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directed an orchestra consisting of Kay Swift playing piano, Irving Becker playing violin and the remaining musicians hired locally in each city. The complete sound track was recorded on March 4, 1952, and issued by
Columbia as LP 4619. Shilkret said "Kay Swift, a splendid composer, wrote the music,
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has suggested, Gershwin's mother Rose was unhappy that she was not Jewish. In any case, his reluctance was not unfamiliar to his family and friends—Ira
Gershwin thought George was too uncomfortable with children, others thought he was too self-centered to ever marry or simply preferred not to.
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objected to it. Warburg—using the pen name of Paul James—wrote lyrics for Swift's melodies, an extension of his poetry writing which was a family tradition. Swift had three children by
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collaborated with Swift to complete and arrange some of his unpublished works. He said that she knew almost all of George's music, "had taken down sketches as he composed and had total musical recall."
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was a banker, member of a distinguished Jewish family who had made a fortune in banking. Swift was
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