Say it with a Beautiful Song: The Songs. The collaborations, the conversational lyric, the inventiveness, and the breadth of emotion. In-Person
Say it with a Beautiful Song: The Songs. The collaborations, the conversational lyric, the inventiveness, and the breadth of emotion. The song we’ll focus on is Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer’s “Moon River.”
*Program Changed to 12/21 and IN-PERSON
Michael Lasser is a writer and speaker. His most recent book, Say It with a Beautiful Song: The Art and Craft of the Great American Songbook, is now available. He is also the co-author (with Philip Furia) of America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley (2006), and the author of America’s Songs II: From the 1890s to the Post-War Years (2013) and City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 (2019). His nationally syndicated public radio show, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, was on the air from 1980-2021, and won a 1994 Peabody Award. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is the former theater critic for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and CITY, and speaks often at museums, arts centers, and universities around the country. He taught English in independent schools for forty years, including thirty-two of them at The Harley School. In 2010, he was named a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Rollins College and in 2022 was a Visiting Scholar at The Waterford School near Salt Lake City, and the Trevor Day School in New York City.
- Date:
- Saturday, December 21, 2024
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Central - Kate Gleason Auditorium
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Adults All Ages
- Categories:
- Department - Arts & Literature