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Author Rimler, Walter

Title George Gershwin : an intimate portrait / Walter Rimler
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Contents From street kid to Wunderkind -- Falling in love with Kay -- A piano concerto -- Ira takes a wife -- Porgy -- Paris -- "That long drip of human tears" -- The losing streak begins -- "Something big" -- "Don't make it too good, George!" -- Kay, Jimmy, and FDR -- The heart of American music -- Kay's divorce -- Todd Duncan -- Casting, rehearsals, and an omen -- The critics have their say -- Limbo -- Hollywood beckons -- Pleasure Island -- Final concert, final affair -- Last songs -- Epilogue
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.
SUBJECT Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 fast
Subject Composers -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Composers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019716488
ISBN 9780252093692
0252093690
1283028972
9781283028974