With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ ...

Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at Florida ...

For the first time in over a century George Gershwin's very first musical, La La Lucille, will be performed - not on Broadway as it was in 1919 - but in the intimate Studio Theatre at Third Avenue ...

Wilson plans to finish and record at least two songs on an album of Gershwin music that could be released next year. In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, ...

PITTSFIELD — The songs of American composer George Gershwin "got rhythm;" not only rhythm — spirit, indefatigable spirit, says Barrington Stage Company artistic director Julianne Boyd. Gershwin ...

When I was a young member of the National Press Club, still in my 20s, one of the old timers told me about a legendary musical evening he had attended in the club’s early days. It was a gathering in ...

Like many fellow aspiring musicians, he studied in the French capital and discussed music theory at such a high level with ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An archivist at the University of Michigan has recovered a piece of American art that was thought to be lost to history. Earlier this year, university officials announced ...

A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon the full orchestral score for La, La, Lucille, the composer’s first complete musical. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to ...

Okay, not really, but the concept of a Gershwin/Wilson collaboration seems like a punchline. In the weird world of Brian Wilson, however, anything is possible and beginning in 2010, the Beach Boy ...

When George Gershwin visited a cottage in Folly Beach, S.C., in 1934, “Porgy and Bess” came to life. But will it remain a historic artifact or become just another beach house? By Jonathan Abrams In ...