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George Gershwin
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Composer (Music Score), Featured Music, From Musical by, Songwriter Born: September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: July 11, 1937 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Gershwin himself appears in "The King of Jazz" (1930) playing his world-renown Rhapsody in Blue (and, for some unfathomable reason, uncredited), and in archive footage in the television miniseries New York: A Documentary Film (1999). The ever popular and variously interpreted and orchestrated Rhapsody in Blue also occurs in Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors (1928), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945), the TV miniseries "Jazz" (2001), and an exquisite animated sequence in "Fantasia 2000" (1999). The signature clarinet glissando has been used to open countless city scenes and to suggest contemporaneity.
The composer's famed opera Porgy and Bess, a brilliant synthesis of Tin Pan Alley lyricism, Impressionist opera, harmonies, blues, and gospel influences, has received several productions: in a sketchy but very effective 1959 dramatization directed by "Otto Preminger" with an all-star cast including "Sidney... Full Biography
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