Pictured above, Brent Birckhead, alto saxophone; Maya Kronfeld, piano; Barry Stephenson, bass; and Savannah Harris, drums, performing jazz favorites in the Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square atrium.
Musicians with Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program treated patients, staff, and visitors at Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and Mount Sinai West to free performances in June that celebrated the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and other jazz greats. At each Mount Sinai location, people enjoyed listening to popular favorites, such as “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Take the A Train.” Lincoln Center offers educational programming for children and adults that fosters an appreciation of jazz as an enjoyable and uniquely American art form. The Jazz for Young People program—based on the idea that jazz embraces personal freedom and humanity and serves as a metaphor for democracy—typically brings jazz artists and performances to New York City schools.