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It has been such a treat to be asked to host the NYFOS Song of the Day blog over the course of this week. Many thanks to each one of you for following me on this adventure through my Steve Blier music binder! I so hope to meet many of you on either March 15th at...
Today's post will be a bit shorter than my first three as I am in a particularly crazy part of my week. No week of featuring "Songs in the Key of Steven Blier" would be complete without a song by Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino. Steve first brought...
Widely unknown but celebrated by NYFOS, Marc Blitzstein just might be my all-time favorite 20th century song composer. Yes—you read that correctly. I like Blitzstein more than Bernstein, the Beatles, Britten, Barber, and any other 20th century composer that starts...
For the past three years I have lived in a ground floor, one bedroom apartment in the Hamilton Heights area of New York City. I actually found the apartment listing on Craigslist in my attempts to find something being rented directly by owner instead of through a...
By way of introduction, my name is Thomas West. I am a baritone originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee and am thrilled to be taking over the Song of the Day blog this week in anticipation of this year’s Caramoor Rising Stars residency. It has been six...