"[orchestra tuning instruments]" "Man:" "Stand by, everybody." "Different man:" "10 seconds to air." "10 seconds." "Man:" "Welcome to another in our series of performances" "From the stages of lincoln center for the performing arts" "In new york city." "I'm fred child." "Tonight, from lincoln center's living room," ""joshua bell with friends @ the penthouse."" "We're bringing you the kind of music joshua bell has played" "In his own living room with his friends chris botti," "Jeremy denk, renee fleming, nathan gunn," "Marvin hamlisch, carel kraayenhof, jane monheit," "Frankie moreno, regina spektor, sting, and tiempo libre," "All playing with joshua bell" "In lincoln center's kaplan penthouse." "Tonight, one of the most beautiful and celebrated spaces" "In new york will be a kind of stand-in." "Not just a place where a renowned violin virtuoso" "Relalas between concerts around t world," "Joshua bell's manhattan apartment is his favorite place" "To make music with friends." "Tonight the role of joshua bell's living room" "Is being played by the stanley h." "Kaplan penthouse" "Here at lincoln center." "Since we can't all fit into his living room," "He's brought the room to us-- friends, music, and all." "The music is not only remarkable but remarkably varied," "And while joshua bell is known for playing the great concertos" "In the classical repertoire, he has little time or patience" "For distinctions like "serious music" and "popular music"" "When he's home collaborating with friends." "Forget distinctions and get ready for great music." "Now it's time to meet violinist joshua bell in a new role," "Although it's one familiar to visitors to his home." "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome joshua bell." "[applause]" "[playing dvorak's "slavonic fantasy"]" "[applause]" "Thank you." "Thank you." "Hi, everybody." "That was a piece-- the music was dvorak," "Antonin dvorak." "It was actually an arrangement by fritz kreisler," "One of my idols growing up," "And he called it "slavonic fantasy."" "And with me was simon mulligan." "[applause]" "Simon is my very old friend." "We've played together for years," "And this evening is really about friends." "It's about enjoying music together." "It's supposed to be like my home here." "They've kind of put up my-- those actually are my autographs" "From my apartment in new york." "I love having musical soirees in my house." "I invite friends over, and we play music together." "Whoever is around gets up and plays." "You never know who's going to show up." "And I happen to have a lot of great friends" "In all worlds of music, and--although I've never had" "An evening like this in my home," "Where sting and regina spektor and renee fleming" "And all of them together in one night," "But this is very special for me." "So we're gonna try to create that atmosphere for you tonight," "And I'm gonna bring up my first guest, who's an icon," "One of the most famous musicians in the world," "But more than that, he's such an..." "Introspective and adventurous musician." "He discovers so many things." "He's--first of all, his name is sting." "You've heard of him." "[laughter]" "And he's sort of re-created himself so many times" "In his career, and I've just admired the fact" "That he's always looking for new things to do," "And he's done a lot with baroque music lately" "And discovering old songs," "Singer/songwriters from the 16th century," "And one of those is john dowland, and I love the song" "That sting does on one of his albums called "come again,"" "So we arranged it for violin and voice," "So please welcome sting." "[applause]" "¶ come again, sweet love doth now invite ¶" "¶ thy graces that refrain ¶" "¶ to do me due delight ¶" "¶ to see, to hear, to touch, to kiss ¶" "¶ to die ¶" "¶ with thee again in sweetest sympathy ¶" "¶ to see, to hear, to touch, to kiss ¶" "¶ to die ¶" "¶ with thee again in sweetest sympathy ¶" "¶ come again ¶" "¶ that I may cease to mourn ¶" "¶ through thy unkind disdain ¶" "¶ for now left and forlorn ¶" "¶ I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint ¶" "¶ I die ¶" "¶ in deadly pain and endless misery ¶" "¶ I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint ¶" "¶ I die ¶" "¶ in deadly pain and endless misery ¶" "¶ all the day ¶" "¶ the sun that lends me shine ¶" "¶ by frowns do cause me pine ¶" "¶ and feeds me with delay ¶" "¶ her smiles my springs that makes my joy to grow ¶" "¶ her frowns the winters of my woe ¶" "¶ her smiles my springs that makes my joy to grow ¶" "¶ her frowns the winters of my woe ¶" "¶ and all the night ¶" "¶ my sleeps are full of dreams ¶" "¶ my eyes are full of streams ¶" "¶ my heart takes no delight ¶" "[applause]" "Thank you." "I'd like to bring up two more friends" "To the stage." "One of them--one of them is a very good friend" "And a very frequent collaborator, jeremy denk," "The pianist." "We're about to go on a big 6-week tour around the country" "Playing recitals, and it's just been a wonderful collaboration" "For many years." "He's going to come up here, and also a new friend of mine," "Someone I discovered in amsterdam." "I went to a concert of the music of astor piazzolla," "The great composer of tangos, and I always loved his music," "And I heard this bandonean player," "Which is the instrument that piazzolla himself played," "And I was just captivated by the way" "He just became one with his instrument." "It turns out carel kraayenhof was a protege of piazzolla," "And so I asked him to be part of this," "And we arranged one of piazzolla's famous songs," ""oblivion."" "So please welcome jeremy denk and carel kraayenhof." "[applause]" "[applause]" "[applause]" "Well, from that to "my funny valentine."" "Um, that's the way the evening goes here." "A couple more friends of mine coming onstage" "The pianist lee musiker wrote" "For me and my friend kristin chenoweth," "Many years ago, a version of "my funny valentine,"" "And I wanted to do that here tonight," "And so lee is going to come up here," "And we're joined by the lovely, wonderful jazz singer" "Jane monheit." "Please come to the stage." "[applause]" "¶ behold the way our fine feathered friend ¶" "¶ his virtue doth parade ¶" "¶ thou knowest not, my dim-witted friend ¶" "¶ the picture thou hast made ¶" "¶ thy vacant brow, and thy tousled hair ¶" "¶ conceal thy good intent ¶" "¶ thou noble, upright, truthful, sincere ¶" "¶ and slightly dopey gent ¶" "¶ you're my ¶" "¶ funny valentine ¶" "¶ sweet, comic valentine ¶" "¶ you make me smile with my heart ¶" "¶ your looks are laughable ¶" "¶ unphotographable ¶" "¶ yet you're my favorite work of art ¶" "¶ is your figure less than greek?" "¶" "¶ is your mouth a little weak?" "¶" "¶ when you open it to speak, are you smart?" "¶" "¶ but don't change a hair for me ¶" "¶ not if you care for me ¶" "¶ stay, little valentine, stay ¶" "¶ each day is valentine's ¶" "¶ day ¶" "¶ but don't change a hair for me ¶" "¶ not if you care for me ¶" "¶ stay ¶" "¶ little valentine ¶" "¶ stay ¶" "¶ each day is valentine's ¶" "¶ day ¶" "[applause]" "That was jane monheit." "Fantastic." "And bravo, lee musiker on the arrangement." "I love that arrangement." "Bravo." "Several years ago, I took an interest in latin music." "I even took a few salsa dancing lessons," "Which I never tried out in public, ever," "And I won't be doing that tonight." "But one of the bands I followed recently" "Is tiempo libre, and they're a bunch of guys" "From cuba now living in miami, and I asked them" "To write me into one of their songs." "So we're going to play a piece called "para ti."" "[playing latin rhythm]" "[music ends]" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "[applause dies down]" "We're in for a treat with my next guest." "She has one of the most-- maybe the most beautiful voice in the world." "I'm so honored to have her on this program." "To play a piece by strauss called "morgen,"" "Please welcome first jeremy denk, and the incomparable renee fleming." "[applause]" "[playing soft tune]" "[singing in german]" "[music ends]" "Gives me chills, standing right next to her like