{"id":1014,"date":"2012-10-21T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2012-10-21T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T18:18:34","slug":"michael-feinstein-and-terry-gross-on-george-and-ira-gershwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/michael-feinstein-and-terry-gross-on-george-and-ira-gershwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Feinstein and Terry Gross On George and Ira Gershwin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ira Gershwin and Michael Feinstein<\/p><\/div>\n

This<\/a> fascinating interview from NPR’s Fresh Air, recounts singer Michael Feinstein’s years of working with the Gershwin family. Over this period Feinstein cataloged much of the Gershwin discography, and in the process unearthed a treasure trove of wonderful stories.<\/p>\n

The interview coincides with the release of Feinstein’s new book: The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>Feinstein writes firsthand about the musical world of the American composers and brothers, George and Ira Gershwin. The book includes a CD of rare performance including\u00c2\u00a0“Strike Up the Band,” “‘S Wonderful,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” “They All Laughed,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Embraceable You,” “Who Cares?,” “I Got Plenty of Nuthin’,” “They Can’t Take Than Away from Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Love Is Here to Stay.” \u00c2\u00a0The studio recommends it as a must-have collection for anyone who loves the Great American Songbook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This fascinating interview from NPR’s Fresh Air, recounts singer Michael Feinstein’s years of working with the Gershwin family. Over this period Feinstein cataloged much of the Gershwin discography, and in the process unearthed a treasure trove of wonderful stories. The interview coincides with the release of Feinstein’s new book: The Gershwins and Me: A Personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,7,4],"tags":[70,68,126,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thealpertstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}