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Rhapsody on Folly: A Serendipitous Encounter with George Gershwin

Illustrations by melinda Smith monk/shutterstock.AI; photograph courtesy of Ira Berendt; courtesy of (Harry Berendt) Ira Berendt & (Ferry Passengers) The Charleston Museum; courtesy of (Porgy and Bess with George, Near Folly Island by Henry Botkin, watercolor & ink on paper, 1934) Gibbes Museum of Art & (Gershwin) the family of George Gershwin; courtesy of (men at piano) South Carolina Historical Society; courtesy of (watercolor) Marc Gershwin & (Gerswhin) wikimedia commons; & courtesy of (beach) the Charleston Museum

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Harry and Fannie Berendt on their honeymoon.Harry Berendt was a violinist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.Beach Bound: Charleston author, poet, and playwright DuBose Heyward (right) on the Folly Beach ferry, circa 1920.A watercolor and ink sketch of Gershwin’s beach cottage by his cousin Henry Botkin.Brooklyn-born composer George Gershwin arrived on Folly Beach in June 1934 for a six-week stay to create the score for Porgy and Bess.Classic Collaboration: DuBose Heyward (center) with George (left) and Ira Gershwin in October 1935.Watercolor sketch by George Gershwin of his studio on Folly Beach, with the piano on which he and DuBose Heyward began work on Porgy and Bess; it premiered in New York in fall 1935.George GershwinA moonlit beach on Folly, circa 1930s.

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