Singer Ariana Grande closed out her Manchester benefit concert by performing the song "Over the Rainbow" on June 4. And Yip Harburg — a liberal so outspoken on issues of gender, race and worker’s rights he earned the nickname “Broadway’s social conscience” — penned its brief but everlasting lyrics. (Dave Hogan/AP)“We worked for in our songs a sort of better world, a rainbow world,” Harburg once said. “Now, my generation unfortunately never succeed in making that rainbow world, so we can’t hand it down to you. But then, Yip put in something which makes it a Yip song.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2017 07:46 UTC