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Thursday Evening, February 4, 2016, at 8:30 m a r

g The Songs of Todd Almond o r With special guests Courtney Love, , P

and e Lear deBessonet , Director h David Bloom , Musical Director T Barrie McLain , Vocals Sylver Wallace , Vocals Angela Sclafani, Kate Douglas, Molly McAdoo , Sirens Bobby Lewis Ensemble Josh Henderson and Sarah Goldfeather , Violin Sarah Elizabeth Haines , Viola Eric Allen , Cello Jon Spurney , and Guitar Ann Klein , Guitar Jeremy Chatzky , Bass Eric Halvorson , Drums

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

This performance is being streamed live; cameras will be present.

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Major support for ’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella. Endowment support provided by Bank of America This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Steinway Piano The Appel Room Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall American Songbook

Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin B. Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Public support is provided by the State Council on the Arts. Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and zabars.com MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center

UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS IN THE APPEL ROOM:

Friday Evening, February 5, at 8:30 Janis Ian

Saturday Evening, February 6, at 8:30 Jerry Dixon & Mario Cantone

Wednesday Evening, February 17, at 8:30 Foreigner: The Hits Unplugged

Thursday Evening, February 18, at 8:30 A Coffin in Egypt: An Opera-in-Concert featuring Frederica von Stade

Friday Evening, February 19, at 8:30 Laura Jane Grace of Against !

Saturday Evening, February 20, at 8:30 Andy Karl &

Wednesday Evening, February 24, at 8:30 Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla & Bhi Bhiman: Swimming in Dark Waters—Other Voices of the American Experience

Thursday Evening, February 25, at 8:30 La Santa Cecilia

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

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 infor - mation.

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e Todd Almond

M Todd Almond is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. His musical Girlfriend , which uses new arrangements of Matthew Sweet’s epony - mous cult album, had an acclaimed run last summer at Center Theatre Group in under the direction of Les Waters, following pro - ductions at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, , and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In March 2015 his musical Iowa , a collaboration with playwright Jenny Schwartz, received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York. He also composed, and starred alongside Courtney Love, in the opera Kansas City Choir Boy at the Prototype festival, directed by Kevin Newbury.

Mr. Almond composed, wrote, and starred in an adaptation of The Odyssey at the Delacorte Theater for the Public Theater’s Public Works program under Lear deBessonet’s direction; it previously premiered at the Old Globe. The two also worked together to create adaptations of The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest for the Public Works program in 2013–14, which Mr. Almond also composed, wrote for, and starred in; each of these produc - tions featured casts of 200 people and received rave reviews.

Mr. Almond recently wrote the music for, and performed in, Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss at Playwrights Horizons. Other credits include a musical ver - sion of Ruhl’s Melancholy Play , originally produced by Page 73, with an acclaimed recent production at Trinity Repertory . Mr Almond also wrote the music and lyrics for We Have Always Lived in the Castle at Yale Repertory Theatre, and was the music director/arranger for Sherie Rene Scott’s lauded Piece of Meat at 54 Below and at the Hippodrome, . He was also the music director/arranger for Laura Benanti’s acclaimed solo show at 54 Below, and can be heard on Benanti’s live album In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention . Mr. Almond’s albums include Mexico City and his newly released Memorial Day . American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Courtney Love

Courtney Love is a musician, song - writer, actress, and activist. Her music with Hole and as a soloist broke new ground, combining music of singular power and riveting emotional intensity with lyrics of intellectual and observational acuity. Two Hole albums, and , went multiplatinum.

In addition to her many music-related activities, including impassioned involvement in a variety of artist rights–related issues, Ms. Love continues to pursue her love of acting and recently completed production on ’s film , based on William ’s debut novel of the same title. She can also be seen in season of the critically acclaimed series , as well as in guest roles on the hit shows and Revenge.

On stage Ms. Love recently starred in the sold-out hit Kansas City Choir Boy , an original opera composed by Todd Almond, as part of New York’s Prototype fes - tival. Her much-celebrated turn as Althea Flynt in the 1996 film The People vs. was a career breakthrough, earning Ms. Love a Golden Globe nomi - nation, along with Best Supporting Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Sherie Rene Scott

Sherie Rene Scott co-wrote and starred in Second Stage Theatre’s Whorl Inside a Loop , a meta-the ater piece with . She also co- wrote, with Scanlan, and starred in in 2009. When the show moved to Broadway, Ms. Scott received Tony Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Book of a Musical, as well as nominations for Best Musica l, Actress, and Book, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for Leading Actress and Outstanding Musical. In 2013 she wrote and performed the critically acclaimed Piece of Meat with Todd Almond . Other credits include ’s Landscape of the Body (Obie and ), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Disney’s The Little Mermaid American Songbook I Meet the Artists

