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Each of Fred Miller's Lectures-In-Song is 60-75 minutes long and focuses on a great personality or significant aspect of American Popular Song's Golden Age. Seated at the piano, Fred not only performs the songs in question but also provides biographical and historical insight into the life and times of these musical titans. Below is his current repertoire of available Lectures-In-Song. Go to YOUTUBE for some brief VIDEO PREVIEWS of the Lectures, and please feel free to contact him about presenting any one or a series of these programs.     GEORGE GERSHWIN George Gershwin's legacy transcends that of nearly any other musical figure in the twentieth century.... >> IRVING BERLIN Berlin's life is the stuff of legend: the child of Russian immigrants who rose from the squalor of the Lower ... >> COLE PORTER Porter's songs continue to provide the core of every major singer's repertoire,and his shows and films... >     More Songwriters JEROME KERN RODGERS & HART RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN HAROLD ARLEN JOHNNY MERCER ALAN JAY LERNER FRANK LOESSER DOROTHY FIELDS YIP HARBURG SIGMUND ROMBERG NOEL COWARD Lecture-in-Song: JULE STYNE HARRY WARREN The Last Lions Of Broadway: CY COLEMAN / JERRY HERMAN Heartland Troubadors: HOAGY CARMICHAEL MEREDITH WILLSON Old World, New World : VERNON DUKE / KURT WEILL Words & Music: SAMMY CAHN / JIMMY McHUGH They Wrote The Words Part I: OTTO HARBACH TED KOEHLER / LEO ROBIN ARTHUR FREED They Wrote The Words, Part II: MITCHELL PARISH BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER Lecture-in-Song: The Other Jewish Songwriters : ARTHUR SCHWARTZ SAMMY FAIN BURTON LANE AL JOLSON Jazz Age Kings, Part I : WALTER DONALDSON GUS KAHN RICHARD WHITING Jazz Age Kings, Part II : DE SYLVA, BROWN & HENDERSON / VINCENT YOUMANS The Great Lady Songwriters: WHITSON / WAYNE / RONNELL GREVER / SUESSE / SWIFT LEIGH / LEE He Wrote That?: RAYE / DePAUL / ADAIR DENNIS / BURKE / WOODS The Golden Age Of Operetta VICTOR HERBERT RUDOLF FRIML SIGMUND ROMBERG     FRED ASTAIRE The most ardent superlatives are insufficient to describe the talents of Fred Astaire. Even in his lifetime, ... >> JUDY GARLAND The Hollywood Musical's greatest female talent, a doe-eyed, ordinary looking American girl with a genius for singing... >> ETHEL MERMAN From that historic moment in 1930 when she delivered the Gershwins' "I Got Rhythm" to a stunned audience... >>     More Performers BING CROSBY FRANK SINATRA Red White & Blue: GEORGE M. COHAN/KATE SMITH/ BOB HOPE     HOW YA GONNA KEEP 'EM DOWN ON THE FARM? Immigration, World War And The New Music..... HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN The Jazz Age And The Birth of Radio.. WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF? Hollywood And The Great Depression....     1938-1945: SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY-WWII And The Big Bands 1946-1956: MUSIC!MUSIC!MUSIC!-Postwar Prosperity And The Rise Of Rock 1957-1964: TRY TO REMEMBER-Finale: The Youth Culture Takes Over 1965-1988: HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING?- Postscript: Social Upheaval And The British Invasion HOOTENANNY!-The Great Folk Song Revival Of The 50s & 60s Lecture-in-Song: IT WASN´T ALL NOISE!     Lecture-in-Song: WITH PLENTY OF MONEY AND YOU GREAT DAMES: A Sheet Music Gallery Of Storied Ladies, Shady, Pure and Otherwise... LOVELY TO LOOK AT: Fashion, Style And Glamour In American Popular Song THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: 12 Classics WHEN YOU´RE SMILING! The Fun And The Funny In American Popular Song VERSE & CHORUS: Hear The Verse & Guess The Celebrated Chorus YOU´RE THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS ME: Lovesickness And Its Many Antidotes In American Popular Song YOUNG AT HEART: Aging Gracefully... And Singing About It WHEN OSCAR WAS KING: Academy Award Winning Songs (1934-1970) LOSERS...BUT WINNERS!: Oscar Nominated Songs Still Worth Singing OSCAR SNUBS: Great Movie Songs Oscar Forgot Even To Nominate     Part I(1934-39)     Part II(1940-69) HEAVEN, I´M IN HEAVEN! The Sun, Moon, Stars & Romance In American Popular Song     VALENTINE´S DAY: What Is This Thing Called Love? ST. PATRICK´S DAY: Evergreen-The Irish Presence In American Popular Song Lecture-in-Song: AMERICA AT WAR INDEPENDENCE DAY: I Hear America Singing-An Americana Sampler SPRING INTO SUMMER: Musical Landscapes For The Warm Months COLUMBUS DAY: Cantare!-The Italian Presence In American Popular Song OCTOBER SURPRISES: Celebrating Oktoberfest,Columbus Day, Halloween & Autumn THANKSGIVING: An American Thanksgiving-Songs Of Gratitude And Optimism CHRISTMAS: An American Christmas-Sacred & Secular Favorites     HARLEM RENAISSANCE, Part I: The Black American Impact On Popular Song Bert Williams/Ethel Waters/Eubie Blake Duke Ellington/Bill "Bojangles" Robinson/Cab Calloway HARLEM RENAISSANCE: The Black American Impact On Popular Song, Part II- Horne/Holiday/Cole/Waller SHOW BOAT: The American Musical Comes Of Age A LAND THAT´S FREE FOR YOU AND ME: Jewish Songwriters Give Universal Voice To The American Dream     UNDER PARIS SKIES: The Musical Magic of the City of Lights ALL OVER THE MAP: Heading West, Making Musical Stops ´Round The World DON´T FENCE ME IN! Songs of The Cowboy and The Old West NEW YORK, NEW YORK! Musical Tales From The Isle Of Manhattan THE BROOKLYN CONNECTION: America´s Fourth Largest City & Her "Bridges" To Popular Song THE BUCKS/BROADWAY CONNECTION: Bucks County´s Musical Links To Broadway & Hollywood     Home | About | Privacy Policy | Contact   Copyright © 2006-2011 Fred Miller