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American music specialist Robert Wyatt walks you through the lives of the Gershwin brothers, from their simple roots, through their Tin Pan Alley apprenticeship and to the glory years which proved to be so very short. Through original cast recordings, film clips, interviews, intimate home movies, correspondence and other primary materials furnished by The Library of Congress, the Museum of the City of New York and the Rare Documents Collection at the New York Public Library, learn about the lives of these two icons of the American musical, experience their greatest productions, and listen to their music which is as poignant and beloved now as it was during their lifetimes.