Swingin’ with Sesame Street

• Fred Vigeant
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  Fred Vigeant is WITF's Director of Programming and Promotions for TV and Radio. Fred manages the schedules for our radio and television platforms. He also analyzes audience research and manages the public affairs program Smart Talk. Previously, Fred was at WRVO in Oswego, NY for 12 years serving in various roles including Program Director and before that Operations Manager. Fred graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego with a B.A. in Mass Communications and Broadcasting.

 Richard Termine

Jazz at Lincoln Center A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration: 50 Years and Counting

Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration was filmed in front of a sold-out audience at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater— the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis welcomes beloved Sesame Street characters Elmo, Bert & Ernie, Big Bird, Herry Monster, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, The Count, Abby, Hoots the Owl, and Rosita to sing classic Sesame Street songs for fans of all ages.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra reimagines favorite Sesame Street songs as big band bonanzas with brand-new arrangements. Those classics include “Rubber Duckie,” “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon,” and “People in Your Neighborhood.”

For fifty years and counting, Sesame Street has enriched children’s lives with music they might not hear anywhere else. Jazz legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Mary Lou Williams performed on the show. Sesame Street’s house band — which includes trumpeter Kenny Rampton, longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — has performed countless jazz classics over the years. Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center ’s Managing and Artistic Director, visited Sesame Street to play “Take the A Train” with the “Duck” Ellington Orchestra in 1991 and “No Matter What Your Language (Our Music Can Be The Same)”alongside Hoots the Owl in 1998. These memorable performances continue to be enjoyed by families around the world.

Enjoy Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration Friday October 30 at 9:00pm on WITF. The program repeats Sunday morning at 6:00am.

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