Yale Professor Allen Forte has recorded his very own renditions of some of the finest classic American songs from the golden era. With the wonderful vocalist, Martha Bennett Oneppo, Forte, whose books on American popular songs are used in university courses through the United States (Forte’s own undergraduate courses at Yale were among the most oversubscribed classes in every semester he taught them), has put together a collection of superior songs in winning performances. Here one can find songs by the greatest composers of the “golden era,” Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Carmichael, Van Heusen, Arlen, Mercer, Warren and others.
This CD will appeal to lovers of the “standards” of American music, as well as to lovers of good music generally. The program includes 13 love ballads suitable for weddings, anniversaries or just for romantic evenings at home.