When I was a young member of the National Press Club, still in my 20s, one of the old timers told me about a legendary musical evening he had attended in the club’s early days. It was a gathering in ...

It’s hard to read a biography of George Gershwin, who died at 38, without feeling a sense of loss. But rather than bemoan the composer’s premature passing, Richard Crawford, a musicologist and ...

Summertime, and the livin’ was a little too easy for George Gershwin. Even in the 1930s, Charleston could do that to you. The American composer had come to town in June 1934 to write an opera based on ...