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  • Messing with the Gershwins is an artistic gamble even with top talent attached.

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2011

  • Messing with the Gershwins is an artistic gamble even with top talent attached.

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2011

  • Back to ml home, their relaxed yet vibrant follow-up boasts 15 new tracks, mostly written by King Selewa himself and also including some unique covers, such as Gershwins Summertime, Nat King Coles Calypso Blues and Ridin on a High and Windy Day by ska favourites, The Paragons.

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  • King Selewa himself and also including some unique covers, such as Gershwins Summertime, Nat

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  • Back to ml home, their relaxed yet vibrant follow-up boasts 15 new tracks, mostly written by King Selewa himself and also including some unique covers, such as Gershwins Summertime, Nat King Coles Calypso Blues and Ridin on a High and Windy Day by ska favourites, The Paragons.

    WN.com - Articles related to 10 ways to profit from food inflation 2010

  • But Rogers had 19 films under her belt, after an adolescence climbing up through song-and-dance acts, comedy routines and Broadway musicals including the Gershwins' "Girl Crazy," alongside a newcomer named Ethel Merman.

    Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011

  • Last Wednesday, playwright Lynn Nottage opted to see "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the new musical adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre L.

    Seeking New Clarity in a Provocative Classic Lizzie Simon 2012

  • Lynn Nottage's experience at "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was rich and mixed: She delighted in the "soaring, majestic, expansive" score; she was alert to the historical implications of the aesthetic choices; and she was periodically overcome with emotion, especially when Norm Lewis , as Porgy, and Audra McDonald , as Bess, sang their duets.

    Seeking New Clarity in a Provocative Classic Lizzie Simon 2012

  • In popular music, though, it can mean life and love, as in the Gershwins' A Foggy Day in London Town: "For suddenly I saw you there/ And through foggy London Town/ The sun was shining everywhere."

    Culture flash: fog 2011

  • And its influence and urgency continued to be felt in the work of such giants of the American theater as Irving Berlin and the Gershwins and in such shows as "Porgy and Bess," "Show Boat" and "South Pacific."

    Sharing the Chutzpah Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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