His music is more or less the reason I play the piano. I remember wearing out a Michael Feinstein cassette of Gershwin standards when I was little. Asked my parents for my first lesson after seeing the Rhapsody in Blue segment of Fantasia 2000:

babybacalling:

“As long as he had an audience, George was happy”
-Ginger Rogers

Happy 114th Birthday George Gershwin! 
September 26th 1898- July 11 1937 FOREVER

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