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This evening’s program is approximately 90 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

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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 New York 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 19, at 8:30 Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!

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

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

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

Friday Evening, February 26, at 8:30 Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic A cabaret tribute to , Polly Bergen, Mary Cleere Haran, Julie Wilson & Joan Rivers

Saturday Evening, February 27, at 8:30 Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project: Love & Soul featuring Valerie Simpson & Oleta Adams

IN THE STANLEY H. KAPLAN PENTHOUSE:

Wednesday Evening, March 16, at 8:00 Luluc

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located in the Samuel B. and David Rose Building at 165 West 65th Street, 10th floor.

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.

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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 . Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. American Songbook I The Program

A Coffin in Egypt: An Opera-in-Concert

Ricky Ian Gordon , Composer Leonard Foglia , Librettist and Director

Based on the play by Horton Foote Place: Egypt, Time: 1970

Frederica von Stade , Myrtle Bledsoe Isabel Keating , Jessie Lydell David Matranga , Hunter Bledsoe Ben Sheaffer , Captain Lawson Carolyn Johnson, Elsie

Gospel Choir Malorie Casimir , Soprano Chantelle Grant , Mezzo-soprano Terrence Chin-Loy , Tenor Justin Hopkins , Bass-baritone

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) Timothy Myers , Conductor

Keturah Stickann , Choreographer , Producer American Songbook I Meet the Artists

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e (librettist: Jean-Claude van Itallie), and Orpheus and Euridice for Lincoln Center (librettist: Mr. Gordon), which won an . Mr. Gordon’s h

t musicals include Sycamore Trees for the Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award), My Life with Albertine for (AT&T Award, t Gilman and Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation Award), with writer/director e Richard Nelson, and Dream True for the Vineyard Theatre, with writer/direc - e tor Tina Landau ( Award). Upcoming projects include the operas Intimate Apparel (librettist: Lynn Nottage), a co-commission from M the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater, and The House Without a Christmas Tree for (librettist: Vavrek), and the musi - cal Private Confessions with Richard Nelson, for the Goodman Theatre. His songs have been recorded and performed by such artists as Renée Fleming, Audra McDonald, , Frederica von Stade, , and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Other awards include the National Institute for Music Theater, Stephen Sondheim, and Foundation Awards, the Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award, and the Shen Family Foundation Award.

Leonard Foglia

Leonard Foglia’s (librettist and director) original Broadway productions include , Thurgood , and The People in the Picture . Broadway revivals include On Golden Pond , Wait Until Dark , and the recent production of The Gin Game with and Cicely Tyson. Off-Broadway credits include ’s Let Me Down Easy and One Touch of Venus for Center’s Encores! As a librettist, Mr. Foglia’s mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna , with music by José “Pepe” Martínez, pre - miered at Houston Grand Opera and has since been presented by San Diego Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arizona Opera, and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Lyric Opera of Chicago presented the premiere of El Pasado Nunca Se Termina , with music by Martínez, which has since played at Houston Grand Opera and San Diego Opera. A Coffin in Egypt was commissioned and pre - miered by Houston Grand Opera and has played at Opera Philadelphia, the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, and Chicago Opera Theater. Mr. Foglia has also directed the world premieres of operas such as Moby-Dick , , The End of the Affair , Cold Mountain , and Everest . His production of Dead Man Walking was seen at as well as across the country. Upcoming is the world premiere of and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life at Houston Grand Opera. American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Frederica von Stade

Praised as one of America’s finest artists and singers, Frederica von Stade (Myrtle Bledsoe) is one of the music world’s most beloved fig - ures. Known to family, friends, and fans by her nickname, “Flicka,” the mezzo-soprano has enriched the world of classical music for four

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O her to the stages of the world’s R great opera houses and concert halls. She began at the top, when she received a contract from Rudolf Bing during the Metropolitan Opera auditions, and since her debut in 1970 she has sung nearly all of her great roles with that company. In addition, Ms. von Stade has appeared with every leading American opera company, including the , Lyric Opera of Chicago, and LA Opera. Her career in Europe has been no less spectacular, with new productions mounted for her at Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House –Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, and Paris Opera. She has collaborated with the world’s finest conduc - tors, including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas, as well as with leading orchestras such as the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala. Ms. von Stade also enjoys close collaborations with several contemporary composers, including Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Dominick Argento, among others.

