Gershwin: His Life and Music /
Charles Schwartz
- New York Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1973
- 428 p.
"Compositions by George Gershwin": pages 335-352.
Family background -- Boyhood years -- The young professional -- Onward and upward -- Jazz and the concert hall -- Success personified -- The perennial troubadour -- Collector and painter -- European holiday -- The American "Frenchman" -- On the podium -- "Ladies' man" -- Hollywood muse -- Latin from Manhattan -- In analysis -- Porgy and Bess -- The final curtain.
A penetrating portrait of the celebrated American composer that traces his creative development against a background of his personal relationships.