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Ira Gershwin (Dec. 6, 1896 - 1983), lyricist for his brother George - the man behind the words to songs like “I Got Rhythm”, “Embraceable You”, “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me”, as well as the libretto to the opera Porgy and Bess. After George’s premature death, Ira continued to write great songs with Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill and others…
A portrait of his soundscape, from a diary entry:
“Heard in a day: An elevator’s purr, telephone’s ring, telephone’s buzz, a baby’s moans, a shout of delight, a screech from a ‘flat wheel’, hoarse honks, a hoarse voice, a tinkle, a match scratch on sandpaper, a deep resounding boom of dynamiting in the impending subway, iron hooks on the gutter.”

Ira Gershwin (Dec. 6, 1896 - 1983), lyricist for his brother George - the man behind the words to songs like “I Got Rhythm”, “Embraceable You”, “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me”, as well as the libretto to the opera Porgy and Bess. After George’s premature death, Ira continued to write great songs with Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill and others…

A portrait of his soundscape, from a diary entry:

“Heard in a day: An elevator’s purr, telephone’s ring, telephone’s buzz, a baby’s moans, a shout of delight, a screech from a ‘flat wheel’, hoarse honks, a hoarse voice, a tinkle, a match scratch on sandpaper, a deep resounding boom of dynamiting in the impending subway, iron hooks on the gutter.”