| Series |
Da Capo paperback
Da Capo paperback. ^A910346
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| Contents |
Family background -- Boyhood years -- The young professional -- Onward and upward -- Jazz and the concert hall -- Success personified -- The perennial troubadour -- Collector and painter -- European holiday -- The American "Frenchman" -- On the podium -- "Ladies' man" -- Hollywood muse -- Latin from Manhattan -- In analysis -- Porgy and Bess -- Final curtain -- Appendix I. Some further remarks about Gershwin's music -- Appendix III. Films based on Gerswhin works. |
| Abstract |
The name George Gershwin is a magical one. It conjures up the Twenties, Broadway glitter, beauty and extravagance. Begin humming a Gershwin tune anywhere from Boston to Bangkok and someone will finish it for you: Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, Lady Be Good, An American in Paris, to name a few. Called "Mr. Music" by his contemporaries, Gershwin (1898-1937) was a musical genius whose life epitomizes the American success story. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised on the Lower East Side and never finished high school, yet grew up to become rich, famous, and the intimate of celebrities. Although George Gershwin's life was cut short by illness over sixty years ago, he is probably better known today than ever before. And yet too often he is the subject more of popular invention than of truth. In this book, the author attempts to redress this imbalance by separating fact from myth. The result is an extraordinarily fascinating and honest account of the man who created such beauty that he became a legend in his own time. |
| General note | Reprint of the edition published by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis. |
| Bibliography note | "Compositions by George Gershwin": pages 335-349. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-393), discography (pages 354-355), and index. |
| LCCN | 78020838 |
| ISBN | 0306800969 : |
