RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, May 21, 2025, at 11 am at Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich
The program will also be shown on Zoom at https://bit.ly/30IBj21 and on local cable channels 24 (Verizon) and 79 (Optimum)
Lawrence Schulman
“FREE at Last: Lawrence Schulman and the Great Artists and Composers of 20th Century Classic American Popular Music”
Greenwich Retired Men’s Association in Greenwich is proud to announce that Lawrence Schulman, the award-winning music producer, critic, translator, and author, who appeared last year to discuss his two-volume opus on Judy Garland, will return to Connecticut on May 21 to discuss his new book FREE: Words on Music by A Hi-Def Critic in an MP3 World, in a talk that will include rare video clips of his subjects.
This is his second book for BearManor Media and includes all of his writings between 2000 and 2024. The 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, Judy Garland: A Celebration, was released in 2024, and his book Peter Allen: Somebody’s Angel – The Boy from Oz in the Key of Camp was published in 2025. His follow-up to FREE, titled UNFETTERED, will be published in 2026.
French-American Schulman, a graduate of Stony Brook University, the Sorbonne and CREAR is a music producer, critic and translator who has compiled numerous CDs devoted to Judy Garland in the past three decades. While living in Paris between 1971 and 1997, he taught and translated, and currently translates for the French website OpusHD.net. He also worked for French Public Radio as a producer and host. He lives on Mount Desert Island in Maine.
Our next speaker, on May 28, will be Stuart Malina, music director of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, “A Conversation with Maestro Malina.”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00 am. For additional information see https://greenwichrma.org.
