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Gershwin
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Gershwin
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Edward Jablonski
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:460 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 290,Width 142 |
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| Category/Genre | Light orchestral and big band
Bands, groups and musicians |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780306808470
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| Classifications | Dewey:780.92 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Hachette Books
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| Imprint |
Da Capo Press Inc
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| Publication Date |
22 August 1998 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief lifefrom the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hallof George Gershwin (18981937), a man whose music ( Lady Be Good, Of Thee I Sing, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess ) and careerlike F. Scott Fitzgerald'sembodied the glamorous success and lost possibilities of the Jazz Age.
Author Biography
Edward Jablonski is the author of The Gershwin Years: George and Ira (with Lawrence D. Stewart,available from Da Capo/ Perseus Books Group), Arlen: Happy with the Blues, Alan Jay Lerner, and many others. He lives in New York City.
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