- [Narrator] Bryant Park Picnic Performances are made possible by Bank of America.

(upbeat music) (audience applauds) - One, two, three, four.

(light airy music) ♪ I'm getting from here to sleep ♪ ♪ On the wings of 134 Eldridge Street ♪ ♪ Where I used to dream ♪ Wide awake in good company ♪ Reaching up for stars ♪ That you'll never see ♪ Mmm ♪ Through the lights of the city ♪ ♪ Mmm ♪ But neither snow nor sleet nor rain ♪ ♪ Are gonna take me ♪ From the apple of my eye ♪ Of the hurricane ♪ Singing ♪ Thank you, New York ♪ May I have another ♪ The more you're dizzied up ♪ A weather vane ♪ The more honey on the apple of my eye ♪ ♪ Of the hurricane ♪ Singing ♪ Thank you, New York ♪ May I have another ♪ May I have another ♪ If I come back, New York ♪ May I have another ♪ May I have another ♪ New York (lively violin music) ♪ Eight of strong, Sammy ♪ Four of sweet ♪ And one bitter served up ♪ Is what it's gonna be ♪ For my baby and me ♪ Moving back to the city ♪ Mmm ♪ And neither hate nor fear nor pain ♪ ♪ Are gonna keep us ♪ From the apple of our eye ♪ Of the hurricane ♪ Singing ♪ Thank you, New York ♪ May I have another ♪ Dance with you upon the winds of change ♪ ♪ Like a scene of the apple of my eye ♪ ♪ Of the hurricane ♪ Singing ♪ Thank you, New York ♪ May we have another ♪ May we have another ♪ We wanna rise with you ♪ New York ♪ From the ashes to the sky ♪ Like you do time after time ♪ Thank you, New York ♪ May we have another ♪ May we have another ♪ We're coming back to you ♪ New York ♪ 'Cause we need another ♪ 'Cause there ain't another ♪ New York (audience applauds) - [Chris] The maestro, y'all.

- Hello, New York.

(audience cheers) How you doing?

It's crazy.

Somebody calls me a master, but that somebody happens to be the real deal.

Let's hear it for Mr. Chris Thile, yeah?

(audience applauds) We're gonna do a piece, which is not gonna be four and a half hours long, as most Indian concerts are.

But just a short piece based on a raga called "Bihag."

It's a beautiful romantic raga.

And it is an honor and a privilege to be sitting on stage with one of the finest Indian fiddlers ever, Mr. Ganesh Rajagopalan.

(audience applauds) (gentle lilting fiddle music) (moves to lively music) (audience applauds) (moves to playful upbeat music) (moves to energetic upbeat music) (audience cheers) (gentle percussive music) (moves to upbeat percussive music) (music intensifies) (audience applauds) (energetic upbeat music) (audience cheers) - [Zakir] Mr. Ganesh Rajagopalan.

(audience applauds) Thank you all very much.

So about 92.92% of that was improvised.

I had no idea what he was going to do, and he definitely didn't know what I was gonna do.

But anyway, we got there, and it's such an amazing thing to have the legend, the maestro.

- [Chris] No, no.

- Also one of the best dressed guys in town.

No offense, maestro.

So I guess we're gonna do a piece.

- [Chris] Let's do a piece.

- Yeah.

- [Chris] By Ganesh, yes?

- [Zakir] Yeah.

Oh, sorry, the piece is written by Maestro Ganesh Rajagopalan here.

(audience applauds) (gentle music) - How does it start?

- One, two, one, two.

(gentle upbeat music) (music intensifies) (moves to soft upbeat music) (moves to energetic upbeat music) (moves to soft upbeat music) (music intensifies) (moves to lively upbeat music) (audience applauds) - [Chris] Ganesh Rajagopalan!

Zakir Hussain!

Thank you so much, fellas.

And please make welcome Ms. Emily King.

(audience cheers) (soft guitar strumming) What?

What?

Bye, gentleman.

Oh my gosh, what a pleasure to have you.

(audience applauds) One, two, one, two, three, four.

