| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) |
| Series |
Readers on American musicians |
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Readers on American musicians.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, John Andrew
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Wyatt, Robert, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0199851247 |
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9780199851249 |
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