In Paris, George Gershwin, flanked by Dimitri Tomkin and Vladmir Golschmann, took his bows. A Paris audience had just listened to his "Concerto in F," and they were wildly applauding its composer, soloist, and conductor. Some of the members of the audience were greatly disturbed by the bizarre joy and regret which the young Hebrew composer had put into his most ambitious work.
When the ovation was over, old and young went to various haunts in the gay city where they danced to "I Was So Young and You Were So Beautiful," "Swanee," "Lady Be Good," songs which George Gershwin had dashed...
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