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\"\"<\/a>The papers, original scores, and more written by George and Ira Gershwin are being made available to music scholars, performers, audiences, and students through The Gershwin Initiative<\/a> at the University of Michigan. A \u201clistening gallery\u201d is at the U-M website link. The school will create new, definitive scores for the brothers\u2019 many compositions, which include<\/a> Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, <\/em>and An American in Paris<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Gershwins were pivotal in developing what is now called The Great American Songbook<\/a>, recently brought to a broader (or renewed) audience by Michael Feinstein<\/a>, who is not only an entertainer, but relentless in his effort to preserve this era of musical history and an avid supporter of the next generation<\/a> of vocal talent. No surprise, one of Feinstein\u2019s early jobs was as assistant to Ira Gershwin, which inspired his recent book, The Gershwins and Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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