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Lawrence D. Stewart, 1917-2007 (continued)
Writings by Others, 1917-2007
This subseries predominantly contains Ira’s holograph and typescript sketches for unpublished short essays and lyric revisions, as well as his early published essays. A variety of pieces by other authors are also included.
Arranged alphabetically by author and therein by title.
BOX-FOLDER 213/2 Bykov, V. "Anna Strunsky's Parcel," 1965
Note: Published Russian article with English translation
BOX-FOLDER 213/3 Calhern, Louis. "The Thirty-Five Tiles of Ira Gershwin," 1967 November 8
BOX-FOLDER 213/4 Du Brow, Rick. UPI News Feature on Ira Gershwin, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 213/5 Furia, Philip. "Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist," 1995
Note: Includes Lawrence D. Stewart's notes
Gershwin, Ira
BOX-FOLDER 213/6 1928 Diary, 1928, 1997
Transcription annotated by Lawrence D. Stewart
Includes: Book proposal
BOX-FOLDER 213/7 An American in Paris, 1951?
BOX-FOLDER 213/8 Andre Kostelanetz and a Gathering of Gershwiniana, undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/9 Audubon (Last Half), 1917 November 28
Note: Published in the New York Clipper
BOX-FOLDER 213/10 Book of Knowledge, 1963
Note: Short biography of George Gershwin, written for a biographical encyclopedia
BOX-FOLDER 213/11 California, Here I Came, undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/12 Canadian Broadcast, 1960 December 12
BOX-FOLDER 213/13 Essay on Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1940, 1958, 1965
Includes: Correspondence with Kurt Weill
BOX-FOLDER 213/14 Foreward to Porgy and Bess (Columbia Masterworks), 1951
BOX-FOLDER 213/15 Four Scores (and Seven Years Ago), undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/16 Hamilton (Last Half), 1918 February 6
Note: Published in the New York Clipper
BOX-FOLDER 213/17 How to Write Lyrics, undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/18 I Met Myself (as told to Hilda Black), undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/19 Justification of his role in George Gershwin's career, 1952
Includes: Lawrence D. Stewart's notes from 1997
BOX-FOLDER 213/20 Miscellaneous notes and prose sketches, 1961-1966 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/21 Music is Music, 1938-1939
Note: Unpublished, written for the Torrance High School Yearbook
BOX-FOLDER 213/22 My Brother, 1937-1938
Note: Opening of essay for Merle Armitage's collection of essays on George Gershwin
BOX-FOLDER 213/23 Notes on his childhood, 1958 September 15
Note: Compiled for Horace Sutton of The Saturday Review
BOX-FOLDER 213/24 Notes on Gershwin manuscripts, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 213/25 A P.S. 20 Connection, undated
BOX-FOLDER 213/26 Porgy and Bess, 1967
Note: Libretto, annotated by Ira Gershwin
BOX-FOLDER 213/27 Revised lyrics for "I Must Write a Song," 1997
BOX-FOLDER 213/28 Troubles of a Lyricist Told by One Who's Had to 'Fit Words' to Many a Tune, 1925 August 16
Note: Published in The World
BOX-FOLDER 213/29 Words and Music, 1930 November 9
Note: Published in The New York Times
Green, Benny
BOX-FOLDER 214/1 Article regarding Ira Gershwin, undated
BOX-FOLDER 214/2 Gershwin and My Time, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 214/3 Kahn, Otto. "George Gershwin and American Youth: An Appreciation," 1929
BOX-FOLDER 214/4 Krasker, Tommy. The Gershwin Musicals, 1991 November 1
BOX-FOLDER 214/5-6 Reynolds, Christopher. "Porgy and Bess: An American Wozzeck," 2006-2007
Note: For Lawrence Stewart on his 80th birthday
BOX-FOLDER 214/7 Weil, Adele. Essay about George Gershwin, 1932-1933
BOX-FOLDER 214/8 Whiteman, Paul. "George Gershwin: A Memoir," undated
BOX-FOLDER 214/9 Wodehouse, Artis. "George Gershwin: His Recordings / His Performance Style," 1983
Note: Paper presented at the Association for Recording Sound Collections Annual Meeting in 1983
Includes: Letter to Michael Feinstein
BOX-FOLDER 214/10 Unidentified. "Concerning Indie Jones," undated
Note: Excerpt from a larger work describing Thanksgiving dinner with George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Nola Arndt, and Paul Mildred Owen; Indie Jones was the housekeeper of the author

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