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Scene in D.C.: Carole King, Pelosi at Gershwin Prize

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“To think that came out of a Jewish girl from Brooklyn,” joked Michael Feinstein, host of concert last night celebrating the music of Carole King, this year’s recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

He was referring to her song “Way Over Yonder,” which Siedah Garrett delivered in a rousing version at the Library of Congress.