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George Gershwin
A community portal about George Gershwin with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: George Gershwin was an American composer who wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother... [more]
A community portal about George Gershwin with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: George Gershwin was an American composer who wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother lyricist Ira Gershwin. Although his younger sister Frances was the first in the family to make money from the familial musical talents, she married young, and became a fashionable housewife, at which time she gave up her own singing and dance career--settling into painting, a hobby of George's. George Gershwin composed both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall. He also wrote popular songs with success.
"I'm proud to be a Jew on the stage," Hershey Felder says. The Canadian-born pianist/composer/actor/producer, who comes from a family of rabbis -- also performers -- achieved worldwide fame for his one-man show, George Gershwin Alone, in which, as Gershwin, he re-creates the Jewish-American c...
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There are so many interesting stories of real people in the world, that the biopic is one genre I'm always interested in keeping a close eye on. Not everyone's story is the same (even if there are certain formulaic elements to the genre) and there's so much that I don't know about so many differently people. It looks like we'll be learning more courtesy of DreamWorks as Variety reports they've picked up a screenplay written by Doug Wright...
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Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete songs Gershwin left unfinished at the time of his death in 1937. Wilson plans to finish and record at least two of the pieces on an album of Gershwin music he anticipates releasing next...
From theatermania.com
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- Brian Wilson to Complete and Record Unfinished George Gershwin Songs (associatedcontent.com)
- Brian Wilson to finish some George Gershwin songs (latimes.com)
- Brian Wilson Chosen To Finish Gershwin Songs (artsjournal.com)
Brian Wilson has been given the go-ahead to finish writing incomplete music by George Gershwin. The Beach Boys mainman will be given full access to the compositions by Gershwin's estate, and will release the music on a forthcoming album of Gershwin covers. Though the album has no fixed release date, it will come out on Walt Disney imprint Disney Pearl, whom Wilson has recently signed a deal with, reports The Wall Street Journal. Speaking about...
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- Brian Wilson Will Complete Unfinished Gershwin Compositions (rollingstone.com)
Wilson plans to finish and record at least two songs on an album of Gershwin music that could be released next year.
In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of "Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of "Rhapsody in Blue," former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin = 7009 to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left...
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