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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 71 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Ira Gershwin, lyricist and author of many successful Broadway musicals who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, and after his death with many other prominent composers (Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen), talks about revivals of old shows (e.g. Showboat in London) and changes they undergo, costs of putting on shows at the moment of the interviews compared to those in the past, contemporary British musicals, show business finances, and discusses other topics related to musicals, lyricists, composers, and songs. He also speaks very fondly about Pelham (Plum) Wodehouse (an English writer of short stories, plays, poems, and song lyrics), a close friend and a collaborator on the musical "Rosalie," and reminisces about his brother George Gershwin.

Alternative title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Subject

1. Lyricists > United States > Biography
2. Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 > Interviews
3. Interviews (Sound recordings)

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53157

Note

1. Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
2. Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.

Access (note)

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53157.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Author

1. Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Ira Gershwin, 1971-08-16.

Production

1. 1971.

Playing time

1. 011148

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Ira Gershwin, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in Beverly Hills 1971 August 16.

Access

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53157.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Local note

1. Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2167.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wilk, Max, interviewer.

Added title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Found in:

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Research call number

1. *LDC 53157
2. *LT-10 2167