Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s composer, 25-year-old George Gershwin—already lauded for his impressive output of jazz gems—was celebrated hither and yon. No less than ...

The Washington National Opera’s stirring revival of George Gershwin's classic highlights the power of community and voice.

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A jazz musician considers the legacy and unfulfilled promise of George Gershwin’s catchy — or you could say corny — repertory staple. George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody ...

"La, La, Lucille," based on the book by Fred Jackson, was George Gershwin's first complete score, written when he was just 21 years old. The production opened on Broadway in May 1919 and toured ...

Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at ...

Until George Gershwin, serious American orchestral composers were predominantly influenced by the European schools of music but, by composing original musical works based upon the rhythms ...

George Gershwin meanwhile, precocious in everything—he was able to play piano before he had had a lesson—left school at 15 to work plugging vaudeville songs for a music publisher ...

Most of his best-known songs were written with his younger brother, the pianist and composer George Gershwin. But Ira also wrote with Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Kurt Weill. My guest ...

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 ...