About the Project:
Title: Celebrating the American Songbook – at Weatherford College
Production: Gracepoint Media / Forbeyon Inc
Concept/ DIR: S. Conor Lee
DP:S. Conor Lee
The American Songbook: Known as standards, they are the canons of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century. Composers represented include George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Billy Strayhorn, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, just to name a few. Selections will be performed by Rob Laney, Rick Rainey, Dr. Hyeyoung Song and Miss Sandra Kaye.