Booklet includes introductory notes by Stephen Sonheim and Anthony de Mare. Booklet notes on the project and summaries of the musicals were written by Mark Eden Horowitz. Piano, Anthony de Mare ; backing tracks, Duncan Sheik. 2010-2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2010-2014 Greenfield Recital Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York
Contents:
(5:15). I'm excited. No you're not. / Jake Heggie (1:41) -- Color and light / Nico Muhly (5:36) -- Finishing the hat- 2 pianos / Steve Reich (3:20) -- The ladies who lunch / David Rakowski (7:19) -- Perpetual happiness / Eve Beglarian (6:01) -- Birds of Victorian England / Jason Robert Brown (3:04) -- Johanna in space / Duncan Sheik (5:56) -- You could drive a person crazy / Eric Rockwell (3:01) -- That old piano roll / Wynton Marsalis (4:38) -- Sorry/grateful / Derek Bermel (6:59) -- No one is alone / Fred Hersch (4:03) -- A bowler hat / Annie Gosfield (5:17) -- I'm excited. No you're not. / Jake Heggie (5:15). (7:17). Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Roumain (5:07) -- Send in the clowns / Ethan Iverson (5:49) -- The worst [empanadas] in London / Ricardo Lorenz (4:53) -- I think about you / Paul Moravec (9:00) -- Very put together / Mason Bates (3:08) -- I'm still here / Frederic Rzewski (6:43) -- Love is in the air / David Shire (4:05) -- Epiphany / John Musto (5:05) -- Pretty women / Mark-Anthony Turnage (3:44) -- Paraphrase (someone in a tree) / Phil Kline (5:42) -- In and out of love / Bernadette Speach (5:59) -- Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Roumain (7:17). (5:20). Sunday in the park- passages (encore) / Anthony de Mare (8:57) -- Every day a little death / Ricky Ian Gordon (5:18) -- Merrily we roll along / Nils Vigeland (5:39) -- Notes on 'beautiful' / Rodney Sharman (5:27) -- Being alive / Gabriel Kahane (4:45) -- Not while I'm around / Thomas Newman (2:55) -- The ballad of Guiteau / Jherek Bischoff (5:53) -- Now / Mary Ellen Childs (3:22) -- A child of children and art / Peter Golub (8:24) -- going... gone / Tania León (7:38) -- Everybody's got the right / Michael Daugherty (4:36) -- Sunday in the park- passages (encore) / Anthony de Mare (5:20).
Summary:
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been reimagined by various composers and the pieces are played on the piano by Anthony de Mare.
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