Isabel Keating

Isabel Keating (Jessie Lydell) is widely acclaimed for her starring performance in Broadway’s , opposite Hugh Jack - man, for which she garnered Tony, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nomina tions, and won the Drama Desk and Theatre World Awards. She also starred on Broadway in Enchanted April (directed by Michael Wilson) , (directed by Jack O’Brien), and most recently American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play (also directed by O’Brien). Off-Broadway, Ms. Keating has appeared at (Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning directed by Pam MacKinnon), Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and others. She won the Helen Hayes Award for her t urn in ’s Indian Ink at Washington, D.C.’s Studio Theatre, and has appeared regionally at the Old Globe (where she was directed by Leonard Foglia), Hartford Stage, Bay Street Theater, , the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Williams town Theatre Festival, and more. For television, Ms. Keating has guest-starred in The Path (upcom - ing), opposite in 3 Lbs , and with Vincent D’Onofrio in Law & Order: Criminal Intent . Her films include The Nanny Diaries , Life Before Her Eyes , and ’s directorial debut, Indignation , which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

David Matranga

David Matranga (Hunter Bledsoe) performed the role of Hunter Bledsoe at the opening of A Coffin in Egypt at Houston Grand Opera, and in subse - quent performances in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Other recent productions include Macbeth and Twelfth Night (Houston Shake- speare Festival); Marie Antoinette , Failure: A Love Story , and Dollhouse (Stages Repertory Theatre); You Can’t Take It with You and A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre); Show Boat (Houston Grand Opera); Uncle Vanya (Classical Theatre Company); and more. Other regional theater credits include originating the roles of Patrick in 110 Flights and General Longstreet in General Desdemona at the First Annual New Play Festival at Proctors, Pride and Prejudice (Dallas Theater Center), and The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre). His film and television credits include Law & Order , All My Children , and As the World Turns . Mr. Matranga has also voiced over 100 animated characters, including Bertholdt Hoover in Attack on Titan and Wave in Akame Ga Kill! on the Cartoon Network. American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Ben Sheaffer

Ben Sheaffer’s (Captain Lawson) Broadway credits include 1776 (Roundabout Theatre Company) and The Sound of Music with Rich - ard Chamberlain. Off-Broadway he originated the role of Simon in Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional credits include Dear World (Good- speed), A Coffin in Egypt (Opera Philadelphia), Cloud 9 (Wilma Theater), Into the Woods (Fulton Theatre), Bus Stop (Ivoryton Playhouse), and The Middle of Nowhere ( Music Theater). His film and television credits include Gods and Generals and One Life to Live . Mr. Sheaffer serves as associate artistic director of Opera Breve, where he is also a teaching faculty member. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Carolyn Johnson

Based in Houston, Carolyn Johnson (Elsie) is an actress, singer, director, and dialect coach with more than 25 years’ experience. She has been part of A Coffin in Egypt since its premiere in 2014 with Houston Grand Opera and in subsequent productions in Los Angeles and with Opera Philadelphia and Chicago Opera Theater. She is cur - rently in rehearsals with Stages Repertory Theatre for End of the Rainbow as . Other Stages Repertory credits include the world premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, A Picasso , and The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Ms. Johnson has performed and trained extensively in Chicago, where she served as Bugeater Theatre’s co-artistic director and was a company member of Noble Fool Theatre. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from the University of Nebraska –Lincoln and is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Malorie Casimir

A native of Brooklyn, Malorie Casimir (soprano) began her musical education at the age of 11 as a member of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. Her time there included working with artists such as John Legend, Elton John, and Nico Muhly. She also sang under the batons of Lorin Maazel, John Adams, and James Levine. Recent performances include an ensemble part with the Mannes Opera in L’elisir d’amore and as Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Hartt School. Ms. Casimir holds awards from the Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competition, the Crescendo International Music Competition, and Joy in Singing’s Positively Poulenc! competition. She spent an academic year in Vienna studying with Claudia Visca and Joelle Bouffa in conjunction with the Institute for the International Education of Students. She is currently studying voice with Ruth Falcon as a master’s student at the New School’s Mannes School of Music.

