Credit: Salon logo by Mia Bosna

Credit: Salon logo by Mia Bosna

 

Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM EDT (Philadelphia, USA: GMT-4)


33 YEAR SALON SEASON

February 23rd, 2020

  1. Megnot Toggia, soprano and Gabriel Rebolla, piano perform “Leah” and “Rachel” arias from Andrea Clearfield’s Women of Valor oratorio

  2. Members of Gamelan Semara Santi of Swarthmore College (Brian Jenike, Daniel Wallick, Thomas Whitman) perform traditional music drawn from shadow play of Bali

  3. Jamal Jones, flugelhorn, Micah Graves, piano and Nimrod Speaks, bass play original jazz compositions TBA

  4. Basquiat Blues (Nia Watson, vocals, Heru Shabaka-ra, trumpet, Watsun, bass clarinet, Carlos Santiago, violin, Tom Kraines, cello) will perform free jazz

  5. Avi Wisnia, pianist/songwriter performs music with his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, singing on video projection

  6. Lisa Willson DeNolfo, soprano and Michal Schmidt, piano perform “Chi disprezza gli infelici” by Gioachino Rossini and “Revenge Aria” from Andrea Clearfield's opera MILA, Great Sorcerer, libretto by Jean-Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden 

  7. Pianist/composer Suzzette Ortiz with guest singers will present a vocal improvisation and her Cuban vocal arrangement “Canto e Elegua”

  8. Michael Shapiro will perform two selections from his piano collection Passages – Creation and Hannah

  9. Cheah Chan Duo (Phillip Cheah and Trudy Chan, piano and vocals) will perform tunes from the Great American Songbook…and then some! 

  10. Jeffrey Young plays violin and Evie Morrel-Samuels tells original stories with words, movement and light

  11. Sharon Glassman will show and perform songs from prints in her Smile Songs art collection 

  12. Epiphany Singers, directed by Danielle Molan, will perform “When David Heard” by Eric Whitacre


Performer Photos and Videos


February, 2020
Photos by John Hayes
Audio by Michael Schweisheimer

Toggia and Rebolla.jpg

Megnot Toggia, soprano and Gabriel Rebolla, piano perform “Leah” and “Rachel” arias from Andrea Clearfield’s Women of Valor oratorio

Megnot_Toggia.jpg

Gamelan Ensemble.jpg

Members of Gamelan Semara Santi of Swarthmore College (Brian Jenike, Daniel Wallick, Thomas Whitman) perform traditional music drawn from shadow play of Bali

Thomas Whitman.jpg

Jones, Speaks, and Graves.jpg

Jamal Jones, flugelhorn, Micah Graves, piano and Nimrod Speaks, bass play original jazz compositions TBA

Jamal Jones.jpg

Tom Kraines.jpg
Basquiat Blues.jpg

Basquiat Blues (Nia Watson, vocals, Heru Shabaka-ra, trumpet, Watsun, bass clarinet, Carlos Santiago, violin, Tom Kraines, cello) will perform free jazz


Wisnia.jpg

Avi Wisnia, pianist/songwriter performs music with his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, singing on video projection

Avi Wisnia.jpg

Willson DeNolfo and Schmidt.jpg

Lisa Willson DeNolfo, soprano and Michal Schmidt, piano perform “Chi disprezza gli infelici” by Gioachino Rossini and “Revenge Aria” from Andrea Clearfield's opera MILA, Great Sorcerer, libretto by Jean-Claude van Itallie and Lois Walden 

Lisa Willson DeNolfo.jpg

Suzzette Ortiz .jpg
Ortiz and Guests.jpg

Pianist/composer Suzzette Ortiz with guest singers will present a vocal improvisation and her Cuban vocal arrangement “Canto e Elegua”


Shapiro.jpg

Michael Shapiro will perform two selections from his piano collection Passages – Creation and Hannah

Michael Shapiro.jpg

Cheah Chan Duo.png
Cheah Chan Duo.jpg

Cheah Chan Duo (Phillip Cheah and Trudy Chan, piano and vocals) will perform tunes from the Great American Songbook…and then some! 


Young and Morrel-Samuels.jpg

Jeffrey Young plays violin and Evie Morrel-Samuels tells original stories with words, movement and light

Jeffrey Young.jpg

Sharon Glassman.jpg
Glassman.jpg

Sharon Glassman will show and perform songs from prints in her Smile Songs art collection 


Epiphany Singers.jpg

Epiphany Singers, directed by Danielle Molan, will perform “When David Heard” by Eric Whitacre

Epiphany Singers.jpg

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