Schwartz biography on gershwin booker

          Charles Schwartz portrayed Daly as Gershwin's very opposite, as “the Harvard gentleman: circumspect, leisurely in gait, spectacled and shy, tall and lanky.!

          George Gershwin is one of the Twentieth Century’s most revered composers.

          The first lyricist to win the Pulitzer Prize, Ira Gershwin () has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook, a period which.

        1. The first lyricist to win the Pulitzer Prize, Ira Gershwin () has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook, a period which.
        2. Includes "George Gershwin's Piano Rollography," comp.
        3. Charles Schwartz portrayed Daly as Gershwin's very opposite, as “the Harvard gentleman: circumspect, leisurely in gait, spectacled and shy, tall and lanky.
        4. The memory of all that: the life of George Gershwin.
        5. Schwartz, Phil.

          6. Despite his premature death at 38 his output is outstanding. By 1913 he was working as a pianist and became a staff composer for a publishing firm in 1917. His first hit was “Swanee” (1918) which became a huge success for Al Jolson when it was added to the show Sinbad in 1919.

          There were many “firsts” for Gershwin: the first to combine serious and popular music in his jazz concerto, “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924); the first to score a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Of Thee I Sing (1931), which was one of the Gershwin brothers’ “serious” musicals employing social satire; and the first to write an American opera, Porgy and Bess (1935), further distinguished by its all-black cast, its roots in African culture, and hits such as “Summertime.” In 1926 his “Clap Yo’ Hands” encouraged other composers to create feel-good religious songs in their musicals, and “American in Paris” (1928) stands alone as an orchestral