Lifelong Learning | The Golden Age of Broadway Musical

1:00-2:00pm

Professor Allen Cohen

This lecture-recital explores the birth and growth of the American musical, and how it reached maturity during the “golden era” of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, and others. A former Broadway conductor and arranger discusses the musical’s past, present, and future, and exactly what it was that made the great classic shows great.