A selection of some of the most well known and loved songs from the astonishing career of George and Ira Gershwin, including the addictive syncopations of I Got Rhythm and the hilarious Let's Call. Titles: Swanee * Do It Again * (I'll Build A) Stairway to Paradise * Somebody Loves Me * The Man I Love * Oh, Lady, Be Good! * Fascinating Rhythm * That Certain Feeling * Do, Do, Do * Someone to Watch Over Me * 'S Wonderful * How Long Has This Been Going On? * Liza * But Not for Me * Embraceable You * Bidin' My Time * I Got Rhythm * Summertime * It Ain't Necessarily So * Bess, You Is My Woman * I Go... [Read More]
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―t... [Read More]
Vinyl LP repressing of this classic 1959 album from pianist and conductor Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic. Recorded in June 1959 ('Rhapsody in Blue') and December 1958 ('An American in Paris') at St George Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, by Fred Plaut and Frank Bruno. Produced by John McClure.
George Gershwin lived his life with delight and vitality, 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. The closest George came to domesticity was his long time affair with fellow composer Kay Swift. But she remained married to another man while he went from woman to woman. Only in the final hours of his life did he realize how much he needed her. Fatally ill, unprotected by (and perhaps estranged from) his older brother ... [Read More]
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