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Episoce #21225/29 Ira Gershwin: When Wit Serves Romance Ira Gershwin didn’t like to write conventional love ballads. He always never came out and said “I…
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This month, tune into The Metropolitan Opera to hear one of America's most beloved operas. The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has been critically acclaimed,…
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Episode #1936 9/7 Arthur Francis and Ira Gershwin Ira was the older brother but George became famous first. To avoid riding on George’s coattails, Ira…
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Episode 19011/5 I Love To Rhyme Songwriters borrow the techniques of poetry to become masters of their craft, and that includes rhyme. Language has its…
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Episode # 184511/10 Ira Gershwin’s Cliches Because song lyrics are so short, songwriters often turned to cliches, a few words that everybody understood.…