| Description |
xx, 140 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
"The works of George Gershwin": pages 129-132. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- La la Lucille : a lively and amusing farce comedy set to music / Burns Mantle -- La la Lucille, new broad farce is well played -- A dancer's review : George White's scandals of 1922 / Alexander Woollcott -- A rhapsody in blue / Gilbert Seldes -- A concert of jazz / Olin Downes -- An experiment / Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBride -- The Astaires, Catlett and Gershwin all win / Frank Vreeland -- An American composer who is writing notable music in the jazz idiom / Carl Van Vechten -- Our new national anthem / George Gershwin -- A jazz concerto -- And what he wrote / Henry O. Osgood -- Mr. Gershwin's latest / Alexander Woollcott -- Does jazz belong to art? ; Mr. Gershwin replies to Mr. Kramer / George Gershwin -- Dale finds much good in Oh, Kay! / Alan Dale -- Gershwin and musical snobbery / Charles L. Buchanan -- Jazz is the voice of the American soul / George Gershwin -- Gershwin and Fred Astaire / Alexander Woollcott -- George Gershwin, or, A drunken Schubert / Beverley Nichols -- George Gershwin and jazz / George Newell -- Gershwin presents a new work / Hyman Sandrow -- An American in Paris : narrative guide / Deems Taylor -- George Gershwin and American youth : an appreciation / Otto Kahn -- Troubadour / S.N. Behrman -- War with the Swiss / Robert Littel -- George Gershwin and jazz : a critical analysis of a modern composer / Isaac Goldberg -- Some things about a young composer / Arthur Kober -- Making music / George Gershwin -- Girl crazy makes hit as diverting new show / William Boehnel -- Words and music / Ira Gershwin -- The composer in the machine age / George Gershwin - American operetta comes of age : Of thee I sing and its merry makers / Isaac Goldberg -- Of thee I sing delights a crowded house at the Majestic -- George Gershwin plays his Second rhapsody for first time here / Olin Downes -- Gebrüder Gershwin / Isaac Goldberg -- The relation of jazz to American music / George Gershwin -- Let 'em eat cake surpasses as sequel / Whitney Bolton -- A composer's pictures -- Porgy and Bess return on wings of song / DuBose Heyward -- Porgy and Bess, native opera, opens at the Alvin / Brooks Atkinson and Olin Downes -- Rhapsody in Catfish Row / George Gershwin -- Gershwin's Porgy and Bess hailed in New York / A. Walter Kramer -- Rhapsody in black / Marcia Davenport and Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick -- Shall we dance : Astaire, Rogers, and the Gershwins -- Epilogue : The last films--George Gershwin : in memoriam. |
| Subject |
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Suriano, Gregory R., 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gershwin in his time. New York : Gramercy Books, 1998 (OCoLC)644061467 |
| ISBN |
0517201984 |
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9780517201985 |
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