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1 online resource (240). |
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| Series |
Music in American life
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Music in American life.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- One: From Street Kid to Wunderkind -- Two: Falling in Love With Kay -- Three: A Piano Concerto -- Four: Ira Takes a Wife -- Five: Porgy -- Six: Paris -- Seven: "That Long Drip of Human Tears" -- Eight: The Losing Streak Begins -- Nine: "Something Big" -- Ten: "Don't Make It Too Good, George!" -- Eleven: Kay, Jimmy, and Fdr -- Twelve: The Heart of American Music -- Thirteen: Kay'S Divorce -- Fourteen: Todd Duncan -- Fifteen: Casting, Rehearsals, and An Omen -- Sixteen: The Critics Have Their Say -- Seventeen: Limbo -- Eighteen: Hollywood Beckons -- Nineteen: Pleasure Island -- Twenty: Final Concert, Final Affair -- Twenty-One: Last Songs -- Twenty-Two: Epilogue -- Author'S Note -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.
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Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. |
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic resource.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Rimler, Walter. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rimler, Walter. George Gershwin. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009 9780252034442 (DLC) 2008047508 |
| ISBN |
1283028972 |
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9781283028974 |
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9780252093692 (electronic book) |
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0252093690 (electronic book) |
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9780252034442 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0252034449 |
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