Though Gershwin died at the early age of 37, many of his songs and compositions remain among the most beloved in America's songbook. The cap and barrel of the George Gershwin Donation Pen are made ...
Trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann and his piccolo trumpet are featured in the new arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue," ...
Is there anyone, from the most sophisticated to the musically illiterate, who doesn’t get a kick out of Gershwin? No composer has done more ... but it was Jacob (later George) who took to it like a ...
The concert embraced extreme timeliness with a double bill of musical satires about presidential elections with music and ...
Growing up in New York City, George Gershwin’s musical gift became clear when he began to play a piano that had been bought for his older brother, Ira. He never looked back. Gershwin became ...
A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and ...
In fact, several of them fully warrant attention, particularly the triptych of political satires Gershwin cooked up with his ...
Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera present "Of Thee I Sing" and "Let ‘Em Eat Cake," two 1930s satires on ...
And as Judith Tick lays out in her deeply researched new biography “Becoming Ella ... Lady Be Good,” written by George ...
The show makes its Cleveland debut at Playhouse Square. It takes the audience “on a journey through the George and Ira Gershwin songbook while recreating the opulent era of big bands ...
Why is he a Trailblazer? In 1924 jazz and blues burst into the world of the classical orchestra thanks to trailblazer George Gershwin, who composed music full of the energy and playfulness of New ...