"All of these renditions were note-perfect... Throughout the evening, the musicianship was extremely strong. There are few better ways to spend an evening than to hear Joni Mitchell's music done well." - jonimitchell.com
Celebrating 12 years of "Both Sides Now: The Music of Joni Mitchell," Hannah Reimann's critically acclaimed show has presented over 40 songs from seven albums of the iconic Mitchell's discography since 2012. Her All-Star Band performs authentic versions in their original keys and arrangements from Court and Spark, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon, Clouds, For the Roses and much more.
Reimann is Music Grantee of the Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation and will be performing a few songs featured on her new EP, "Take Me To The Sun," at this show, with thanks to the Foundation for help with the recording. She began her retrospective of Mitchell's music to heal her broken heart while her dad was dying from dementia and while she was directing the related documentary film, "My Father's House, A Journey of Love and Memory" (distributed by terranova.org).
Audience members will be invited, one by one, to try the piano with a 5.9 inch octaave on the stage when the concert is over!
Program and order subject to change:
He Played Real Good for Free
Conversation
Cactus Tree
Blue
River
A Case Of You
California
Mi Corazòn (Reimann original)
Coyote
Intermission
Court and Spark
Help Me
Free Man in Paris
People's Parties
The Same Situation
Rainy Night House
Woodstock
Both Sides Now
Big Yellow Taxi
Musicians:
Hannah Reimann, lead vocals, piano & mountain dulcimer
Michele Temple, acoustic and rhythm guitar
Micah Burgess, electric guitar
Mike Visceglia, bass guitar
Patrick Firth, keyboard
Jackson Bernstein, drums
Rebecca Haviland, backing vocals
Audrey Martells, backing vocals
Everton Isidoro, percussion
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In 1997, Hannah Reimann independently rebuilt her Steinway piano to better accommodate her hand size. Her success with the instrument has made her the face of the Stretto as a producer of concerts. Ms. Reimann was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as a “musician on a mission to make the world safe for small pianists.”
In October 2023, she met David Klavins leading to the fruitful collaboration between Klavins Piano and Stretto Piano Concerts introducing the revolutionary Una Corda Stretto Piano. This unique new instrument has keys with a 5.8 inch (147 mm) octave width and is offered in both a 64-key model, suitable for music by JS Bach and his contemporaries, and an 88-key model for all music.
In the 1990s, Reimann played stretto pianos in Canada and Japan, and contacted all the major manufacturers including Steinway, Yamaha, Kawai, Bösendorfer, and Roland, presenting proposals and materials directly to executives to influence them. She offered her piano for concerts and traveled extensively to research and meet her goals.
She has produced public concerts using her personal Steinway “Stretto” piano in New York City since 2008.
In 2018, the CEO of Steinway & Sons told her to put her Steinway Model C stretto grand piano in a public place, again, to “see what happens.” In 2021, she became the only liaison for anyone wanting an original Stretto grand piano from Steinway & Sons.
For more than 30 years, her goal has been to influence piano manufacturers worldwide to offer narrow-key pianos (which we now generically call “Stretto”) and to produce concerts with them everywhere. Following in the footsteps of Josef Hofmann, Yoshinao Nakada, Christopher Donison, and Daniel Barenboim, these pioneers inspired her to tirelessly continue with this goal since they all advocated for, owned, and played pianos with narrow keys. She has promoted pianists who perform on DS Keyboards, a Sirius 6.0 Piano, and Kaduk keyboards via Stretto Piano Concerts and the ISPF since 2021.