Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Portraits of the Artist 1: Ira Gershwin: In person, my brother was a good deal like his music (1961) 2: Frances Gershwin Godowsky: George Gershwin Was My Brother (1962) 3: Kay Swift: Did you ever feel that composer resembled his music? (ca. 1970) 4: Oscar Levant: Variations on a Gershwin Theme (1939) 5: Verna Arvey: George Gershwin Through the Eyes of a Friend (1948) 6: Gershwin Bros. (1925) 7: Isaac Goldberg: Childhood of a Composer (1931) Part II: The Growing Limelight (1919-1924) 8: George Gershwin: Letter to Max Abramson (1918) 9: Dolly Dalrymple: Pianist, Playing Role of Columbus, Makes Another American Discovery: Beryl Rubinstein Says This Country Possesses Genius Composer (1922) 10: George Gershwin: Letter to Ira Gershwin (February 18, 1923) 11: Whiteman Judges Named: Committee Will Decide 'What Is American Music' (1924) 12: Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBridge: An Experiment (1926) 13: Olin Downes: A Concert of Jazz (1924) 14: Carl Van Vechten: Letter to George Gershwin (February 14, 1924) 15: James Ross Moore: The Gershwins in Britain (1994) 16: Ira Gershwin: Which Came First? (1959) Part III: Fame and Fortune (1924-1930) 17: Philip Furia: Lady, Be Good! (1996) 18: Ira Gershwin: Letter to Lou and Emily Paley (November 26, 1924) 19: Alec Wilder: That Certain Feeling (1972) 20: Carl Van Vechten: George Gershwin, An American Composer Who Is Writing Notable Music in the Jazz Idiom (1925) 21: Samuel Chotzinoff: New York Symphony at Carnegie Hall (1925) 22: Lawrence Gilman: Mr. George Gershwin Plays His New Jazz Concerto (1925) 23: Paul Whiteman Gives 'Vivid' Grand Opera; Jazz Rhythms of Gershwin's '135th Street' (1925) 24: George Gershwin: Our New National Anthem (1925) 25: George Gershwin: Jazz Is the Voice of the American Soul (1926) 26: George Gershwin: Does Jazz Belong to Art? (1926) 27: George Gershwin: Mr. Gershwin Replies to Mr. Kramer (1926) 28: Abbe Niles: The Ewe Lamb of Widow Jazz (1926) 29: Carleton Sprague Smith: d'Alvarez-Gershwin Recital (1927) 30: Allen Forte: Someone to Watch Over Me (1990) 31: George Gershwin Accepts $100,000 Movietone Offer: Fox to Pay That Sum for Film Version of Musical Comedy - Composer Gets Bid of $50,000 for Rhapsody in Blue Rights (1928) 32: George Gershwin: Letter to Mabel Schirmer (1928) 33: An American in Paris: Narrative Guide 34: Gershwin's New Score Acclaimed 35: Fifty Years of American Music ... Younger Composers, Freed from European Influences, Labor Toward Achieving a Distinctive American Musical Idiom 36: The Composer in the Machine Age 37: 'Jazz,' the Critics, and American Art Music in the 1920s Part IV: Maturity (1930-1935) 38: Making Music 39: Satire to Music 40: George Gershwin 41: Of Thee I Sing, Kaufman-Ryskind Musical Comedy Satire at the Music Box 42: A Music Master Talks of His Trials 43: From William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions 44: George Gershwin's 'I Got Rhythm' (1930) 45: The Gershwin Myth 46: George Gershwin as Orchestrator 47: George Gershwin Plays His Second Rhapsody for the First time Here with Koussevitsky and Boston Orchestra 48: Letter to Rose Gershwin 49: George the Ingenuous 50: Letter to Emily Paley 51: Letter to Ira Gershwin 52: The Future of Gershwin Part V: Porgy and Bess 53: From America's Folk Opera 54: Selected Correspondence 55: George Gershwin Arrives to Plan Opera on Porgy 56: Porgy and Bess, Native Opera, Opens at the Alvin: Gershwin's Work Based on DuBose Heyward's Play 57: Rhapsody in Catfish Row: Mr. Gershwin Tells the Origin and Scheme for His Music in That New Folk Opera Called 'Porgy and Bess' 58: From an Interview by Robert Wyatt 59: From an interview by Robert Wyatt Part VI: Last Years: Hollywood (1936-1937) 60: Hollywood - An Ending 61: Gershwin Analyzes Science of Rhythm 62: Radio Pays a Debt 63: A Foggy Day 64: Letters to Zenna Hannenfeldt 65: Letters to Mabel Schirmer 66: Letter to Emily Paley 67: Letter to Henry Botkin 68: Letter to Rose Gershwin 69: Letter to Rose Gershwin 70: Letter to Irene Gallagher Part VII: Obituaries and Eulogies 71: Report in Variety 72: George Gershwin 73: Hail and Farewell: Career and Position of George Gershwin in American Music 74: Poem 75: Tribute 76: Gershwin Left $341,089 Estate to His Mother; 'Rhapsody in Blue' Appraised at 'Greatest Value' and Opera Rights of 'Nominal Interest' to the Residue 77: Letter to Rose Gershwin Part VIII: As Time Passes 78: Music by Slide Rule 79: Gershwin on Gershwin 80: Gershwin, Schillinger, and Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences 81: Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune? 82: George Gershwin 83: George Gershwin: yes, the sounds as well as the tunes are his Chronology Selected Bibliography Credits Index