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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 

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Rosemarie Greene

Patient

2022 honoree

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Grant Mitchell MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Mount Sinai Beth Israel

  2022 honoree 

Featuring

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Rema Webb

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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. 

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Date

Monday, October 24, 2022

Location

Angel Orensanz Foundation,

172 Norfolk Street

New York, NY

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Time

6 - 9 pm

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Event  Committee

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EVENT CO-CHAIRS:

Karen & Doug 

Seidman

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Jon Batiste

Diane Becker

Jordan Bleznick

Don Brancaccio

Joan Brancaccio

Kevin Brennan

Brielle Brown

Danelle Marqui Brown

Liz Callaway

Linda Carroza

Ellen Devens

Susan Devens

Mercedes Ellington

Chris Elstone

Michele Sherman Entner

Alison Estabrook

Kevin Fee

Edward Finkelstein

Joyce Fogel

Lincoln Foley

Nathan Goldstein

Helen Greenbaum

Elizabeth Greenwald

EVENT STEERING COMMITTEE

 

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Charles Radcliffe

Jonathan Raskin

Rita Romeur

Ada Samuelssohn

Linda Sanchez

Howard Schain

Doug Seidman

Karen Seidman

Paul Shaffer

Mark Shapiro

Judith Evans Smith

Leya Simmons

Noah K. Simon

Donna Sirlin

Edwin Sirlin

Darius Solomon

Peter Strauss

Zelda Suzan

Ann Teed

Aimee Telsey

Patricia Walker

Rema Webb

Ted Wiprud

 

Greg Gullia

Jackie Harris

Susan Rosenberg Jones

Mark Kaplan

Carol Klenfner

Herb Klitzner

Michael Leitman

Robert Lande

Erik Lawrence

Sharon Mahn

Marla Maples

Meredith Monk

James Briggs Murray

Micheline Nader

Barbara Novick

Arturo O’Farrill

Rebecca Parker

Steve Pastor

Harriet Jahr Philips

Joseph Piccinnini

Kim Polson

Stephan Quentzel

Joelle Quinn

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