Alan & Marilyn Bergman in Educational Video

The first educational video in a series, each featuring different master artists speaking with students at the Frank Sinatra School of Arts (A NYC public high school founded by Tony Bennett in his hometown of Astoria, Queens), was taped in December with multi-Oscar winning lyricists Marilyn & Alan Bergman. The video program is a collaboration among The ASCAP Foundation, Exploring The Arts (ETA) and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Pictured at the taping are (seated, l -r): Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Tony Bennett; (standing, l-r): Karen Sherry (ASCAP Foundation VP & Executive Director), Virginia Rogers (Director of Distance Learning Initiatives, The Kennedy Center), ASCAP Director of Musical Theatre & Cabaret Michael Kerker (who interviewed the Bergmans) and Susan Benedetto. Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan Benedetto, are the co-founders of Exploring The Arts, which supports and funds arts education in public schools.