Chantelle Grant

Chantelle Grant (mezzo-soprano) is quickly distinguishing herself as a young artist to watch. She was one of the alumni of the Prelude to Performance pro - gram featured in the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors. A former Mannes Opera Young Artist, Ms. Grant has had the pleasure of working with maestro Joseph Colaneri. Her roles have included Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin , Moyra in Riders to the Sea , and Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw . Currently a student of Arthur Levy, Ms. Grant has studied with operatic legends such as Martina Arroyo, Regina Resnik, and Jane Eaglen. In July 2015 she was chosen by the Wagner Society of Washington, D.C., for the inaugural year of the American Wagner Project, a joint venture with the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, where she studied with Dolora Zajick and Luana DeVol. In 2014 she made her Taconic Opera debut in the role of Mistress Quickly in Falstaff .

Terrence Chin-Loy

Terrence Chin-Loy (tenor) is an American tenor from Coral Springs, Florida. His most recent work includes Bill in the Mannes Opera’s production of Jonathan Dove’s Flight , Leoš Janá cˇek’s song cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared with the Brooklyn New Music Collective, and singing as a studio artist with Central City Opera this past summer. Other operatic credits include Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi , Opera on the Avalon) and Ferrando ( Così fan tutte , Opera Theatre of Yale College). Mr. Chin-Loy has also enjoyed much concert work, performing as the tenor soloist in both Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Requiem . Later this season, he will sing the role of Laurie in the Mannes Opera’s production of Mark Adamo’s Little Women . This summer Mr. Chin-Loy returns to Central City Opera to join the summer festival as a studio artist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in musicology from Yale University and is now pursuing his master of music degree at the New School’s Mannes School of Music. American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Justin Hopkins

Justin Hopkins’s (bass-baritone) 2015–16 season includes his return to Boston as the featured soloist in the Holiday Pops concert series with the Boston Pops; his return to for the New York premiere of Repast , a solo opera-oratorio; a solo recital with Four Season Arts in Berkeley, California; and the East Coast premiere of Franco Faccio’s Amleto with Opera Delaware. Recent highlights included his return to La Monnaie in Brussels in Strauss’s Daphne , as well as ’s The Road of Promise with Collegiate Chorale and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Hopkins also made his debut with the Dayton Philharmonic in Britten’s War Requiem , conducted by Keith Lockhart. A versatile artist, Mr. Hopkins has performed operatic roles by composers ranging from Mozart to in such houses as Carnegie Hall and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and under the batons of such distinguished conductors as Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, and Leon Botstein.

Timothy Myers

Timothy Myers’s (conductor) 2015–16 season includes two world premieres: O Columbia by Gregory Spears and Royce Vavrek at Houston Grand Opera and Better Gods by Luna Pearl Woolf and Caitlin Vincent at Washington National Opera. As the artistic director and principal conductor of North Carolina Opera, Mr. Myers will conduct Madama Butterfly , Il barbiere di Siviglia , and Eugene Onegin . Other engagements include a return to Opera Philadelphia/Curtis Institute of Music to conduct Capriccio. Mr. Myers’s recent engagements include A Coffin in Egypt at Houston Grand Opera and Opera Philadelphia; Le pauvre matelot and Les mamelles des Tirésias with Wolf Trap Opera; and the world premieres of With Blood, with Ink by Daniel Crozier (released on disc through Albany Records) at Fort Worth Opera and All Souls by John Supko at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Other engagements include Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, the North Carolina Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Myers has also been engaged for associate positions with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Keturah Stickann

