Broadcast: 14th July 1937

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Added: Jul 14 2005

On the 11th of July 1937 shortly before his 39th birthday musical composer George Gershwin died of a brain tumour. Dupont’s Summer Cavalcade of Music were scheduled to feature Gershwin’s music the following week but as a special tribute to the young man whose tunes brought joy to America, this show was broadcast on the 14th July 1937. Gershwin lifted our popular music to a new level as the leading interpreter for what was called the Jazz idiom.