More Information About Lincoln & Sheri Bauer Mayorga's American Snapshots: Two Centuries of American Spirit in Song

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"AMERICAN SNAPSHOTS: Two Centuries of the American Spirit in Song"
Songs and compositions by Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Stephen Foster, George and Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Sheri Bauer Mayorga, Lincoln Mayorga and Melissa Greene, Johnny Mercer, Joni Mitchell, and Phil Ochs.

Lincoln's professional success transcends the worlds of jazz, classical and popular music. As staff pianist for Disney Studios, he contributed to soundtracks of CHINATOWN, THE ROSE, RAGTIME and much more. He served as music director for The Four Preps and was pianist, arranger, and/or conductor on recordings with Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme, Phil Ochs, Andy Williams, Frank Zappa, and Quincy Jones. In classical music he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tilson Thomas and other distinguished artists and orchestras. He recently completed his piano concerto "Angels' Flight," a nostalgic tribute to Los Angeles and the cinematic musical idiom. This work had its first performance with the composer as soloist, assisted by the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.

Sheri Bauer Mayorga has been compared to a range of singers from Joni Mitchell to Blossom Dearie back to Buffy Sainte Marie and the entire group of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross! With a fondness for adventurous music, this songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist enjoys sharing 300 years of American music with adventurous audiences.