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Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music
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Veröffentlichung: |
Juni 2020
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Genre: |
Musik |
ISBN: |
9780393358353 |
EAN-Code:
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9780393358353 |
Verlag: |
W. W. Norton & Company |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 208 mm / B 141 mm / D 45 mm |
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552 gr |
Seiten: |
640 |
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George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway where he fashioned his own brand of American music. He composed a run of musical comedies, with his brother Ira as lyricist, and several classical works while he became a favoured guest in New York social circles. His 1924 Rhapsody in Blue was an instant classic rooted in in his absorption of African American music. A decade later came Porgy and Bess, his magnum opus. The brothers left New York to write songs for Hollywood-but their work was cut short when George developed a brain tumour and died at thirty-eight.
Richard Crawford traces the arc of Gershwin's remarkable life, seamlessly blending colourful anecdotes with a discussion of Gershwin's unforgettable oeuvre.
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