¹ See, for example, papers given at the “Gershwin Rhapsodies” and “Gershwin Moment” sessions at the 2007 Pittsburgh meeting of the Society for American Music; Reynolds, Christopher, “Porgy and Bess: ‘An American Wozzeck,”’ Journal of the Society for American Music 1/1 (February 2007): 1–28CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Wierzbicki, James, “The Hollywood Career of Gershwin's Second Rhapsody,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 60/1 (Spring 2007): 133–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Andrew Davis and Howard Pollack, “Rotational Form in the Opening Scene of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 60/2 (Summer 2007): 373–414. Wayne Shirley, emeritus senior music specialist at the Library of Congress, informs me that his Porgy and Bess edition is nearly finished. Additionally, Richard Crawford, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, has a biography under contract with W. W. Norton that is tentatively titled Summertime: The Life and Music of George Gershwin.

² Susan E. Neimoyer, “Rhapsody in Blue: A Culmination of George Gershwin's Early Musical Education,” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 2003.