Sunday, October 1, 11 am-2:30 pm
Celebrate the start of Kaufman Music Center’s new season with FREE performances featuring some of our stellar 2023–24 artists and outstanding students from Special Music School and Lucy Moses School. Join us for music, food, drinks and fun!
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Get a taste of the new season with performances by:
- Broadway star Nikki Renée Daniels (Company, Hamilton, The Book of Mormon)
- What Makes It Great? host Rob Kapilow
- Celebrated pianists Adam Tendler and Conor Hanick performing works by queer iconoclasts Steve Martland and Julius Eastman
- Comedian and violist Isabel Hagen, a Tonight Show veteran
- Peter Dugan, acclaimed pianist and host of NPR’s From the Top
- Accomplished soloists from Kaufman’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School
And explore:
- An interactive plant instrument hand-crafted by composer and Kaufman Artist-in-Residence Angélica Negrón
- A community performance of Terry Riley’s seminal “in C”
- American Songbook classics performed by ensembles from Lucy Moses School’s Adult Division Jazz Program
SCHEDULE
11 am
ROB KAPILOW, What Makes It Great? host
NIKKI RENÉE DANIELS, Broadway star and Broadway Close Up cast member
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER STUDENT PERFORMERS
Merkin Hall
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Featuring musicians from Lucy Moses School’s Adult Division Jazz Program
Ackman Space in the Balcony Lobby
12 pm
ADAM TENDLER & CONOR HANICK, piano
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER STUDENT PERFORMERS
Merkin Hall
12:30 pm
JAZZ ENSEMBLES
Featuring musicians from Lucy Moses School’s Adult Division Jazz Program
Ackman Space in the Balcony Lobby
1 pm
PETER DUGAN, acclaimed pianist and host of NPR’s From the Top
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER STUDENT PERFORMERS
Merkin Hall
1:30-2
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE OF TERRY RILEY’S “IN C”
Join in with musicians from Kaufman’s Face the Music teen new music program
Ackman Space in the Balcony Lobby
2-2:30 pm
ISABEL HAGEN, comedy & viola set
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER STUDENT PERFORMERS
Merkin Hall
