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Composer of the Week: Gershwin

BBC Radio 3
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4/5. The Depression Years.
Donald Macleod charts George Gershwin 's career in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 1929, when audiences were ever more willing to escape the hardships of daily life via a Broadway show such as Girl Crazy. Repeated from Thursday

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Donald MacLeod
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George Gershwin
Source: Radio Times

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