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Gershiwin Final
Ira and George Gershwin Biblioulogical facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| From 1920 to 1924 George Gershwin was the sole composer for a series of revues produced by former dancer George White, whom Gershwin met when he was rehearsal pianist for Miss 1917. It was due to this series of shows that Gershwin was able to perfect his | George White’s Scandals |
| Dere Mabel, The Ed Wynn Carnival, Jig-Saw!, The Sweetheart Shop, Broadway Brevities of 1920, Piccadilly to Broadway, Blue Eyes, Snapshots of 1921, The Broadway Whirl, The Perfect Fool | Shows for which Gershwin provided interpolated songs in 1920-21. |
| This 1921 show was Gershwin’s second book musical and the first written to lyrics by his brother Ira. It never made it to Broadway | A Dangerous Maid |
| The French Doll (Do It Again”), For Goodness Sake, Mayfair and Montmartre, Spice of 1922, The Dancing Girl, The Sunshine Trail (film), Stop Flirting, The Rainbow, Little Miss Bluebeard, Nifties of 1923 | Shows for which Gershwin provided interpolated songs in 1922-23. |
| A 1924-star vehicle for actress Constance Binney, who retired from the stage soon after, this caustic show concerned conniving show girls who try to scam a love-sick fan of his fortune. Featured song: “Virginia” | Sweet Little Devil |
| Address of the Gershwin apartment near St. John the Divine Cathedral, where he composed Rhapsody in Blue. | 501 Cathedral Street |
| Signature Gershwin work, ubiquitous the world over, premiered by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in 1924 at Aeolian Hall in New York. Orchestrated by Ferde Grofé. The piece brought together jazz rhythms and instrumentation, Romantic and modern harmonies of Eu | Rhapsody in Blue |
| Broadway show from 1924 which became the first major success for both the Gershwin brothers and the Astaire brother-sister dance team; the latter portrayed a broke brother and sister who become involved in a series of escapades to secure a better living. | Lady, Be Good! |
| Townhouse near Riverside Drive that Gershwin bought for his family, and where they lived from 1925-31. | 316 West 103rd Street |
| Work for violin and piano written at the request of violinist Samuel Dushkin, who would later commission many famous composers, including Stravinsky; premiered by Gershwin and Dushkin in 1925. | Short Story |
| The adventures of a salesgirl and her fellow workers at a hat shop on Fifth Avenue, who is trying retrieve her inheritance from an estranged brother and win the heart of wealthy beau. Featured song: “Tell Me More.” | Tell Me More |
| Gershwin’s next concert work after the Rhapsody is also his longest (not counting the opera Porgy and Bess), his three-movement concerto for piano and orchestra commissioned by conductor Walter Damrosch in 1925. Adhering more to a traditional classical fo | Concerto in F |
| A farcical send-up of the Florida land craze of the 1920’s, this show, written for dancer Queenie Smith, describes the machinations of a troupe of scheming vaudevillians to have one of their own, Tip-Toes, marry a millionaire real estate mogul. Featured s | Tip-Toes |
| 1925 operetta that takes place during the Russian Revolution, with music by Gershwin and Herbert Stothart. Featured Gershwin song: “Song of the Flame.” | Song of the Flame |
| Vehicle for English actress Gertrude Lawrence which made her a star in New York and London. A Prohibition parody, the show describes the misadventures of a group of English rumrunners who use the home of an unsuspecting American playboy to run their opera | Oh, Kay! |
| Gershwin published these three short piano pieces in 1926, in a fast- slow- fast, order, featuring references from south of the border in the faster pieces and a bluesy middle number. They are a perennial favorite among pianists | Three Preludes |
| n 1927 the Gershwins, following the lead of George S. Kaufmann, set out to write an anti-war spoof in which America goes to war with Switzerland over cheese. The show was initially a flop, never making it to Broadway, though a renovated version in 1930 di | Strike Up the Band |
| Second vehicle for Fred and Adele Astaire in 1927 cast them again as a brother and sister at odds, as wrangles over a scurrilous diary and stolen jewels, while bumbling thieves and bungling policemen add further twists to the plot. Featured songs: “‘S Won | Funny Face |
| A 1928 show of Ziegfeld’s team Gershwins with Sigmund Romberg in a blend of operetta and jazzier theater music, with a plot involving a Charles Lindbergh-type character. Although the show did very well, it produced no major Gershwin hits | Rosalie |
