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	Ira Gershwin Biography and Summary
		In Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959) Ira Gershwin described the art of the lyricist as that of fitting words "mosaically" to music, an art that required "the infinite patience of a gemsetter." To answer that perennial question, whether the words or musi...
		Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) captivated audiences worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s with his provocative lyrics and librettos.
		Ira Gershwin(6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
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	Ira Gershwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
		Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) was reportedly very shy as a young boy and spent most of his time at home reading.
		Ira died on August 15, 1983, and is now interred in the Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ira_Gershwin (822 words)

	George Gershwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was in Hollywood, while working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, that George Gershwin collapsed and, on July 11, 1937, died during surgery for a brain tumour at the age of 38.
		Gershwin was influenced very much by French composers of the early twentieth century.
		Gershwin's own Concerto in F was criticised as being strongly rooted in the work of Claude Debussy, more so than in the jazz style which was expected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gershwin (2167 words)

	Ira Gershwin - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ira Gershwin was a joyous listener to the sounds of the modern world.
		The George and Ira Gershwin Collection in the Library of Congress is the world's preeminent body of primary source materials for the study of the life and work of the Gershwins.
		As well, there are programs, posters, scores from George's music library, the drafts and printer's galleys of Ira's Lyrics on Several Occasions, scripts for radio broadcasts, other biographical texts and the Congressional Gold Medals that were struck in honor of the brothers Gershwin and their contribution to American life and culture.
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	George Gershwin: American Genius (1898-1937)
		Gershwin produced serious works that were daring for their time but which today have become classics of piano, orchestral, and opera literature.
		George's brother Ira (older by two years) was expected to become the musician in the family, but George surprised his parents when he appropriated the piano his mother purchased for Ira when he was twelve, and George was given piano lessons as well as his brother.
		Gershwin was obviously influenced by fl spirituals, gospel music, and African-American dance rhythms, which pervade this intriguing story of love, murder, and longing in a manner unparalleled in opera history.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /gershwin (2892 words)

	Great Performances . Artists . Ira Gershwin \| PBS
		Gershwin collaborated with Vincent Youmans as early as 1920.
		Gershwin's earliest published collaboration with his younger brother was "The Real American Folk Song," a tune they incorporated into "Ladies First," which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 24, 1918.
		Ira Gershwin implemented innovative lyrical devices with aplomb.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_igershwin2.html (829 words)

	Great Performances . Artists . Ira Gershwin \| PBS
		Ira Gershwin emerged as a master of musical comedy during the 1920s and 1930s, when vaudeville was golden.
		Indeed, Ira Gershwin went by the name "Izzy" as a child and always believed his proper name to be Isidore, until he applied for a passport in 1928 and learned his true given name.
		Gershwin, who aspired to be a writer, published early works under a variety of pseudonyms including Bruskin Gershwin, which was the name he affixed to his short story "The Shrine," when it appeared in February 1918 in SMART SET, an H.L. Mencken publication.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_igershwin.html (634 words)

	Ira Gershwin - Biography - AOL Music
		Ira Gershwin developed a talent for writing and drawing in high school where he wrote a column in the school newspaper.
		In 1918 the famous collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin began.
		Together Ira and George Gershwin wrote several hits for Broadway musicals including "The Man I Love, " "'S Wonderful" and "Of Thee I Sing." During their career together Ira Gerswhin was content on George always being in the limelight.
	music.aol.com /artist/ira-gershwin/79674/biography (423 words)

	George Gershwin
		Gershwin was one of the first to introduce into popular songs the rhythms and melodic twists of jazz.
		Gershwin had traveled to Paris in the hopes of studying with the great teacher Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him saying he was fine the way he was.
		Gershwin was ahead of his time, the overture premiered a year or two ahead of the popularization of Cuban rhythms by Xavier Cugat.
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	Gershwin Ira
		Ira's father, Morris, was never in business for very long at any location and therefore moved Ira and his family close to thirty times until Ira turned eighteen.
		Ira's tenure as a carnival businessman was short lived and he spent time working as a clerk and in other jobs which under-used his talent.
		Ira was the first lyricist to be honored by a special tribute performance on the centennial observance of his birth, in New York's Carnegie Hall.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /gershwin_ira.html (1517 words)

