Download MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016, 11:00-12:30 “OUR

OASIS - WESTSIDE PAVILION
10730 W. Pico Blvd. (Inside Macy's 3rd Floor - Parking On 5th Floor)
Call for details (310) 446-8053 (Registration & Program Fee Required)
EARLY ON-LINE REGISTRATION APRIL 28-29, 10AM-4PM, WWW.OASISNET.ORG/LOSANGELES
ON-SITE WALK-IN REGISTRATION STARTS MAY 5, 10AM-2PM
ALL ONLINE AND IN PERSON REGISTRATION STARTS AGAIN BEGINNING MAY 9TH.
BOB & SAUL PRESENT
“MORE GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITERS”
(SERIES 731W2)
COMMENTATOR-PERFORMER SAUL H. JACOBS
& PIANIST BOB LIPSON
ALL CLASSES ARE FRIDAYS, 11am-12:30pm
May 20 – “A Single Creative Mind: George & Ira Gershwin” (732W2)
Discover a songwriting team like no other – a composer who wrote syncopated rhythms while his
brother worked like a jeweler to insert the ingenious lyrics. Songs include Fascinating Rhythm, Of
Thee I Sing, Embraceable You, Strike Up The Band, Summertime, Rhapsody in Blue, The Man I
Love, Oh Lady Be Good.
June 24 – “Harold ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Arlen”
(733W2)
Find out how the son of a cantor blended his background in religious music with a love for jazz and
blues to create unique compositions in collaboration with leading lyricists of the day. Songs include
We’re Off To See The Wizard, Stormy Weather, Get Happy, Blues In The Night, Paper Moon, That
Old Black Magic, The Man That Got Away, Come Rain or Come Shine.
July 22 – “The Society Bon Vivant From Peru, Indiana: Cole Porter” (734W2)
Learn how this brilliant songwriter wrote music and lyrics that would please his high society friends
while also appealing to generations of mass audiences. Songs include Let’s Do It, Anything Goes,
I Love Paris, What Is This Thing Called Love, It Was Just One of Those Things, You’re The Top, I’ve
Got You Under My Skin, D’Lovely.
August 12 – “Together & Not: Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer” (735W2)
Meet two songwriters who, with their laid-back rural upbringing in Georgia & Indiana, were in a
different mold from the other major songwriters of the day centered in the big city of New York.
They wrote together and with other major songwriters. Songs include Georgia On My Mind,
Skylark, Lazy Bones, Heart & Soul, Jeepers Creepers, Hooray for Hollywood, Dream, Laura.
SPECIAL MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM (736W2)
MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016, 11:00-12:30
“OUR 1950S
FROM AMERICAN SONGBOOK TO AMERICAN BANDSTAND”
THE MUSICAL REVOLUTION THAT GAVE BIRTH TO RHYTHM & BLUES AND ROCK & ROLL
Commentator: Saul H. Jacobs
Audio-Visual DJ: Don Digirolamo
ELVIS  BUDDY HOLLY  LITTLE RICHARD  JERRY LEE LEWIS  CHUCK BERRY  RICKY NELSON  FATS DOMINO  PAT
BOONE  BOBBY DARIN  JOHNNIE RAY  HOUND DOG  AIN’T THAT A SHAME  CRY  LOVE ME TENDER  GREAT
BALLS OF FIRE  ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK  SH-BOOM  PEGGY SUE  AND MANY MORE STARS & SONGS