Television
April, 1956
On February 11, 1937, George Gershwin was pummeling away at his Concerto in F with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Suddenly, he lost consciousness and missed a few bars; a fraction of a minute later he regained control of himself and finished the performance as if nothing had happened. Five months later—to the day—he was dead of cystic degeneration of a tumor on a section of his brain that could not be touched by the operating surgeon. The man who said he had more tunes in his head than he could e...
