The American Standard of Gershwin George Gershwin is an American icon of the hustling early twentieth century when America was wakening to its potential and power in the arts, industry, business, and many changing faces that defined the American style. Of his 600 plus compositional works, “Rhapsody in Blue” is the piece that perhaps best captured his creative genius, and is the work that brought on immediate fame and signaled the arrival of a major composer. The …showed first 75 words of 907 total…

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