It always felt to me as if the women were trying to play men trying to be, if you will, 'Ravel' when they should have remained 'Gershwin' when both were equally different and equally great.

I used to have a problem, on an artistic level, with the way actresses played women in positions of power - ships' captains on Star Trek, for instance or senators or soldiers. I wonder about what is happening in the minds of modern men and women. Supposedly, Ravel replied, 'If you study with me, I can only teach you to be a bad Ravel you are already a great Gershwin.' I don't know if this is a true story or an urban legend type thing, but my dad once told me that Gershwin asked to study composition with Ravel.