Michael Paul Lund
Michael Paul Lund is an accomplished writer. His syndicated newspaper column, entitled The Serendipity Nostalgia Report, focuses on legendary entertainers and great American music. He also regularly writes for record companies in the form of extensive biographical liner notes. Some of the 100 artists he has written about include: Rosemary Clooney, George Gershwin, Jimmy Durante, Mel Torme, Paul Robeson, Doris Day, Johnny Mercer, Katharine Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Peggy Lee, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, Leroy Anderson, Brigitte Bardot, Gregory Peck.
Born in London, England, (2/4/1946) Lund came to America at an early age with his British parents. As a young man and a baritone, he began serious vocal studies for a concert career. He studied at the New York Light Opera Guild under Ruth Hand. While serving in the US Navy, including in Vietnam, he sang for the Special Services department. He won the Navy Talent Contest in 1967, and as a result, toured and sang on television. After military service, he traveled the world as a baritone soloist with the world-renowned Russian Don Cossack Choir. Lund has given classical recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY, the French Embassy in NY, NEC-TV Tokyo, Japan, Royal Queens College, Ontario, Canada, the Art Alliance in Philadelphia, Fry Concert Hall in White Plains, NY, and other venues. He also took master classes with the famous French baritone Gerard Souzay at the Westminster Choir College. He has done narrations for speaker and orchestra, including Peter and The Wolf and Magician Shoes (original work by Richard Lane).
Lund has made commercial popular recordings with former members of the NY Tonight Show orchestra, and has written lyrics to many songs. As a businessman, he has been successful in the fields of advertising (newspaper, magazine and radio), public relations (domestic and international catalog sales) and worldwide mail order marketing. Mr. Lund has also regularly written, produced and recorded radio commercials for many companies including his own; the commercials have been broadcast in all fifty states and in Canada. Customer relations, promotion and company visibility are specialties.
Mr. Lund is the founder and first president of the Massenet Society, an organization devoted to the music of the famous French operatic composer, Jules Massenet. Mr. Lund’s lifelong study and fascination with American popular song and the music industry has established him as a leading consultant and authority on this subject. His sold-out lectures are a testament to his great enthusiasm and knowledge of his subject. In 1977, Lund founded Serendipity Recordings, an international mail order company devoted to music of the 30's, 40's and 50's. He has a radio program entitled, Music and Entertainment News with Michael Paul Lund. Mr. Lund is a regular on-air guest on public radio, including WGBH radio in Boston, where his two-hour programs with Ron Della Chiesa on Great American Music are tremendously popular. Feature stories about Mr. Lund have appeared in countless newspapers and magazines including, USA Today, United Press International, Yankee Magazine (front cover), New Jersey’s The Record, Connecticut Magazine, Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, Pensacola News Journal, Middletown Press, Palm Beach Press, Los Angeles Times, Newark Star Ledge, Boston Globe, Memphis Sun, Portland Press Herald, T.V. Guide and many more.
Mr. Lund’s six volumes of inspired collected essays, prose and short stories, entitled Quiet Thoughts for a Noisy World, are now in print. A Japanese/English edition of select pieces is also available. These books have been voice-recorded on compact disk by Mr. Lund for the National Library for the Blind, and translated into Braille as well.
Mr. Lund conducts various unique 90-minute illustrated music lectures including Paul Robeson (1898-1976) The Life and Times of a Great American Voice; The Great American Popular Singers: Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald. He presented 100 Years of Recorded Grand Opera, from Caruso to Rene Fleming; Bing Crosby (1903-1977) The First Crooner-The Life and Times of the first great popular singer of the American Songbook; A Gift of Laughter: The Classic Men of Comedy- Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, and Woody Allen. Mr. Lund has also presented Tony Bennett: A 90th Birthday Celebration Of His Life; Fred Astaire (1899-1987) A Celebration of His Life, His Dancing, and Singing Genius. Another presentation, The Life and Music of American composer Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), was a two-hour public radio broadcast on WERU-FM in October 2017.
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