George Gershwin

6 songs by George Gershwin

Paintings depict a family's routine one summer day earlier in this century. The comfort and joy of having an extended family to love and to cherish is evident in these paintings.

This video is the adaptation of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production of the Gershwins' classic musical drama Porgy and Bess, which portrays the lives of the occupants of Catfish Row.

1. Rapsody in Blue---16:27 min. 2. An American in Paris--17:59 3. Lullaby for Strings---9:16

Allen portrays a comedy writer whose wife leaves him and is now writing a book about their failed marriage. He consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old until he gets involved with his best friend's mistress.

Wartime heroics of a British woman who captures a Nazi pilot, cares for her children, and endures the loss of her home and family; ex-G.I. painter Jerry Mulligan resides in post-war Paris and falls in love with a young dancer who is engaged to another man; a rebellious patient battles the mental institution he has been sent to; story of a friendship between a headstrong refined Southern woman and her patient chauffeur; a rookie cop infiltrates the...