"Hello Molly" - Opening Scene from The Starter Wife, Season 1,Episode 6: "The Ex-Files."
First broadcast on the USA Network November 7, 2008.
"Hello Dolly" by Jerry Herman. Music adapted, arranged, orchestrated, and conducted as "Hello Molly" by Rick Fleishman. John Sawoski, pianist; and John Sawoski, keyboardist. Other musicians: Jeff Bunnell and Bob O'Donnell, trumpet;Les Benedict, trombone/bass trombone; Steve Carr, tenor sax; Paul Morin, bass; Paul Goldberg, drums; Delia Park, violin; Bobby Korda, violin; Joel Lish, viola. Recorded July 29, 2008 at Entourage Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
The Room Swayin' and the Band Playin' - During the recording session, at 11:42 am, the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area experienced its largest earthquake in years as a magnitude 5.4 event occurred 8.5 miles beneath the Chino Hills. This earthquake was felt across much of southern California, and as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada.
John Sawoski's "Cradle Song," sung by Sophia Sawoski and the children's choir at A Festival of Lessons and Carols at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Los Angeles under the direction of renowned composer Christopher Walker, December 14, 2008
Vaughn Suponatime
Frank Sinatra impersonator Vaughn Suponatime with The Capistrano Valley Symphony, "Swinging at the Mission." (3:12, 27 MB mpeg file)
Live from The Mission San Juan Capistrano, California
John Sawoski, Keyboardist The Late Carlo Spiga, Conductor
Amateur Video of 2007 Candlelight Concert at Disneyland. John Sawoski, keyboardist.
John Sawoski has played keyboards with the orchestra for Disneyland's Annual Candlelight Concert since 2004. The concert includes a 650-voice choir, various soloists, and a celebrity guest narrator. Town Square, Disneyland. The orchestra, made up mostly of Los Angeles studio musicians, performs a beautifully moving collection of Christmas music, from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus to songs and carols arranged by Bob Krogstad, John Rutter, Jack Askew, Peter Knight, Ken Whitcomb, musical director Bruce Healey, and others. The conductor is Nancy Sulahian, Director of Chamber Singers in the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
In this scene from the movie Showboy, the lead character tours the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas and fantasizes about playing a piece that sounds like something Liberace would play (actually composed and performed by John Sawoski).
Voodoo II Album
John Sawoski's keyboard-playing can now be heard on Robert Drasnin's newly-released album, Voodoo II, with Mike Lang, Bobby Shulgold, Peggy Baldwin, and others. See these You-Tube Videos for more information.
John Sawoski appears in several scenes of Sony Pictures' 2008 release of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," contracted by Rick Fleishman of Visual Music. Click at left to watch the trailer, in which John Sawoski appears momentarily in a scene with "Elvis Presley," played by Jack White of White Stripe.
This program was broadcast on KCET-TV (PBS) in Los Angeles in 2008.
China Reflections
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Scenes from Santa Monica College's travel, cultural exchange, and performances in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of Shandong University of the Arts in Jinan, China. October 2008. For more information, click here.
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Leslie Zemeckis, singer/dancer/actress (wife of film director Robert Zemeckis) performing one of her signature songs as Staar on stage at the Conga Room in Los Angeles, with pianist/musical director John Sawoski and his band (warning: explicit lyric content).
