GEORGE GERSHWIN

"On Catfish Row"

Three American opera soloists sing exerpts from Gershwin's famous opera "Porgy and Bess", accompanied by piano or orchestra. Also included are Negro Spirituals that inspired Gershwin during the writing of the opera.

"By George"
The complete works for solo piano

"Gershwin and Friends"
Ragtime composers, Gershwin and New American Music

"Gershwin and the Jewish Musical Heritage"
Isabelle Ganz (Mezzo-soprano)
Yiddish musical theater, liturgical music in Hebrew, art songs in Yiddish.
In the second half, Broadway songs and piano music by Gershwin.

"Crazy about George"
Kathryn Magestro (soprano)
An evening of the best of Gershwin's beloved Broadway melodies and piano music.
Songs from shows and movie musicals such as "Shall We Dance", "An American in Paris",
"Strike Up the band", etc.

"Fascinating Gershwin"
An evening of Jazz and the Blues with CoCo York and trio.
Jazz standards from Gershwin's repertoire and the era of the 20's and 30's

AARON COPLAND

Recital & Chamber Music Programs:

The Piano Music.
With John Ferguson, featuring: 4 Piano Blues, Piano Variations, Danzon Cubano, Billy the Kid, and Night Thoughts.

The Piano Music for Two Pianos.
With John Ferguson and William Nyaho, featuring: Billy The Kid, Hoe Down and Saturday Night Waltz from Rodeo, Danzon Jalisco, Danzon Cubano, 4 Piano Blues, and Piano Variations.

A Copland Songbook: the Complete Songs.
Featuring: Old American Songs, arias from The Tender Land, and Emily Dickinson Songs, with Kathryn Magestro, soprano, Daniel Washington, baritone, and John Ferguson, pianist.

Aaron Copland and Jewish Music.
Featuring songs from Folksongs of the New Palestine, Vitebsk for chamber ensemble, art songs in Yiddish and Hebrew, and music of his contemporaries–Weill, Blitzstein, Bernstein, Bloch, and Gershwin.

Variations on Copland.
A program with 4-6 artists from American Voices, exploring the diverse aspects of Copland’s life and music through his early works and ballet scores, Jewish heritage, and his fascination with the American West and Midwest.

Orchestral Program:

Piano Concerto

Old American Songs and Arias from The Tender Land

Lincoln Portrait

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

BERNSTEIN AND FRIENDS

Kathryn Magestro, Soprano
John Ferguson, Pianist

I Feel Pretty - WEST SIDE STORY Leonard Bernstein
Something´s Coming - WEST SIDE STORY  
Spring is Here - I MARRIED AN ANGEL Rodgers and Hart
Stairway to Paradise - GEORGE WHITE SCANDALS George Gershwin
Love is Here to Stay - GOLDWYN FOLLIES   
    
Second Prelude George Gershwin
Promenade  
   
If I Loved You - CAROUSEL Rodgers and Hammerstein
Adelaide´s Lament - GUYS AND DOLLS Frank Loesser
My House - PETER PAN Leonard Bernstein
Some other Time - ON THE TOWN  
Hundred Easy Ways - WONDERFUL TOWN   
   
Two Piano Blues Aaron Copland
Freely Poetic  
With Bounce  
   
Four Anniverseries for Piano Solo  
Felicia Bernstein Leonard Bernstein
Johnny Mehegan  
Stephen Sondheim  
Helen Coates  
   
Simple Song - MASS Leonard Bernstein
Ox-tails  
Rabbit at Top Speed - LA BONNE CUISINE Leonard Bernstein
The Boy From.... - THE MAD SHOW Stephen Sondheim & Mary Rodgers
Send in the Clowns - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC  
Everybody says Don´t - ANYONE CAN WHISTLE Stephen Sondheim
Glitter and be Gay - CANDIDE  
What a Movie  
Dinah's Aria - TROUBLE IN TAHITI  
Tonight - WEST SIDE STORY Leonard Bernstein

KURT WEILL

Cantor's Son: Kurt Weill and Jewish Music

Voice and Piano Recital

Kiddush     

Folk Songs of the New Palestine 

Ofrahs Lieder 1916    

Songs from Berlin, Paris  and New York

 Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?
 Berlin im Licht
 Complainte de la Seine
 Youkali
 September Song
 Its Never Too Late to Mendelssohn

Yiddish Musical Theater and Art Songs

Liturgical Music and Folk Songs

Weill in America

Soprano, Baritone and Piano

Weill's Berlin Era Songs

Weill and his Contemporaries - Songs and piano music by George Gershwin, Marc Blitzstein, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller

Weill and World War II

Propaganda Songs (1942)

Weill in America
 Excerpts from his Broadway and Hollywood Musicals

Knickerbocker Holiday
September Song 
Lady in the Dark
The Saga of Jenny
One Touch of Venus
Speak Low
Lost in the Stars
The Little Grey House
Street Scene
What Good Would the Moon Be?
Ice Cream

Variations on Weill

for four classical and four Jazz musicians

From Berlin to Broadway and Hollywood
Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?
 Alabama Song
 Mack the Knife
 September Song 
 The Saga of Jenny
 Speak Low
 What Good Would the Moon Be?
 Ice Cream

Cantor's Son

Avenu Malkeynu    Trad.

Folk Songs of the New Palestine  arr. Kurt Weill,

Yid'l Mit'm Fid'l    Abraham Ellstein

Kiddush     

Classical Weill

 Excerpts from "The Whitman Songs" and the "Huck Finn Songs"

Excerpts from the "Seven Pieces from the Three Penny Opera"
 Arr. For violin and piano

Weill and Jazz

 Jazz Variations on Weill's favorite songs and jazz composers of the 20's and 30's