Wessex Connected: Day 5 of The Art and Culture of N America: Music of Porter, Berlin, Rogers and others with Pip Burley

Tuesday 16 March 2027

Music of Porter, Kern, Berlin, Rogers and others with Pip Burley

The music of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, often with their lyricist partners and other contemporaries, forms the core of the Great American Songbook. This canon comprises influential American popular songs and jazz standards primarily from Broadway musicals, Hollywood films and Tin Pan Aley, flourishing roughly from the 1920s to 1950s.

Pip Burley began his musical career playing Rock’n’roll in the 60’s and 70’s as well as working with the big bands, including Sydney Lipton, Jo Loss and Ken Mackingtosh. He went on to compose and record music for commercials, theatre, film and television. In 1990 he won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Television theme Music for ‘The Darling Buds of May’.

These events are organised by Christopher Clarke, Wessex Area Coordinator of Education who can be contacted by emailing wessexconnectedevents@gmail.com

More detailed  information can be found on www.theartssocietywessexarea.org.uk

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