165 stories from Jason Robert Brown
For some of these SubCulture concerts, I start off with a Big Idea (like doing a two-piano concert with Tom Kitt), but I didn’t have a particularly Big Idea for this month’s conc…
Hail! Hail Fredonia! A great night in the beautiful Rosch Recital Hall at SUNY Fredonia. Thanks to Ethos New Music Group, SOTA and especially Rob Deemer, head of the composition faculty,…
Oh, it was a good one last night. Tom Kitt and I have known each other for more than a decade, and we’ve been making music together since he covered me on Urban Cowboy The Musical.…
If every concert of my SubCulture residency is going to be like this one, then I’m going to have a fantastic year. Three incredible singers, an extraordinary violinist, the monstrous a…
Hello wonderful fans and friends! Six quick hits and then I’ll send you on your way… 1. This coming Friday, March 13: JRB & the Caucasian Rhythm Kings have the long-delaye…
Many thanks to a really fun crowd this afternoon in Greencastle IN, for singing your hearts out during “Caravan of Angels” and for generally putting up with my rambling patter (a…
I don’t know what else to write about this night other than that it was one of the greatest nights of my life. To Build A Home (The Bridges of Madison County) Kelli O’Hara The Ol…
Something broke in me two years ago, and I have sat in mute amazement that so little of any real meaning has changed in our society and culture. There have been more than 30 shootings at sch…
Bergman and I started working on Honeymoon in Vegas in 2003. In the eleven years between now and then, we have benefited from the assistance, love, time and talent of an intimidatingly large…
I have a lot of history with Merkin Concert Hall. When I was 20 years old, my first job in New York City was as the accompanist for a community choir called the Rottenberg Chorale, which was…
The fine folks at SheetMusicDirect.com have made 14 songs from The Bridges of Madison County available for immediate digital download. All the songs have been arranged and edited by me for s…
Kaufman and Hart’s wonderful comedy You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1937 and has been a staple of theaters all across America ever since. A new…
About a year ago, Marc and Steven Kaplan opened a new venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan called SubCulture, and it’s exactly the kind of room I love to play " 150 seats, beautif…
There’s a long, long boring story about why the Bridges of Madison County vocal selections haven’t come out yet, but this photo documents what we all hope are the final stages of…
Jesse Green invited me to do a live interview with him at this year’s Inaugural Vulture Festival sponsored by New York Magazine. He also asked if I would bring along an additional sing…
There are several stories in this picture, beyond the obvious one of a piano-playing songwriter standing onstage at Radio City Music Hall with one of his greatest inspirations. But th…
Back in March, I ended up with a nasty respiratory infection that laid me out for two weeks, and one of the consequences was that I had to cancel my concert and masterclass with PRiMA Theatr…
Wonderful news just announced: Parade will return to New York City for the first time since 1999, in a concert version with full orchestra and 200-voice choir at Avery Fisher Hall, on Februa…
Oh, I suspect there are many things in the world that can be blamed on Larry Blank, but only some of them are musical, and this is the story of one of those things.
I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place.
Since the dawn of time, Man has told tales of horror and devastation. Perhaps they serve as a warning. Perhaps they draw a community together. Or maybe people just have a collective need to …
Yes, it's true, the 2012 JRB Karaoke Competition is now closed to any further entries. You can hear all 694 renditions by going to the JRB Karaoke Group on SoundCloud.com. I am amazed and ho…
