's tragic death aged only 38 robbed us of untold musical treasures.
George Gershwin Man And Legend
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Author : Merle Armitage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
George Gershwin Man And Legend written by Merle Armitage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Music categories.
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The George Gershwin Reader
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Author : Robert Wyatt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007
The George Gershwin Reader written by Robert Wyatt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin.
George Gershwin
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Author : Larry Starr
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-14
George Gershwin written by Larry Starr and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Music categories.
In this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin’s Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer’s entire career. Starr presents Gershwin as a composer with a unified musical vision—a vision developed on Broadway and used as a source of strength in his well-known concert music. In turn, Gershwin’s concert-hall experience enriched and strengthened his musicals, leading eventually to his great “Broadway opera,” Porgy and Bess. Through the prism of three major shows—Lady Be Good (1924), Of Thee I Sing (1931), and Porgy and Bess (1935)—Starr highlights Gershwin’s distinctive contributions to the evolution of the Broadway musical. In addition, the author considers Gershwin’s musical language, his compositions for the concert hall, and his movie scores for Hollywood in the light of his Broadway experience.
George Gershwin His Life Music
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Author : Ean Wood
language : en
Publisher: Bobcat Books
Release Date : 2012-04-09
George Gershwin His Life Music written by Ean Wood and has been published by Bobcat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-09 with Music categories.
"In the summer of 1937 George Gershwin died suddenly from a brain tumour at the age of 38. His tragically early death stunned the world. A composer of classical and popular music, he had summed up the unique qualities of what is meant by ""American music"". This book sheds fresh light on the man and includes exclusive interviews with musicians who knew him, material from the Gershwin family archives and coverage of the composer's musical works in full."
The Gershwin Style
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Author : Wayne Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-21
The Gershwin Style written by Wayne Schneider and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-21 with Music categories.
Even as orchestras, performers, enthusiasts, and critics across the nation--and across the globe--celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, George Gershwin (1898-1937) remains one of America's most popular yet least appreciated composers. True, he is loved and revered for his wonderful popular songs, a few instrumental works, and the majestic opera Porgy and Bess. But most of his music is virtually unknown; hundreds of compositions, Broadway show tunes, and even several large and important instrumental works are gradually disappearing with the generations that first heard them. The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin is a bold new work that stands in opposition to this disappearance. It is also a fresh collection of essays that promises to make a key contribution to American music research. Editor Wayne Schneider has corralled some of the leading authorities of Gershwin's efforts--renowned experts and authors who have researched his music for years if not decades--and sets their work alongside articles by scholars who come to Gershwin for the first time from backgrounds in American music or popular music in general. The notable contributors include Wayne D. Shirley, Charles Hamm, Edward Jablonski, and Artis Wodehouse (who has transcribed nearly all of Gershwin's piano performances). No one who surveys the American musical landscape can doubt Gershwin's enduring popularity or profound influence, but his critical standing among today's serious music scholars is much less certain. As Schneider points out in his Introduction, there have been many biographies of Gershwin but comparatively few studies of his music in and of itself. Covering both the "popular" and "classical" extremes of Gershwin's output, as well as the many and subtle points in between, this book reevaluates the music of an American original from several enlightening perspectives. This is a book with much to offer any student or scholar of American music--while some essays explore new methods of measuring Gershwin's abilities as a composer, others draw on hitherto unavailable musical and archival sources to make arguments previously unthinkable. The essays gathered here, most of which were written especially for this volume, thus address a number of important research topics, among them biography, source studies, music analysis, performance practice, and questions of interpretation and reception. The contributions also reflect the wide diversity of contemporary thinking regarding the logic, legacy, and lure of Gershwin's music.
The Life And Times Of George Gershwin
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Author : Jim Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Release Date : 2019-12-05
The Life And Times Of George Gershwin written by Jim Whiting and has been published by Mitchell Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
George Gershwin couldn't seem to stay out of trouble when he was a boy. He was a tough kid who got in a lot of fights and frequently skipped school. When his family bought a piano, his life was transformed. He quickly mastered the instrument, and then dropped out of school when he was fifteen to become a musician. Within a year, he had sold his first song. When he was 20, he wrote his first big hit. Five years after that, Rhapsody in Blue catapulted him to international fame. With his brother Ira as lyricist, George went on to compose some of the most famous musicals of the twentieth century, and he wrote several movie scores.?
George Gershwin
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Author : Walter Rimler
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-02-16
George Gershwin written by Walter Rimler and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a home when he married Leonore Strunsky, a hard-edged woman who lived for wealth and status. The closest George came to domesticity was through his longtime relationship with Kay Swift. She was his lover, musical confidante, and fellow composer. But she remained married to another man while he went endlessly from woman to woman. Only in the final hours of his life, when they were separated by a continent, did he realize how much he needed her. Fatally ill, unprotected by (and perhaps estranged from) Ira, he was exiled by Leonore from the house she and the brothers shared, and he died horribly and alone at the age of thirty-eight. Nor was Gershwin able to find a satisfying musical harbor. For years his songwriting genius could be expressed only in the ephemeral world of show business, as his brilliance as a composer of large-scale works went unrecognized by highbrow music critics. When he resolved this quandary with his opera Porgy and Bess, the critics were unable to understand or validate it. Decades would pass before this, his most ambitious composition, was universally regarded as one of music's lasting treasures and before his stature as a great composer became secure. In George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh sources, including newly discovered letters by Kay Swift as well as correspondence between and interviews with intimates of Ira and Leonore Gershwin. It is written with spirited prose and contains more than two dozen photographs.
George Gershwin
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Author : Carin T. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-09-01
George Gershwin written by Carin T. Ford and has been published by Enslow Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
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