A Garden Calamity - A New Musical
New Short Musicals Debut:
Across a Crowded Room Final Presentations
Musical theater writers and performers
present a festival of new 20-minute musicals
in an all-day event.
A Garden Calamity - A New Musical
Bookwriter: Lisa Ferber
Lyricist: Kat Brannan-Williams
Composer/Music Director: Bjorn Berkhout
Director: Jesse Desrosiers
Nina: Jenna Haimes
Charlotte: Sydney Howard
Cody: Max Carlson
Stage Directions: Lisa Ferber
Pianist: T.C. Kincer
Saturday, November 22, 2025
11am-5pm
A Garden Calmity will be presented second, probably around 11:30am
Tickets are free but you can register on Eventbrite here.
Don't worry if tickets are "sold out" - they aren't.
Just come to the Auditorium on Saturday!
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts -Bruno Walter Auditorium
Enter via 111 Amsterdam Ave. between West 64th and 65th Street
Click here for more information
Click here for free tickets
Developed at Across a Crowded Room 2025
A program of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library
Across a Crowded Room Final Presentations
Musical theater writers and performers
present a festival of new 20-minute musicals
in an all-day event.
A Garden Calamity - A New Musical
Bookwriter: Lisa Ferber
Lyricist: Kat Brannan-Williams
Composer/Music Director: Bjorn Berkhout
Director: Jesse Desrosiers
Nina: Jenna Haimes
Charlotte: Sydney Howard
Cody: Max Carlson
Stage Directions: Lisa Ferber
Pianist: T.C. Kincer
Saturday, November 22, 2025
11am-5pm
A Garden Calmity will be presented second, probably around 11:30am
Tickets are free but you can register on Eventbrite here.
Don't worry if tickets are "sold out" - they aren't.
Just come to the Auditorium on Saturday!
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts -Bruno Walter Auditorium
Enter via 111 Amsterdam Ave. between West 64th and 65th Street
Click here for more information
Click here for free tickets
Developed at Across a Crowded Room 2025
A program of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library
Performed at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point January 22, 2023 at 12:00 noon
"Zing" on Interlochen Public Radio
Listen Here (part 2)
Listen Here (part 2)
Zing, performed by Hal Grossman, violin, and Lisa Kristina, piano,
at the College Music Society National conference
October 25, 2019, 7:30pm
at Cathedral of the Assumption 433 S 5th St # 101, Louisville, Kentucky.
at the College Music Society National conference
October 25, 2019, 7:30pm
at Cathedral of the Assumption 433 S 5th St # 101, Louisville, Kentucky.
Performed
at Albert Taylor Theater at The Kirkland Fine Arts Center
at Millikin University February 18, 2023 at 7:30
at Albert Taylor Theater at The Kirkland Fine Arts Center
at Millikin University February 18, 2023 at 7:30
Lunchtime Concert and Welcome Event at CMPR
- THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023
- 11:00 AM 11:45 AM
The Bar Music Project
Hall Grossman plays Zing!
26SEP2021
Ramsdell Concert Series
Manistee, Michigan
27SEP2021
Interlochen Public Radio Recital Broadcast
Interlochen, Michigan
10OCT2021
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington
31OCT2021
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
26SEP2021
Ramsdell Concert Series
Manistee, Michigan
27SEP2021
Interlochen Public Radio Recital Broadcast
Interlochen, Michigan
10OCT2021
Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington
31OCT2021
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Marimba Soloist and Conductor – Kent State University
Performing:
- THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2023
- 7:30 PM 8:30 PM
- KENT STATE UNIVERSITY (MAP)
Performing:
- Elucidatrix for solo marimba and percussion ensemble by Matthew Coley*
- Running Towards Empty by Bjorn Berkhout
- Solar Flurries by Matthew Coley*