	The Gershwin Legacy (September 1998) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		Left, Ira Gershwin's favorite photo of his brother George (by Edward Steichen) appeared in Vanity Fair in 1927; right, Ira works on the score for the film A Star Is Born, 1954.
		The proliferating performances and recordings of their music testify to its enduring popularity, and George and Ira continue to be the subjects of popular as well as scholarly study.
		There is also a scrapbook of obituaries and editorials assembled after George's death by his mother, Rose Gershwin, and two scrapbooks compiled by the adolescent George and Ira: George's deals chiefly with music and Ira's, with topics of general interest.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9809/gershwin.html (1421 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ira Gershwin
		Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) (December 6 1896 - August 17 1983) American lyricist, collaborator with, and elder brother of composer George Gershwin.
		Chief in importance is the music — that written by George and Ira together, as well as songs composed by George and Ira with other collaborators, and George's concert pieces.
		During the 1950s, '60s and '70s, Ira Gershwin made periodic donations to the Library of manuscripts and other materials — along with his detailed descriptions of many of the items.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ira_Gershwin (1279 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of immigrant parents.
		Gershwin spent the first years of his professional life as a piano player in "Tin Pan Alley," a place where musical songs were pitched to music executives in hopes of selling the rights to them for a modest amount of cash.
		Gershwin's compositions were a huge success that brought him to be considered within the same rank as other great composers of the day.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/gershwin.html (534 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 – 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
		Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) was reportedly shy as a young boy and spent most of his time at home reading.
		Ira Gershwin was a joyous listener to the sounds of the modern world.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ira_Gershwin (760 words)

	Greenshoe Theatre Company - Ira Gershwin Bio
		Where George was displaying musical talent, Ira (for whom the family piano was actually purchased) did not engage in a family rivalry against George and focused his attention on the literary area.
		Ira Gershwin died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home on August 17, 1983 at the age of 86.
		Ira established the Gershwin Archive at the Library of Congress to preserve manuscripts of George and Ira's work.
	www.greenshoetc.com /show_archive/2002_season/rhapsody/bio_ira_gershwin.html (747 words)

	DAF -- Ira Gershwin (KURT WEILL QUARTERLY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Phillip Furia takes full advantage of the riches offered in Gershwin's extensive notebook materials, and he seems unperturbed by the problems posed in analyzing Ira Gershwin, the man. Furia's background is in Modernist poetry, and it is in syntactical and structural analysis of individual songs that he is at his considerable best.
		That Ira Gershwin willingly (if complainingly) tolerated the debilitating pressures of Hollywood — he never returned to the Broadway stage — remains another troubling, enigmatic aspect of his life.
		Ira Gershwin is extensively annotated, though it lacks what might have been useful appendices: a complete list of Gershwin's shows and films, for example.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dfox/iragershwinarticle.html (834 words)

	Gershwin, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gershwin wrote some of the most original and popular musical works produced in the United States.
		Born 100 years ago, George Gershwin set the music world on its ear with a Rhapsody and rhythms that still fascinate.
		Le compositeur amÃ©ricain George Gershwin au piano, sur le toit de son hÃ´tel de Miami Beach en 1930 La saison d'OpÃ©ra en Il.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gershwin.asp (721 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Ira Gershwin : Biography
		Lyricist Ira Gershwin was known far and wide as one of the kindest and best-adjusted men in the music industry.
		After George's death in 1937, Ira successfully collaborated with several other composers, notably Jerome Kern (for the 1944 Rita Hayworth/ Gene Kelly film musical Cover Girl) and Kurt Weill (for the 1954 version of A Star is Born).
		In the 1945 biopic Rhapsody in Blue, Ira Gershwin was portrayed by Herbert Rudley.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/80617/bio.jhtml (265 words)

