Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Michael G Garber and The Songs She Wrote

Live From The Hotel Edison is a weekly show done live at The Hotel Edison in New York City presented by the newspaper Times Square Chronicles. Guests include Theatre, Music, Film, Beauty and experts who reside or are in NYC. On this episode owner Suzanna Bowling talks with Michael G. Garber about his book Songs She Wrote: Forty Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music. Garber is an interdisciplinary scholar of the performing arts, film, and media, and a specialist in Tin Pan Alley and the American musical on stage and screen. He leads community music programs with people aged three through ninety-three. Songs She Wrote tells the stories of forty famous songs from the jazz decades, 1920-1960, and the forty-four women who wrote them. These female composers and lyricists were innovators of the Great American Songbook and Tin Pan Alley, creating enduring songs like “What a Difference a Day Made,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” and “God Bless' the Child.”