Music Lovers
The Music Club meets once a month at 10:00am on the second Friday of the month in the First Presbyterian Church Chapel to listen and discuss music programs of high interest. Everyone is invited to attend.
The deputy chairman is: Jim McKeown 327-3411.
Music Lovers Club News
The next Music Lovers meeting is scheduled for THURSDAY MAY 14, 2026 at 9:45am in the Church Auditorium.
The program will feature "Rodgers & Hart" presented by Hobbyist Rick Rosenthal.
Rodgers & Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist, Lorenz Hart. This legendary partnership ended in 1943 due to Hart’s severe alcoholism , depression, and erratic behavior which made him too unreliable to work with. Rodgers, a disciplined professional, needed a dependable partner, leading him to ultimately team up with Oscar Hammerstein.
In the end, Rodgers held Hart in utter contempt and the song To Keep My Love Alive contains a dig at Rodgers who altered the lyrics after Hart’s death and there were bad feelings and a court case between Hart’s heirs and Rodgers’s heirs.
Rick will go into the backgrounds of Hart’s most memorable songs, such as, To Keep My Love Alive, Nobody’s Heart, This Funny World, Too Good for the Average Man, My Funny Valentine, Zip from Pal Joey, and Bewitched also from Pal Joey. Performers will include Julie London, Tony Bennet, BeBe Neuwirth, Patti LaPone, and more.
Jim McKeown, Music Lover's Chairperson
