George Gershwin 2

George Gershwin 2

Inventing a style of music by combining popular Jazz with traditional technique, George wrote his most famous Rhapsody in Blue (1924). Four years later he wrote An American in Paris. He wrote a large amount for light theatres, and became very popular with the public. When he died in 1937 he was in performance at an open-air Memorial Concert in New York when he suddenly died in front of 20,000 of his fans. [AW] {MI}