Art
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley
Peter Robinson will focus his multimedia presentation on the 1920s and 1930s, when the lyrics and rhythms of Tin Pan Alley captured the changing moods of the American public from the heights of the Roaring Twenties to the lows of the Great Depression.
By Godfrey Lee
Peter Robinson, KALW Radio Arts critic, will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, April 22, at the Sausalito Library, 420 Litho St. in Sausalito, on Tin Pan Alley, the New York City epicenter of the music publishing business in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Robinson will focus his multimedia presentation on the 1920s and 1930s, when the lyrics and rhythms of Tin Pan Alley captured the changing moods of the American public from the heights of the Roaring Twenties to the lows of the Great Depression.
Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and other songwriters and performers, will be presented during the program.
Robinson is a graduate of Cambridge University (UK) and is a familiar voice to listeners of KALW 91.7, a local National Public Radio station in San Francisco. He is an author and the editor of San Francisco Books & Travel magazine, and teaches memoir writing in Sausalito.
Robinson is president of the San Francisco Literary Society and the events director of the Marin Philosophical Society.
The program is free. For more information, please call (415) 289-4121.
