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Mar 8, 2019 · On the morning of Monday July 12, 1937, New Yorkers who had just suffered through five days of a heat wave that left thirty-eight people dead, awoke to read on the front page of the New York Times about the death of George Gershwin, a native son of their city.
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Aug 12, 2017 · George Gershwin's death and Duret haemorrhage. George Gershwin (born Sept 26, 1898) was one of the greatest American composers in history. He died, aged 38 years on July 11, 1937, after surgery for his brain tumour.
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Mar 5, 2020 · Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz (for such was his name) was identified early as a genuine musical prodigy. Here's how he died.
Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs and who never, even in his most pretentious work, disdained the antic,...
Nov 5, 2017 · SO WHAT caused Gershwin’s tragic death? Hadassah neurosurgeon Dr. Ido Paldor examined pink-tinted slides from the autopsy and medical reports that have been published.
George Gershwin (/ ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn /; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs " Swanee " (1919) and ...
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Sep 26, 2018 · The cause of his untimely death was most likely glioblastoma, the same type of brain cancer that killed Senators Edward M. Kennedy in 2009 and John McCain this September.
