George Gershwin
Born September 26, 1898 (Brooklyn, New York)Died July 11, 1937 (Hollywood, California)
Composer and pianist
George Gershwin was one of the best-known and most important figures in the ...
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American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) was eminently successful in popular music, as well as in the classical field with several concert works and an opera that have become standards in the con...
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George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898, in a hospital on 242 Snedliker Ave, Brooklyn, NY. Both his parents were born in Vilna, Russia, and they immigrated to New York in 1891. His parents ...
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(Reuters) - Jazz great Oscar Peterson died Sunday
of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He
was 82. Here are some of the pianist's albums. * "Evening with Oscar Peterson" (19...
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Today is Wednesday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2006. There are 18 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 13, 1862, Union forces suffered a major defeat to the Confederates at the...
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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 10, 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.On this...
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Today is Monday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 3, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard p...
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Tommy Tune will return to musical theater, directing "Turn of the Century," a world premiere that will be part of an ambitious 2008-2009 season at Chicago's Goodman Theatre."The show is an original...
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If Wilfrid Sheed’s new book (see review page C18) rings your bell, here’s another, oddly similar title also out this month: Stefan Kanfer’s The Vo...
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at Makor brought another demurral, on points large and small, from Triangle author Katharine Weber:
I did not say "cramped," but crammed.
My mother being raised in a Protestant identity bubble
...
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THE HOUSE THAT GEORGE BUILT: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM IRVING, COLE, AND A CREW OF ABOUT FIFTY By Wilfrid Sheed Random House, 335 pages, $29.95
“What comes first, the words or the music?̶...
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“When I rehearse with my boys, I say, ‘You’ve got to know the lyrics.’ Even if they don’t sing, they’ve got to know what it means [to be] in the still of the nig...
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Gershwin, George
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
FACTBOX-Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson dies
