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Sep.17.2011
Gershwin's Three Preludes For Piano
  These pieces were introduced by George Gershwin at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City on December 4, 1926. In a March 1925 article in Vanity Fair, critic Carl Van Vechten said that Gershwin was working on a suite of twenty-four piano preludes, to be called The Melting Pot. As it turned out...