Delta Community Music School Presents:
The Great American Song Book
Friday February 13, 7:30 pm
Ladner United Church, 4960 48th St. Ladner Village
– Tix: $10 at the door.
Featuring students from the studios of Tracy Neff, Stephen Robb, Garth Preston, Cheryl Carruthers, Stan Taylor, Ron Samworth, Brad Muirhead and Louise Southwood.
The “Great American Songbook” refers to the music of the 20th Century great American Songwriters and the cannon of literature written for the stage productions of Broadway, musical theatre and film mainly from the decades of the 1920’s through the 1950’s before Rock and Roll. Composers included in this genre include Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Harold Arlen. Vincent Youmans and Arthur Schwartz Burton Lane, Hugh Martin and Vernon Duke, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Harry Warren, Isham Jones, Jimmy McHugh, Duke Ellington, Fred Ahlert, Richard A. Whiting, Ray Noble, John Green, Rube Bloom and Jimmy Van Heusen.