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American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Ira Glasser said he was "pleased as punch" with the outcome of the Bork hearings before the Senate Committee because it concentrated on Bill of Rights issues...
Congram said he would like to see the Regatta become like "the IRA regatta in Syracuse," where similar measures to those planned for Boston have made the event "free of an unruly crowd...
...this amiable study of a man and his epoch, Musicologist Edward Jablonski shows why the queries persist on the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some...
...took it to heart. Gershwin's music reflected an emotional ebullience, but he rarely gave all of himself in private life. He was exceptionally close to his brother; they shared a house even after Ira's marriage. But George remained a bachelor whose most valued female friend was the married composer Kay Swift...
...that score he seldom failed. With Ira as lyricist, George composed the up tunes that seemed the antidote to depression, financial or psychological. Composer Alec Wilder remarked, "Since Gershwin was rarely given to sad songs, what could have been a more welcome palliative for the natural gloom of the times than the insistently cheery sound of his music?" The sound never fades. This year there have been TV specials, new recordings and productions like the Glyndebourne Opera Festival's sellout Porgy. Next season a musical will be fashioned from the old melodies, with a new book by Neil Simon...