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02-28 Lost in Trees:GP 2/14/13 3:28 PM Page 1 Thursday Evening, February 28, 2013, at 8:30 Lost in the Trees Andrew Anagnost , Cello and Bass Mark Daumen , Bass, Baritone Guitar, Tuba, and Keyboard Kyle Keegan , Drums Emma Nadeau , Vocals, Keyboard, Horn, and Percussion Ari Picker , Vocals and Guitar Jenavieve Varga , Violin This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America and PVH Corp. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. The Allen Room Please make certain your cellular phone, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 02-28 Lost in Trees:GP 2/14/13 3:28 PM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Events Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy in The Allen Room : Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, TopPatch, Inc. , Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Friday Evening, March 1, at 7:30 and 9:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, The Songs of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey * Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. with Alice Ripley, Brian d’Arcy James, and Idina Menzel Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts. Saturday Evening, March 2, at 8:30 Ingrid Michaelson * Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com . The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Upcoming American Songbook Events Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse : United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Friday Evening, March 29, at 8:00 Center . Lindsay Mendez & Marco Paguia WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Saturday Evening, March 30, at 8:00 Lincoln Center . Meow Meow William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Friday Evening, April 5, at 8:00 Lincoln Center . Cristin Milioti * Saturday Evening, April 6, at 8:00 Green Sneakers, for Baritone, String Quartet, Empty Chair, and Piano Ricky Ian Gordon , Composer Jesse Blumberg , Baritone Voxare String Quartet Friday Evening, April 19, at 8:00 Kerrigan & Lowdermilk * Featuring Michael Arden , Nikki M. James , Carrie Manolakos , Josh Young , and more The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located at 165 West 65th Street, Tenth Floor. * Limited availability For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information. We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-28 Lost in Trees:GP 2/14/13 3:28 PM Page 3 Lincoln Center old film scores. As on the band’s debut, Meet the Artist Picker surrounds himself with musicians who bring his vision to life with verve and sensitivity. Recorded and produced by Picker in North Carolina, the album was S mixed by the legendary Rob Schnapf N I K (whose credits include Elliott Smith and R A H Beck), bringing out the lush tones of the E E L orchestrations in their full grandeur. At the A N N end of the day, this is the album Picker set A out to make, a celebration of the woman Lost in the Trees he calls a “warrior,” and a testament to the power of music to heal and transcend. Lost in the Trees is an inventive ensemble Learn more at lostinthetrees.com. from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, helmed by composer and songwriter Ari Picker. The band merges the dramatic symphonic ele - American Songbook ments of classical music with the accessi - In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American bility of American folk and modern pop, Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of creating a sound that is simultaneously inti - popular American song. Designed to highlight mate and sonically ambitious. and affirm the creative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emer gence at the With lush clusters of piano, a mysterious turn of the 19th century up through the pre - sound that might be something being sent, American Songbook spans all styles unwrapped or paper crushed for kindling, A and genres , from the form’s early roots in Church That Fits Our Needs , the second Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecti - album by Lost in the Trees, announced cism of today’s singer-songwrit ers. American itself in 2012 as a work of vaulting ambi - Songbook also showcases the outstanding tion, a cathedral built on loss and transfor - interpreters of popular song, including mation. In the summer of 2009 Picker lost established and emerging concert, cabaret, his mother, an artist in her own right, when theater, and songwriter performers. she took her own life. Picker was in the American Songbook presentations include midst of releasing his band’s debut album, major concert programs in venues around All Alone in an Empty House , a collection of Lincoln Center. folk-inflected songs that surprised with its orchestral arrangements, to an acclaim Lincoln Center for the usually reserved for seasoned veterans. Performing Arts, Inc. Picker set about transforming the loss of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts his mother into a tribute, composing and (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presen - writing lyrics with his mother’s picture ter of artistic programming, national leader above his writing desk: the same picture in arts and education and community rela - that now graces the album’s cover. tions, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 Picker, a classically trained composer, has free and ticketed events, performances, Shostakovich and Stravinsky at his finger - tours, and educational activities annually, tips, but the music on this album speaks LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festi - just as much to his love of Phil Spector and vals including American Songbook , Great 02-28 Lost in Trees:GP 2/14/13 3:28 PM Page 4 Lincoln Center Performers , Lincoln Center Festival , manager of the Lincoln Center campus, Lincoln Center Out of Doors , Midsummer LCPA provides support and services for the Night Swing , the Mostly Mozart Festival , Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resi - and the White Light Festival, as well as the dent organizations. In addition, LCPA led a Emmy Award –winning Live From Lincoln $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed Center , which airs nationally on PBS. As in October 2012. Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Bill Bragin, Director, Public Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Jill Sternheimer, Producer, Public Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary Programming Nicole Cotton, Production Coordinator Regina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia Lin, Programming Associate Ann Crews Melton, Programming Publications Editor John Ng, Programming Assistant For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design 02-28 Lost in Trees:GP 2/14/13 3:28 PM Page 5 0 UPCOMING EVENTS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S FREDERICK P. R OSE HALL FEBRUARY 2013 THE ALLEN ROOM IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER Dizzy and Bird Festival Paquito D’Rivera’s Dizzy and Bird Festival “Charlie Parker with Strings” Free Listening Party with Randy Weston March 8–9 , 7:30pm & 9:30pm February 28, 7pm All tributaries of contemporary jazz expression lead back Living jazz piano legend and NEA Jazz Master Randy to alto saxophone giant Charlie “Bird” Parker Weston, a close personal friend of Dizzy Gillespie, will (1920–1955), whose unrivaled improvisational bril- present a retrospective of Dizzy and Charlie Parker’s liance mesmerizes everyone who hears him. Parker’s recorded musical catalog. profound impact on the course of music increased even Free and open to the public further after his 1950 session Charlie Parker with Strings, on which, framed by romantic string arrange- ments, he soared through a suite of standards (it remains MARCH 2013 his most popular recording to date). On this program, the effervescent Cuban reedist-arranger-composer ROSE THEATER Paquito D’Rivera will place his lush sound and virtuosic sensibility at the service of this repertoire, imparting a Dizzy and Bird Festival Latin twist to the proceedings. A few pieces from Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie Parker’s recordings with Machito, Chico O’Farrill, and March 8–9, 8pm other Latin artists will be revisited as well. No living trumpet player can claim a closer relationship Free pre-concert festival nightly at 6:30pm. to musician-teacher-humanitarian Dizzy Gillespie— personally or musically—than Jon Faddis, who met his Charlie Musselwhite friend and mentor at age 15. A veteran of the Thad March 15–16, 7:30pm & 9:30pm Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, and former musical director Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Charlie Musselwhite of Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, Faddis will launched his career within the fertile blues landscape of direct The Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York mid-1960s Chicago and the flower power era San through new transcriptions from Gillespie’s path- Francisco.