Description
Author Herbert Keyser, accompanied by jazz singer/pianist Bett Butler, presents a series of performance/lectures detailing the lives and music of the composers and lyricists of the Great American Songbook. The series complements the October publication of GENIUSES OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE: THE COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS (Hal Leonard 2009). October 5 will turn the spotlight on Irving Berlin and George Gershwin; November 2, Rodgers & Hart, Jerome Kern, and Rodgers & Hammerstein; December 7, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer; March 1, Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser; and April 6, Harold Arlen and Andrew Lloyd Webber.