allison lee. i may stay within my 3 minutes. i group my stuff into two groups. group one is my complaint, my problem with rezoning of the 8th avenue property back to the way it was when i bought it in 1964 and group one includes my problem with safe way. i lived there since 1964 and since 1958 been 6 years apart. i have been there a long time and we are involved with all sorts of things now. so i'm giving you group one and group two. i'm a retired schoolteacher. i tend to have some of the old stuff. i have an old binder. group one, i'm trying to stay within my 3 minutes. group one, my property resold back to the way it was. it was r 3 and being next door to safe way i have the right to commercialize it and the second part of group 1, a safe way gave me a safe way back yard agreement on november 15, '07. i do not agree with them. i refuse to sign it. i want to state this so my son or granddaughter knows that. the rezoning is public matter and the safe way back yard problem is a private matter. they have to learn that distinction. group 2 is support historical dat

. >> sean colvin, chris bowdie, lisa fisher, renee fleming and yo yo ma, ricky lee jones, allison kraussi ddiane ree diane stevens, everybody -- >> yeah, it turned into this thing that -- it started out with the idea that -- i've been thinking about this for the past 12, 15 years. but never could figure out how to do it because it was hard for me to conceive of one singer who could cover all of the ground that lauren nyro, cover with her own song. i thought that it had to be multiple singers. it prevented me from doing it over the years. i got tired of it being on the back burner. i called my agent who made a few years phone calls. turned into this thing. >> your phone calls were answered literally. >> yeah. >> answered and showed up. i've got 30 seconds. tell me about the track that you'll perform live, "the confession," with becca stevens. >> that's a song laura wrote on "eli and the 13th confession." from my perspective, it's a song about -- she takes the idea of virgin, you know, and turns it into somebody who's new to love, you know. and -- and is new to this feeling of intense love