| Contents |
To George Gershwin / Oscar Hammerstein II -- George Gershwin and his time / Merle Armitage -- My brother / Ira Gershwin -- George and the rhapsody / Paul Whiteman -- George Gershwin's influence / Ferde Grofe -- George Gershwin as orchestrator / William Daly -- Gershwin and the Concerto in F / Walter Damrosch -- Porgy and Bess return on wings of song / DuBose Heyward -- Porgy and Bess and Gershwin / Alexander Steinert -- I remember / Rouben Mamoulian -- Memoirs of George Gershwin / Todd Duncan -- Emancipator of American idioms / J. Rosamond Johnson -- Rhapsody in Catfish Row / George Gershwin -- Poem / Irving Berlin -- Portraits -- George Gershwin / Arnold Schoenberg -- Gershwin and Schoenberg / Louis Danz -- Tennis game / Albert Heink Sendrey -- Man and musician / Serge Koussevitzky -- The foremost American composer / George Antheil -- Tribute / Jerome Kern -- The composer's friend / Harold Arlen -- The George I knew / Leonard Liebling -- George Gershwin and American youth / Otto H. Kahn -- The Gershwin case / Gilbert Seldes -- Troubadour's tribute / Rudy Vallee -- Painter and collector / Henry A. Botkin -- "I am a modern romantic" -- Paintings -- Homage to a friend / Isaac Goldberg -- Gershwin and golf / Sam H. Harris -- Gershwin and the social scene / Lester Donahue -- George Gershwin: a lament / Erma Taylor -- Personal appreciation / Eva Gauthier -- Farewell to George Gershwin / David Ewen -- Portrait / Isamu Noguchi -- Profile / S.N. Behrman -- Hail and farewell / Olin Downes -- The composer and the machine age / George Gershwin -- George Gershwin / Beverley Nichols -- Portrait in our time / Nanette Kutner. |
| Abstract |
One of the most valuable and elegant books about Gershwin. In planning the book's content, Merle Armitage had the brilliant idea of asking for essays from celebrities and to reprint, and thus preserve, a dozen earlier articles about the composer, most published during his lifetime. |
| General note | Originally published: New York : Longmans, Green & Co., 1938. With new introduction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes list of composer's works. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: page 250. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: George Gershwin. 1st Da Capo Press ed. New York : Da Capo Press, 1995 |
| LCCN | 94037445 |
| ISBN | 0306806150 |
| ISBN | 9780306806155 |
