57 min
Episode 7: George & Ira Gershwin Setting The Standard: Stories From The Great American Songbook
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- Music Interviews
“I Got Rhythm”, “Summertime”, “The Man I Love”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, the men you love are at the forefront: George and Ira Gershwin, brothers who wrote a plethora of immortal songs that both reflected and shaped the dynamic forces of American modernism during the Jazz Age.
“I Got Rhythm”, “Summertime”, “The Man I Love”. These are the songs you have been singing your whole life, and now is your chance to learn about who wrote them! In this week’s episode, the men you love are at the forefront: George and Ira Gershwin, brothers who wrote a plethora of immortal songs that both reflected and shaped the dynamic forces of American modernism during the Jazz Age.
57 min