The Glenn Miller Band: Music that Inspired the Troops

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will close on June 5, 2025 @ 1:30pm.

Event Details

Glenn Miller was America’s best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. Residing with his family at the Cotswold Mansion in Tenafly, NJ his band played many dates in New York at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle. Once World War II began he gave up a lucrative stateside career and toured Europe with his band entertaining the troops. The program combines a lecture with movie clips of Jimmy Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story.

Presenter: Rick Feingold teaches The Air Force in World War II at Bergen Community College. His
father, B-17 navigator Louis Feingold escaped occupied France with the help of the French Underground.

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