George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898, was the second son of Russian immigrants. As a boy, George was anything but studious, and it came as a wonderful surprise to his family that he had secretly been learning to play the piano.

But from 1924 until George’s death in 1937, the brothers wrote almost exclusively with each other, composing over two dozen scores for Broadway and Hollywood. Though they had many individual song hits, their greatest achievement may have been the elevation of musical comedy to an American art form.

Mar 03, 2022 · It is called “El Corte,” or the cutting. The 1937 massacre on Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is one of …

The inauguration of the president of the United States is a ceremony to mark the commencement of a new four-year term of the president of the United States.During this ceremony, some 72 to 78 days after the presidential election, the president takes the presidential oath of office.The inauguration takes place for each new presidential term, even if the president is continuing in …