Author: Jason Robert Brown
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CLOSING A CIRCLE
There are several stories in this picture, beyond the obvious one of a piano-playing songwriter standing onstage at Radio City Music Hall with one of his greatest inspirations. But this is the story that is most important to me: Carol Klein grew up in the late forties and early fifties in a brick, two-family…
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SET LIST: LANCASTER, PA 6/22/14
Back in March, I ended up with a nasty respiratory infection that laid me out for two weeks, and one of the consequences was that I had to cancel my concert and masterclass with PRiMA Theatre at the last minute. Fortunately for all, the gang in Lancaster was able to reschedule, and so I took…
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IT’S JUST “A.”
Wonderful news just announced: Parade will return to New York City for the first time since 1999, in a concert version with full orchestra and 200-voice choir at Avery Fisher Hall, on February 16, 2015. (And I’ll be conducting!) Once the news came out this morning, my Facebook exploded with reminiscences of the original production…
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SET LIST: THE OBERON, CAMBRIDGE, MA 3/27/14
Well, it was bound to happen; after an unbelievably horrible winter of storms and cold, and then a frantic month of running around conducting, teaching and singing, my voice finally gave out, on the very morning of a concert that was part of my semester teaching at Harvard University. (It got bad enough that I…
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A WEEKEND IN DC, PART 2
And so it came to pass that 52 musicians and 35 singing actors, the vast majority of whom were not even born when Songs for a New World debuted in 1995, convened on the stage of the auditorium at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD to perform an explosive and emotional concert of the…