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Hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition.
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2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 204 p. Contains: Illustrations. Music in American Life (Hardcover).
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Urbana, Illinois 2009 Hard Cover First Printing Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. "In GEORGE GERSHWIN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh souces,
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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." This book has 204 pages and is illustrated.
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Overview
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...