I'm a fan of the musical composers Ira & George Gershwin. Their music was so ahead of their time and has left such a legacy!
In doing some research on them, I found this lovely fact --
Ira was a joyous listener to the sounds of the modern world.
"He had a sharp eye and ear for the minutiae of living."
He noted in a diary: "Heard in a day: An elevator's purr, telephone's ring, telephone's buzz, a baby's moans, a shout of delight, a screech from a 'flat wheel,' hoarse honks, a hoarse voice, a tinkle, a match scratch on sandpaper, a deep resounding boom of dynamiting in the impending subway, iron hooks on the gutter."
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