| The hope for was that it would be a repeat success for Gertrude Lawrence the way Funny Face was for the Astaires, but this was not to be. The plot about a scheming woman willing to sacrifice love for money did not endear itself with audience | Treasure Girl |
| The story concerns an ambitious young singer trying to balance the attentions of four suitors—a salesman, a tango dancer, a Wall street mogul, and a journalist, while pursuing her career on the stage. The show featured Al Jolson’s wife Ruby Keeler, and th | Show Girl |
| Gershwin’s most ambitious work for orchestra was his 1926 tone poem describing an American tourist walking the streets of Paris, complete with the sounds of real Parisian taxi horns. The work falls into three sections, the first depicting the tourist walk | An American in Paris |
| Supernatural horror story from a Jewish folktale about a bride possessed by a ghost that Gershwin hoped to set as an opera; problem with the rights ended the plan. | “The Dybbuk” |
| The Gershwins opening the 1930’s with one of their biggest hit shows, of 1930, starring Ginger Rodgers and Ethel Merman. A spoiled rich New York son is sent by his father out West to turn him into a responsible man. Instead he brings New York t | Girl Crazy |
| Gershwin’s first Hollywood film. A 1930 production about an illegal immigrant Scottish girl who tries to find love and make it in America while avoiding the authorities. Gershwin wrote the music for what would become his Second Rhapsody for an extended sc | Delicious |
| Based on the film’s music from Delicious, Gershwin’s intention with the Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra was to showcase a more formidable classical technique than had been present in the first Rhapsody | Second Rhapsody |
| 1931 political satire featuring presidential candidate Wintergreen who campaigns on the idea of love, agreeing to marry the winner of a beauty contest. But when he falls in love with campaign assistant Mary, who makes great corn muffins, the spurned beaut | Of Thee I Sing |
| n 1932 Gershwin collected sixteen favorites among his own songs,publishing the original sheet music version alongside a series of pianovariations of each song | George Gershwin’s Songbook |
| A trip to Cuba in 1932, and the purchasing of Cuban percussion instruments helped inspire Gershwin to create the Cuban Overture, his last work for orchestra alone, based on Cuban rhythms and instrumentation. | Cuban Overture |
| To help their producer friends Aarons and Freedley, the Gershwins worked up a musical based on an absurd plot about a British secret agent who, due to a blow to the head, thinks he is a German criminal named Golo. Repeated blows to the head turn him from | Pardon My English |
| A 1933 sequel to Of Thee I Sing, the show continued the story of thepresident Wintergreen and his wife Mary. When their attempt at re-electionfails, they form a new political party and foment a fascist revolution to take over the government. Featured song | Let them eat Cake |
| For a massive 1934 tour that would cover twenty-eight cities in twenty- nine days to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin wrote a set of variations for piano and small orchestra on his song from Girl Crazy, “I Got Rhythm”. | Variations on “I Got Rhythm" |
| Gershwin masterpiece for the theater came about after Gershwin read DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. After a trip to South Carolina to soak up the atmosphere, Gershwin set to work with Ira and Heyward to create his lasting monument. Porgy and Bess follows th | Porgy and Bess |
| Location of Gershwin’s Art Deco, fourteen-room duplex apartment. | 132 East 72nd Street |
| 1937 film musical about a ballet dancer who wants to dance jazz instead falls in love with a Broadway star who wants to retire from show business; both become caught up in the attempt of their show-biz agents to either thwart or promote their relationship | Shall We Dance |
| 1937 film. An American singer-dancer becomes caught up in the schemes that servants at the castle of an English lord have hatched to win a bet as to who will marry the lord’s beautiful daughter. Starring Fred Astaire and Joan Fontaine. Featured songs: “A | A Damsel in Distress |
| A vaudeville-like film whose thin plot—about a Hollywood advisor who tries to get her hamburger-flipping boyfriend with the beautiful voice into the movies—serves as a means to present vignettes by a number of acts popular at the time. Featured songs: Lov | The Goldwyn Follies |
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