{"id":47072,"date":"2019-01-20T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=47072"},"modified":"2019-01-20T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T15:18:43","slug":"dansker-lecture-to-focus-on-lerner-and-loewe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/dansker-lecture-to-focus-on-lerner-and-loewe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dansker lecture to focus on Lerner and Loewe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted musicolgist and lecturer George Dansker will be presenting his annual lecture on Jewish composers next Friday evening, January 25, at Touro Synaogogue and this year it&#8217;s on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the composer-lyricist team responsible for Broadway box office winners &#8220;<em>Brigadoon<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>My Fair Lady<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Camelot<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21463\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GeorgeDansker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21463\" class=\"wp-image-21463 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GeorgeDansker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21463\" class=\"wp-image-21463 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GeorgeDansker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-21463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Dansker at the Leonard Bernstein lecture in 2018. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GeorgeDansker.jpg\"><\/a>Titled &#8220;The Night They Invented Champagne,&#8221; a song written for the film &#8220;Gigi&#8221; (later reworked as a Broadway musical), Dansker will deliver a lecture while noted soprano Sarah Jane McMahon will sing songs selected by him for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon will be joined by Touro Cantor Kevin Margolius, and her Lyrica Baroque partner and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra assistant principal cellist Daniel Lelchuk on the program, which is free and open to the public following religious services at approximately 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Dansker%20lecture%20to%20focus%20on%20Lerner%20and%20Loewe\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7137],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47073,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47072\/revisions\/47073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}