♪ Hey love, time to get up ♪ I think you've been sleeping too long ♪ ♪ My day started ♪ When you were still yawning ♪ One room just ain't enough ♪ When it's two folks trying to get along ♪ ♪ But it's hard to leave you alone ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ Ooh, love is always better ♪ When we take time ♪ To get back to who we are ♪ When we are apart ♪ Distance makes the heart ♪ Grow even when I'm lonely ♪ Happy knowing that your love is never far ♪ ♪ When we are apart ♪ ♪ Distance makes the heart ♪ It makes the leaves on the trees fall ♪ ♪ Makes the hours in the day long ♪ ♪ Makes me wanna clear my head ♪ ♪ Find a little cafe ♪ Write the words to a song ♪ And I know that I'm still free ♪ ♪ Be anywhere that I wanna be ♪ Maybe get dressed up ♪ Wear something real pretty ♪ That you ain't never seen ♪ Ooh ♪ Love is always better ♪ When we take time ♪ To get back to who we are ♪ When we are apart ♪ Distance makes the ♪ Grow even when I'm lonely ♪ Happy knowing that your love is never far ♪ ♪ When we apart ♪ ♪ Distance makes the heart, heart, heart ♪ ♪ Heart, heart, heart ♪ ♪ Heart, heart, heart ♪ Heart, heart, heart ♪ Heart, heart, heart ♪ Heart ♪ Heart, heart, heart ♪ Yeah, Yeah, yeah ♪ When you love ♪ It makes a heart ♪ When you trust ♪ It makes a heart ♪ And when you grow ♪ It makes a heart ♪ When we're alone ♪ When we're apart ♪ In the middle of a fight ♪ Walk away to make it right ♪ And when we go ♪ We're never far ♪ In the light or in the dark ♪ On a plane up in the stars ♪ In a movie ♪ Ooh, at the bar ♪ Home alone or out to tea ♪ Look to your heart ♪ And think of me ♪ I wanna love you ♪ Don't wanna try ♪ To change the pace of your life ♪ ♪ We get together ♪ We make it good ♪ We get together ♪ Oh ♪ Hey love, time to get up ♪ I think you've been sleeping too long ♪ ♪ My day started ♪ When you were still yawning (audience cheers) - [Emily] Thank you.

What's up, Bryant Park?

How you doing tonight?

What's up?

Yes.

You look so fantastic.

I don't know whose idea it was to put me on after them.

(audience laughs) Chris?

(Emily laughs) Give it up for the incredible musicians out here tonight.

(audience applauds) Legendary, legendary.

It's so wonderful to be out of my sweatpants tonight.

I can't breathe too well, but that's okay.

(laughs) We're gonna do another song of mine, is that right?

- [Chris] Yes, that's right.

- Okay.

(soft guitar strumming) ♪ I was not ready ♪ The day you gave me your heart ♪ ♪ I was still falling apart ♪ But since that moment ♪ I can't stop hearing your name ♪ ♪ Wondering 'bout you always ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ I was unhappy ♪ The day you left out my door ♪ ♪ I was just feeling unsure ♪ So long I've missed you ♪ Now I can honestly say ♪ I'm ready to love you always ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ Ooh, to think that you would be ♪ ♪ Resting in my arms ♪ How I wish I knew ♪ Georgia, where you are ♪ I can't be without you, Georgia ♪ ♪ No ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I won't let you go ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better ♪ Ooh ♪ Oh no, I just need another ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ Come back, Georgia, come back ♪ ♪ I just need another chance ♪ Chance to make it better (audience cheers) - [Chris] That is Emily King.

What do y'all say to another round of Cecile Mclorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner?

(audience applauds) I thought so.

Come on up, y'all.

- [Woman] Yay!

Woo!

- [Cecile] Give me a note.

