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George Gershwin, born in 1898, was one of America's greatest composers. He published his first song when he was eighteen years old. During the next twenty years until his death in 1937 he wrote more than five hundred more songs. He also wrote an opera as well as music for piano and orchestra. Many of George Gershwin's songs were first written for musical plays performed in theatres in New York City. These comedies, mixed with plenty of songs, were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s. One of Gershwin's musical plays, "Girl Crazy" introduced a young singer named Ethel Merman, who later on became a celebrated performer in America. In the play she sang "I Got Rhythm", a world hit. Many songs that Gershwin wrote for musical plays and films have remained popular as ever. Over the years they have been sung and played in every possible way-from jazz to country. In the 1920s there was a debate in the United States about jazz music. Could jazz, some people asked, be considered serious music? George Gershwin-American ComposerIn 1924 jazz musician and orchestra leader Paul Whiteman decided to organize a special concert to show that jazz was serious music. George Gershwin agreed to compose something for the concert before he realized how little time he had to do it. The concert was just a few weeks away, and Gershwin got to work. And, in that short time, he composed a piece for piano and orchestra which he called "Rhapsody in Blue". Gershwin himself played the piano at that concert. The audience, made up of some of the greatest classical musicians of the time were electrified when they heard his music. Rhapsody in Blue made George Gershwin famous all over the world. He showed that jazz music could be both serious and popular. Gershwin also wrote an opera, "Porgy and Bess". It is a tragic love story about Black

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