An intriguing trick, but it works very well here. The piano part is exactly synched to Fred and Ginger's singing. . . and then they ...

This is one of those nice GG videos that features photos and even snippets of film from his life. Rare enough, but what happened last ni...

Where should I begin? I don't know when it began. After I realized my third novel was crashing in flames, and would never rise ...

Away with the music of Broadway Be off with your Irving Berlin Oh I give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter And Gershwin keeps pound...

"The Rhapsody was performed by Whiteman's band, with an added section of string players, and George Gershwin on piano. Gershw...

Review of George Gershwin's masterpiece, Porgy and Bess, by fellow composer Virgil Thomson: "One can see, through Porgy, that Ge...

As is so often the case, I appear to have come full circle. I was on an obsessive George-trek some time ago, when it was aborted by so...

Gershwin is a time traveller - you can see him out of the corner of your eye. He did not die in the normal sense of the word, because he ...

George was one of the few who busted the code. Who realized we shouldn't be limited by something as foolish as Time. And thus,...

George, George, George! It has been happening just around the edges of my mind. A snatch of tune here and there: ". . . a foggy ...

A beautiful, gorgeous, luscious chunk of movie impressionism, with Fred Astaire to boot. And he's singing Gershwin! Mr. Gershwin an...

It suddenly occurs to me that my last post probably made no sense to anyone but me. I think - I hope - I was trying to draw parallels ...

May 7/15 I should I guess try to slow this down or stop it or spread it out or something. Why? I’m getting greedy. For...