Gershwin, George

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American composer known for putting elements of jazz into the forms of classical music, such as the concerto. His works include Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and the music to the opera Porgy and Bess. Together with his brother, Ira Gershwin, he wrote many popular musical comedies.

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Example Sentences

So Ira Gershwin wrote in the opening lyric of “Of Thee I Sing,” the satiric Gershwin–George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind show from 1931 which, the following year, became the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize.

From The New Yorker

The 1933 Model A Steinway was donated to the school in 2013 by Marc Gershwin, George’s nephew.

From Washington Times

Among the pieces that will be performed Friday are several Porter wrote for Frances Gershwin, a singer who was an original review cast member and younger sister of Ira and George Gershwin; George Gershwin, in Paris when the review was performed, composing An American in Paris, accompanied his sister at the review’s opening night. 

From Forbes

I had lunch with a fellow called Leopold Godowsky, who is the son of Frances Gershwin, George Gershwin’s sister.

From Literature

Ira Gershwin, George’s brother, who co-wrote the lyrics with DuBose Heyward, revised the line.

From New York Times