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Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue In a period in which national American music was developing with composers of the caliber of Aaron Copland and others trained in Europe, George Gershwin, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, went some way towards bridging different styles of music which include Jewish, jazz and classical and entwined them together forming absolute music. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898. He had three other siblings; Ira, Arthur, and Frankie. George Gershwin’s musical talent was noticed at an early age when the family bought a piano for Ira, the eldest child. As soon as it was moved in, George sat down and began to play. His parents were amazed having no idea he was interested in music or where he had learned to play (GirshwinFan 1). From that moment on, George began taking piano lessons. He received lessons from American music greats such as Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Wallingford Riegger (Encarta 1). At the early age of 16, Gershwin began his professional career in “Tin Pan Alley”, a location where aspiring composers and songwriters would bring their work in hope of selling it. gershwin, music, george, piece, concert, american, work, rhapsody, piano, composers, blue, began, time, songs, gershwin’s, broadway, peyser, one, jazz, ira, grofe, famous, composition, career, audience, york, written, world, tin, three, theme, song, sense, received, popular, play, people, part, parents, pan, orchestrated, orchestra, opened, new, musicals, musical, modern, lessons, hollywood, halls