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This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the...

A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself...

In this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin’s...

It's 1924, and with just a few weeks' notice, George Gershwin has been asked to compose a new concerto that...

Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing...

In 1930, George Gershwin composed the score to his extravagant Broadway musical Girl Crazy. The show's hit song was immediately...

In 1935 George Gershwin continued the melding of theatrical classical and jazz idioms he began with Rhapsody...

Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy...

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here...

"Amadeus." "Yankee Doodle Dandy." "Swanee River." "Rhapsody in Blue." Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatized the lives of composers....

The first biography of a composer who broke the gender barrier on Broadway. Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the...

Uncovering the Paris that charmed Thomas Jefferson in the 18th century and George Gershwin in the 20th, this guide—written by...

The definitive edition of the letters-many previously unpublished-of England's greatest comic writer.P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic...

This new edition of Swain's classic award-winning text reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict...

Those who have lived - not just witnessed - the efflorescence of a pivotal culture moment never see the world...

While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she...