George Gershwin

Twentieth-century American musical theater and popular song were largely the result of a melding of two "outsider" influences--European Jewish and African American--and George Gershwin, the son of Russian immigrants who immersed himself in black culture, epitomized that cross-pollenization. Read More

Surely a candidate for 2009's most unexpected recording is this live concert performance of Gershwin's 'folk opera' Porgy and Bess, conducted by period-instrument pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Read More

There is no shortage of biographies of George Gershwin, most recently by William Hyland (2003) and Howard Pollack (2007). Read More