PLAYGOLF SEPTEMBER 2020 BRAE BURN COUNTRY CLUB & VIRTUAL 19th Annual Golf & Tennis Classic and Gala Christine Ebersole Start Video HONORING Performances by Broadway Stars! 1 Thank you to the Music Conservatory's staff and faculty for keeping the music playing. What an incredible event! Rodd Berro 400 Rella Blvd., Suite 157, Montebello, NY 10901 PROGRAM ACT I September 21, 2020 | 19th Annual Golf & Tennis Classic ACT II September 23, 2020 7:00 PM | Virtual Gala Elliott Forrest, Emcee Award Honoree Christine Ebersole Achievement in the Arts for Excellence in Theatre Award Phylicia Rashad Achievement in the Arts for both on Stage and on Screen Award Fred Armisen Achievement in the Arts for Comedy and Television Award Musical Performances by: Kate Baldwin Lilli Cooper Gizel Jiménez Ruby Shadley Billy Stritch Bernie Williams Tally Sessions 3 Your Support Today Will Keep the Music Playing The Scholarship Program provides tuition assistance for students of all ages to help them achieve their musical dreams and reach their full potential regardless of financial circumstances. Founded in 1929, our community music school empowers students with the tools to develop their creative potential, strengthen academic performance, and provide inspiration to pursue higher education opportunities. The Music Therapy Program changes the lives of over 2,000 children and adults with disabilities each year. The Conservatory’s board-certified music therapists provide individual and group music therapy at the Conservatory and on an outreach basis in partnership with 31 organizations throughout the Westchester region. Music therapy can make a profound impact, promote healing, and support physical, emotional, social, and cognitive well-being for a brighter future. The Healing Our Heroes Program serves military veterans who have bravely protected us both domestically and overseas; they are our neighbors, our friends, and our family. Our program provides the therapeutic benefits of music to veterans with combat-related injuries in individual and group sessions at no cost to them. 4 Congratulations to the Music Conservatory of Westchester on another amazing event filled with music! John & Patty Bottomley 5 THANK YOU BIRDIE SPONSOR Leeding Builders Group, LLC Nancy Goodman MATCH SPONSOR Pegasus Asset Management PAR SPONSOR Avison Young Facade Maintenance Design Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas, LLP HOLE SPONSOR Bunlin LLC MillerBlaker, Inc. Sentinel Builders LLC FOURSOME Allison & Brian Ray Bombas LLC Bunlin LLC Cheryl & Joel Breitkopf Helen Demetrios LRG Wealth Advisors Patricia & John Bottomley Quinn McCabe, LLP 6 THANK YOU INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS SPECIAL THANKS TO Alan Gilbert RC Structures Inc. First American Title Insurance Company George Drapeau EVENT SUPPORTERS Langan, Inc. Alliance Building Services WSP Global, Inc. 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Pearlgreen Corporation The Fibar Group, LLC Sentinel Builders, LLC Westech Solutions, LLC Thank You for your Support Proceeds from our event will support the Music Conservatory of Westchester’s Music Therapy Institute providing music programs for children and adults with disabilities, Healing Our Heroes Program providing music therapy for returning veterans, and Scholarship Program providing students from financially-deserving families quality music education. 7 Emcee Elliott Forrest Peabody Award-winning Broadcaster, Producer, Director, WQXR Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster, director and producer. He is the afternoon host on New York’s Classical Radio Station 105.9FM, WQXR, host of the radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has hosted more the 60 concerts at Carnegie Hall. Elliott is the Director of the PBS TV Special: CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD and live tour. He regularly produces, directs and designs symphony concerts: LA Philharmonic, NY Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Pasadena Pops and Little Orchestra Society in venues including the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center. He’s currently producing a new concert tour for violin legend, Itzhak Perlman. He is the Founding Executive Artistic Director of ArtsRock.org of Rockland County, NY, presenting concerts and conversations. Orchestra Narrator: Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, Peter and the Wolf, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide. For 12 years he was on A&E Television, host of Breakfast with the Arts. He appeared on the original GONG SHOW on NBC. BA in Theater from the University of Texas, Austin. For more, visit ElliottForrest.com. 8 Honorees Christine Ebersole Achievement in the Arts for Excellence in Theatre Award Christine Ebersole is currently co-starring on Chuck Lorre’s hit sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola for CBS. Her extensive Broadway career includes her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street. She won her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every Off- Broadway award, for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. She starred most recently on Broadway in War Paint in her Tony nominated role as Elizabeth Arden. In 2018, she made her LA Opera debut as the Old Lady in Francesca Zambello’s production of Candide conducted by James Conlon. Other Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Camelot, Steel Magnolias, the revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and Dinner at Eight for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. She received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Concert appearances include the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony’s tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops concert version of A Little Night Music, and PBS concerts Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty. In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Ebersole has also appeared in numerous hit films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Amadeus, Tootsie, and The Big Wedding in which she also composed and performed the song “Gently Down The Stream”. Her television career began as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live alongside Eddie Murphy. Other television credits include Gypsy with Bette Midler, Pose, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, American Horror Story, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Will & Grace. 9 Phylicia Rashad Achievement in the Arts for both on Stage & on Screen Award Phylicia Rashad became a household name when she portrayed Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show, earning her numerous honors and awards for over two decades. She is also a force on the stage, appearing both on and Off-Broadway, often in projects that showcase her musical talent such as Jelly’s Last Jam, Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, and The Wiz. Her Broadway credits include August Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (a role that she reprised on the London stage), Gem of The Ocean, (Tony Award nomination) and Queen Britannia in Cymbeline at Lincoln Center. She received both the Drama Desk and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Lena Younger in the 2004 Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun. In 2016, Rashad was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play in Head of Passes at the Public Theater, which she reprised at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Television credits also include NBC’s This Is Us (2020 & 2019 Emmy nominations), Empire, and David Makes Man. Her film credits includeCreed and Creed II, Just Wright, and Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, and the upcoming Pixar film Soul. She also holds the distinction of being the first recipient of the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre at Fordham University. Since 2017, she has been the Brand Ambassador of the National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. She is also a founding member of Black Theatre United. 10 Fred Armisen Achievement in the Arts for Comedy and Television Award Fred Armisen is one of the most diversely talented performers working today with credits that range from acting to producing to writing in both comedy and music. He is the co- writer and co-star of IFC’s Emmy nominated series Portlandia. He also worked with IFC to create the critically acclaimed comedy, Documentary Now!, and he served as executive producer and star of Amazon’s Forever, along with fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph. Currently, Armisen can be seen on Los Espookys, a Spanish-Language series for HBO which he wrote, executive produced, and appears in as “Tico.” An eleven-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, Armisen has engaged audiences with memorable impressions and characters including Stuart in The Californians, and half of the unforgettable songwriting team of Garth and Kat (with Kristen Wiig), to name a few. In 2019, his original stand-up comedy special Fred Armisen: Stand Up For Drummers on Netflix received a Grammy nomination for “Best Comedy Album”. In 2014, Armisen was named band leader of the 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Armisen has appeared in countless feature films, including Battle of the Sexes, Baby Mama, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Anchorman. His many television series appearances include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock, and Broad City. He can currently be heard voicing ‘Elliot Birch’ in Netflix’s hit series Big Mouth.