A Solo Requiem for America's Mozart
Bruce WeberMay 1, 2001: George Gershwin was just 38 when he died of a brain tumor in 1937, having produced a prodigious legacy. ''George Gershwin Alone,'' Hershey Felder's stage biography, makes a great case for his subject as the American Mozart.
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