Oscar Levant: film star, and greatest Gershwin pianist of his generation
Oscar Levant built his reputation as an actor and radio host, but this talented pianist was also a key interpreter of Gershwin’s music
'Upper berth – lower berth. That’s the difference between talent and genius,’ muttered George Gershwin to his friend Oscar Levant as he settled down for the night in the more comfortable lower bunk. The two musicians were on the sleeper from New York to Pittsburgh, where Gershwin was due to perform his iconic, jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F. The conductor Bill Daly had been held up in New York, and Levant was to help out by playing the solos while Gershwin rehearsed the...
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