According to these authorities, Ira, George’s lyricist brother, was the only Gershwin to have a bar mitzvah, the family virtually never attended synagogue, and the Gershwin family never observed ...

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898 ... Shortly after the Paley party, George was back in his workroom at his family apartment on 110th Street and was playing other sections of his ...

George Gershwin had just been born when his parents ... George showed more musical zeal, soon became the family pianist. In those days you could get a teacher for 50¢. George had two years ...

Brother George Gershwin was so inventive, so quick, that for quite some time Ira simply could not keep up, failing to find enough words, or the right words, to do justice to the music of the family ...

“Gershwin’s legacy is primarily a result ... deep affection for his brother Ira who often deferred to George as the genius of the family. Consequently, Ira’s genius has been very much ...

Todd Gershwin, George's great nephew and a trustee of the George Gershwin family trusts, said: "George for his time was a visionary. He certainly crossed genres and musical lines, tried things ...

One of many entered this year is Rhapsody in Blue (Harms, Inc. 1924), by George Gershwin--an incredibly groundbreaking work for its time, based on its merging of jazz and classical. The composition ...

"George Gershwin and Modern Art ... the Vatican and the Library of Congress — as well as loans from Gershwin family descendants," said Tim Hausler, Artis―Naples' communication manager ...

George Gershwin, a little-known musician at the time ... says that Eva was instrumental in Gershwin being discovered. According to family legend, Éva first met Gershwin by accident, while ...

“This has been a 10-year project and will probably be going for 30 years. They are restoring all of George Gershwin’s music back to the way he originally wrote it, without editors getting ...