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A gala experience and tribute, benefiting the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine
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Monday, October 24, 2022 | 6 pm Est
2022 Honorees
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David Sanborn
Multi-Grammy Alto Saxophonist Composer
2022 Phoebe Jacobs Honoree
Rosemarie Greene
Patient
2022 honoree
Grant Mitchell MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
2022 honoree
Featuring
Rema Webb
Antoine L. Smith
Erik Lawrence
Garry Dial
Benefiting
The Louis Armstrong
Center for Music & Medicine
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The Wonderful World annual gala, hosted by Wonderful World: Friends of Music Therapy Inc (WWFMT), honors the legacy of Louis Armstrong and his commitment to bettering the lives of others through music. 100% of proceeds raised will be given to our beneficiary, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine (LACMM) in NYC, for its music therapy programs.
EVENT DETAILS
A gala Emcee'd by Mercedes Ellington
and Bill Daughtry and co-chaired by
Karen & Doug Seidman. The event will host a live and silent auction. Tickets are $200. This year's gala will feature a silent AND live auction to benefit the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine. Honorees this year are Multi-Platinum Grammy award-winning Saxophonist David Sanborn, Department Chair of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Grant Mitchell MD, and patient Rosemarie Greene. With performances by Rema Webb from The Music Man, Antoine L. Smith from MJ: The Musical, Jazz Saxophonist Erick Lawrence, and Jazz Pianist Garry Dial.
Date
Monday, October 24, 2022
Time
6 - 9 pm
Event Committee
EVENT CO-CHAIRS:
Karen & Doug
Seidman
Jon Batiste
Melanie Schnoll Begun
Jordan Bleznick
Don Brancaccio
Joan Brancaccio
Kevin Brennan
Brielle Brown
Danelle Marqui Brown
Linda Carroza
Lisabeth Cassaday
Gwendolyn DeLuca
Ellen Devens
Susan Devens
Mercedes Ellington
Chris Elstone
Michele Sherman Entner
Janet Falk
Kevin Fee
Edward Finkelstein
Joyce Fogel
Lincoln Foley
Nathan Goldstein
Ellen Goosenberg
Erica Grabscheid
EVENT STEERING COMMITTEE
Joelle Quinn
Charles Radcliffe
Jonathan Raskin
Rita Romeur
Alanna Rutherford
Jon Samson
Linda Sanchez
Howard Schain
Doug Seidman
Karen Seidman
Fran Silverman
Judith Evans Smith
Leya Simmons
Noah K. Simon
Donna Sirlin
Edwin Sirlin
Peter Strauss
Zelda Suzan
Aimee Telsey
Lynn Tescher
Patricia Walker
Marc Waserman
Rema Webb
Ted Wiprud
Helen Greenbaum
Elizabeth Greenwald
Greg Gullia
Alan Horowitz
Elizabeth Horowitz
Jackie Harris
Susan Rosenberg Jones
Herb Klitzner
Michael Leitman
Erik Lawrence
Sharon Mahn
Marla Maples
Collen McDonough
Meredith Monk
James Briggs Murray
Barbara Novick
Arturo O’Farrill
Kristen Olson
Rebecca Parker
Steve Pastor
Harriet Jahr Philips
Joseph Piccinnini
Kim Polson
Stephan Quentzel