Ira Gershwin Drama for "Of Thee I Sing". In 1988 UCLA established The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award in recognition of the brothers' contribution to music, and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song "Strike Up the Band for UCLA". Recipients include Angela Lansbury (1988), Ray Charles (1991), Mel Tormé (1994), Bernadette Peters (1995), Frank Sinatra (2000), Stevie Wonder (2002), k.d. lang (2003), James Taylor (2004), Babyface (2005), Burt Bacharach (2006), Quincy Jones (2007), Lionel Richie (2008) and Julie Andrews (2009). Ira Gershwin was a joyous listener to the sounds of the modern world. "He had a
Bunch (surname) Bunch (surname) Bunch is a surname. According to George Fraser Black ("The Surnames of Scotland", 1946), it is "a surname peculiar to Perth and neighbourhood, and found in Perth so early as first half of the fifteenth century". Notable people with the surname include: At the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881, the frequency of the surname "Bunch" was highest in the following counties, by order of frequency: As of 2014, the frequency of the surname was highest in the following countries: As of 2014, 90.9% of all known bearers of the surname "Bunch" were residents of the