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I Love to Rhyme: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin 23 March

Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin

In this episode, Alan Farley and Gershwin biographer Philip Furia conclude their look at "The Firebrand of Florence" and consider the film musical "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," for which Ira wrote lyrics to previously unused music by his late brother George.

 

Playlist:

 

 

From The Firebrand of Florence:

Night Music and Tarantella

A Rhyme for Angela

The World Is Full of Villains

You Have to Do What You Do Do

Love Is My Enemy

 

From The Shocking Miss Pilgrim:

Changing My Tune

Stand Up and Fight

Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?

The Back Bay Polka

For You, For Me, For Evermore

In Memoriam (1936-2012): KALW lost an important voice for the arts in the Bay Area, our senior announcer, Alan Farley, in October of 2012. Alan’s diagnosis and subsequent passing of pancreatic and liver cancer was sudden, and a shock to all of us here at KALW.