Musical Guest Speaker Series
Presentation of musical topics with performance and commentary on composers'
lives and musical styles:
The Great American Songbook:
The life and times of George and Ira
Gershwin
Cole Porter
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Irving Berlin
Harold Arlen
Johnny Mercer
The Impressionistic Era: Debussy, Ravel and their contemporaries
The Romantic Era: Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Schubert
The Classical Era: Mozart, Haydn
The Baroque Era: J.S. Bach, Scarlatti
Jazz Piano: The styles of Jazz Pianists such as Marian McPartland, George
Shearing, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Marian McPartland's Portraits: Marian's
musical impressions of some of her guests on her NPR Program, "Piano Jazz".
The Jazz-Classical Connection: The divide between jazz and classical music is
not as great as it seems. A look into the compositions of classical composers
and their connection to jazz compositions and improvisation.