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Early s
Morris Gershovitz and Rose Bruskin arrive in New York City from St. Petersburg, Russia.
December 6,
Israel Gershovitz (Ira Gershwin) is born in New York City.
September 26,
Jacob Gershovitz (George Gershwin) is born in Brooklyn, NY.
October 24,
George and Ira's first song together, "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)," is heard on Broadway in LADIES FIRST, sung by Nora Bayes.
October 24,
"Swanee," with music by George and lyrics by Irving Caesar, premieres in the CAPITOL REVUE.
Ira and george gershwin biography A little later he published the ragtime piece Rialto Ripples , which brought him financial success. Schoenberg refused, saying "I would only make you a bad Schoenberg, and you're such a good Gershwin already. Morgan Wallen. Download as PDF Printable version.It becomes a monumental hit when Al Jolson interpolates it into his revue, SINBAD, at the Winter Garden Theatre.
June 7,
George writes the first of his five scores for GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS, a rival to the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. The best-known song from the SCANDALS is "(I'll Build a) Stairway to Paradise," with lyrics by Ira and B.
G. DeSylva.
May 3,
Under the pseudonym Arthur Francis, Ira has his first Broadway hit, TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, with music by Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin and a book by Fred Jackson.
February 12,
George premieres RHAPSODY IN BLUE at New York's Aeolian Hall as part of a concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music" with Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra.
December 1,
LADY, BE GOOD!, the first show with songs solely by George and Ira, premieres on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre.
December 3,
George's CONCERTO IN F premieres at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Walter Damrosch.
September 14,
Ira marries Leonore Strunsky in New York City.
December 13,
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, George's tone poem for orchestra, premieres at Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony Society Orchestra.
January 14,
The revised version of STRIKE UP THE BAND, which had failed out of town in in its original incarnation, makes it to Broadway, at the Times Square Theatre.
October 14,
GIRL CRAZY opens at New York's Alvin Theatre, making stars of Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman.
December 26,
OF THEE I SING opens at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, with a score by the Gershwins and a book by George S.
Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.
January 29,
George debuts his SECOND RHAPSODY at Symphony Hall in Boston, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
May 2,
OF THEE I SING is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Unfortunately, as this was the first time a musical had been honored, George's contribution was not recognized.
Subsequently, all Pulitzers awarded to musicals included the composer.
October 10,
PORGY AND BESS, by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, based on Heyward's book PORGY and the play by Heyward and his wife Dorothy, premieres at the Alvin Theatre in New York.
May 7,
The first of the Fred Astaire films George and Ira worked on, SHALL WE DANCE, is released by RKO.
July 11,
George Gershwin dies of a brain tumor in Los Angeles at
January 23,
LADY IN THE DARK, with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Moss Hart, opens at the Alvin Theatre.
November
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, and Georges Guetary, is released.
George gershwin biography timeline designs Gershwin's own Concerto in F was criticized for being related to the work of Claude Debussy , more than to the expected jazz style. The headaches and olfactory hallucinations continued. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. Gershwin as a painter.It wins six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
October 10,
A major touring revival of PORGY AND BESS is mounted on Broadway and subsequently travels the world.
September
A STAR IS BORN, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, is released.
Ira receives his third Best Song nomination at the Academy Awards for "The Man That Got Away," but the award gets away too.
September
Knopf publishes LYRICS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, Ira's book of over of his lyrics with his annotations and observations.
May 1,
MY ONE AND ONLY, starring Twiggy and Tommy Tune, opens at the St.
James Theatre on Broadway. It wins three Tony Awards.
June 5,
During the Tony Awards broadcast, the Uris Theatre is renamed the Gershwin in honor of George and Ira.
August 17,
Ira Gershwin dies in his Beverly Hills home at the age of
February 19,
CRAZY FOR YOU opens at New York's Shubert Theatre.
It wins multiple awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Olivier Award (in London) for Best Musical.
June
George Gershwin is awarded a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his body of work.
June 4,
The Gershwins are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
May 22,
The Library of Congress awards the first Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
June 10,
THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL and NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT pick up four Tony Awards.
April 12,
Broadway welcomes a new stage musical adaptation of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
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