Ira Gershwin reportedly said: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.

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That's Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, in minor.

这是格什温的《波吉与贝丝》,小调

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Schoenberg said Gershwin was a man who lived in music and expressed everything through music, because music was his native language.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Today we continue our report about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers, George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Sixty years later, President Obama awarded the British musician the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for American Song.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

These are some of our favorites. One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess."

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Many of George Gershwin's songs were first written for musical plays performed in theaters in New York City.

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Years later, he admitted that he had no idea that George Gershwin was such a successful composer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

George Gershwin had his first big hit in nineteen nineteen, when he was twenty-one years old.

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Gershwin was satisfied that he had shown that jazz music could be both serious and popular.

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Join us again next week as we continue the story of the music of George Gershwin on People in America in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

One of Gershwin's musical plays, "Girl Crazy, " introduced a young singer named Ethel Merman.

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George Gershwin died in nineteen thirty-seven, just days after doctors learned he had brain cancer.

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Critics say the best songbook is Ella singing the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Gershwin got busy. And,in that short time, he composed a piece for piano and orchestra.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Paul Simon,who won the first Gershwin Prize in two thousand seven, performed "If It's Magic."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Today we tell about the life and music of one of America's greatest composers,George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Most people loved "An American in Paris," as they loved all of Gershwin's music.

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At that time, the famous American music writer George Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work, "Porgy and Bess."

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In the play, Ethel Merman sang a song George Gershwin wrote just for her.

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He had sung only a few minutes when Gershwin offered him the part.

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Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the people who praised George Gershwin.

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Here Todd Duncan sings "Porgy's Lament" from the Gershwin opera, "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

George Gershwin was one of the youngest piano players in Tin Pan Alley.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

Gershwin himself played the piano part of "Rhapsody in Blue" at the concert.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

It is "I Loves You,Porgy" from George Gershwin's opera, "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2009.10.04

George Gershwin was born in New York City in eighteen ninety-eight.

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Today we listen to music from Gershwin Prize winner Paul McCartney...

VOA: special.2010.06.18

He sang a piece from an Italian opera for Gershwin.

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George Gershwin is still considered one of America's greatest composers.

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