What could be better on a quiet winters day, than listening to just a bit of Gershwin. George Gershwin had a short life 1898-1937, dying of an undiagnosed brain tumor. But in those short years he wrote music that is still extremely popular and shows no sign of diminishing. He is one of those people who sometimes walk the earth who when they die so young, we say what if he had lived..but what he left in his few short years is memorable and is still hummed and whistled.