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Article: The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin.
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- September 1, 1994
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The hagiographies by Isaac Goldberg (George Gershwin: A Study in American Music [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931]) in Gershwin's time and Edward Jablonski (Gershwin: A Biography [New York: Doubleday, 1987] in ours have been countered only by Charles Schwartz's carefully documented Gershwin: His Life and Music (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973). Schwartz's Gershwin was a technically ill-equipped composer and pianist whose reputation far exceeded his accomplishments and whose personal qualities included "gauche" social skills, egotism, anti-intellectualism, insensitivity, and a chronic case of braggadocio that failed to mask the insecurity within.
But Schwartz's ...
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