George Gershwin
Title: George Gershwin
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1239 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
George Gershwin
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1239 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
SIMULTANEOUS EAST AND WEST-COAST funerals took place on a muggy July afternoon in 1937. Politicians, artists, entertainers, and musicians gathered to mourn what was perhaps the greatest blow to American music in history: the unexpected and untimely death of George Gershwin at 38.
Whether or not Gershwin was the greatest American composer will always be debated, but, beyond doubt, he was a most quintessential American composer. An unlikely musical genius, he was a high-school dropout who, by
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the keyboard at a party in the late 20s, George was heard to remark, "I wonder if my music will be around in a hundred years." From the crowd came a shout, "Only if you're around to play it, George!" Fortunately, that voice was wrong.
Works Cited
1. Jablonski, Edward, and Lawrence D. Stewart. The Gershwin Years: George and Ira. Da Capo: 1996
2. Jablonski, Edward. Gershwin Remembered. Amadeus: 1992
3. Schwartz, Charles. Gershwin: His Life and Music. Da Capo: 1988