that." "Um..." "I'm gonna bring up a friend of mine" "A new friend of mine, but very close friend now," "Someone I met in las vegas." "Um, don't ask." "No, I was actually performing there, believe it or not," "And someone took me to the golden nugget casino." "And I went there." "They said you have to hear this pianist play in the bar," "And his name is frankie moreno." "And it turns out he's a very successful pianist." "He's been touring with the rock band air supply," "And he has his own band-- frankie mareno band" "But he does this gig there that I heard." "I was blown away by the things he did on the piano." "And I said, "you gotta come play with me"--on my album that I was making at the time." "And so we did." "Well, we didn't know what we were gonna play 'cause he's in a totally different world in the rock world," "But we sat down and played through the 3 or 4 songs I know from rock music." "[laughter]" "And one of them was "eleanor rigby"" "I'd always wanted to make a version, actually, of "eleanor rigby" of the beatles." "And so we just improvised for a while." "By the end of the day, we had this arrangement." "So we're gonna play it for you today." ""eleanor rigby." please welcome frankie moreno." "[applause]" "[tuning violin]" "[playing softly]" "¶ eleanor rigby ¶" "¶ picks up the rice in the church ¶" "¶ where a wedding has been ¶" "¶ lives in a dream ¶" "¶ waits at the window ¶" "¶ wearing a face ¶" "¶ that she keeps in a jar by the door ¶" "¶ who is it for?" "¶" "¶ all the lonely people ¶" "¶ where do they all come from ?" "¶" "¶ all the lonely people ¶" "¶ where do they all belong ?" "¶" "¶ father mckenzie ¶" "¶ writing the words to a sermon ¶" "¶ that no one will hear ¶" "¶ no one comes near ¶" "¶ look at him working. ¶" "¶ darning his socks in the night ¶" "¶ when there's nobody there ¶" "¶ what does he care?" "¶" "¶ all the lonely people ¶" "¶ where do they all come from?" "¶" "¶ all the lonely people ¶" "¶ where do they all belong?" "¶" "¶ ah, look at all the lonely people ¶" "¶ ah, look at all the lonely people ¶" "¶ eleanor rigby ¶" "¶ died in the church ¶" "¶ and was buried along with her name ¶" "¶ nobody came ¶" "¶ father mckenzie ¶" "¶ wiping the dirt from his hands ¶" "¶ as he wal from the grave ¶" "¶ no one was saved ¶" "¶ all the lonely people ¶" "¶ where do they all come from?" "¶" "[applause]" "The" "My next guest, I'm sorry to say, is dead," "But let me explain." "He's been dead for many, many years." "His name is sergei rachmaninoff," "And it's very unusual to have him on a program," "But here he is." "Recently came to my attention, this new technology" "By a company called zenph." "They were able to take old recordings of pianists" "And feed the information into a piano" "And really make it sound as if that person" "Is still in the room, and it's really remarkable," "But even more remarkable is that they were able" "To take--in this case, the grieg sonata" "Take fritz kreisler, who played with rachmaninoff" "Probably my favorite violinist, so I hate that they had to take him off it" "But they took him off the recording" "And managed to just have the piano part." "I thought it was really cool." "I wanted to try it, and it's very eerie" "To play with someone, you know, like rachmaninoff" "Who's been dead for so long, but I thought you might like it," "So sergei and I are gonna play the slow movement" "From the third sonata in c minor by grieg." "[applause]" "Thank you." "We can keep rachmaninoff up here if you want or not." "He actually composed the next piece." "Take it off." "It's ok." "He composed the next piece, actually," "And this piece is a beautiful song" "For male voice-- baritone, in this case" "Called "o, cease thy singing, maiden fair,"" "And I have the amazing singer" "Nathan gunn here to sing with me." "Thank you." "Come on." "Come up." "[applause]" "¶ o, cease thy singing, maiden fair ¶" "¶ those songs of georgian land ¶" "¶ I pray thee ¶" "¶ whate'er recall our life to me ¶" "¶ on foreign strand ¶" "¶ I fain would banish ¶" "¶ and, ah ¶" "¶ thy haunting