On January 26, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the UM Gershwin Initiative presented a centennial concert of works by George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira ...

The movie Rhapsody in Blue, a biography of George Gershwin, was released only eight years after his death from a brain tumor at the age of 38. It's a good subject: Gershwin wrote some of the best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images I’ve spent nearly two ...

George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...

So one evening Ira Gershwin and his wife, Lee, have another couple over for drinks, when Mrs. Gershwin suggests they repair to a popular restaurant for dinner. Ira replies that it’s late and that they ...

In 1949, pianist Oscar Levant released an LP of the most famous extended work for piano and orchestra ever penned by an American composer: George Gershwin’s Concerto in F (1925). The piece looms large ...

Willie Nelson was the first country artist to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize in 2015, a prestigious honor he shares opposite such names as Paul McCartney and Carole King for his ...

George and Ira will soon be getting the Shakespeare treatment. The estates of the two Gershwin brothers have reached a deal with the University of Michigan, in which the University will be granted ...

The contents of a box Kerzner uncovered at Amherst College ultimately contained George Gershwin's lost musical. (photo by Jacob Kerzner, courtesy University of Michigan Communications) It’s been just ...

The Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 W. 44th St. (212) 307-4100. THE novelist John O’Hara once wrote: “George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.” Unfortunately, ...