That is exactly what the 92d Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series has been doing ever since it exhausted the supply of eminent living songwriters willing to talk about their work.

A 20th-anniversary gala to celebrate the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92d Street Y is to be held next Monday.

C11 The Lyrics and Lyricists series to expand.

The tribute also brought out the most consistently strong cast of singers to grace the stage this season in the Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series.

Maureen McGovern will sing Gershwin songs as a homage to the Lyrics and Lyricists series.

Maurice Levine, the founder and artistic director of the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92d Street Y, died on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital.

But one of Mr. Levine's hopes - of bringing the Lyrics and Lyricists series into the rock-and-roll era - remains unrealized.

The truth behind that legend was amusingly demonstrated early in the opening program of the 92d Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series.

For the fourth time in four seasons, the 92d Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series is devoting all five programs to a single composer or team.

June 8-10: Lyrics and Lyricists series features "Radio Days: Music in the Air, Part II (1941-1955)."