Gershwin

Who was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that
question by saying that he was the composer of the song that’s in the
airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than
that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American
composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the
1920's. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like
Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and
created absolute music.

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26,
1898. He had the childhood of any average kid growing up in the early
1900's. His father Morris, a Russian Jewish immigrant, had many
different jobs so George was forced to move around a lot and learn how
to fight for his survival. Many people say that he was a very wild
and robust child who was not interested in any type of school work
(Schwartz 11).

In the neighborhood where Gershwin gr...