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About Rachel In July 2006 I began working as the full time office manager bookkeeper at the Brain Tumor Society They do amazing things for brain tumor research and patient support Please come
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This is him a few months later going through chemo but feeling good Even just a few hours after the brain tumor was removed he could speak normally again and walk
George Gershwin 1922
Note I have been looking or Gershwin s passport application for a long time I knew he had gone to London for the 1922 production of quot The Rainbow quot Finally I hit on the version of his name that he was using at the time Jacob Gershwine George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898 the second of four children from a close knit immigrant family He began his musical career as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley but was soon writing his own pieces Gershwin s first published song When You Want Em You Can t Get Em demonstrated innovative new techniques but only earned him five dollars Soon after however he met a young lyricist named Irving Ceaser Together they composed a number of songs including Swanee which sold more than a million copies In the same year as Swanee Gershwin collaborated with Arthur L Jackson and Buddy De Sylva on his first complete Broadway musical La La Lucille Over the course of the next four years Gershwin wrote forty five songs among them were Somebody Loves Me and Stairway to Paradise as well as a twenty five minute opera Blue Monday Composed in five days the piece contained many musical clichés but it also offered hints of developments to come In 1924 George collaborated with his brother lyricist Ira Gershwin on a musical comedy Lady Be Good It included such standards as Fascinating Rhythm and The Man I Love It was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for the rest of the composer s life Together they wrote many more successful musicals including Oh Kay and Funny Face staring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele While continuing to compose popular music for the stage Gershwin began to lead a double life trying to make his mark as a serious composer When he was 25 years old his jazz influenced Rhapsody in Blue premiered in New York s Aeolian Hall at the concert An Experiment in Music The audience included Jascha Heifitz Fritz Kreisler Leopold Stokowski Serge Rachmaninov and Igor Stravinsky Gershwin f
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