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San Diego woman in regular contact with Gershwin and Cohan, writes their new songs

By Greg Fogg

June 19, 2006

San Diego--American composers like George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin have long been synonymous with the Fourth of July. Each year, their music is choreographed to fireworks and played by Pops orchestras around the country. But just because those great musicians are dead doesn’t mean they have to stop writing new music.

Case in point: San Diego resident Jenifer Whisper, who calls herself the “psychic musical medium,” has been communicating with all the old great songwriters for more than 30 years and writing their tunes from beyond the grave.

Whisper says she got up thinking someone was at her front door, but when she opened the door no one was there. She returned to her meditating when she heard the voice again. This time the voice said, “Hi, Jeny. This is George Gershwin!”

Whisper claims Gershwin showed her a scene from her life when she was eight years old. She and her twin sister begged their older sister to play the piano for them, and Whisper’s favorite song was George and Ira Gershwin’s “Embraceable You.”

Humbled, she told Gershwin, “You want my sister. She’s the one with the musical talent.” But according to Whisper, Gershwin singled her out to be the conduit for him and his musical buddies up in heaven because she had the gift for being a medium. As he told her, “You’re the one with the receptivity.”

Over the years, Whisper and her collection of composers have transcribed dozens of star-spangled tunes: One by Irving Berlin called “I Am Your Red, White and B-L-U-E”; Cohan’s “Old Glory, New Glory”; and Gershwin’s “Simple Case for Liberty, America’s the Land for Me.”

She’s written enough ballads and show tunes to put on her own Fourth of July performance. In fact, that’s just what she did on Sunday, July 2, at the First Spiritualist Church in San Diego, where 32 of her new tunes were performed.

In case you missed it, Whisper says she’s already planning a Christmas show, and she’s also put out a CD titled “Magical, Mystical, Music from the ‘Stars Above.’”

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Greg Fogg is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Vyuz.com