It’s hard to read a biography of George Gershwin, who died at 38, without feeling a sense of loss. But rather than bemoan the composer’s premature passing, Richard Crawford, a musicologist and ...

For me, post-mortem what-ifs are usually a waste of time. But long before Howard Pollack quotes Sir Michael Tippett and Sergei Prokofiev in his impressive new biography of George Gershwin, I'm ...

In this book William Hyland's reexamines Gershwin's personality and music. He illustrates how the composer's craftsmanship was criticized and his music was relegated to the status of "lowbrow" for ...

American composer George Gershwin died at age 38 after surgery for a brain tumor. But his short life was long enough for him to make some of the most important and memorable compositions in popular ...

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known ...

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 ...