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A Note on Gershwin
Niles, Abbe | February 13, 1929 issue

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More than any other one person, George Gershwin has reminded his hearers that the division between good and bad cuts across all others. This, it is submitted, is a valuable reminder. If the fallacy to the contrary was a vulgar one, it was and to a less degree still is powerful. It is not that Gershwin has written good music; the present writer thinks it good, but the point is that, good or not, it is American, in the popular idiom, and good enough to show that first-rate music, even in the longer forms, can be written in that idiom by anyone with the requisite training and natural gifts.

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GERSHWIN, George, 1898-1937; FALLACIES (Logic); AMERICA -- Literatures; MUSIC; MUSIC trade; UNITED States
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