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Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the piano

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Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim - Anthony de Mare (Album EPK)
Sunflower Sutra - Jerome Kitzke (Anthony de Mare, speaking pianist)

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Interview with WGTE's Brad Cresswell

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11/17/2019 - Ruth Lilly Concert Hall / Indianapolis, IN
03/02/2020 - Williams College / Williamstown, MA
03/03/2020 - Williams College / Williamstown, MA
03/14/2020 - Bennett Gordon Recital Hall / Highland Park, IL
03/27/2020 - 92nd Street Y / New York, NY
03/29/2020 - 92nd Street Y / New York, NY
04/25/2020 - Royce Hall / Los Angeles, CA
05/21/2020 - Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center / La Jolla, CA
08/01/2020 - Maverick Concert Hall / Woodstock, NY
1 A Little Night Fughetta  
2 Color and Light  
3 Finishing the Hat 2 Pianos  
4 The Ladies Who Lunch  
5 Perpetual Happiness  
6 Birds of Victorian England  
7 Johanna in Space  
8 You Could Drive A Person Crazy  
9 That Old Piano Roll  
10 Sorry-Grateful  
11 No One Is Alone  
12 A Bowler Hat  
13 I'm Excited. No You're Not.  
14 The Demon Barber  
15 Send in the Clowns  
16 The Worst [Empanadas] in London  
17 I Think About You  
18 Very Put Together  
19 I'm Still Here  
20 Love is in the Air  
21 Epiphany  
22 Pretty Women  
23 Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree)  
24 In and Out of Love  
25 Another Hundred People  
26 Into the Woods  
27 Every Day A Little Death  
28 Merrily We Roll Along  
29 Notes on Beautiful  
30 Being Alive  
31 Not While I'm Around  
32 The Ballad of Guiteau  
33 Now  
34 A Child of Children and Art  
35 going... gone  
36 Everybody's Got The Right  
37 Sunday in the Park ~ Passages  
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Pianist Anthony de Mare invited 36 composers from a wide variety of backgrounds – contemporary classical music, jazz, pop, film music, musical theatre, and more – to ‘re-imagine' a song of their choice by Stephen Sondheim as a solo piano piece. Recording sessions for this 3-CD set spanned a four-year period, from November 2010 to November 2014.  The result is a remarkable compendium of new music as well as a testament to the depth of the source material.

Sondheim is more than America's preeminent composer of musical theatre, and his influence has resonated far beyond Broadway. "I created this project," says Anthony De Mare, "because I wanted to show Sondheim's influence on composers of many different genres and I also wanted to enhance and add to the piano repertoire with a whole new body of work.  This project breaks open the boundaries between musical theatre and concert music." As liner note author, and Sondheim authority Mark Eden Horowitz points out, Liaisons is "an exploration of how music communicates, not just to an audience, but among composers."  

  • Watch Allen Ginsberg's 'Sunflower Sutra,' commissioned and performed by Anthony de Mare, as speaking pianist
    Posted At: February 7, 2019

    Jerome Kitzke's Sunflower Sutra was commissioned by Anthony de Mare and WNYC Radio in 1997 and premiered by Mr. de Mare in March of 1999.  It was written in honor of Mary Shummon, the composer's sister who was dying at the time. It uses Allen Ginsberg's classic poem Sunflower Sutra with bookending texts written by the composer referential to Ms. Shummon.  Tribeca New Music 2018 Festival concert...

  • Anthony de Mare's 'Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the piano' Makes Iowa Public Radio?s 2015 Mega-Meta-List
    Posted At: January 15, 2016

    Today's output of classical albums is (pardon me while I scribble on the back of an envelope) something like triple what it was a generation ago. I won't vouch for that exact ratio, but I will for Anne Midgette's description of how it feels: "Keeping up with the stream of new releases is like trying to drink from a fire hose." Now imagine trying to capture a hose's jet...

  • Anthony de Mare - Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim makes NPR's 10 Favorite Classical Albums Of 2015
    Posted At: December 17, 2015

    Just when you thought you knew Sondheim showstoppers, from "Send in the Clowns" to "The Ladies Who Lunch," along comes Anthony de Mare to stir up the status quo. The New York pianist commissioned 36 composers to pick Sondheim songs and rework them for solo piano. The result is a lovingly rendered compendium ranging from Daniel Bernard Roumain's dark and deconstructed "Another Hundred People" to Fred ...

  • Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano / Second Inversion review
    Posted At: November 9, 2015

    I was excited – well, excited and scared – to be given the opportunity to review Anthony de Mare's latest album of Stephen Sondheim "re-imaginings."  Excited because Sondheim's impact on me was very strong as I was one of many children who listened; scared because I didn't want to find flaws in the interpretations that might underscore my devotion to the originals.  After listening ...

  • Anthony de Mare - Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim / WGTE Radio Interview
    Posted At: October 30, 2015

    Pianist Anthony de Mare invited 36 composers from a wide variety of backgrounds – contemporary classical music, jazz, pop, film music, musical theatre, and more – to ‘re-imagine' a song of their choice by Stephen Sondheim as a solo piano piece. Recording sessions for this 3-CD set spanned a four-year period, from November 2010 to November 2014, that features 36 "re-imaginings" of St...

  • Anthony de Mare - Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim / WFMT: Chicago - New Release Of the Week
    Posted At: October 25, 2015

    Pianist Anthony de Mare invited composers from a broad variety of genres, froms Sondheim's own world of musical theater to jazz, classical, pop, film, and beyond, to re-imagine a Sondheim song of their choice as a solo piano piece.  Contributing re-composers included Steve Reich, Wynton Marsalis, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fred Hersch, Ethan Iverson, William Bolcom, Duncan Sheik, Nico Muhly, Eve Beglaria...
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