Keturah Stickann’s (choreographer) directing and choreographic credits include Don Quichotte (San Diego Opera), Macbeth (Kentucky Opera), Rigoletto (Opera Memphis, Dallas Opera), Madama Butterfly (Opera Colorado, Opera Santa Barbara), La clemenza di Tito and Don Pasquale (Opera in the Heights), Les contes d’Hoffmann, Manon, Il trovatore, and La traviata (Knoxville Opera), and more. Ms. Stickann is a frequent collabora - tor with director Leonard Foglia, most notably as his choreographer and movement director for Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick , which won the Helpmann American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Award in Australia in 2012 and was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances in the same year. Also for Foglia, she has been the assistant director and choreogra - pher of the mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna and Ricky Ian Gordon’s A Coffin in Egypt , as well as the assistant director for Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain and the national tour of Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy .

Edward Barnes

Edward Barnes (producer) has produced a wide range of concert, stage, recording, and radio projects both in the U.S. and internationally. He has served as executive director of Gotham Chamber Opera, producing director of MasterVoices, and managing director of American Lyric Theater. Mr. Barnes has also produced projects on and Off-Broadway, and for Night Kitchen Radio Theater, Nylon Fusion Collective, and Teatro Paseo La Plaza in Buenos Aires, as well as recordings for Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight and Naxos Records. Also an award-winning composer, Mr. Barnes’s work has been seen at LA Opera, Minnesota Opera, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theater, Scottish Opera, Seattle Opera, and many more. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Stephen Sondheim Award for the creation of innovative musical theater.

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE)

The Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) is one of the premier performing ensembles at the New School’s Mannes School of Music. A top music conservatory, Mannes is internationally recognized for its musical excel - lence, pedagogical rigor, and deep commitment to developing citizen artists who engage the world around them in traditional, emergent, and new forms of artistic practice. Founded in 1916, Mannes is known as a caring and sup - portive community, exemplified by its renowned faculty of educators, artists, and scholars who foster close, constructive relationships with their students while preparing them to advance the creative role of music throughout all aspects of a rapidly changing society. MACE was created by Lowell Liebermann, chairman of the Mannes composition department, “to champion the music of living American composers.” This busy ensemble presents works by iconic American masters such as John Adams and Steve Reich, while exploring works by young and up-and-coming composers such as David Hertzberg and Nina C. Young. For the 2015–16 season, MACE’s programming has been curated by one of the leading conductors of his generation, Alan Pierson, who has also conducted the ensemble.

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 - American Songbook 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 Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also showcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including estab - lished and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presen - ter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals including 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 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 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Mannes American Composers Ensemble (MACE) Mengyi Cao, Violin I Laura Pereira Del Rio, Violin II Krizstina Kiss, Viola Kimberly Jeong, Cello Dario Olachea, Bass Denis Savelyev, Flute/Piccolo Yan Yuet Chueng, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet William Bard, Horn Laurie Rogers, Piano/Celesta American Songbook

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 Amber Shavers, Associate Producer, Public Programming Luna Shyr, Senior Editor Nick Kleist, Company Manager Olivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator

For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Angela Fludd, Wardrobe Assistant

For A Coffin in Egypt John Finen, Stage Manager Ariela Bohrod, Rehearsal Pianist Zachary Goodman, Assistant/Cover Conductor Susan Woodruff Versage, Music Preparation, Gospel Choir American Songbook

Matt Berman

Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook. He continues his design work for Kristin Chenoweth, Liza Minnelli, Alan Cumming, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Salonga, and Elaine Paige 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, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico, Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to design for iconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, 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 Hollywood Bowl, , 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 Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Bea Arthur 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 Frank Loesser , Broadway 101 , Hair, and On the Twentieth Century ; 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, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on The Lion King , 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 frank sinatra? 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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