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What turned up
From Gershwin's own essay 'The Composer in the Machine Age' (1933), reprinted in Daniel Albright (ed.), Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources (2004).
Work
essay 'The Composer in the Machine Age'
Occasion
1933
Sources checked
en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 21 August 2026Quotes section, sourced to Gershwin's 1933 essay
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