Gershwin

American  

[gursh-win] / ˈgɜrʃ wɪn /

noun

1. George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.

2. Ira, 1896–1983, U.S. lyricist (brother of George Gershwin).

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Gershwin British  

/ ˈɡɜːʃwɪn /

noun

1. George, original name Jacob Gershvin. 1898–1937, US composer: incorporated jazz into works such as Rhapsody in Blue (1924) for piano and jazz band and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935)

2. his brother, Ira, original name Israel Gershvin. 1896–1983, US song lyricist, noted esp for his collaboration with George Gershwin

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Example Sentences

The 16-minute dance, the longest of the show, was set to an imaginative mix of taped selections ranging from George Gershwin to Kurt Schwitters, the avant-garde artist who also composed sound poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal

Works by Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin are performed alongside recently discovered scores and new commissions.

From The Wall Street Journal

He won two Emmy Awards, first in 1972 for producing and directing Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna, then in 1988 for the Great Performances episode Celebrating Gershwin.

From BBC

Here Gershwin set to music Heyward’s colloquial poetry—lines that Stephen Sondheim called among “the best lyrics written, I think, for the musical stage.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Its 78 million manuscripts, from the papers of the Continental Congress and George Washington to those of the Gershwin brothers and J. Robert Oppenheimer, cover the breadth of the American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal