GIANTS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK (PART 2)

Format B/C

The Great American Songbook is the loosely defined canon of significant 20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and movie and Broadway tunes. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, the world was singing lyrics and humming melodies that will still be sung or hummed hundreds of years from now.

This course will concentrate on eight of the most important songwriters of that era who weren’t covered in 2024’s Part 1: Warren, Ellington, Young, Fain, Waller, Styne, Loesser and Van Heusen. Some wrote music, some wrote lyrics, and some wrote both, but all wrote songs that helped to shape American popular culture and spread its values throughout the world.

Tuesdays, March 4, 11, 18, 25; 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM (note extended class time)

Presenter/Developer: Steve Weinstein, B.A. in English with a minor in music, University of Pittsburgh.