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Gershwin: His Life And Music - Softcover

Schwartz, Charles

 
9780306800962: Gershwin: His Life And Music
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0306800969 ISBN 13: 9780306800962
Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

The name George Gershwin is a magical one. It conjures up the Twenties, Broadway glitter, beauty and extravagance. Begin humming a Gershwin tune anywhere from Boston to Bangkok and someone will finish it for you: Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, Lady Be Good, An American in Paris , to name a few. Called “Mr. Music” by his contemporaries, Gershwin (1898–1937) was a musical genius whose life epitomizes the American success story. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised on the Lower East Side and never finished high school, yet grew up to become rich, famous, and the intimate of celebrities. Although George Gershwin's life was cut short by illness over sixty years ago, he is probably better known today than ever before. And yet too often he is the subject more of popular invention than of truth. In Gershwin: His Life and Music , author Charles Schwartz attempts to redress this imbalance by separating fact from myth. The result is an extraordinarily fascinating and honest account of the man who created such beauty that he became a legend in his own time.

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Verlag
Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1979
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0306800969
ISBN 13 
9780306800962
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
442
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