what was Gershwin?
And the livin#39; is easyquot; - George Gershwin I will be brazenly unapologetic, and will just quot;out and outquot; skip Thursday#39;s posting…letting this quot;mini-sabbaticalquot; last on up until later on this morning… Friday morning. So, what was Gershwin? Was he a jazz musician at heart who wrote pieces with classical forms, or did he lean towards the trends in the art music of his time? Or, as I#39;ve been convinced, was he a little bit of both? Gershwin was accused of trying to elevate his station by writing classical music, since his background was that of song writer. Copeland was accused of lowering himself by including jazz idioms into his classical music, but Copeland was