THOUGH the great American composers of last century get little publicity these days, it was a sheer delight to see the crowds flocking into Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Sunday to hear those great melodies of George Gershwin.
It was not hard to understand why classics like Rhapsody in Blue, Someone to Watch Over Me, Embraceable You and dozens more have survived for up to 100 years.
I sat there, remembering that Gershwin died 77 years ago at the age of 38. How gratified he would surely have been to know that, after all that time, there was still such enthusiasm for his music in places as far away as Glasgow. It was also galling to think that he could have had another 50 years of life - and how much more of his genius we could have known if a brain tumour had not brought it all to and end in 1937. But at least, the memory of Gershwin, and so many more of that extraordinary generation, will live on.
Jack Webster,
58 Netherhill Avenue, Glasgow.
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