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A fine romance: Jewish songwriters, American songs
David Lehman
Excerpt: "The best songwriters combined a genius for melody, ingenuity at fitting the right words to it, and the ability to connect with a wide audience. A remarkably high percentage of them were Jewish by birth and heritage. Some (Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers) came from relatively prosperous families with the foresight to immigrate in the 1860s or earlier. Others were children of refugees from Eastern Europe, who risked everything to escape pogroms and persecution in the years just before and after the turn of the century."
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Lawrence Durrell Centennial Panel
James R. Nichols, Joseph Pellegrino, and Robert K. Batchelor
A panel of faculty members, moderated by Dr. Lisa Costello, discuss the author, Lawrence Durrell on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. Panel members include Professor Emeritus Dr. James R. Nichols, author of The Stronger Sex: The Fictional Women of Lawrence Durrell; Dr. Joseph Pellegrino, Department of Literature & Philosophy; and Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, History Department. Dr. Bede Mitchell of Henderson Library introduced the program.
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