Lerner, Alan Jay
(1918–1986)> LYRICIST · LIBRETTIST
Alan Jay Lerner Lyricist and librettist New York City, August 31, 1918; New York City, June 14, 1986. After graduating from Harvard University in 1940, Lerner came to New York and got a job at the Lord and Thomas advertising agency writing radio scripts, among them the amusing Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, which featured Henry “Hot Lips” Levine and his Barefooted Philharmonic and Paul Lavalle and his Woodwindy Ten. Vocalists at different times on the program were Dinah Shore…