Judy Garland Talk & Concert Set for Northeast Harbor Library, 6/29

Award-winning music producer, critic and translator Lawrence Schulman will give a talk on Judy Garland, entitled "Moments of Magic," at the Northeast Harbor Library (Maine) on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 5 P.M. Admission is free. The one-and-a-quarter hour talk will examine Judy Garland's life and career, and feature nine audio-video clips, to be followed by a question and answer. Schulman will endeavor to answer the question: "If I had just one hour to convince you of Judy Garland's place in classic American popular music, what film and television performances would I choose?" The talk will be followed by a mini-concert of songs Garland sang by famed jazz vocalist Diane Linscott and the equally renowned pianist Scott Cleveland.

Schulman has been responsible for numerous CD sets devoted to Garland over the past twenty-two years, and written the liner notes for most of them. His 2010 4-CD set, Judy Garland: Lost Tracks (JSP Records), was featured in The Wall Street Journal, and won the Best of 2010 award from the French public radio station, France Musique. His 2013 4-CD set, Judy Garland: Creations (JSP Records), and his 2014 5-CD set, Judy Garland: The Garland Variations, were nominated by the website The Second Disc as the best jazz and vocal reissues of the year. His 2015 3-CD set Judy Garland: Swan Songs, First Flights (DOREMI/HALLOW) was also featured in The Wall Street Journal. His other releases include Judy Garland: Child of Hollywood (RPCD, 1993), Judy Garland at the Paris Olympia (RTE-Europe 1, 1994), Judy Garland: Classiques et inédits (Frémeaux & Associés, 2008), Judy Garland: Smilin' Through (JSP Records, 2011), Judy Garland: The Carnegie Hall Concert (JSP Records, 2012), Judy Garland: The Best of Lost Tracks (JSP Records, 2015), and Judy Garland Sings Harold Arlen (JSP, 2016). Upcoming CD projects include Judy Garland: From the Cutting-Room Floor (Sepia Records, 2016) and Judy Garland: Classic Duets (JSP Records, 2017).

He has also written extensively about her for the ARSC Journal, including his highly-praised 2009 article "The Plagued History of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli "Live" at the London Palladium, 1965-2009." Responsible for the release of Garland's historic 1935 Decca test records, he also unearthed her 1960 concert at the Paris Olympia and got it issued. A collector and audiophile, Schulman has worked with such distinguished remastering engineers as Robert Parker, Jon M. Samuels, Gary Galo, Peter Rynston, and John H. Haley at such labels as CDS Records, Nimbus Records, RTE, Laserlight, Frémeaux & Associés, JSP Records, and DOREMI/HALLOW. He has been interviewed by Maine Public Radio, France Musique and France Culture, which is another French public radio station, concerning his work, and France Musique will devote an hour to him in November 2015. Having lived for twenty-six years in Paris, where he was a producer and host on France Musique and France Culture, and also translated the book Distributed Computing Systems: Communication, Cooperation, Consistency (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam), he continues to translate for the French music website, OpusHD.net, which is devoted to high resolution sound recordings.

Diane Linscott is a musician, composer, sculptor, photographer, wearable art designer/fabricator, printmaker, and painter. She divides her time between Maine and Florida, actively working and performing there and points in between. A singer of jazz standards, Linscott has appeared in concerts and jazz clubs throughout the country, including in Florida (Glenridge Performing Arts Center, Lemon Bay Playhouse, Jazz Club of Sarasota, The Lakeside Inn); in Maine (Collins Center for the Arts, Waterville Opera House, Camden Opera House, The Asticou Inn, The Claremont); in New Hampshire (The Press Room); in South Carolina (Jazz Corner); and in Mexico (Teatro Peralta). Although in her mid-fifties when she began her singing career, Linscott has ten CDs to her credit. Her most recent releases: You, recorded in Manhattan with two-time Grammy Award winner Alan Broadbent, piano and top-notch bassist and drummer respectively, Harvie S. and Eliot Zigmund; You Are There, in Los Angeles with world-class guitarist, Larry Koonse. She recorded on earlier albums with Warren Vache, Harry Allen, Bob Alberti, Vince Giordano, Dan Levinson, John Allred, James Chirello, Andy Stein, and worked with Maine's top musicians Rick Dostie, Gerry Wright, Jim Howe, and the Hal Wheeler Orchestra. Linscott has exhibited throughout New England and Florida and received awards for her art work, which can be viewed at her studio in Castine, Maine. In 1989 she was selected Maine Composer of the Year for Quark Suite, a six movement chamber work for flute, oboe, strings and piano. Largely self-taught in the arts, Ms. Linscott graduated from the University of Maine, BA, Journalism and did post-graduate in Experimental Psychology, Graduate Assistantship.

Scott Cleveland is a lifelong composer, singer, pianist, music educator, and church musician. He holds a B.M. from Berklee College of Music, an M.M. in Music Theory/Composition from UMassLowell and a M.Div. from Boston University. He has written and produced four independent solo albums and performs original and reinterpreted Jazz as a solo pianist and singer and in numerous duos, trios, and quartets. He is on the Adjunct Music Faculty of the University of Maine at Augusta, teaches jazz piano privately, is a recording studio pianist and is the Music Director for The First Congregational Church of Deer Isle/Sunset. His musical director/pit band credits include: "Man of La Mancha," "Oliver," "The Fantasticks" (New Surry Theatre), "The Pajama Game," "Almost, Maine" (Reach Performing Arts Center), "Ten Real Star Acts," "The Last Ferryman" (Stonington Opera House), and "Spamalot" (The Grand Theatre, Ellsworth). He also composed the choral overture and incidental music for "Almost, Maine" earlier this year, and was commissioned to compose the incidental piano score for the multimedia production of "From Away to Here..." which premiered at The Burnt Cove Church, Stonington this past summer. He has just released his fourth independent album "Scott Cleveland: Short Pieces for Solo Piano."