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Links:

• Al Levy's Music: George Gershwin - MIDI files of his preludes, rhapsodies, and opera Porgy and Bess.
• Carolina Classical - A biography featuring information about his collaboration with Dubose Heyward on the opera Porgy and Bess, photograph, and audio samples.
• Classic Cat: George Gershwin - Biographical material, links, and directory of MP3 audio files.
• Classical Composers Database - Biography of the composer with summary list of concert works, photograph, and links.
• Classical Music Archives: Gershwin - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete files offered in MIDI format.
• Classical Music Pages - Summary from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
• Classical Net - Biography, articles on American in Paris, I Got Rhythm, Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue and a select discography.
• Down Beat Magazine - Includes vintage photos and a biography.
• Encyclopedia: George Gershwin - Contains an article that includes a sketch about his brother Ira and a bibliography.
• Famous Classical Composers: George Gershwin - Details the early life of this classical and jazz composer.
• Find a Grave - Biographical sketch, photographs, pictures of mausoleum, cemetery information, and virtual memorial.
• George and Ira Gershwin - Official site. Celebrating and archiving the lives of the brothers with history, timeline, references, anthology of selected films and shows, sound clips by noted artists, jukebox, and events. [Requires Flash.]
• Gershwin Fan - Biography divided into major periods of his life, including childhood, early career, Rhapsody in Blue, Broadway, Hollywood, and influences on later music.
• Humanities Web - Brief biography, selected works, photograph, quotations, discography, suggested reading, additional resources, chronology, and related articles.
• Karadar - Article of the composer that includes life, works, photo gallery, and MIDI audio files.
• MSN Encarta - Concise Encarta Encyclopedia article focuses on his musical and compositional career. Includes a photograph.
• Music Scores - Some sheet music downloads and audio playback.
• Naxos: George Gershwin - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage, orchestral, and piano works, and discography.
• New York City Opera - Biography covering most aspects of his musical life. Includes photograph.
• Record Hall: George Gershwin - An analytical biography describing his works and style.
• Song Trellis - Chord sequences of many famous tunes in MIDI and printable GIF format available for study, practice and improvisation.
• Songwriters Hall of Fame - Biography, photograph, discography, audio clips in WMA and MP3, and recommended recordings.
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Filmography noting movies using or based on his works, awards, biography and trivia.
• The Michael O'Neal Singers - Composer of the month article about the composer.
• WQXR: George Gershwin - Biography following him from self taught accompanist through composer of popular music, and on to more serious compositions; includes summary list of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music.
• Wikipedia: George Gershwin - Article with biography, music style, classical credits, musical theater credits, musical films, internal references, external links, and photographs.

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