Gershwin - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor Edward Jablonski is the author of The Gershwin Years: George and Ira (with Lawrence D. Stewart?available from Da Capo/ Perseus Books Group), Arlen: Happy with the Blues, Alan Jay Lerner , and many others. He lives in New York City. Klappentext Enriched with excerpts and insights from personal correspondence and interviews--plus lively anecdotes and rare, never-before-published photographs--this fascinating portrait brings us closer to the real persona of George Gershwin than ever before. 81 black-and-white photographs. Zusammenfassung This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life?from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall?of George Gershwin (1898?1937), a man whose music ( Lady Be Good, Of Thee I Sing, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess ) and career?like F. Scott Fitzgerald's?embodied the glamorous success and lost possibilities of the Jazz Age. Inhaltsverzeichnis * The New American Gershvins * From Tin Pan Alley... * ...to Broadway * 1924 * Modern Romantic * Interlude and Preludes * Hits and Misses * Americans in Paris * Transition: Broadway to Hollywood * Manhattan Rhapsody * Song Book * Porgy and Bess * The Goldwyn Coast * Epilogue: The Myths of Ira Gershwin * Compositions by George and Ira Gershwin

Product details

• Authors: Edward Jablonski, Jablonski Edward
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780306808470
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80847-0
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Biography: arts & entertainment, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Light Orchestral & Big Band Music