Gershwin in Pittsburgh

The great American composer George Gershwin was a product of the energetic Jazz Age city of New York. Yet Pittsburgh may have been his adopted town, through read tours of his Broadway shows, his appearances as a concert pianist, and his myriad associated with ties to the Steel City. Meticulously researched, Gershwin in Pittsburgh chronicles these surprisingly consequential connections. Theatrical venues such as the Nixon and Alvin Theatres and colleagues like Ned Waybur, Oscar Levant. Georg...