Jeanine Tesori Curates This Week's Encores! Archives Project

Looking for a musical escape to another time or place? You'll find a song that'll take you there with this week's lineup of wistful numbers in the Encores! Archives Project-all specially curated by Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori (Encores! Off-Center Creative Advisor; Artistic Director 2013-2016).

Read a note from Jeanine:

"As I sit in my new "office" (a corner of my bedroom) I am looking out onto the newly-emptied streets of Manhattan, counting blessings but also cans of beans. I haven't been able to quite, I don't know, take this all in. I have often joked to my friends that I haven't had a true feeling since 1989, perhaps the result of getting slightly hard-boiled by a life in music, the constancy of parenting, of trying to plan for the future but aspiring to live in the moment. Trying to be of service in a country that underserves so many.

So, when I approached this offering for the City Center community, I was surprised to finally find some tears rolling down my cheeks listening to Kate Baldwin sing "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" I have never really thought about Finian's Rainbow, nor that song, as applying to me, and certainly not as a much-needed release this weekend. But listening to Kate's voice, that celestial voice, I was able to hear this, and all these songs in a new way. In anything found, there is something lost, and in loss, there are things we find. This week's songs all have this in common; a yearning to be in another place or time, new feelings of nostalgia, and the acceptance that life, like theater, is a transient and beautiful affair."

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