Course Description

Instructor: William Allen, MA, MPhil, MLn
Technical Assistance: Michiyo Allen, BS

This is the latest edition in our study of the work of the creative people who wrote the words to the songs from the classic age of the Broadway musical. This time lyricists from the Roaring ‘20s and Depression ‘30s and beyond -- the trio of DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson (Varsity Drag), Edward Eliscu (Without a Song), Gus Kahn (Makin’ Whoopee), Dorothy Fields (Can’t Give You Anything but Love), and Georgia’s own Johnny Mercer, known for later evocative film songs like Laura and Moon River but also diverse Broadway shows like the ethnic St. Louis Woman and the comic Li’l Abner. Come and enjoy exploring the art and lives of these lyrical masters.