Music

Music

Music I wrote & recorded for Lehigh University’s This Emancipation Thing created and directed by Sara Lyons
Voices: Rooster DeMotte, Virginia McMahon, Harley Roach, AJ Ostapovich, Sara Lyons

Music I wrote & recorded for Lehigh University’s This Is Not The Play by Chisa Hutchinson, directed by Kashi Johnson

Music I wrote & recorded for Lehigh University’s The Salonnieres by Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Augustine Ripa
Violin – Alexandra Cutler-Fetkewicz
Accordion – Heath Allen
Cello, Bass and programming – Andrew Nelson

Music I wrote & recorded for Lehigh University’s The Roles we Play: Actor’s Nightmare & A Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile directed by Daniel Brody

All instruments – Andrew Nelson

Music I wrote for Azuka Theatre’s The Arsonists (Nominated for Barrymore for Original Music)

Guitar with Copper Slide, Bass, Percussion – Andrew Nelson

Music I wrote for Lehigh University’s I and You

Guitar, bass, drums – Andrew Nelson

A Couple Pandemic Favorites

Broadway Bares!
So thrilled to play on this – Video starts at 6:36

My pandemic-fingers take on Billy Bragg’s Scholarship is the Enemy of Romance

MGC Livestream Collection:

The MGC Quarantine playlist:

Martha Graham Cracker made an album!!

NMAJH’s Freedom Seder Revisted

My transcription and performance of the Sal Cuevas’s bass break in Kirsty MacColl’s My Affair from the Electric Landlady album. Also includes some exercises I created to help learn how to play this.

Music I wrote for Lehigh University’s Stupid F*@#ing Bird

Cello, bass, viola, guitar, ukulele, trombone, percussion – Andrew Nelson
Drums on ‘Trigorin’ – Ben Diamond

Music I wrote for Lehigh University’s Bad Jews

Violin – Erica Miller
Bass, Percussion – Andrew Nelson

My arrangements of Three Blind Mice for Nick Kourtides’ sound design of the McCarter Theatre’s production of The Mousetrap. (Paul Giess – Trumpet, Larry Toft – Trombone, Will Brock – Piano, Tony Flagiello – Drums, Andrew Nelson – Bass)

My arrangement of David Bowie’s Life on Mars for a special Martha Graham Cracker show with a String Quartet (Erica Miller, Rebecca Harris, Marjorie Goldberg, Eric Coyne)

My arrangement of Prince’s Purple Rain for a special Martha Graham Cracker show with a String Quartet (Erica Miller, Rebecca Harris, Shelley Beard, Eric Coyne)

Johnny Showcase 2016 Tinydesk Contest Submission that I engineered in my living room.

Music I wrote for Lehigh University’s God of Carnage

Cello – Sue Lerner
Guitars – Christopher Colucci
Bass, Drum – Andrew Nelson

George Urgo Blues Band from our last summer in Philadelphia. I recorded this live at a Sunday brunch at Juniper Commons, April 2015.

Guitar, Vocals – George Urgo
Drums – Ben Diamond

Bass – Andrew Nelson

God Only Knows/Hole In My Life with Martha Graham Cracker

Miscellaneous
Bittersweet

Accordion – Andrew Nelson

Home recordings

From Brat Productions’ MEANWHILE…
Opening-Sharp’s Theme
Lead Trombone – Everett Nelson
Drums – Ben Diamond

Bass, Trombone – Andrew Nelson
Until I Found You
Lyrics/Music – Madi Distefano/Andrew Nelson
Vocals – Sarah Doherty, Mary McCool
Lead Trombone – Everett Nelson
Drums – Ben Diamond

Bass, Trombone – Andrew Nelson
Dulcita’s Song
Bass, Trombone, Percussion – Andrew Nelson

From The Astronomer Collapses (for the American Philosophical Society)
Blue Danube 120bpm

From Pig Iron’s Reading of Balladina
The Woods

Boys of Summer with Martha Graham Cracker
Boys of Summer on YouTube

Roxy
Soundtrack for short film

George Urgo Band
02 Close To You
Willie Dixon
Guitar, Vocal – George Urgo
Drums – Ben Diamond
Bass – Andrew Nelson

From Azuka Theatre’s Nerve
II. Dance Of Hope-Caution
III. Dance of Being Trapped
Elliot and Susan Dance

Hotel Obligado Themes
Joshua Lamon/Andrew Nelson
HO Theme – Savory

HO Theme – Sweet

Rehearsal demos (for live performance) from Shakespeare in Clark Park
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Lyrics/Music Elizabeth Scanlon/Andrew Nelson
A Knight’s Life
Caius v. Evans
Comedy of Errors
Opening Song
Women’s Song

Other projects I can be heard on
The Sea

Johnny Showcase – Love is the Message and Mystic Ticket – The Pump Fake

1812 Productions’ I will Not Go Gently
Jay Ansill’s The Cheese Project