The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

Contents

• Part I . Historical Context:
• 1. The unlikely patriarch Michael Owen;
• 2. Hearing Gershwin's New York Ellen Noonan;
• 3. Gershwin's musical education Susan Neimoyer;
• 4. Gershwin in Hollywood Jessica Getman;
• Part II . Profiles of the Music:
• 5. Blue Monday and New York theatrical aesthetics Kristen M. Turner;
• 6. Broadway in blue: Gershwin's musical theatre scores and songs Todd Decker;
• 7. The works for piano and orchestra Timothy Freeze;
• 8. Harmonizing music and money: Gershwin's economic strategies from 'Swanee' to An American in Paris Mark Clague;
• 9. Exploring new worlds: An American in Paris, Cuban Overture and Porgy and Bess Anna Harwell Celenza;
• 10. Complexities in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess: historical and performing contexts Naomi Andre;
• 11. Writing for the big screen: Shall We Dance and A Damsel in Distress Nathan Platte;
• Part III . Influence and Reception:
• 12. The coverage of Gershwin in music history text Howard Pollack;
• 13. When Ella Fitzgerald sang Gershwin: a chapter from the Great American Songbook Will Friedwald;
• 14. The afterlife of Rhapsody in Blue Ryan Raul Banagale;
• 15. Broadway's 'new' Gershwin musicals: romance, jazz, and the ghost of Fred Astaire Todd Decker;
• 16. Gershwin and instrumental jazz Nate Sloan; Epilogue: the Gershwin I knew, and the Gershwin I know Michael Feinstein.