FREE at Last: Author Lawrence Schulman and The Great Artists and Composers of 20th-Century Classic American Popular Music

The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association in Greenwich, Connecticut is proud to announce that Lawrence Schulman, the award-winning music producer, critic, translator, and author of the recently published book FREE: Words on Music by a Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World, will, after his first visit last year to discuss his acclaimed 2023 best-selling 2-volume opus, Garland: That’s Beyond Entertainment – Reflections on Judy Garland, return to Connecticut to give a one-hour talk, entitled “FREE at Last: Author Lawrence Schulman and The Great Artists and Composers of 20th-Century Classic American Popular Music,” including 8 clips, at the Christ Church Greenwich at 254 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich CT 06830 on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 between 11 A.M. and noon. This is his second book for BearManor Media and includes all of his writings between 2000 and 2024 in the ARSC Journal and elsewhere on a whole host of artists and authors, including Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mildred Bailey, Patsy Cline, Bernard Herrmann, Maxine Sullivan, Cy Coleman, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, and Judy Garland, among others. With a Foreword by Tish Oney, author of Peggy Lee: A Century of Song and Jazz Singing: A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance, and an Afterword by Manuel Betancourt, author of his recently published Hello Stranger; The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men; and 33 1/3: Judy Garland’s Judy at Carnegie Hall, the book offers a panoply of reviews, articles, and liner notes about some of the greatest popular musical figures of the 20th century. The 47-chapter book displays Schulman’s vast knowledge of the Great American Songbook and beyond, such as his ground-breaking reviews and articles on singer-songwriters Tim Buckley and Peter Allen, about whom Schulman’s article won the 2024 ARSC Journal Article of the Year award. His most recent CD boxset is Judy Garland: A Celebration, released by Trapeze Music & Entertainment Limited/Acrobat in 2024. His book Peter Allen: Somebody’s Angel – The Boy from Oz in the Key of Camp was published by BearManor Media on January 7, 2025, and his next project is to write a memoir entitled All About Yves.