The name George Gershwin is a magical one. It conjures up the Twenties, Broadway glitter, beauty and extravagance. Begin humming a Gershwin tune anywhere from Boston to Bangkok and someone will finish it for you: Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, Lady Be Good, An American in Paris, to name a few. Called “Mr. Music” by his contemporaries, Gershwin (1898–1937) was a musical genius whose life epitomizes the American success story. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised on the Lower East Side and never finished high school, yet grew up to become rich, famous, and the intimate of celebrities. Although George Gershwin's life was cut short by illness over sixty years ago, he is probably better known today than ever before. And yet too often he is the subject more of popular invention than of truth. In Gershwin: His Life and Music, author Charles Schwartz attempts to redress this imbalance by separating fact from myth. The result is an extraordinarily fascinating and honest account of the man who created such beauty that he became a legend in his own time.
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- George Gershwin: A New Biography by William G. Hyland on 5 pages
- A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song by Jeffrey Melnick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Life and Times of George Gershwin (Masters of Music) by Jim Whiting on page 34, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by David Schiff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Masterworks of 20th-Century Music: The Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra by Douglas Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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