100 Year of Great American Song: March 23, 2025

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100 Years of Great American Songwriting

There would be no great American song without great American songwriters! Explore our concert program and the composers who tell our stories through the power of music and lyrics. To learn more about the composers and songs on today’s program, please click HERE.

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Photo credits: Dede Duson: via http://www.alliancemusic.com/peopledetails.cfm?iPeopleID=20 | Stephen Paulus: Photo credit: Sharolyn Hagen Photography, via https://stephenpaulus.com/ | Dominick DiOrio: via https://dominickdiorio.com/ | Elaine Hagenberg: via https://www.elainehagenberg.com/ | Robert Shafer: Photo credit: Jill Boccichio. | James Weldon Johnson: Portrait of James Weldon Johnson, 1932 by Carl Van Vechten. Source: Library of Congress; public domain. |Portrait of J. Rosamond Johnson by Carl Van Vechten (Library of Congress) | Aaron Copland: Photo of composer Aaron Copland from the CBS television/New York Philharmonic "Young Peoples' Concerts" series, c. 1960. Public domain. | Robert A. Harris: via https://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty/profile/robert-harris | Moses Hogan by Unknown - http://www.moseshogan.com/index.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64223675 | Ysaÿe Barnwell: ©Dwight Carter photography, via https://www.ecspublishing.com/composers/b/ysaye-m-barnwell.html | Duke Ellington: Publicity photo of Duke Ellington, c. 1940s. Public domain | Leonard Bernstein: Leonard Bernstein by Jack Mitchell, 1977. Public domain | William L. Dawson: William L. Dawson c. 1930. Reproduced with permission of W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center, UMass Amherst Libraries | Cole Porter: Cole Porter in the 1930s. Public domain. George Gershwin: Gershwin in 1937 by Carl Van Vechten. Source: Library of Congress; public domain | Ira Gershwin: public domain, via Wikipedia | Ned Washington: By http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/150-people-who-made-scranton-great-ned-washington-1.2004710, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57096736 | Leigh Harline: via https://latterdaysaintmusicians.com/artists/leigh-harlinevia | Alice Parker: Portrait of Alice Parker by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Captured during the filming of the documentary film "Alice:: At Home with Alice Parker". Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License | Dolly Parton: Photo c. 1977. Public domain.