Friday, February 3, 2017, at 8:30 pm

Okkervil River

Will Sheff, Lead Vocals and GuitarsWill Graefe, Lead Guitars and VocalsSarah Pedinotti, Keyboards and VocalsJacob Silver, Bass and VocalsJeremy Gustin, Drums

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.

Endowment support provided by Bank of America

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

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The Appel RoomJazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

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We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper mightdistract the performers and your fellow audience members.

In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building.

Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Meg and BennettGoodman, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., The DuBose and DorothyHeyward Memorial Fund, Jill & Irwin B. Cohen, The Shubert Foundation, Great PerformersCircle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.

Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support ofGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

American Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center

Nespresso is the Official Coffee of Lincoln Center

NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center

Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com

UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTSIN THE APPEL ROOM:

Saturday, February 4, at 8:30 pmHeather Headley

Wednesday, February 15, at 8:30 pmLiz Callaway Sings Maltby & Shire

Thursday, February 16, at 8:30 pmLaura Mvula

Friday, February 17, at 8:30 pmJamie Lidell & The Royal Pharaohs

Saturday, February 18, at 8:30 pmSantino Fontana

Wednesday, February 22, at 8:30 pmIndie.Arie

Thursday, February 23, at 8:30 pmBuffy Sainte-Marie

Friday, February 24, at 8:30 pmWilliam Bell

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center InfoRequest Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program infor-mation.

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Okkervil River released its latest album, Away, last fall on ATO Records. It’sa radically different record for the group’s founder, Will Sheff, who workedwith an almost entirely new cast of musicians, most of them coming fromthe jazz and avant-garde world. The album was tracked live in a little-knownstudio on Long Island that houses the same Neve 8068 console thatrecorded Steely Dan’s Aja and John Lennon’s Double Fantasy. Away is astripped-down embodiment of Sheff’s revival through music after a periodof significant loss and change. “This record was me taking my life back tozero and starting to add it all back up again, one plus one plus one,” he says.Away follows Okkervil River’s critically acclaimed 2013 album The SilverGymnasium (ATO). That album inspired a film by Sheff, Down Down theDeep River, which has screened at several festivals and beyond.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cel-ebration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn ofthe 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans allstyles and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadwayto the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook alsoshowcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including estab-lished and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles:presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education andcommunity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presen-ter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, andeducational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals

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including American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival,Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly MozartFestival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winningLive From Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of theLincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the LincolnCenter complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Lincoln Center Programming DepartmentJane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic DirectorHanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music ProgrammingJon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary ProgrammingJill Sternheimer, Director, Public ProgrammingLisa Takemoto, Production ManagerCharles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingMauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingAndrew C. Elsesser, Associate Director, ProgrammingRegina Grande Rivera, Associate ProducerNana Asase, Assistant to the Artistic DirectorLuna Shyr, Senior EditorOlivia Fortunato, Programming Assistant

For American SongbookRocky Noel, Lighting DesignScott Stauffer, Sound DesignJanet Rucker, Company Manager

Rocky Noel

Lighting designer Rocky Noel returns to Lincoln Center’s American Songbookafter recently completing two weeks on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth inMy Love Letter to Broadway. Mr. Noel calls New York City home and hasworked extensively with artists such as Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, AlanCumming, Chita Rivera, Christine Ebersole, Elaine Paige, Stephanie J. Block,and Joel Grey, among countless others.

Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s AmericanSongbook since 1999. His Broadway design credits include A Free Man ofColor, The Rivals, Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine, TwelfthNight, and Jekyll & Hyde. Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked onSubverted, Promises, Hereafter, A Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third,Belle Epoque, Big Bill, Elegies, Hello Again, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, andHedwig and the Angry Inch. His regional credits include productions at the

Capitol Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, BerkshireTheatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. His concertcredits include many Lincoln Center galas, as well as the Actors Fund concertsof Frank Loesser, Broadway 101, Hair, and On the Twentieth Century. AtCarnegie Hall he has worked with Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell. As asound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on The Lion King, Juan Darién,Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Carousel, Once on This Island, and the originalLittle Shop of Horrors.

American Songbook

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FEB 4 • 1PM & 3PM

FAMILY CONCERT: WHO IS LOUIS ARMSTRONG?Vocalist Catherine Russell and trumpeter Anthony Hervey take your family on a musical adventure through the life of Louis Armstrong

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FEB 9–12 • 7:30PM & 9:30PM

FREDDY COLE QUARTET: SONGS FOR LOVERSFeaturing pianist/vocalist Freddy Cole, bassist Elias Bailey, drummer Quentin Baxter, and guitarist Randy Napoleon

DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA

FEB 10–11 • 8PM

DIANNE REEVESGrammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves returns for Valentine’s Day weekend

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FEB 14 • 7PM & 9:30PM

BRIANNA THOMAS: IT HAD TO BE YOUSoulful vocalist Brianna Thomas returns to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for a seductive Valentine’s Day performance Valentine’s Day prix-fixe menu included; special pricing applies.

DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA

FEB 17–18 • 8PM

JAZZ OF THE ‘50’s: OVERFLOWING WITH STYLEJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and music director Chris Crenshaw perform the music of Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Gerry Mulligan, and more

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The Jazz for Young People Family Concert is funded through the generosity of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun

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2017 JAZZ & POPULAR SONG SERIESMICHAEL FEINSTEIN, DIRECTOR THE UNFORGETTABLE NAT “KING” COLEAPR 5, 7PM • APR 6, 7PM & 9PM

THE MUSIC OF MEL TORMÉMAY 3, 7PM • MAY 4, 7PM & 9PM

ELLA ON MY MINDJUN 7, 7PM • JUN 8, 7PM & 9PM

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