Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a b…
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a b…
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century A…
The dramatic story of a legendary American composer focusing on his private life through the use of fresh sources. From the Publisher: 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 a…
George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait
by Project Muse, Rimler, Walter
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
George Gershwin was celebrated as a musician, but in this biography, Walter Rimler argues that Gershwin was unable to make a place for himself. Without family & not able to focus on any single musical genre, Gershwin may have lived with 'gusto', but there was a deep melancholy i…