Explore and enjoy more glorious songs from the Great American Songbook with stories about their long, often-unexpected lives. The spring lineup covers songs that are considered “simply the best”—ageless and favorite beauties, many by songwriters unmet in prior sessions of this popular series.
Combining a lively lecture with a wide variety of film clips, filmmaker and cultural historian Sara Lukinson traces how these songs came to be and how different artists, unexpected arrangements, and changing times transformed them into something new but still the same.
Lukinson, who has won three Emmys and seven Writer’s Guild Awards, now teaches at NYU and the 92nd Street Y. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
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The Great Forget-me-nots: Songs That Stand Alone
We know all these songs, because they are the one-of-a-kinds, written to stand alone or that came out of nowhere, from shows we don’t remember or by writers we’ve long since forgotten. Here’s a chance to enjoy them and meet the people who gave them to us.
Songs include Dancing in the Dark, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, September Song, The Very Thought of You, Always on My Mind, and Once Upon a Time.
Lukinson, who has won three Emmys and seven Writer’s Guild Awards, teaches at NYU and the 92nd Street Y and recently co-wrote 10 Seconds to Air: My Life in the Director’s Chair, with Don Mischer.
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