Broadcast: 27th February 1939

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Added: Mar 02 2012

Not all great Americans were born long ago. Time is impervious to genius and genius is never confined to any period in history. In our own time lived a young man who will be remembered long after our generation have passed away. It seems only yesterday that he sat at his piano and composed the melodies that the nation sings today. He devoted himself and the passionate fire of his heart to American music and American music was enriched because of him. His name recalls first a chord, then a tinkling tin pan ally tune and finally an opera, Porgy And Bess. His name – George Gershwin…