	Gershwin Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, ISBN: 0860015475 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gershwin reveals that the original "dummy" lyric for the tricky "I Got Rhythm" was "Roly-Poly/ Eating solely/ Ravioli/ Better watch your diet or bust." Either as showbiz memoir or pure poetry, Gershwin's book is a delight.
		Although Ira Gershwin was capable of lyric sloppiness -- you'd have to rate his work a tick lower overall than that of Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Yip Harburg, Alan Jay Lerner and Stephen Sondheim -- at his best his lyrics sparkle.
		Ira Gershwin in this was fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest of all writers of popular song, first of course and above all his brother, George.
	www.campusi.com /isbn_0860015475.htm (659 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was not until 1924 that Ira and George began a collaboration that would prove one of the most successful and prolific in history.
		In 1935, Ira, in collaboration with Dubose Heyward, wrote the words to George Gershwin's music for Porgy and Bess, a work that straddles the world of opera and Broadway and includes such classic songs as "Summertime", "Bess, You Is My Woman Now", "It Ain’t Neccessarily So" and "I Got Plenty O' Nuthin"'.
		On Dec. 6, 1996, Ira was the first lyricist to be honored by a special tribute performance on the centennial observance of his birth, in New York's Carnegie Hall.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=72 (421 words)

	Brother Can You Spare A Rhyme: The Story of George and Ira Gershwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Born in Brooklyn in 1898, Gershwin began studying theory and piano as a child.
		With his shy humor and deep affection for his brother, Ira would be the first to defer to George as the genius in the family.
		But Ira's wit is very much a part of the initial success and the lasting value of the Gershwin legacy.
	www.riverwalk.org /proglist/showpromo/brother_can_you.htm (924 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Gershwin
		His fans included Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel (who modeled both his mature violin sonata and his Piano Concerto in G on Gershwin's idiom), and Francis Poulenc.
		Gershwin's works remain fresh and ravishing after 60 years.
		Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
	www.classical.net /~music/comp.lst/gershwin.html (558 words)

	Today in History: September 2
		In February 1934, George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward began their collaboration on a libretto, songs, and music for Heyward's novel, Porgy, about the African-American "Gullah" culture of South Carolina.
		Gershwin joined in their "shouting" which involved rhythms created by hands and feet as accompaniment to the spirituals.
		George Gershwin wrote of his composition, "I think the music is so marvelous, I don't believe I wrote it." Most reviewers welcomed the opera.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep02.html (1007 words)

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		Ira Gershwin, who wrote the words for some of America's greatest popular songs, was the quiet Gershwin brother.
		Ira spent the second half of his career writing with other composers and trying to make hits out of George's unused music.
		As for George and Ira Gershwin, some performances are planned this year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ira's birth (he died in 1983), and meanwhile, Gershwin champion Furia is talking up one more of their songs.
	www1.umn.edu /urelate/kiosk/5.96text/gershwin.html (752 words)

	Reflections on meeting Ira Gershwin - Richard Glazier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was on this piano that George and Ira composed Porgy and Bess in 1934 and 1935.
		When the Gershwins moved to Hollywood from New York in 1936, the piano was put in storage.
		After George's death, in 1937, Ira remained in California and had the piano moved from New York because it was George's favorite.
	www.richardglazier.com /reflections_on_meeting_ira_gershwin.php (346 words)

	IRA GERSHWIN Autograph
		Words by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
		The first lyricist to win a Pulitzer Prize (1932, Of Thee I Sing), Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) wrote the lyrics to a number of the songs by his older brother, George, including "Liza", beginning in 1924 for the musical Lady Be Good.
		After George's death in 1937, Ira worked with a number of other composers, including Jerome Kern (Cover Girl, 1944) and Harold Arlen (the musical remake of A Star is Born, 1954).
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=29540 (296 words)

	GershwinFan.com - The George and Ira Gershwin Educational Fanpage
		George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York.
		Ira was going to study the piano when the instrument was brought into the family home, but it was George who took the immediate interest in it and immediately began to successfully play by ear.
		Ira salvaged a great deal of George's work and shared it with younger people, including Michael Feinstein, whose recordings include a great deal of Gershwin pieces.
	www.gershwinfan.com /biogeorge.html (1650 words)

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