Example sentences for: gershwin

How can you use “gershwin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ira Gershwin used to say:

  • Before rock, the theater song sat at the apex of popular music; the most famous songwriters were show writers, and the pop boys--the Tin Pan Alleymen--longed to cross the tracks, as Irving Berlin did, and George Gershwin, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser.

  • It is applied not only to individuals, but also, for example, to Richard Pryor's humor, Gershwin's music, and Lassie.

  • 1) Why is George Gershwin identified as being “of Russian-Jewish family” while Irving Berlin is described as “Russian-born, “and Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein as “American”?

  • One of the best-known numbers in the Gershwin score for the movie musical Shall We Dance? originates in a well-known formula, They can't take that away from me, which duly appears as the climax of the chorus.


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