Author: Jason Robert Brown
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SET LIST: JRB & SHOSHANA BEAN w ARIANA GRANDE, CATALINA BAR & GRILL, HOLLYWOOD CA 1/4/16
I can’t think of a better way to start out the New Year than by making music with my favorite singers and players in the world. Shoshana texted me the day I got to LA and said “You wanna do a show or not?”, to which the only logical reply is “YES,” and so Chris…
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ALL ABOUT ‘ARCHIE’
A couple of months ago, I got an email saying that a high school principal had told one of his students that they couldn’t do “13” for their Spring Musical because one of the lead characters in the show was a terminally ill child. I wrote the following piece and sent it to that student…
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LOOKING BACK AT 2015
Here’s what I got in 2015. I got to conduct Parade at Avery Fisher Hall. I got to conduct The Trumpet of the Swan at the Halle Staatskapelle. I got to conduct three songs from Bridges with the Des Moines Symphony in front of 100,000 people. I got to conduct the overture to Honeymoon In…
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THE GLORIOUS RIDICULOUS HUMANITY OF MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA
Let us now praise Michael John LaChiusa. One of my first jobs in New York was conducting The Petrified Prince at the Public, and so I walked into the Anspacher yesterday to see First Daughter Suite carrying twenty-one years of history with MJLC’s writing. I’ve always said he was the most dexterous of any of…
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SET LIST: CLOSING OUT THE 2015 SUBCULTURE RESIDENCY
Last night, we closed out a year of fantastic concerts at SubCulture with a full-fledged stringstravaganza and a wonderful crop of singers. Rarities included a song that we cut during previews of 13 that I’ve never performed before; the song I wrote for my wedding (sung by one of the two singers who performed it…