Course Details

This course will continue from previous courses on the geniuses who gave American music wonderful songs through stage and screen. The course will cover Harry Warren who wrote many hit songs for film but is not well-known by the public, and two great writing teams: Bock and Harnick, and Kander and Ebb. The course will cover Oscar Hammerstein and draw on a new collection of his letters. It will conclude with a retrospective of Hammerstein’s great student, the late Stephen Sondheim, who was greatly influenced by Hammerstein, especially in his later work. The course will include many performance clips and interviews as we learn about these great creators of American song. This study group has a high class size capacity.