Remembering the Music of Gershwin

Title: Remembering the Music of Gershwin
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Remembering the Music of Gershwin

Remembering the Music of George Gershwin Who was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that’s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920's. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, …showed first 75 words of 2456 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2456 total…A Journey to Greatness. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. George Gershwin Remembered. Dir. Peter Adam. Writer Peter Adam. Commentary Clarke Peters. BBC TV, 1987. Gojowy, Detlef. “George Gershwin.” New Grove Encyclopedia of Music. 1980. Peyser, Joan. The Memory of All That. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Rowley, Eric. George Gershwin “The Early Years.” 1997. (17 March 1998). Schwartz, Charles. Gershwin: His Life and Music. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1973. Smith, Tony. “Music History: George Gershwin.” Northwestern State University. Natchitoches, April 1997.

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