Tablet Magazine » Richard Rogers http://www.tabletmag.com A New Read on Jewish Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:43:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Facing the Music http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/17968/facing-the-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facing-the-music http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/17968/facing-the-music/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:00:06 +0000 Vox Tablet http://www.tabletmag.com/?p=17968 It’s astonishing how many hits from the American songbook—the corpus of music written from the 1920s to the 1960s that includes Broadway hits, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and Hollywood musicals—were written by Jews. These Jewish composers and lyricists included heavy hitters like Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and the Gershwins, plus perhaps lesser known figures like Harold Arlen and Dorothy Fields. Writer and poet David Lehman explores this connection in his new Nextbook Press book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs. Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry talks to him about the book, the songs, and the Jewish themes buried in some of the best-known classics.

Related: Lehman serves up an American songbook playlist

A Fine Romance

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