Friday, April 9 at 11, 12 & 1 pm
Mazz Swift, violin & Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Friday, April 9 at 4, 5 & 6 pm
Farah Alvin, vocalist & Michael Holland, piano & guitar
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Mazz Swift, violin & Levy Lorenzo, electronics
Program
Improvised Music with Mazz & Levy
Today’s program of improvisation, featuring new collaborations of Mazz and Levy, explores live and interactive electronic riffs, motifs, rhythms, and melodies, both old and new. All that you hear today is improvised around a framework created by Mazz Swift. It is the first and last time this particular music will ever be played, and we are grateful that you’re here to be a part of it. Please feel free to sidle up to the glass and observe how we do what we do. And, visit us again when you can. @MazzMuse on all social media.
Farah Alvin, vocalist & Michael Holland, piano & guitar
Program
JONI MITCHELL – Help Me
PHOEBE SNOW – Poetry Man
LIONEL RITCHIE – Easy
CARLY SIMON – You’re So Vain
CLINT BALLARD JR. – You’re No Good
CAROLE KING – It’s Too Late
GARY WHITE – Long Long Time
JANIS IAN – At 17
PAM SAWYER/CLAY McMURRY/GLORIA JONES – If I Were Your Woman
PETER ALLEN/CAROL BAYER SAGER – Don’t Cry Out Loud
STEVEN TYLER – Dream On
JAMES TAYLOR – Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
NEIL SEDAKA – Love Will Keep Us Together
JIMMY WEBB – Wichita Lineman
STEVEN STILLS – Love The One You’re With
STEVIE WONDER – Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing
STEVIE WONDER – You And I
JANIS IAN – From Me To You
DAVID BOWIE – Life On Mars
FREDDIE MERCURY – Don’t Stop Me Now
EWAN MACCOLL – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
BARRY MANN/CYNYHIA WEIL – Here You Come Again
MUSICAL STOREFRONTS
Runs through late April
Artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of the performance.
This winter and spring, Kaufman Music Center brings live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with more than 100 performances featuring some of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists you’ll know from the Merkin Hall stage. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts provides work to artists severely impacted by the cancellation of live performances in a format that takes into account all necessary health and safety measures for both artists and audiences.
To limit crowd size and ensure social distancing, artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of performances. We can’t reveal the UWS location, but it's not hard to find!
Special thanks to Jay Dweck, Milstein Properties, Steinway & Sons, the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and Breads Bakery.
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Michael Holland is a multi-talented artist with work across the entire musical spectrum. His orchestration and vocal arrangement work include music and lyrics for Twelve Angry Men (Theater Latté Da, Minneapolis; 2020 world premiere postponed until 2022). He composed the original music for Clue: A New Comedy (Cleveland Playhouse, 2020-Tour 2022) and Bay Street Theatre’s virtual production of Moby Dick (2020). Other original shows include You’re Gonna Hate This (Joe’s Pub; Feinstein’s 54 Below), Hurricane (NYMF) and Believe in Me... a Bigfoot musical (fringeNYC). Michael was the Music Director and wrote new arrangements for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s acclaimed actor/musician production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2019) and orchestrator/vocal arranger/cast recording co-producer for the Broadway revival of Godspell. He has also written incidental music for Bay Street Theatre, Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center and Playwrights Horizons, among others.
