Gershwin

Gershwin George Gershwin Looking back through the history of music we can see composers of all periods of time who truly made a difference. Classical and Romantic composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Stravinsky, and Mozart are some of the first that come to mind. As music traveled from Europe to the Americas, it was not until the early 1900’s that Northern America would raise up it’s first American composer to break through the music scene in a whole new fashion. George Girshwin was the man to take music to a whole new level that would even be apart of what fueled such a radical American movement known in history as the Roaring 20’s. He took popular “devils music,” which at the time was jazz and blues coming from the African culture, and mixed it with the traditional classical concert sound that originated in Europe and had been played for hundreds of years. He could be equated as an American equivalent of Verdi. His name, George Gershwin, conjures memories and nostalgic imaginings of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, flappers, musicals tumbling forth in glorious profusion from his creative, fertile imagination. Gershwin represented all this, of course, and so much more: his music, george, gershwin, piano, parents, new, first, american, popular, family, whole, took, play, one, name, musical, man, jazz, ira, composers, chopin, began, became, youth, york, world, works, two, time, through, taught, successful, stravinsky, school, roaring, playing, much, ms, moved, level, known, interested, interest, immediately, hour, history, green, friends, fifty, fifteen, even