Maurice Ravel met Gershwin in New York during Ravel's tour of the United States.

He also met the American composer George Gershwin in New York and went with him to hear jazz in Harlem, probably hearing some of the famous jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington.

There is a story that when Gershwin met Ravel, he mentioned that he would like to study with the French composer.

Whilst there, he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922.

He met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922.

He first met George Gershwin, who was working as a song plugger in Jerome H. Remick's, in 1916.

During this period he met George Gershwin who was also a young piano-roll artist at Aeolian.

He attended Townsend Harris High School, where he and Ira Gershwin, who met over a shared fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan, worked on the school paper and became lifelong friends.

During his stay, he met and befriended George Gershwin.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

In the B section, Gershwin uses common time, syncopated rhythms, and bluesy melodies with the sounds of trumpet, saxophone, and snare drum.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

American singer, pianist, musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive.

Gershwin, along with George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, was a recipient of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Of Thee I Sing.

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

Also in the 20th century, American composers like Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Carlisle Floyd began to contribute English-language operas infused with touches of popular musical styles.

* William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin: A Scottish Fantasy ( 1988 ) ( with Jack Hobbs )

In the same year, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.

Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).

George and Ira Gershwin, along with DuBose Heyward, based the libretto of their opera version, Porgy and Bess, not on the original novel, but on the play.

Upon hearing Gershwin's reply, Ravel suggested that maybe he should study with Gershwin.

This tale may well be apocryphal: Gershwin seems also to have told a near-identical story about a conversation with Arnold Schoenberg, and some have claimed it was with Igor Stravinsky.

* Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Armstrong, two albums of standards ( 1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again ), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess.

He collaborated as lyricist or librettist with Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Louis Hirsch, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, and Sigmund Romberg.

) Hart continued to write plays after parting with Kaufman, such as Christopher Blake ( 1946 ) and Light Up the Sky ( 1948 ), as well as the book for the musical Lady In The Dark ( 1941 ), with songs by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

Instead, Ravel recommended that Gershwin see Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Ravel's high praise of Gershwin in an introductory letter to Boulanger caused Gershwin to seriously consider taking time to study abroad in Paris.

Gershwin visited Boulanger in 1927, asking for lessons in composition.

Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris.

His show-stopping number was " Tchaikovsky ", by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath.

In 1987, Ira's widow, Leonore Gershwin, established the Ira Gershwin Literacy Center at University Settlement, a century-old institution at 185 Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side, New York City.

The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division.

The Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a number of Ira's manuscripts and other material.

* Ira Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

* February 12-Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.

In 1985, her staging of Singin ' in the Rain, played at the Gershwin for 367 performances.

From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, when it was held at the Gershwin Theatre.

The Red Shoes opened on 16 December 1993 at the Gershwin Theatre, with Steve Barton playing Boris Lermontov, Margaret Illmann playing Victoria Page, and Hugh Panaro playing Julian Craster.

He settled in Brentwood Park, where he befriended fellow composer ( and tennis partner ) George Gershwin and began teaching at UCLA.

GINSBURG, supra note 43, at 1485 ( citing Gershwin Publ ' g Corp. v. Columbia Artists Mgmt., 443 F. 2d 1159, 1162 ( 2d Cir.

In 1924 Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was premiered by Whiteman's orchestra with George Gershwin at the piano.

Gershwin himself was present at the recording sessions.

It featured the single " Dinner with Gershwin " ( written by Brenda Russell ), which was only a minor US hit, though it peaked at 13 in the UK.

Late on the evening of January 3, at the Ambassador Billiard Parlor at Broadway and 52nd Street in Manhattan, while George Gershwin and Buddy De Sylva were playing billiards, his brother Ira Gershwin was reading the January 4 edition of the New York Tribune.