(soft jazz music) ♪ Well, it could be a spoon full of coffee ♪ ♪ Could be a spoon full of tea ♪ ♪ Well, just one spoon of your precious love ♪ ♪ Is good enough for me ♪ Men lie about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men cry about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men die about that spoon full ♪ ♪ That spoon, that spoon ♪ ♪ That spoon full ♪ Well, it could be a spoon full of diamonds ♪ ♪ Could be a spoon full of gold ♪ ♪ Well, just one spoon of your precious love ♪ ♪ Will satisfy my soul ♪ ♪ Men lie about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men cry about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men die about that spoon full ♪ ♪ That spoon, that spoon ♪ ♪ That spoon full ♪ Well, it could be a spoon full of water ♪ ♪ Save you from the desert sand ♪ ♪ Well, one spoon of lead from my 45 ♪ ♪ Will save you from another man ♪ ♪ Men lie about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men cry about that spoon full ♪ ♪ Men die about that spoon full ♪ ♪ That spoon, that spoon ♪ That spoon full ♪ That spoon, that spoon ♪ That spoon full ♪ That spoon, that spoon ♪ That spoon full (audience applauds) - Thanks so much, y'all.

We have one more for you.

It has been a true joy to have been in this beautiful place celebrating the first hundred years of Town Hall with you fine New Yorkers tonight.

Seriously, I am so honored to be in your midst.

Y'all come on back up, everyone.

Yes.

Yes!

(soft guitar strumming) Oh my goodness.

Oh, I'm like a kid in a candy store, I tell you what.

We're gonna leave you with a song that has been performed countless times at Town Hall, perhaps most recently, at the very end of a performance documentary called "Another Day, Another Time" that I took part in.

It was one of the first times I played Town Hall, actually, and I was struck by how similar being on stage was to being in the house.

You're enveloped by that sound.

You're never purely a spectator or a performer at the Hall.

You're always both.

So close your eyes one more time.

One more time.

Feel how close each one of those plush red seats are to the stage and to each other, how that sound bouncing off the walls envelops you until you can't tell whether it's coming from the stage or your soul, and how on this and any given night, you can hear everything and anything right there at the center of the greatest city in the world.

Here's to your wide open ears that keep make that city better and better.

And here.

Raise your glass.

Here is to the next hundred years of Town Hall.

(audience applauds) One, two, one, two, three.

(gentle upbeat music) ♪ If I had wings like Noah's dove ♪ ♪ I'd fly the river ♪ To the one I love ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well ♪ I had a man ♪ Who was long and tall ♪ He moved his body ♪ Like a cannonball ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well ♪ I remember one evening ♪ In the pouring rain ♪ In my heart was an aching pain ♪ ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well ♪ Oh, muddy river ♪ Runs muddy and wild ♪ Can't care the bloody ♪ For my unborn child ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well ♪ I've said the words on my tongue ♪ ♪ Life ain't worth living ♪ Without the one you love ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well ♪ Fare three well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare three well ♪ Fare thee well ♪ My honey ♪ Fare thee well (audience cheers) - [Chris] Alex Hargreaves, Zakir Hussain, Ganesh Rajagopalan, Becca Stevens, Eric Doob, Chris Morrissey, Shaun Martin, Sullivan Fortner, Damon Daunno, Cecile Mclorin Salvant, and Emily King.

Thank you so much for joining us tonight, y'all.

It has been a true joy.

- Mr. Chris Thile.

♪ Hey love, time to get up ♪ I think you've been sleeping too long ♪ ♪ My day started ♪ When you were still yawning ♪ One room just ain't enough ♪ When it's two folks trying to get along ♪ ♪ But it's hard to leave you alone ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ Ooh, love is always better ♪ When we take time ♪ To get back to who we are ♪ When we are apart ♪ Distance makes the heart ♪ Grow even when I'm lonely ♪ Happy knowing that your love is never far ♪ ♪ When we are apart ♪ Distance makes the heart ♪ It makes the leaves on the trees fall ♪ ♪ Makes the hours in the day long ♪ ♪ Makes me wanna clear my head ♪ ♪ Find a little cafe ♪ Write the words to a song ♪ And I know that I'm still free ♪ ♪ Be anywhere that I wanna be ♪ Maybe get dressed up ♪ Wear something real pretty ♪ That you ain't never seen ♪ Ooh, love is always better - [Narrator] Learn more about Bryant Park at bryantpark.org.