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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Composer to the Fore
1. The Gershwins: Morris and Rose and Family
2. A Piano in the House, and Elsewhere
3. A Songwriter Emerges (1917–18)
4. From Syracuse to New York (1918–19)
5. Society, the Music Business, and George White’s Scandals (1920)
6. “Arthur Francis” and Edward Kilenyi
7. Songwriter and Composer (1922)
8. Americans in London (1922–23)
9. A Recital and an Experiment (1923–24)
10. Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
Part II: Ira Comes Aboard
11. Enter Ira (1924)
12. A Year in the Life, Part I (1924–25)
13. A Year in the Life, Part II (Concerto in F)
14. A Year in the Life, Part III
15. In Arenas Old and New (1926)
16. Oh, Kay! (1926)
17. Ups and Downs: Kaufman on the Scene (1927)
18. From Aarons to Ziegfeld (1927)
19. Americans in Europe (1928)
20. Back in the U.S.A.: An American in Paris (1928)
21. In Midcareer (1929)
22. A Breakup and a Redo (1929–30)
23. Boyfriend, Songwriter, Musical Citizen
24. Girl Crazy (1930)
25. Hollywood and the Second Rhapsody (1930–31)
26. Of Thee I Sing (1931)
27. More Downs and Ups and Downs (1932)
28. The Last Musical Comedy (1933)
Part III: Composer in Charge
29. A Turn in the Road (1933–34)
30. Music by Gershwin and Porgy and Bess, Act I (1935–36)
31. Porgy and Bess, Act II
32. Porgy and Bess, Act III
33. Performing Porgy and Bess
34. Judging Porgy and Bess
35. Composer of Porgy and Bess
36. Hollywood Songwriter I: Shall We Dance (1936–37)
37. Hollywood Songwriter II: A Damsel in Distress (1937)
38. Gonna Rise Up Singing
Illustrations Insert
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Also by Richard Crawford
Copyright
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