Ira Gershwin explained, " In the show there are no verse-and-chorus songs ; there is a sort of recitative running along, and lots of finales and finalettos.

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named " Ella " in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing.

He was presented with the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, during the 1991 UCLA Spring Sing.

She was given the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing.

“ Porgy and Bess on the Concert Stage: Gershwin's 1936 Suite (“ Catfish Row ”) and the 1942 Gershwin – Bennett Symphonic Picture .” Musical Quarterly 94: 1-2 ( Spring-Summer 2011 ), 93-155.

* 1954 ( 49 ) The Musical " A Star is Born " starring Judy Garland singing the now classic, Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin collaboration, " The Man That Got Away "

Billed as " The New Gershwin Musical Comedy ", it is largely based on the songwriting team ’ s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well.

“ Gershwin, Schillinger, Dukelsky: Some Reminiscences ,” Musical Quarterly 33 / 1 ( 1947 ): 102-115

* Gilbert, Steven E. “ Gershwin ’ s Art of Counterpoint .” Musical Quarterly 70 / 4 ( 1984 ): 423-456.

* George & Ira Gershwin: A Musical Celebration, MCA Records ( 1994 ) “ But Not for Me ”

In 1992, he produced his first Broadway show, Crazy for You, a George Gershwin musical, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Musical compositions by George Gershwin.

“ Porgy and Bess on the Concert Stage: Gershwin's 1936 Suite (“ Catfish Row ”) and the 1942 Gershwin – Bennett Symphonic Picture .” Musical Quarterly 94: 1-2 ( Spring-Summer 2011 ), 93-155.

“ Porgy and Bess on the Concert Stage: Gershwin's 1936 Suite (“ Catfish Row ”) and the 1942 Gershwin – Bennett Symphonic Picture .” Musical Quarterly 94: 1-2 ( Spring-Summer 2011 ), 93-155.

Although Gershwin himself spoke of the rhapsody as " a musical kaleidoscope of America ", Rhapsody in Blue has often been interpreted as a musical portrait of New York City ; it is used to this effect in the films Manhattan and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, as well as extensively in this context in a segment from the film Fantasia 2000, in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld, to critical acclaim.

In New York, Schillinger flourished, becoming famous as the advisor to many of America ’ s leading popular musicians and concert music composers including George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Oscar Levant, Tommy Dorsey and Henry Cowell.

" Though he lived in America for most of his later years and was a good friend of Gershwin, Szirmai eschewed the jazz styles popular at the time ; in addition to the folk music of his native Hungary, his music shows the influence of German Romanticism, particularly Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, whom he most admired.

In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

* " My One And Only " w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin

* " My Cousin in Milwaukee " w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin.

** My One and Only – Book by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer, music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

She had minor single hits with the standards " Blame It On My Youth " ( music by Oscar Levant and lyrics by Edward Heyman ), " Looking For A Boy " ( music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin ), and " Spring Is Here " ( music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart ).

* " My One and Only Highland Fling " ( 1949 ) w. Ira Gershwin for The Barkleys of Broadway

* Oh Me, Oh My, Oh You with lyrics by Ira Gershwin

Decades later, Ira Gershwin told American songwriting historian Sheila Davis about a contribution Lawrence made to honing the lyrics of the song " My Ship " in Lady in the Dark.

All the Wondermints can be heard on Wilson's CDs and DVDs Live at the Roxy Theatre, Brian Wilson on Tour, Pet Sounds Live, and Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, with Sahanaja, Walusko, and Gregory also appearing on the Pet Sounds Live in London album and the studio albums Gettin ' in Over My Head and Smile.

Ira Gershwin recalled that the title song, inspired by the final phrase of " My Country, ' Tis of Thee ", was somewhat controversial among the production staff.

A number of Gershwin songs were retained, including " Embraceable You ", " Bidin ' My Time ", " But Not for Me ", " Treat Me Rough ", and " I Got Rhythm ".

She also appeared in the short-lived Gershwin musical Pardon My English in 1933.

#" My Man's Gone Now " ( George Gershwin ) – 6: 21

The Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill song " My Ship " ( sung by Bernadette Peters ) is heard at the end of the film, as Sammy listens to a music box.

Harburg " Over the Rainbow ", " It's Only a Paper Moon "; with Ted Koehler " Stormy Weather ", " I've Got the World on a String ", " I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues ", " Let's Fall in Love "); with Johnny Mercer (" Blues in the Night ", " That Old Black Magic ", " One for My Baby ", " Come Rain or Come Shine ", " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive "; and with Ira Gershwin " The Man that Got Away ")

*" Lorelei ", a 1933 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ; it was written for their musical Pardon My English

Feinstein served as musical consultant for the 1983 Broadway show My One and Only, a musical pastiche of Gershwin tunes.

A list of historical recordings of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Klemperer conducting ( including parts of the George Gershwin Memorial Concert at the Hollywood Bowl ) can be found here: Otto Klemperer conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division.

* February 12-Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.

At far right is George Gershwin.

There is a story that when Gershwin met Ravel, he mentioned that he would like to study with the French composer.

* Maurice Ravel is played as a " bit role " by actor Oscar Loraine in the 1945 Gershwin film biography Rhapsody in Blue.

Other famous examples of the genre include Maurice Ravel's Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for violin and piano ; the Berceuse élégiaque by Ferruccio Busoni ; the Berceuse from the opera Jocelyn by Benjamin Godard ; the Berceuse by Igor Stravinsky which is featured in the Firebird ballet, and Lullaby for String Quartet by George Gershwin.

What distinguished these composers from their contemporaries ( such as Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin and Igor Stravinsky ) is that Expressionist composers used atonality self-consciously to free their work from traditional tonality.

* An autographed picture of Bow is offered as a consolation prize of a beauty contest in the 1931 George Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing.

Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

" about the Whiteman concert caught his attention, in which the final paragraph claimed that " George Gershwin is at work on a jazz concerto, Irving Berlin is writing a syncopated tone poem, and Victor Herbert is working on an American suite.

Paul Whiteman asked Gershwin to write a " jazz concerto " which became the Rhapsody in Blue ; like a concerto, the piece is written for solo piano with orchestra: a rhapsody differs from a concerto in that it features one extended movement instead of separate movements.

On LP and on the recently out-of-print CD, it is coupled with works by George Gershwin, and ( on the CD ) Samuel Barber and John Philip Sousa.

Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

George Gershwin used it in his opera Porgy and Bess, though sometimes the recitative in that work is changed to spoken dialogue.

The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts is scheduled to be built on the site of Gershwin Hall.

It is located at the junction of Campus Road and Hillel Place, across from Gershwin Hall, at the center of Brooklyn.