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On Stage and Screen [Disc 2] by George Gershwin released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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- Who Was George Gershwin?
- Early Life
- Early Career
- Songs: "Rhapsody in Blue"
- Death
George Gershwin dropped out of school and began playing piano professionally at age 15. Within a few years, he was one of the most sought after musicians in the United States. A composer of jazz, opera, and popular songs for stage and screen, many of his works are now standards. Gershwin died immediately following brain surgery on July 11, 1937, at...
Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Gershwin began his foray into music at age 11 when his family bought a secondhand piano for Gershwin’s older sibling, Ira. A natural talent, it was Gershwin who took it up and eventually sought out mentors who could enhance his abi...
After dropping out of school at age 15, Gershwin played in several New York nightclubs and began his stint as a “song-plugger” in New York’s Tin Pan Alley. After three years of pounding out tunes on the piano for demanding customers, he had transformed into a highly skilled and dexterous composer. To earn extra cash, he also worked as a rehearsal p...
From 1920 to 1924, Gershwin composed for an annual production put on by George White. After a show titled “Blue Monday,” the bandleader in the pit, Paul Whiteman, asked Gershwin to create a jazz number that would heighten the genre’s respectability. Legend has it that Gershwin forgot about the request until he read a newspaper article announcing th...
In the beginning of 1937, Gershwin began to experience troubling symptoms such as severe headaches and noticing strange smells. Doctors would eventually discover that he had developed a malignant brain tumor. On July 11, 1937, Gershwin died during surgery to remove the tumor. He was only 38. Gershwin continues to be one of America's most iconic com...
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Discover On Screen II: Shall We Dance by George Gershwin released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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George Gershwin: His Life and Work. on Disc, Film, and the Concert Stage. During the original Broadway run of , Gershwin prepared a five-movement orchestral suite, allegedly hoping in this way to salvage some of the music cut from the Theatre Guild production.