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One of the best loved composers and songwriters of all time, George Gershwin had no interest in music as a boy. But when he was 10 his parents bought a pian...
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- Professor Graeme Yorston
My all-time-favorite composer suffered a horrible death at only 38, when all his best work was still ahead of him. The way he died - his agony and bizarre sy...
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- ferociousgumby
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.
Aug 12, 2017 · 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.
- Takahiro Mezaki
- 2017
Presented by Conrad Nagel.Broadcast on Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, Hollywood, CA, USA - the day after his untimely death.Includes speeches, eul...
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Mar 5, 2020 · He was sharing a house with Ira and Ira's wife in California when he started having blinding headaches and olfactory hallucinations — he kept smelling burning rubber and had trouble performing his own compositions, including a 10-second blackout on stage with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
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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.
