Girl Crazy

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Girl Crazy

musical by George and Ira Gershwin

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…Ethel Merman in the musical Girl Crazy (1930). The following year, Gershwin scored a lengthy, elaborate piano arrangement of the song, and in late 1933 he arranged the piece into a set of variations for piano and orchestra; “I Got Rhythm” Variations has since become one of Gershwin’s most-performed orchestral…
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…Ethel Merman in the musical Girl Crazy (1930). The following year, Gershwin scored a lengthy, elaborate piano arrangement of the song, and in late 1933 he arranged the piece into a set of variations for piano and orchestra; “I Got Rhythm” Variations has since become one of Gershwin’s most-performed orchestral…
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Ethel Merman
…George and Ira Gershwin’s musical Girl Crazy in 1930, billed as Ethel Merman. Though she lacked any formal musical training, she became an immediate sensation and launched a new hit song, “I’ve Got Rhythm.” Virtually everything she appeared in after that was a success, and she became a favoured performer…
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…George and Ira Gershwin’s musical Girl Crazy in 1930, billed as Ethel Merman. Though she lacked any formal musical training, she became an immediate sensation and launched a new hit song, “I’ve Got Rhythm.” Virtually everything she appeared in after that was a success, and she became a favoured performer…
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