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This American composer combined jazz and concert traditions and wrote Porgy and Bess.

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Your new ahaGeorge Gershwin

Gershwin blended jazz and classical forms in Rhapsody in Blue and later composed the opera Porgy and Bess. Source: George Gershwin ↗

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