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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
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
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 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. His olfactory hallucinations, a sign of temporal lobe epilepsy, had begun in early 1934, 1–3 but he continued active musical works despite the gradual deterioration of his ...
- Takahiro Mezaki
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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.
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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.
