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.

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. 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.

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.

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.