On January 26, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the UM Gershwin Initiative presented a centennial concert of works by George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira ...
Lost sheet music from George Gershwin’s first full-length musical has resurfaced nearly a century after it was last performed. Jacob Kerzner, a researcher and musician at the University of Michigan, ...
Willie Nelson is set to release a new collection of songs penned by George and Ira Gershwin. The album, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, features well-known hits by the legendary duo, as well ...
The movie Rhapsody in Blue, a biography of George Gershwin, was released only eight years after his death from a brain tumor at the age of 38. It's a good subject: Gershwin wrote some of the best ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images I’ve spent nearly two ...
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...
In 1949, pianist Oscar Levant released an LP of the most famous extended work for piano and orchestra ever penned by an American composer: George Gershwin’s Concerto in F (1925). The piece looms large ...
Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier head a superlative ensemble in this streamlined reinterpretation for Broadway of the 1935 Gershwin folk opera. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic This is ...
The contents of a box Kerzner uncovered at Amherst College ultimately contained George Gershwin's lost musical. (photo by Jacob Kerzner, courtesy University of Michigan Communications) It’s been just ...
Willie Nelson was the first country artist to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize in 2015, a prestigious honor he shares opposite such names as Paul McCartney and Carole King for his ...
The Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 W. 44th St. (212) 307-4100. THE novelist John O’Hara once wrote: “George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.” Unfortunately, ...
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