The Journal-News 1988

Composer/performers impressive at St. Paul’s

Saturday evening St. Paul’s continuing Festival of the Arts featured two composer-pianists playing their own compositions.  In a program of music ranging in style from the dance music of ragtime to the salon music of a classical sonata, Bruce Lazarus and Mark Birnbaum displayed their versatility as composers and performers at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in South Nyack.

Mark Birnbaum played a series of fourteen selections for the first part of the program.  Most of these he arranged in small groups of two or