Great American Songbook: Part 2

Presented by John Clark and his Great American Music Experience

Beginning in 1919 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz (Larry) Hart began writing witty and melodic masterpieces for a quarter century of popular musicals, featuring songs like Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine, The Lady Is a Tramp and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Then in 1943, that partnership ended and Rodgers began a long and successful career with Oscar Hammerstein. If the forties and fifties were the golden era of Broadway, then these two were its shining stars, writing for some of the longest running and best loved productions in the history of musical theater: Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. You will see and hear performances of People Will Say We’re in Love, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Some Enchanted Evening, Getting to Know You and Climb Every Mountain from the original cast recordings and film adaptations of the shows. Reminisce and enjoy! Sing along if you like!

About John Clark: Music Historian, Lecturer

Great American Music Experience – Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

John teaches classes on Bob Dylan, American Roots music, fifties and sixties music for community education programs in Newton, Lexington, Brookline and Cambridge and in adult Ed programs at Brandeis and Tufts Universities. He also presents the history of Jewish-American songwriters at various local synagogues.

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