He reaches a broad audience with clarity, insight, passion, and humor.

"He brings enormous energy, wit, and authority. He has the stage presence  of a performer with an expert’s command of his subject matter.”

Susan Dodge Peters
Curator of Education
    Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

 

   

He doesn’t sing and he doesn’t dance, but he knows all there is to know about American popular music.

“Michael Lasser is a walking encyclopedia of…American song.”

Jeff Tyzik
Principal Pops Conductor
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 
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His 2006 book, co-authored with Philip Furia

America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of  Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley

His new book, a companion volume, due out for Christmas 2013:

America's Songs II: from the 1890's to the Post-War Years

More songs, more stories, more about the Great American Songbook

 

with his nationally-syndicated public radio show, Fascinatin’ Rhythm

in talks and concerts at museums, universities, and libraries all over the country.

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