Talk:Gershwin Prize

Carole King discussion
Discussion of Carole King's award ceremony in 2013 isn't here yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ResearcherQ (talk • contribs) 16:53, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Criteria?
The article should specify what the criteria are. 1) Gershwin was primarily a Broadway composer. It seems peculiar to me that none of the recipients so far are associated with Broadway. (Yes, Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the score for a Broadway musical but only one. Yes, Paul Simon also wrote the music and some of the lyrics for one, and only one, Broadway musical, but it was a critical and commercial failure largely forgotten.) Why hasn't Sondheim won? 2) Gershwin was an American composer strongly associated with America and American music, and this is supposed to be a "national" award. So what is McCartney doing on the list? 3) Bacharach and David were only together for a bit more than a decade and both continued to write for many years afterward. So if Bacharach and David were given a joint award, why weren't John Lennon and Paul McCartney given a joint award? Just as Bacharach and David are most remembered for the work they did when they were together, so is McCartney most remembered for the work he did together with Lennon (and it doesn't matter that some of the songs were really written individually; Lennon and McCartney were both members of the Beatles, and in that sense all the work was a collaboration--moreover it was all officially attributed to "Lennon-McCartney"). Is it because John Lennon was no longer living at the time the award was presented? The article doesn't say. TheScotch (talk) 03:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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Misleading Intro
The intro seems misleading since it implies that both George and Ira Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris when those pieces were just by George Gershwin? Unless I'm incorrect?

Aza24 (talk) 05:38, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Grover and elmo
Grover and Elmo van be found in the broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7yTxphVtfA atthe time of 1'05'03 until 1'06'35 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:67CD:7700:C88A:A5E7:F5B:86B5 (talk) 21:39, 30 January 2022 (UTC)