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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.
From late 40s to the late 60s, the TV variety show ruled the airways. On any night you could tune into The Ed Sullivan Show, The Star Texaco Hour, Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show or the Colgate Comedy Hour.
Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Kate Smith, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin and a host of others featured the stars of Hollywood and Broadway on their shows.
Join me in 2025 for a trip down Television Memory Lane in beautiful black and white.
Don’t touch that dial! Stay tuned for the latest developments on my return to The Loft!
From late 40s to the late 60s, the TV variety show ruled the airways. On any night you could tune into The Ed Sullivan Show, The Star Texaco Hour, Your Show of Shows, The Chevy Show or the Colgate Comedy Hour.
Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Kate Smith, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin and a host of others featured the stars of Hollywood and Broadway on their shows.
Join me in 2025 for a trip down Television Memory Lane in beautiful black and white.
Don’t touch that dial! Stay tuned for the latest developments on my return to The Loft!
A fine romance, with no kisses!
A fine romance, my friend, this is!
Song by Jerome Kern, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
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.
What a Tucson treasure you are! Thank you! You have inspired me to continue learning!