song brings back ¶" "¶ remembrance of days long, long departed ¶" "¶ I see the moon, the desert night ¶" "¶ and her sad face and eyes imploring ¶" "¶ ah!" "Fond one gentle, ever near ¶" "¶ a youth forever doth behold thee ¶" "¶ yet when your face is always there ¶" "¶ it will not waver, will not vanish ¶" "¶ oh, cease thy singing, maiden fair ¶" "¶ those songs of georgian land ¶" "¶ I pray thee ¶" "¶ whate'er recall our life to me ¶" "¶ on foreign strand ¶" "¶ I fain uid banish ¶" "[applause]" "Thank you, nathan gunn and jeremy denk." "I'm gonna play a little virtuoso show piece" "By pablo sarasate," "Who was sort of the sting of the 19th century." "He was a rock star." "They didn't have rock music then," "So the women swooned over the violinists," "So I was born in the wrong century, but that's ok." "So welcome back simon mulligan." "This is the "introduction and tarrantelle."" "[cheering and applause]" "[applause] thank you." "My next guest is a wonderful folk singer," "Lives here in manhattan." "Her name is regina spektor," "And of course she's kind of a superstar now," "But I--she had heard that I was doing this album" "At home with friends, sort of like this that 're doing here tonight," "And she expressed interest." "I didn't know her." "Just she wanted to be on the album," "And I admired her work, and we sat down." "I listened to one of-- several of her songs," "And one of them I particularly liked called "left hand song,"" "And I thought--I put a violin part to it." "I--we just did it on the spot and loved it," "So I thought she should be here today." "So where is she?" "Regina spektor." "[applause]" "¶ ah ah ah ah ah ¶" "¶ too much time spent trying to crawl into a hole ¶" "¶ and trying to crawl out of that hole ¶" "¶ I followed a path of a piece of bread ¶" "¶ traveling from one little sparrow's beak ¶" "¶ to another little sparrow's beak ¶" "¶ he picked it up, flew with it and then dropped it ¶" "¶ then this other one picked it up and flew with it again ¶" "¶ and then they broke it into pieces ¶" "¶ ate it up and forgot that it ever existed ¶" "¶ they were still hungry at the end ¶" "¶ they were still hungry at the end ¶" "¶ I was inside my office at the time ¶" "¶ and I got real scared ¶" "¶ thought I saw two snakes slithering ¶" "¶ then I remembered:" "Snakes don't live in carpeted areas ¶" "¶ too much time spent ¶" "¶ and I'm spent ¶" "¶ there is an old meatball wrapped inside of tinfoil ¶" "¶ yeah, yeah, yeah ¶" "¶ lying on the bottom shelf of our fridge ¶" "¶ a lesson in how fleeting preservation is ¶" "[cheering and applause]" "Regina spektor." "Interesting mix of music tonight." "[laughter] it's a lot of variety." "My next guest is an old, old friend." "Actually, I've known him for 25 years." "We went to school together at indiana university." "He's now one of the great trumpet players in the world." "And we're going to play gershwin's "I loves you porgy,"" "And so please welcome chris botti." "[applause]" "[applause]" "My final guest is one of the-- one of two people in the world" "That has won an oscar, an emmy, a tony--what else is there?" "Grammy and a pulitzer prize, all of those." "Only two people in the world have done that." "His name is marvin hamlisch and-- [applause]" "We're going to play, appropriately for this setting," ""I'll take manhattan."" "Incidentally, the other person who won all those things" "Was richard rodgers, who wrote this piece." "So please welcome marvin hamlisch." "[applause]" "[cheering and applause]" "Thank you." "It seems we have a couple minutes left," "So I'm gonna play one more piece." "First I would like to thank all my musicians here," "The great band." "[applause]" "And all my friends that showed up to play with me today." "It was really a blast for me, so thank you all." "I'm gonna play one last little silly piece." "I won't even tell you what it's called." "You'll recognize the tune." "It's a little variation on a very popular tune." "Welcome back my old friend simon mulligan." "[applause]" "[cheering and applause]" "[applause]"