April 7 at 4, 5 & 6 pm
Progam
Sets 1 & 2: Michael Winther & Joseph Thalken, piano
Music: GIHIEH LEE/Lyrics: MARK CAMPBELL
Under The Water
Spring
Music/Lyrics: JULIANNE WICK DAVIS
I’ll Give Them To You
Music: STEVE MARZULLO/Poems: TODD BOSS
Enough / Constellations / Nocturne
Music: CHRIS MILLER/Lyrics: MARK CAMPBELL
Perfect, Finite
Music: JOSEPH THALKEN/Poem: HUGO WILLIAMS
Saturday Morning
Music: JOSEPH THALKEN/Poem: BRIAN PATTEN
I Have Changed The Numbers On My Watch
Music: JOSEPH THALKEN/Poem: SHARON OLD
Topography
Music: JOSEPH THALKEN/Poem: SARA TEASDALE
I Have Loved Hours At Sea
Music: PETER GOLUB/Lyrics: MARK CAMPBELL
I Miss New York
Music/Lyrics: JOSEPH THALKEN
Carry On
Music: PETER FOLEY/Lyrics: MARK CAMPBELL
To Sing
Set 3: Michael Winther & Art Hirahara, piano
Music: JEROME KERN/Lyrics: DOROTHY FIELDS
The Way You Look Tonight
Music: JIMMY McHUGH/Lyrics: DOROTHY FIELDS
Sunny Side of The Street
Music: HAROLD ARLEN/Lyrics: E.Y. HARBURG
Over The Rainbow
Music: JOSEF MYROW/Lyrics: MACK GORDON
You Make Me Feel So Young
ART HIRAHARA solo TBD
Music/Lyrics: HOAGY CARMICHAEL
I Get Along Without You (Inspired by a poem by Jane Brown Thompson)
Music/Lyrics: STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Broadway Baby
Music/Lyrics: KENNETH ASCHER/PAUL WILLIAMS
Rainbow Connection
ART HIRAHARA solo TBD
Music: EUBIE BLAKE/Lyrics: ANDY RAZAF
Memories of You
Music/Lyrics: BARRY MANN/CYNTHIA WEIL
New World Coming
MUSICAL STOREFRONTS
January 21-April 28, 2021
Kaufman Music Center brought live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with 107 performances featuring 202 of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists from the Merkin Hall stage. More than 30K passers-by enjoyed the performances. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts provided work to artists severely impacted by the cancellation of live performances in a format that took into account all necessary health and safety measures for both artists and audiences.
Special thanks to Jay Dweck, Milstein Properties, Steinway & Sons, the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and Breads Bakery.
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Acclaimed by The New York Times as “a theater singer of unusual refinement” with “a voice that traverses genres,” Michael’s Broadway credits include: Flying Over Sunset (now 2021), Fun Home, 33 Variations, Mamma Mia!, 1776, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Crucible and Damn Yankees. Most recently, he portrayed Albert Einstein in author and theoretical physicist Brian Greene’s multimedia theater piece, Light Falls in New York, Princeton, Australia and was broadcast on PBS/WNET. He toured the country with the national tour of the Tony award-winning best musical, Fun Home. Equally comfortable on the Broadway stage as the concert hall and recording studio, Michael collaborated with mulitiple Grammy-nominee, jazz composer Fred Hersch and poet, Mary Jo Salter in the premiere of a new song cycle, Rooms of Light for Peak Performance at Montclair University. He starred as “Dan” in the Pulitzer winning musical, Next To Normal at Baltimore/Centerstage; Frank London and Neil Berger’s A Night In The Old Marketplace in São Paulo; Tectonic’s The Laramie Project Cycle at BAM/Harvey Theatre; Fred Hersch’s multimedia jazz-theatre piece, My Coma Dreams in NYC, Berlin, San Francisco; Merrily We Roll Along at City Center Encores!®. He regional credits include productions at Lincoln Center Theater, Center Theatre Group/LA, Guthrie Theater, Yale Rep, McCarter Theater, Old Globe, Goodspeed Musicals, Theatreworks/Palo Alto, La Jolla Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Perseverance Theater, O’Neill Theatre Center, Sundance Theatre Lab. His film credits include The Avengers, Jumper, The Break-Up, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Recent television credits include “Hunters,” “The Blacklist,” “Mysteries of Laura,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Hostages,” “Leverage” and “Law & Order.”
He has appeared with Rob Kapilow in “What Makes It Great?” at Lincoln Center and in major venues across the country celebrating the songs of Sondheim, Arlen, Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein and Rodgers. Other concert credits include: four appearances as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series (William Finn’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Songs of Fred Hersch, and two consecutive years of his solo evening, Hear & Now: Contemporary Lyricists and Composers); Broadway Cabaret, Broadway By The Year and Broadway Unplugged series’ at The Town Hall; many concerts with the New Voices Collective at Symphony Space; as well as concerts with The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall and at The White House. He has performed various solo evenings of music at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Birdland, SubCulture, The Metropolitan Room and Ars Nova. Michael is a graduate of Williams College and The Hotchkiss School.
Michael Winther received nominations from the Drama Desk and Drama League for his critically acclaimed off-Broadway solo performance in the theatrical song cycle, Songs From An Unmade Bed at New York Theater Workshop directed by David Schweizer with lyrics by Mark Campbell and music by eighteen different composers. The recording is available from Sh K Boom/Ghostlight Records and on iTunes and has garnered a devoted following since it’s release over a decade ago! Michael’s most recent recording project, Waiting For The Angel, a collection of new songs featuring the lyrics of David Hajdu was released by Miranda Music.
