“December Feels” official music video featuring the cast of Aladdin on Broadway Directed and Edited by Angelo Soriano Song written by Angelo Soriano and Augie Haas for Carols For A Cure, Vol. 21 (2019) benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Lead Vocals by Arielle Jacobs Ensemble: Malik Akil Alicia Charles Lauryn Ciardullo Mark DiConzo Olivia Donalson Josh Drake Tyler Roberts Angelo Soriano Charles South Video Musicians: Augie Haas Matt Lepek Brandon Moodie In collaboration with Joffrey Ballet School Jazz & Contemporary Program: Angelica Stiskin, Artistic Director Michael Waldrop, Associate Artistic Director Dancers: Emily Chiasson Ella Foster Cecillia Gangemi Kennedy Kandi Lauren Leach Ariel Marks Caitlin Marks Nelia McNicol Faith Messer Julia Nuccitelli Cali Wilson Santa: Drew Siccardi Choreography: Angelo Soriano Charles South Josh Drake Additional Camera: JJ Caruncho Makeup: Johannah Adams Ashley Webb Magic Ears bedazzled by Miss Davida Jones Extras: Hannah Freed Jared Freed Julio Chimbay Track produced by Lynn Pinto and Andros Rodriguez at Premier Studios, NYC Vocals: Arielle Jacobs Alicia Charles Olivia Donalson Heather Makalani Anna Ginther Angelo Soriano Charles South Wes Hart Jaz Sealey Jacob Gutierrez Travis Ward-Osborne Horn Arrangement by Augie Haas Musicians: Augie Haas - Trumpet Matt Lepek - Alto Sax Mark Thrasher - Bari Sax Michael Gorham - Trumpet Walter Cano - Trumpet Seth Weaver - Trombone Aleksi Glick - Guitar Jeff Koch - Bass Guitar Colleen Clark - Drums Rueben Allen - Keys *** Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance. For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org, at facebook.com/BCEFA, at instagram.com/BCEFA, at twitter.com/BCEFA and at youtube.com/BCEFA.

Join Dr. Colleen Clark, newly appointed assistant professor of jazz studies at USC, as she presents her newest band, The Southern Pines, featuring Ranky Tanky’s Quiana Parler. With some of the Southeast’s finest jazz musicians, Clark debuts this brand-new collaboration with inspiration from life in South Carolina and work from Our Own Work Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists from the Johnson Collection.

Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADGsqLK0LewrhpCx2SutIhIBcAdQwdC4/view?usp=sharing The group CC and The Adelitas is a jazz sextet comprised of NYC and LA’s top musicians, that happen to be female. Representing the modern-day “Adelita” these musicians have been hand-picked by “CC” as a staunch reflection of the modern-day jazz soldier. “CC and the Adelitas” represents the intersectionality between identity, race, gender and culture. The Adelitas were the women solderaderas of the Mexican Revolution, which helped forge “Adelita” into an icon in Mexican culture, representing the strength and fortitude of women into the modern-day. This project and the experience that it creates incorporates the history of the Adelitas and Mexican songwriters and/or singers and sets the music in the jazz idiom. The combination of history, language, culture and music highlights the importance of our acknowledgment and welcoming of diversity and inclusion. By presenting the songs in Spanish, “CC and The Adelitas” also welcome a broader audience to the music, reinsuring our music community that jazz can be a conduit of not only expression but an expression of identity.

USC Jazz Faculty & Michael Dease Guest Artist Program: