LITT & ALPHER MAKE RARE NYC APPEARANCE IN CHELSEA
THE ALAN KLOTZ GALLERY (511 West 25th Street, NYC - TKTS:845-687-2687
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http://www.chamberartsfestival.org/
) hosts a benefit for the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown featuring
cabaret songwriting duo, singer-lyricist Jennie Litt & pianist-composer
David Alpher on Thursday, April 24th at 7:00 pm.
The Hudson Valley-based husband-and-wife duo is making
a rare NYC appearance with a set of original songs from their quirky
revue Smart-Alecky Songs for Serious Times. Litt's lyrics tackle
topics as diverse as the cryogenic preservation of embryos, the
TV Food Network, and the professional ambitions of apples. Alpher's
music, in a range of styles, reflects his decades of experience
in the Great American Songbook, jazz, folksong, and classical chamber
music.
Smart-Alecky Songs For Serious Times is entertainment
in the tradition of Tom Lehrer, Dave Frishberg, and Flanders & Swann-comic
songs and social satire, to the tune of a virtuoso piano.
Litt and Alpher have appeared at numerous venues
in the northeast and beyond, including the 2005, 2006, and 2007
seasons of The Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown (with Jay Ungar
& Molly Mason, Poets of Tin Pan Alley author Philip Furia, and Celtic
powerhouse Ferintosh, respectively), The Rockport Chamber Music
Festival, Harvard University, Bard College, The MacDowell Colony,
The People's Voice Cafe (NYC), Gloucester's West End Theatre, and
St. Giles Church (Oxford, UK). Recently hailed as "among the premier
cabaret acts," and a "perfect musical ensemble," Litt and Alpher
can be heard on the CD Americana, a live concert with Jay Ungar
and Molly Mason, recorded during the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown's
debut season.
Tickets are $30.
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