Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at Florida ...
At the age of 21 he got a huge break. The popular singing star Al Jolson heard one of Gershwin's original tunes, Swanee," and fell in love with it. Jolson put it in his show Sinbad (and, lucky for ...
He cut more than 100 piano rolls of his own and other people's music. Here are two of Gerwshin's songs from those early piano rolls: "Swanee" and "When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em." ...
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