Tuesdays Oct 21-Dec 9
A Fine Romance
Jewish Community Center
A FINE ROMANCE
Jewish Songwriters and The Great American Songbook
A Fine Romance celebrates the American Jewish composers and lyricists whose collective genius created the Golden Age of the American Musical Theatre and The Great American Songbook.
Irving Berlin
Dorothy Fields
George & Ira Gershwin
The musical magicians of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and the Movies shaped and defined the American experience in song and created an emotional musical history of our times.
Comden and Green
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Harold Arlen
On the radio, from jukeboxes and bandstands, the songs of America were heard and sung across the land. Leaping over national and cultural boundaries, the songs of America would be our musical gift to the world and our greatest cultural export.
Leonard Bernstein
Ellie Greenwich
Lorenz Hart
The songs of America poured out of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, and a slew of other composers and became “standards” that are still sung and played a hundred years later. The lyrics of Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Comden & Green, Yip Harburg, and Dorothy Fields captured the linguistic spirit and exuberance of America.
Carole King
Stephen Sondheim
Lesley Gore
Simon and Garfunkel
A Fine Romance traces the musical evolution of Jewish tunesmiths who fused African American and Jewish music into the soundtrack of the American dream and took us Over The Rainbow.
Yip Harburg
“The subtlest spirit of a nation is expressed through its music – and the music acts reciprocally upon the nation’s very soul.” Walt Whitman
A FINE ROMANCE
Jewish Songwriters and The Great American Songbook
Section I
When: October 21 – December 9, 2025
Time: Tuesdays, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Jewish Federation Building on the Campus of the Jewish Community Center 3718 E River Rd, Tucson, AZ 85718
Section II
When: October 21 – December 9, 2025
Time: Tuesdays, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Jewish Federation Building on the Campus of the Jewish Community Center 3718 E River Rd, Tucson, AZ 85718
No class on Nov 4, No class on Nov 25
For information and to register call (520) 777-5817, e-mail at info@thelearningcurvetucson.com or go to The Learning Curve.
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