George Gershwin
Biography
moreBorn
9/26/1898, Brooklyn, New York, USADied
7/11/1937Birth Name
Jacob GershowitzGender
MaleCredits
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Guest Star (1)
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Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song
Himself (Archive)
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From Russia with Love
3/17/01
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Ep 1
From Russia with Love
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Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song
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Music (3)
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The Jazz Age
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Ep 14
Tip-Toes
12/10/68
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Tip-Toes
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The Bell Telephone Hour
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Max Liebman Presents
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Ep 9
The Music of Gershwin
5/12/56
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S 2:
Ep 9
The Music of Gershwin
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The Jazz Age
Trivia and Quotes
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Trivia
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George first began to take piano lessons in 1910 after his parents bought a piano for his brother Ira.
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George reportedly dated Paulette Goddard whilst she was still married to Charlie Chaplin.
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George worked as a cigar salesman before becoming a composer.
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Quotes
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George: There is only one important thing in music and that is ideas and feelings. The various tonalities and sounds mean nothing unless they grow out of ideas. Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. Whoever has inspired ideas will write the great music of our period.
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George: I'd like my music to keep people - all kinds of people - awake when they should be sleeping. I'd like my compositions to be so vital that I'd be required by law to dispense sedatives with each score sold.
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George: Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
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