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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ira Gershwin's former penthouse is on the market for $5.19 million. Niall Schroder Ira and George Gershwin created beautiful music that defined the American Jazz Age — and for a time ...

"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 ...

Whiteman commissioned Gershwin to write “Rhapsody” sometime in late 1923. But as the story goes, the composer forgot about his assignment until he read about the upcoming concert in a ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - It’s been almost 100 years since the last recorded production of composer George Gershwin’s musical “La La Lucille.” After opening on Broadway in 1919 and touring for a few ...