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George Gershwin : un portrait intime par Rimler, Walter-
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 9780252081293
- Book Title
- George Gershwin : an Intimate Portrait
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a home when he married Leonore Strunsky, a hard-edged woman who lived for wealth and status. The closest George came to domesticity was through his longtime relationship with Kay Swift. She was his lover, musical confidante, and fellow composer. But she remained married to another man while he went endlessly from woman to woman. Only in the final hours of his life, when they were separated by a continent, did he realize how much he needed her. Fatally ill, unprotected by (and perhaps estranged from) Ira, he was exiled by Leonore from the house she and the brothers shared, and he died horribly and alone at the age of thirty-eight. Nor was Gershwin able to find a satisfying musical harbor. For years his songwriting genius could be expressed only in the ephemeral world of show business, as his brilliance as a composer of large-scale works went unrecognized by highbrow music critics. When he resolved this quandary with his opera Porgy and Bess, the critics were unable to understand or validate it. Decades would pass before this, his most ambitious composition, was universally regarded as one of music's lasting treasures and before his stature as a great composer became secure. In George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh sources, including newly discovered letters by Kay Swift as well as correspondence between and interviews with intimates of Ira and Leonore Gershwin. It is written with spirited prose and contains more than two dozen photographs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252081293
ISBN-13
9780252081293
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220091953
Product Key Features
Book Title
George Gershwin : an Intimate Portrait
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Theater / Broadway & Musicals, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml410.G288r55 2015
Grade from
College Freshman
Reviews
"An engrossing, well-written look at Gershwin, the composer and the man, with emphasis on the man."-- Choice "Engagingly written, lavishly illustrated. . . . With this volume, we get a focused portrait of George Gershwin, a genius plagued by self-doubt and a wandering eye." Opera News, "Rimler shines in weaving together anecdotes, correspondence and a wealth of interviews with the composer and his contemporaries to create a vibrant, flesh-and-blood picture of the man and his music in a readable and enjoyable book."-- Jerusalem Post, "Engagingly written, lavishly illustrated. . . . With this volume, we get a focused portrait of George Gershwin, a genius plagued by self-doubt and a wandering eye."-- Opera News, "Compact in length and voluminous in its details, Walter Rimler's study of Gershwin is freighted with melancholy--an appropriate parallel with Gershwin's own life."--TLS, "An engrossing, well-written look at Gershwin, the composer and the man, with emphasis on the man."--"Choice" "Engagingly written, lavishly illustrated. . . . With this volume, we get a focused portrait of George Gershwin, a genius plagued by self-doubt and a wandering eye.""Opera News", "An engrossing, well-written look at Gershwin, the composer and the man, with emphasis on the man."-- Choice, "A hugely enjoyable read, this neat, polished package is a skillful condensation of the vast literature on Gershwin but also offers a new critical angle on the composer's achievement."--Stephen Banfield, author of Jerome Kern, "For those of us interested less in the technical details of Gershwin's music and its performance than in the comet called George Gershwin that blazed briefly across American skies, Mr. Rimler is the astronomer of choice."-- Wall Street Journal, "A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself might have written. Rimler gives us a fuller, more complex, more humorous, and more vulnerable picture of Gershwin than has yet appeared in print."--Philip Furia, coauthor of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists, "For those of us interested less in the technical details of Gershwin's music and its performance than in the comet called George Gershwin that blazed briefly across American skies, Mr. Rimler is the astronomer of choice."--Wall Street Journal "Rimler shines in weaving together anecdotes, correspondence and a wealth of interviews with the composer and his contemporaries to create a vibrant, flesh-and-blood picture of the man and his music in a readable and enjoyable book."--Jerusalem Post "An engrossing, well-written look at Gershwin, the composer and the man, with emphasis on the man."--Choice "Engagingly written, lavishly illustrated. . . . With this volume, we get a focused portrait of George Gershwin, a genius plagued by self-doubt and a wandering eye."--Opera News "A dynamic, fast-paced biography of George Gershwin that has the verve and staccato drive of a book the composer himself might have written. Rimler gives us a fuller, more complex, more humorous, and more vulnerable picture of Gershwin than has yet appeared in print."--Philip Furia, coauthor of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists "A hugely enjoyable read, this neat, polished package is a skillful condensation of the vast literature on Gershwin but also offers a new critical angle on the composer's achievement."--Stephen Banfield, author of Jerome Kern
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
780.92 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Music in American Life Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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