(Outer Critics Circle nomination), and ’s (Clarence Derwent Award), (Drama Desk nomination), ’s Faust , and Kander and Ebb’s Over and Over ( nomi - nation). Ms. Scott founded the Grammy-winning Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records, and is a producer of the film The Last Five Years.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Brandon Victor Dixon’s Broadway credits include , Motown: The Musical (; Grammy and Drama League nomi - nations), and The Color Purple (Harpo; Tony nomination). He has appeared in Cotton Club with Wynton Marsalis and House of Flowers at City Center Encores! Off-Broadway credits include The Scottsboro Boys (Haywood Patter- son; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle awards) and (Tom Collins). Regional credits include Live! and Far From Heaven . On television Mr. Dixon has appeared in ’s America’s Millennium , One Life to Live , Law & Order: Criminal Intent , and . He is a graduate of .

Lear deBessonnet

Lear deBessonet (director) is an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award–winning direc - tor. She is currently resident director at the Public Theater and director of its Public Works program, for which she has directed musical adaptations of The Tempest , The Winter’s Tale, and The Odyssey at the Delacorte Theater. Also for the Public, she directed Good Person of Szechwan (produced by Foundry Theatre at La MaMa; winner of Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Lilly awards; Drama Desk nomination). She directed Pump Boys and Dinettes for Encores! Off-Center, and has directed shows at the Old Globe, Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, Intiman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Joe’s Pub, Women’s Project Theater, Performance Space 122, and 13p. She has received awards including a Doris Duke Impact Award, Theatre Communications Group’s Peter Zeisler Award, Lower Cultural Council’s Presidential Award for Artistic Excellence, and the Meadows Prize. Ms. deBessonet has also acted as a visiting professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. American Songbook I Meet the Artists

David Bloom

David Bloom (musical director) is the founding co-artistic director of Contemporaneous, a New York–based ensemble of 21 musicians dedicated to performing the most exciting music of the present moment. A devoted advo - cate for new music, Mr. Bloom has conducted over 120 world premieres at such venues as and Le Poisson Rouge in addition to Lincoln Center. He has worked with artists and ensembles as diverse as , Donnacha Dennehy, NOW Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Dylan Mattingly, and Dawn Upshaw. Especially active as a conductor of new opera throughout the U.S. and Canada, Mr. Bloom has also recorded for Innova Recordings, New Amsterdam Records, Mexican Summer, , and Starkland labels. Also a passionate teaching artist, he is a conductor for Face the Music and Special Music School High School, and along with Contemporaneous, he is in resi - dence at his alma mater, Bard College.

Barrie McLain

Barrie McLain’s (vocals) Off-Broadway and credits include Sleep No More and Kansas City Choir Boy by Todd Almond featuring Courtney Love, Julie Klausner Live at Joe’s Pub and the Bellhouse, Sherie Rene Scott’s All Will Be Well album and Lovestream online release (concert producer and choir leader), and Atonement by Liz Swados (featured soloist in concert and recording). In 2015 she was a featured soloist with Fresh Ground Pepper’s Camp Over There at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

Sylver Wallace

Sylver Wallace (vocals) is a Brooklyn-based performer and recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree in acting at the Experimental Theatre Wing and minored in both performance studies and religious studies. Recent credits include Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy (2014–15) and Shaina Taub’s The Daughters (2012). Ms. Wallace is currently revising an original work titled –Ness (2014), a “choreopoem” and performance project inspired by French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness . Presently she is most interested in disability and performance (both lived and theatrical), and the ways in which one can “disable” or disrupt traditional theatrical experi - ences, musical landscapes, and the physical spaces they take place in.

Angela Sclafani

Angela Sclafani (Siren) is an actor, singer, and . This past fall she toured with Todd Almond and Courtney Love in the Kansas City American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Choir Boy under the direction of Kevin Newbury. Last spring she was fea - tured in the documentary Better to Live , which premiered at the and chronicled the making of the sketch comedy musical The Reality Show: New York University , originally conceived by Liz Swados. Ms. Sclafani performs her original music throughout New York City.

Kate Douglas

Kate Douglas (Siren) is a performer, songwriter, and theater artist. Recent credits include Third Rail Projects’ The Grand Paradise , the U.S. tour of Kansas City Choir Boy , and Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side . She cur - rently works as an associate artist and performer at Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More .

