The Music Plays On — Kay Swift
3 min readJul 4, 2020
The composer and songwriter, Kay Swift, is an intriguing figure. Today, her name is mentioned mostly in passing, usually only in association with George Gershwin. However important Swift’s ten-year long friendship and affair might have been to both Swift and Gershwin, her music had an enormous influence on the development of the American musical and the classical pieces that she wrote are truly excellent.
