Photo Credit: Stevo Rood

Last night, Nathaniel Rateliff, joined by an orchestral ensemble, performed the Harry Nilsson album, A Little Touch Of Schmilsson in the Night, in its entirety at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

Rateliff honored the 50^th anniversary of Nilsson’s 1973 collection, notable as the late singer-songwriter’s homage to standards from the Great American Songbook. The hour-long appearance featured an in-sequence reading of the dozen-song set, augmented beautifully by conductor Christopher Dragon’s orchestral accompaniment and featuring guitarist Luke Mossman, of Rateliff’s Night Sweats band.

The program concluded with a run of classics from Nilsson’s catalog, selected by Rateliff, that included “Everybody’s Talking,” plus the Nilsson-adopted Jimmy Cliff nugget, “Many Rivers to Cross,” and closed with an extended “Jump Into The Fire,” and the poignant “Turn On Your Radio.”

The Disney Hall show followed a pair of Rateliff Plays Nilsson performances in the singer’s Denver hometown and precedes a scheduled April 1 date at New York City’s Lincoln Center. Learn more by visiting the artist’s official website.