Molly McAdoo

Molly McAdoo (Siren) is a theater-maker, actor, and singer. She has per - formed around the world at the Sydney Opera House, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and the Adelaide Festival. She was most recently seen in Kansas City Choir Boy at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and the Oberon at A.R.T.

Bobby Lewis Ensemble

The Bobby Lewis Ensemble is a group of singers based out of the New Light Baptist Church in Harlem. The church’s senior pastor, Bobby Lewis, is the group’s founder and director. Together for almost 20 years, the ensem - ble has traveled the world singing everything from gospel and Negro spiri - tuals to patriotic medleys and its recent “Soulful Beatles Celebration” in Harlem. It has toured and performs annually in Spain. The Bobby Lewis Ensemble performed with in last year’s American Songbook series at Lincoln Center , which aired on PBS as part of Live From Lincoln Center . It was also a featured ensemble in Todd Almond’s The Odyssey , under the direction of Lear deBessonet, at the Delacorte Theater in .

Josh Henderson

Josh Henderson (violin) enjoys a multifaceted career as a cross-genre violin - ist, violist, and composer. He has built a reputation for his high-energy per - formances and is a member of several nationally and internationally touring groups, including the Mayhem Poets, Whale Belly, Chassidic Reggae, the Moshe Hecht Band, Contemporaneous, Alkali, and Warp Trio. A freelance American Songbook I Meet the Artists

musician in New York City, Mr. Henderson has performed, recorded, and col - laborated with popular artists such as , the Sugarhill Gang, David Byrne, , , Courtney Love, Amanda Palmer, Jherek Bischoff, and members of bands such as Oyster Cult and the Eagles. As a composer, he has written work for the Chelsea Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and for several films. He studied at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and at New York University, where he is now a faculty member.

Sarah Goldfeather

Sarah Goldfeather (violin) is a Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based singer, song - writer, and violinist, and the bandleader for the indie-folk band Goldfeather. A versatile performer and avid contemporary-music violinist, Ms. Goldfeather recently performed as a featured soloist in TEDxMet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has additionally performed as a violinist on the Kansas City Choir Boy tour (starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond), at festivals such as Tribeca New Music and Bard Music Festival, and has collaborated with Contemporaneous, Eliot Glazer, Cooper Boone, Jesus on the Mainline, and Mixtape, among others. Her band, Goldfeather, will be presented in the 2016 Ecstatic Music Festival and the MATA Interval series in New York and two series in Boston. The group released its EP, Goldfeather , in 2014, with an upcoming full-length album due in 2016. Ms. Goldfeather is also the founder and co-director of the new-music ensemble Exceptet and makes up half of the Fragments Duo.

Sarah Elizabeth Haines

Sarah Elizabeth Haines (viola) is a violist, violinist, and vocalist based in New York City. She toured with Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy in the fall, and was part of its original run at the 2015 Prototype festival. Ms. Haines is a member of Contemporaneous and co-manages with Jessica Clinton the Brooklyn-based Americana group Bellehouse. She is also violist and vocalist for the group Emanuel and the Fear (new record releasing April 2016), and for Kenyon Phillips & the Ladies in Waiting, with whom she performed in the bur - lesque circus opera The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips in August 2015. Music-making has taken Ms. Haines to North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and she has recorded music for producers, arrangers, and , including Phillip Glass and Sufjan Stevens. She completed her bachelor of music degree at New York University.

Eric Allen

Born in Portland, Oregon, Eric Allen (cello) is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer living in Brooklyn. He has created orchestral arrangements for American Songbook I Meet the Artists the National Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Ballet. He is an enthusi - astic performer of new music, mostly recently premiering Max Grafe’s Perchance to Dream for cello and chamber orchestra with the Chelsea Symphony. He frequently performs in New York City theater, and can be seen in the TV series The Knick and Mozart in the Jungle . Mr. Allen is a mem - ber of the BMI Lehman Engel Workshop and previously was a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop from 2010 to 2013. He is a founding member of Speed Bump, a string trio of two cellos and one viola dedicated to performing original compositions and unique arrangements of classical, jazz, and world music. Mr. Allen is currently studying Indian classi - cal music and is a student of Krishna Bhatt.

Jon Spurney

Jon Spurney (piano, guitar) most recently appeared in and co-wrote music for Documentary Now! with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader on IFC. He served as musical director for the Public Works production of The Odyssey at the Delacorte Theater, and appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award –winning musical Passing Strange, as well as in the film version directed by Spike Lee. Mr. Spurney has composed music for The Daily Show with and The Colbert Report , and has performed with Elton John, , David Byrne, , Laurie Anderson, and John Cale.

