2019 TITLE SPONSOR GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK Dear Friends, Welcome to the 60th Annual Morgan Park Summer Music Festival! This is a big year for us and we look forward to celebrating it with you. This is going to be a great season. We start on June 30th with An Evening of Italian Opera and end on August 25th with A Band Called Honalee performing the songs of Peter, Paul and Mary and other music of the 60s. Thank You! This year, Morgan Park Summer Music Festival is presenting the City of Glen Cove’s 4th of July concert – Richie Cannata and the Lords of 52nd Street will play all the great songs of Billy Joel. Then three days later, Strawberry Fields performs a tribute to the Beatles on what will be Ringo Starr’s 79th birthday! This season’s concerts also include the music of Motown, Caribbean Reggae, Johnny Cash, Queen and other rock greats. David Stewart Wiley, conducting Orchestra Long Island, will entertain us with an evening of classics from Broadway, Hollywood, jazz and opera and Plaza Productions returns to Morgan Park to perform Mame. I would like to thank all our generous supporters for making it possible for us Morgan Park Summer Music Festival thanks to hold the Festival year after year. This year, I offer a special thanks to RXR/ Garvies Point – our 2019 Title Sponsor. You are all good friends and we are TITLE SPONSOR RXR/GARVIES POINT grateful for your support. for its generous support during our Our 60 years of successfully presenting professional, uplifting entertainment 60th season of providing free concerts was only possible because of the vision and hard work of so many civic minded volunteers, donors and friends. It is my great honor to chair this committee of to the public. so many dedicated to the common good and I am especially grateful for the opportunity to carry on the legacy of my father, mother and Mrs. Pratt. So sit back, relax and enjoy a delightful evening of musical entertainment under the stars. Thomas R. Suozzi Chairman 2019 MORGAN PARK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK TITLE SPONSOR Title Sponsor SPONSORED BY DATES June 30 | An Evening of Italian Opera GOLDEN BENEFACTORS Massimiliano Barbolini and Claudio Mattioli July 4 | A Billy Joel Tribute Richie Cannata and the Lords of 52nd Street Concert Sponsors In Memory of July 7 | A Beatles Tribute John S. Appleby Strawberry Fields July 14 | Orchestra Long Island Sondra & David Mack David Stewart Wiley, conductor In Memory of In Memory of Classics from Broadway, Hollywood, jazz & opera John S. Appleby Nancy Epstein July 21 | Dr. K’s Motown Revue Hits by The Supremes, The Temptations, Sondra & David In Loving Memory of Estate of Stevie Wonder and more Mack Louise Martone Peluso Edna Shotwell In Memory of July 28 | Caribbean Reggae Nancy Epstein Therapi Band Golden Benefactors August 4 | Arena Rock American Paving & Masonry Corp. Music by Queen and other rock greats Rose and Dom Ciampa August 11 | Mame Iris and Saul Katz Family Foundation Estate of Edna Shotwell Plaza Productions North Shore Golf Car, Inc. In Memory of Thomas Salvatore GOLDEN BENEFACTORS August 18 | A Johnny Cash Tribute Marvin Schein Tom Cavanagh and his band Caryl and Leonard Shapiro August 25 | A Band Called Honalee Tom and Helene Suozzi In Loving Memory of Wheatley Plaza Louise Martone Peluso The songs of Peter, Paul & Mary and other music of the 60s Bring the family, Bring a picnic, Have a great time! 2019 MORGAN PARK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AN EVENING OF ITALIAN OPERA A BEATLES TRIBUTE Massimiliano Barbolini and Claudio Mattioli Strawberry Fields Sunday, June 30 at 7:30 pm Sunday, July 7 at 7:30 pm CONCERT SPONSORS CONCERT SPONSOR Golden Benefactors In Memory of John S. Appleby American Paving & Masonry Corp., Rose and Dom Ciampa, North Shore Golf Car, Inc., In Memory of Thomas Salvatore, Helene and Tom Suozzi A huge hit of MPSMF’s 2017 season, Strawberry Fields consists of top musicians who were cast members of Beatlemania, the Broadway smash Revel in rich, romantic Italian opera as bass-baritone Claudio Mattioli and hit that recreated the magic of John, Paul, George and Ringo. They present tenor Massimiliano Barbolini present classics by Rossini, Puccini, Verdi a concert that is about the closest you can get to a live Beatles experience, and many others. Mattioli, a specialist in the works of Rossini and Mozart, complete with the sights, sounds and is also a composer, screenwriter and distinctive costuming of the Fab Four. director associated with Gruppo Amarcord. Strawberry Fields performs a popular Barbolini is a performer of international weekly Beatles Brunch at B.B. King Blues renown; he has appeared in major opera Club in Times Square and has appeared houses in Vienna and Paris, and others at large venues such as (the former) throughout the world. Shea Stadium, Citifield, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. A BILLY JOEL TRIBUTE Richie Cannata and the Lords of 52nd Street ORCHESTRA LONG ISLAND David Stewart Wiley, conductor Thursday, July 4 at 7:30 pm Sunday, July 14 at 7:30 pm CONCERT SPONSOR CONCERT SPONSOR