Audra McDonald, Yo-Yo Ma perform in Carnegie Hall celebration
Four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald stars in 'Private Practice.' Photo credit: Nonesuch
Audra McDonald is one of Broadway’s best singers, and PBS will showcase the “Private Practice” star in the Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert.
The event taped May 5. PBS will air it at 8 tonight on WMFE-Channel 24.
Four-time Tony winner McDonald will sing a medley of Duke Ellington songs, including “Solitude,” “Sophisticated Lady,” “On a Turquoise Cloud” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing.”
The special also features pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Gil Shaham and the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Alan Gilbert.
Ax, Ma and Shaham perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56. There are performances of Antonin Dvo?ák’s Carnival Overture and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris.