CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Standard Time with Michael Feinstein

Zankel Hall
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Michael Feinstein, Artistic Director

With Special Guests:
Jason Danieley
Karen Morrow
Karen Ziemba

With Pianists:
Dan Lipton
Joseph Thalken

Sponsored by DeWitt Stern Group, Inc.

Major funding for Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds has been provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Alice Tully Foundation, American Express, Bob and Martha Lipp, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Nash Family Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Alfred Taubman.

Additional funding provided by GWFF USA Inc., and Linda and Stuart Nelson.

Generous support has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Feinstein, Artistic Director
Don’t let the boyish good looks and boundless energy fool you; Michael Feinstein is rapidly approaching two silver milestones. Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of the four-time Grammy nominee’s professional debut; and his latest album, The Sinatra Project is his 24th release.

Arguably the world’s foremost, and certainly the most passionate and indefatigable, anthropologist and archivist of the Great American Songbook, Feinstein has dedicated his career to preserving, protecting, and promoting the work of the great tunesmiths, ranging from household names like Gershwin, Porter, and Berlin to such lesser-known craftsmen as Hugh Martin and Burton Lane. It’s no wonder that the Library of Congress invited him to serve on its elite National Sound Recording Advisory Board.

As one of the premiere interpreters of American popular song, Mr. Feinstein has been a household name since the success of his 1988 one-man Broadway show, Isn’t It Romantic. He enjoys an active performance calendar, including major concert halls, symphony orchestras, intimate jazz clubs, and college campuses. In 2004, Michael completed a national tour with songwriting icon Jimmy Webb based on their CD, Only One Life—The Songs of Jimmy Webb. The disc was named one of the Ten Best CDs of the Year by USA Today. He hosted and produced The Great American Songbook, a PBS special and DVD set from Warner Brothers Home Video that traces the history of popular music in the US.

His own record label, Feinery, a subsidiary of Concord Records, released The Livingston & Evans Songbook, with special guest Melissa Manchester. In addition to current artists, Feinery also restores recordings and musical broadcasts from the golden age of popular song, many of which showcase some of the nation’s most admired and enduring entertainers. is Manhattan nightclub, Feinstein’s at the Regency, has presented the top talents of pop and jazz such as Rosemary Clooney, Steve Tyrell, Barbara Cook, Tony Danza, Glen Campbell, Diahann Carroll, Jackie Mason, and Dame Cleo Laine.

Mr. Feinstein started playing piano by ear when he was five. As a teenager, he played at weddings and parties in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from high school, he worked in local piano lounges for two years, moving to Los Angeles when he was 20. Through the widow of legendary concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant, he was introduced to Ira Gershwin in July 1977. He became Gershwin’s assistant for six years, granting him access to numerous unpublished Gershwin songs, which he has since performed and recorded. Gershwin’s influence provided a solid base upon which Mr. Feinstein has not only evolved into a captivating performer, composer, and arranger of his own original music, but has also become an unparalleled interpreter of American music legends.

For more information, visit michaelfeinstein.com.

With Special Guests:
Jason Danieley
Karen Morrow
Karen Ziemba
Broadway actor, singer, and concert performer Jason Danieley has been entertaining audiences’ from New York to London, Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl. He recently produced an album with his band The Frontier Heroes as part of an exclusive in-store release with Barnes & Noble.

Mr. Danieley made his Broadway debut as the title character in Candide, directed by theater legend Hal Prince. It was for this role that he was nominated for Theatre World, Drama League, and Drama Desk awards. He took it all off for The Full Monty in the original Broadway and West End casts. Most recently Jason starred as “Aaron Fox” in the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, earning him an Outer Critics’ Circle nomination. Mr. Danieley is a frequent guest of the acclaimed City Center’s Encores! Series in New York, including leading roles in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Strike Up the Band. His Off-Broadway performances include The Trojan Women: A Love Story by Charles Mee Jr., Dream True by Ricky Ian Gordon, and Floyd Collins by Adam Guettel.

In addition to his stage credits, Mr. Danieley has performed in concerts with many of the country’s leading orchestras, including the New York, Boston, and Philadelphia pops orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the St. Louis, Utah, Minnesota, and Buffalo symphonies. He’s starred in staged concerts of Bernstein’s Candide, Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing and Let ‘Em Eat Cake in addition to concert versions of Carousel and South Pacific—both at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Danieley can be heard on many recordings, including Jason Danieley and The Frontier Heroes (his solo album) and Opposite You with his wife, Broadway star Marin Mazzie. He also can be heard on the cast recordings of Floyd Collins, Candide, The Full Monty, and Dream True, in addition to compilation albums Jule Styne in Hollywood, The Stephen Schwartz Album, and A Splash of Pops and My Favorite Things with the Boston Pops.


Karen Morrow has starred on Broadway in I Had A Ball, A Joyful Noise, I’m Solomon, Music Music, The Selling of the President, The Grass Harp, the Tony Award-winning Mystery of Edwin Drood, and the National Company of Show Boat. On television, she was a regular on The Jim Nabors Hour, Friends, Tabitha, Ladies Man, Goodnight Beantown, Song By Song, Great Performances on PBS, and Singin for CBS cable. Ms. Morrow has guest starred on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Alice, Too Close for Comfort, The Love Boat, Falcon Crest, Murder She Wrote, Night Court, Trapper John MD, The Trials of Rosie O’Neile, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, and has been a featured favorite on radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. Throughout her career, she has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, The White House, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center.
Ms. Morrow has received an Emmy, the coveted Theatre World Award, an Ovation nomination, five Dramalogue Awards, and an LA Drama Critics Award. She has appeared on 13 albums, the most recent being the original cast recording of the stage production White Christmas. Her concert credits also include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the Honolulu, Pacific, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Metropolitan symphony orchestras.
A sought after adjudicator for national vocal competitions, Ms. Morrow conducts a bi-monthly master class in performance and audition skills. She is currently on the faculty of AMDA-LA and conducts master classes at major universities and conferences across the country.


Tony-winning actor-singer-dancer Karen Ziemba is one of Broadway’s most versatile and beloved performers. Ms. Ziemba received the Tony Award—along with the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards—starring in Susan Stroman and John Weidman’s hit musical, Contact, at Lincoln Center Theater.

On and Off-Broadway, Ms. Ziemba has played murderers and marathoners, a daughter of the West, to the daughter of an American president. She starred as Roxie Hart in Kander and Ebb’s Chicago, and Rita Racine in their Steel Pier—for which she received her first Tony Award nomination as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations)—and starred in the “new Gershwin musical,” Crazy for You.

The Michigan native paid her dues in Broadway companies of A Chorus Line and 42nd Street, and appeared as Alice Roosevelt in Teddy and Alice, before bursting onto the scene in Kander and Ebb’s revue And the World Goes ‘Round, capturing a Drama Desk Award. She won another Drama Desk nomination for I Do! I Do!, and her third Tony nomination and an Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Never Gonna Dance. Ms. Ziemba has also starred at New York City Opera as Lizzie Curry in 110 in the Shade, and as Cleo in The Most Happy Fella. She has also performed in the New York City Center Encores! concerts of The Pajama Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, and Allegro.

On television, Karen has been featured in PBS telecasts including an Evening at Pops tribute to George Gershwin, and the Great Performances specials from Carnegie Hall—Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall; Ira Gershwin at 100; and My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies. For President and Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Ziemba performed at The White House in PBS’s Dance in America; and was one of Broadway’s leading ladies featured in the Kennedy Center Honors tributes to Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris. She appears on numerous original cast recordings and several studio releases of Broadway classics.

With Pianists:
Dan Lipton
Joseph Thalken