The Review - March 2002

player for the last three years of The Joe Franklin Show was Mark Birnbaum.

On Sunday, Birnbaum brought his act to the Metuchen Public Library to performance music from the early 1900s. In this performance he included works from Scott Joplin, Debussy, "Jelly Roll" Morton and Scriabin.

"I wanted to show the variety of music from that era, what was going on in Europe and what was popular here. Even though these are diverse styles of music, the more durable works tend to shake hands here and there," he said of the day’s chosen pieces.