Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Schwartz, Charles

Gershwin: His Life and Music / Charles Schwartz - New York Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1973 - 428 p.

"Compositions by George Gershwin": pages 335-352.

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 --
The final curtain.

A penetrating portrait of the celebrated American composer that traces his creative development against a background of his personal relationships.





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Gershwin, George 1898-1937


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