Gershwin

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• A life-long penciller of rippling muscles and bosomy babes, he casually refers to Hamlet, Irving Berlin and Ira Gershwin as he describes a life's work in what is often seen as a trashy business.
• Firstly, I apologise to Ira Gershwin for mangling his lyrics to create the title of this article!
• Several weekends ago on Governors Island, well over a thousand people were dancing to a 12-piece orchestra that played mostly foxtrots, shifting from red-hot stomps by Fletcher Henderson to smooth two-beat show tunes by George Gershwin. A Retro Jazz Movement With a Good Dance Beat
• Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall
• His instruments were piano and cello and he loved to play Gershwin. Times, Sunday Times
• This blog must be David Gershwin's, as no self-respected 4th floorer would even know about this National League of Cities event unless they were inside the 7th CD offices. Alger for CD12?
• This canvas, in which Mr. Gershwin 's admiration for the bold-brushed style of Chaim Soutine is plain to see, is no less noteworthy for the way in which it hints at the complexity of the artist' s personality. Unforgettable in More Than One Way
• Weill's brief overture is wonderfully astringent and dissonant, the precise opposite of the florid, creamy style of the composer often regarded as his chief competitor, George Gershwin.
• These virtuoso transcriptions of Gershwin songs should hold no terrors for lovers of romantic repertoire, though the writing is full of subtle underminings.
• Songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s represent collaboration with lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II, Ira Gershwin and others.