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  • Billy Joel performs on December 31, 2013 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
    Billy Joel performs on December 31, 2013 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
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    Billy Joel Honored With George Gershwin Prize

    Though today’s music industry hardly resembles the Tin Pan Alley era

    byBen Yagoda
  • Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in Porgy and Bess.
    Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in Porgy and Bess.
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    The Gershwin Wars

    With Nice Work and Porgy and Bess up for 20 Tonys, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim talk to Tablet

    byJudith Miller
  • Oklahoma! at the St. James Theater, 1943–1948.(Photofest)
    Oklahoma! at the St. James Theater, 1943–1948.(Photofest)
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    Turning Point

    A new history argues that it was a single play—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!—that ushered in the beginning of Broadway’s Golden Age

    byAdam Kirsch
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    A Fine Concert

    Rufus, Sting, Lou Reed, and a celebration of David Lehman’s Nextbook Press book

    byJesse Oxfeld
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    Nextbook Author Talks Gershwin, Dylan

    Lehman traces Jewish influence in American music

    byMarc Tracy
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    A Fine Romance

    Jewish Songwriters, American Songs

    byDavid Lehman
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    Good Vibrations in Blue

    Brian Wilson to put his singular spin on George Gershwin

    byHadara Graubart
  • Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, and Oscar Hammerstein II at the St. James Theater.
    Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, and Oscar Hammerstein II at the St. James Theater.
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    A Fine Romance

    An expert picks his top ten favorites from the Jewish-written American songbook

    byDavid Lehman
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