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It was on today’s date in 1937 that George Gershwin died at 10:35 in the morning in a Hollywood hospital after an operation for a brain tumor. He was only 38 years old. Gershwin was the idol of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, revered by song composer Jerome Kern and
crooner Rudy Vallee, AND admired by the "serious" composers of his day, such as Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Even Arnold Schoenberg, the fearsome leader of the 12-tone school, — and Gershwin’s regular tennis partner in Los Angeles — said, in tribute, "there is no doubt that he was a great
composer."

Jesse Ayers, composer