Ann Klein

Ann Klein (guitar) sings and plays guitar along with a few other stringed instruments like mandolin, dobro, and lap steel guitar. As a composer/song - writer, she has toured Europe regularly and written music for French televi - sion and documentaries, as well as for Metro Music, Inc., a library that has placed her compositions in television shows worldwide. As a guitarist, Ms. Klein was a featured soloist with Ani DiFranco on several shows; she has also had the honor of playing, writing, or recording with Kate Pierson of the B-52s, Joan Osborne, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti, Todd Almond, Dana Fuchs, and P.M. Dawn, among others. She has also played on Broadway in , , Everyday Rapture , Baby It’s You, , and most recently Trip of Love . Off-Broadway credits include (the new show) and Shakespeare in the Park (with Todd Almond). Ms. Klein received a MacDowell Colony grant and was a guest teacher at the Danish Rhythmic Music Conservancy.

Jeremy Chatzky

Jeremy Chatzky (bass) has worked with as part of the Seeger Sessions band, and with Ronnie Spector, Steve Earle, Delores “La American Songbook I Meet the Artists

La” Brooks, Ana Gasteyer, and the band . He also per - formed in the Off-Broadway version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Mr. Chatzky performs regularly as part of the Loser’s Lounge band.

Eric Halvorson

Brooklyn-based Eric Halvorson (drums) has been active on the New York City music scene for over 20 years. He has performed with such jazz artists as John Fedchock, Dave Liebman, Bob Sheppard, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Vic Juris, Adam Rogers, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Bill Henderson, and more; Broadway stars Sherie Rene Scott and Christine Ebersole; songwriter and pianist ; soul singer Ben E. King; and legendary blues artist Pinetop Perkins. He has also toured internationally with vocalist Ute Lemper. Mr. Halvorson has performed for the (2008, 2010) and at numerous festivals, including the Monterey, Iowa City, and Montreal jazz festivals, Norfolk & Norwich Festival (UK), Sildajazz (Norway), Radio Classica (), Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), Festival de Jazz (Colombia), and Kaunas Jazz (Lithuania). He was the drummer for the 2015 Broadway revival of . He has also played in the Broadway orchestras of Beautiful , , Pippin , On the Town , West Side Story , Sister Act , How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , Priscilla Queen of the Desert , , Cinderella , Shrek , and Xanadu , and the Los Angeles production of .

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele - bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre - ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all styles and genres, from the form’s early roots in and Broadway to the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show - cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established and emerging concert, , theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: pre - senter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and com - munity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals includ ing American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning Live From American Songbook

Lincoln Center , which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 bil - lion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Jill Sternheimer, Director, Public Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary Programming Regina Grande, Associate Producer Luna Shyr, Programming Publications Editor Nick Kleist, Company Manager Olivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator

For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Amy Page, Wardrobe Assistant

For Todd Almond Britt Bonney, Music Associate/Copyist

Matt Berman

Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook. He continues his design work for , , , , Lea Salonga, and on the road. Through his work with ASCAP and several U.S.-based charities, Mr. Berman has designed for a starry roster that includes Bernadette Peters, , Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico, Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, , , and . His international touring schedule has allowed him to design for iconic venues such as , the Paris Opera, the Olympia the - ater in Paris, Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the Acropolis, the famed amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, Luna Park in Buenos Aires, and the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has done work for the Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Mr. Berman’s television work includes Chenoweth’s recently released special, Coming Home , as well as seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, and the Tony Award –winning Liza’s at the Palace , which he also designed for American Songbook

Broadway. Other Broadway credits include on Broadway , Nancy LaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas , and Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony at the Belasco Theater.

Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook since 1999; the Actors Fund concerts of , Broadway 101 , Hair, and ; and Brian Stokes Mitchell at Carnegie Hall. His Broadway credits include A Free Man of Color , The Rivals , Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine , Twelfth Night , and Jekyll & Hyde . Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Promises, Hereafter , A Minister’s Wife , Bernarda Alba , Third , Belle Epoque , Big Bill , Elegies , Hello Again , The Spitfire Grill , Pageant , and Hedwig and the Angry Inch . His regional credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Theatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on , Juan Darién , Chronicle of a Death Foretold , Carousel , Once on This Island , and Little Shop of Horrors (Off-Broadway). jazz at lincoln center february family concert: who is ? FEB  • PM & PM | ROSE THEATER | JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE With vocalist Kenny Washington, storyteller Allan Harris, and Andy Farber & His Orchestra

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