Songs by Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Amanda McBroom, Irving Berlin, Jonathan Larson, Johnny Mercer and others unfold in a musical celebration of love: passionate to parental; romantic to raunchy; sacred to sarcastic.

Through songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Fats Waller, Sammy Fain, George Gershwin and others, this recording reveals American life and culture during the tumultuous decades between 1918 and 1941.