Ken Corday performing at the Garry Marshall Theatre
The Third Annual Benefit Concert Series

Songs Without Words

PostponedSpring 2027, Dates TBD
Garry Marshall Theatre  ·  Toluca Lake, California
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Schedule Update

Postponed to
Spring 2027

New performance dates and information for ticket holders will be announced as soon as they are confirmed.

Ken Corday’s Songs Without Words benefit concerts, originally scheduled for November 4, 6, and 7, 2026, at the Garry Marshall Theatre, have been postponed to Spring 2027. New performance dates and information for ticket holders will be announced as soon as they are confirmed.

“We’re grateful to everyone who has supported these performances and the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Emergency Assistance Program. I look forward to sharing this music with you next spring.”Ken Corday
Questions about existing tickets: Garry Marshall Theatre box office · 818.955.8101
Ken Corday at his grand piano
The Man Behind the Music

Six Emmys.
Fifty years of
Days of our Lives.
One piano.

Ken Corday has been the executive producer and composer of Days of our Lives since 1977 — the voice behind a theme song four generations of viewers know by heart. Long before that, he was an eight-year-old taught at Juilliard, a drummer touring the Southwest, and a jazz student at UCSC.

For three nights next spring he steps out from behind the show and plays his own work: a new collection of original contemporary American piano compositions, performed in a 110-seat room. No lyrics. No orchestra. Songs without words.

6Daytime Emmy Awards
1977Composing Days of our Lives
8Age he entered Juilliard
2Sold-out concert runs

Listen

A preview of
the program

Three pieces from the program, recorded by Ken ahead of the run. Hear them here, then hear the rest the way it was written to be heard — live, on a Bösendorfer, in a room of 110 people.

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Playlist

Songs Without Words

Ken Corday · 3 tracks

  • 01 Fantasy Play
  • 02 Freedom Play
  • 03 Triumph Play

Click a title above to play  ·  previews via SoundCloud

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Why This Concert Exists
100%

of ticket proceeds benefit the SAG-AFTRA Foundation

Every dollar from ticket sales goes to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Emergency Assistance Program, which provides financial aid to SAG-AFTRA artists facing extreme or unexpected hardship — keeping roofs overhead and care within reach for performers between jobs.

“Music has always been a great passion of mine, and the opportunity to share it while benefiting a cause close to my heart is nothing short of a dream.”
— Ken Corday
About the Foundation
Coming Spring 2027

110 seats a night.

When Songs Without Words returns, it will be the same intimate room, with every dollar of ticket revenue going to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Emergency Assistance Program. New dates will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed.

Follow for Updates

Questions about existing tickets? Contact the Garry Marshall Theatre box office at 818.955.8101.