Songbook Sundays: Harold Arlen
About This Event
Songbook Sundays presents the music of Harold Arlen at Dizzy's Club. Arlen composed more than 500 songs, including the music for The Wizard of Oz and the Oscar-winning "Over the Rainbow," a piece later named the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and NEA. The Songbook Sundays project functions as a curated survey of American standards, favoring clarity and attention to lyric and form.
About the Artists
Songbook Sundays
Songbook Sundays is a jazz artist heard at Dizzy’s Club in New York City, presenting programs built around the American songbook. Recent sets have centered on Cole Porter, drawing from his Broadway and Hollywood writing and its afterlife as jazz repertoire.
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow", which won him the Oscar for Best Original Song, he was nominated as composer for 8 other Oscar awards.