Sondra and David Mack Glen Cove’s own Richie Cannata and the Lords of 52nd Street were an Orchestra Long Island carries forward the musical legacy of the Long integral part of Billy Joel’s career. They collaborated closely with the Island Philharmonic (LIP), the Island’s professional orchestra that folded singer/songwriter, performing with him on recordings and on tour. After a in 2016. Determined that Long Island deserved its own professional period of inactivity, Cannata and the Lords reunited in 2016, blowing away orchestra, David Stewart Wiley, the Philharmonic’s last music director and the sold-out crowd at The Space at Westbury. They have since toured conductor, led a group of dedicated musicians to form a new orchestra. regularly to enthusiastic audiences at Orchestra Long Island has performed to acclaim at the Huntington Arts public and private events including Council’s summer festival in Heckscher Park among other music venues. Morgan Park Summer Music Festival. Orchestra members are drawn from the membership of the former LIP The ensemble’s members are Richie as well as major NYC music organizations. Cannata on sax and keys, Liberty Maestro Wiley has been associated with DeVitto on drums, Russell Javors and high caliber music performance on Long Dennis DelGaudio on guitar, Malcolm Island for two decades. He is also music Gold on bass, Doug Kistner on keys and director and conductor of Virginia’s David Clark on piano and vocals. Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. 2019 MORGAN PARK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK DR. K’S MOTOWN REVUE ARENA ROCK Hits by The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and more Music by Queen and other rock greats Sunday, July 21 at 7:30 pm Sunday, August 4 at 7:30 pm CONCERT SPONSOR CONCERT SPONSOR Get set for a fabulous visit to the unparalleled Motown catalogue of Delight in the music of all your rock the 1960s, including the music of such giants as The Supremes, The favorites, but especially Queen, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Four as Arena Rock recalls classic Tops, Gladys Knight and many others who were stars of this remarkable rock bands such as Foreigner, epoch of American music history which Styx, Bon Jovi and Journey. The changed the sound of popular music forever. group devotes a major segment The professional musicians of Motown Revue of its show at Morgan Park to the faithfully evoke the sounds of this singular groundbreaking music of Queen, era. Previous appearances for the group have which has enjoyed a resurgence since the overwhelming popularity of included B.B. King Blues Club, Lincoln Center, the Academy Award-winning film,Bohemian Rhapsody. Arena Rock is Jones Beach, Mohegan Sun, Mystic Seaport as comprised of Bob Luciano on drums and backing vocals, John Anthony well as several Long Island venues. as lead vocalist, Anthony Luciano on guitar and backing vocals and Tony Cillis on bass, keyboards and backing vocals. CARIBBEAN REGGAE Performed by Therapi Band MAME Plaza Productions Sunday, July 28 at 7:30 pm Sunday, August 11 at 7:30 pm CONCERT SPONSOR In Memory of Nancy Epstein CONCERT SPONSOR Estate of Edna Shotwell The musicians of Therapi, hailing from several Caribbean islands, transport audiences to the magical allure of the Caribbean with versatility and energy Plaza Productions returns to Morgan Park Summer Music Festival with that places the band in a class by itself. Their expansive playlist, including Mame, one of the most loved and tuneful treasures of the Broadway stage. music by Bob Marley, Robin Thicke, Enrique This musical version, like the book by Patrick Iglesias, John Legend, Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, Dennis and the play, Auntie Mame, is inspired by among many others, encompasses jazz and the life and adventures of the irrepressible, free- calypso originals that feature steel drums as spirited Mame Dennis. Mame is graced with a part of the band. Therapi has mesmerized memorable score by Jerry Herman, highlighted audiences at Madison Square Garden, Lincoln by It’s Today, We Need a Little Christmas, Open Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival and on a New Window, My Best Girl, the poignant If He NBC’s Today Show, as well as private events Walked into My Life Today and, of course, the in such far-flung locales as Morocco and the signature valentine to its heroine, Mame. Hamptons. 2019 MORGAN PARK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL GLEN COVE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK A JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE Tom Cavanagh and his band THE MARGUERITE SUOZZI YOUNG PERFORMERS TALENT COMPETITION Sunday, August 18 at 7:30 pm Morgan Park Summer Music Festival’s Marguerite Suozzi Young CONCERT SPONSORS Performers Talent Competition partnered with the Nassau Music Golden Benefactors Educators Association (NMEA) to administer our 2019 talent search and Iris and Saul Katz Family Foundation, Caryl and Leonard Shapiro, Marvin Schein, Wheatley Plaza to promote this outreach to young musicians throughout the county.