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Nice Work: Thoughts and Observations on Gershwin’s Last Songs
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Abstract
In the two years between the premiere of Porgy and Bess and the end of his life, George Gershwin returned to writing songs. With one exception“By Strauss,” the sole Gershwin contribution to the 1936 revue The Show Is On, whose skillful and subtle parody of nineteenth-century cliche gives lie to canards about what Gershwin did not know-these songs were written for films: Shall We Dance and A Damsel in Distress (both 1937 and both starring Fred Astaire), and The Goldwyn Follies (1938). Posthumous scores for The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1946) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) were assembled by Ira Gershwin and, in the first of these, Kay Swift from previously written songs and sketches.
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Title: Nice Work: Thoughts and Observations on Gershwin’s Last Songs
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Abstract
In the two years between the premiere of Porgy and Bess and the end of his life, George Gershwin returned to writing songs.
With one exception“By Strauss,” the sole Gershwin contribution to the 1936 revue The Show Is On, whose skillful and subtle parody of nineteenth-century cliche gives lie to canards about what Gershwin did not know-these songs were written for films: Shall We Dance and A Damsel in Distress (both 1937 and both starring Fred Astaire), and The Goldwyn Follies (1938).
Posthumous scores for The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1946) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) were assembled by Ira Gershwin and, in the first of these, Kay Swift from previously written songs and sketches.
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