HERE TO STAY - The NYFOS 20th Anniversary Gala
Join us for this extraordinary evening of entertainment and festive dining. May 21st at Carnegie Hall. Tickets are on sale now!
NYFOS 2007 - 2008, 20th Anniversary Concert Season
All concerts at 8:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. To purchase subscriptions or single tickets, or for additional information, please call the NYFOS office at 646-230-8380. Alternatively, two months in advance of each concert date, tickets may be purchased online, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue.
No Song is Safe From Us
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Buy Tickets
Thursday, October 18, 2007 - Buy Tickets
NYFOS presents a sampling menu in four courses, featuring four favorite specialties of Artistic Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett: songs by contemporary American composers; American popular and musical theater songs; Scandinavian art song; and Latin song, from the Iberian peninsula to Cuba, Mexico and South America. This banquet will feature a dazzling range of composers from Mompou to Musto, Grieg to Gershwin, and Berlin to Bernstein. Artists: sopranos Michelle Areyzaga and Jennifer Aylmer, tenor Javier Abreu, and baritone William Sharp, along with eight students from the Juilliard School’s Vocal Arts Department, and Steven Blier and Michael Barrett at the piano.
Love at the Crossroads
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - Buy Tickets
Thursday November 15, 2007 - Buy Tickets
In songs and ensemble pieces, a quartet of lovers enact a series of linked romantic scenarios. Love, hate, jealousy, and flirtation are supplied by a wide range of composers, from Sondheim and Cy Coleman to Britten and Brahms. Artists: soprano Sari Gruber, mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy, tenor Hal Cazalet and baritone Matthew Worth with Steven Blier at the piano.
Program Notes
NYFOS@Juilliard
A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up
January 16, 2008
Peter Jay Sharp Auditorium, The Juilliard School
Free Concert, Non-Subscription Event ( (tickets available from the Juilliard School Box Office after January 2, 2008)
Songs of mating, dating, betrayal, desire, and true love by Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Bruce Springsteen, Jacques Brel, Adam Guettel, Jerome Kern, Paul Moravec, Cy Coleman, William Bolcom, and many others. Artists: Jennifer Zetlan, Meredith Lustig, Renee Tatum, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Paul Appleby, Alex Mansoori, David McFerrin, Paul LaRosa, and Marc Webster; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists; string quartet TBA.
Join NYFOS founders Steven Blier and Michael Barrett and the students of The Juilliard School’s Vocal Arts Department for the concert that culminates our third annual installment of NYFOS@Juillard. This collaboration between NYFOS and The Juilliard School celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of tomorrow’s brightest stars, building on NYFOS’s distinctive programming and performing style. Alumni of the joint program have already begun to participate in NYFOS’s season concerts alongside our more seasoned artists.
“I encourage the NYFOS@Juilliard students not to bring me just a single song, but to think in groups of songs: What story does a song tell, and what other songs would set up that story? I am continually impressed with the level of commitment with which the students have approached the process.”—Steven Blier
Harry, Hoagy & Harold
Tuesday, February 5 , 2007 - Buy Tickets
Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Buy Tickets
NYFOS reprises this program, first presented in its 2000-2001 season, featuring greatest hits and rarities by three American song-writing heroes: Harry (“I Only Have Eyes for You”) Warren, Hoagy (“Stardust”) Carmichael, and Harold (“Stormy Weather”) Arlen. Artists: soprano Jonita Lattimore, mezzo-soprano Mary Testa and baritone James Martin with Steven Blier at the piano, Greg Utzig on guitar/banjo, and Vince Giordano on bass.
Bastianello/Lucrezia
(Musto/Campbell)/(Bolcom/Campbell)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Buy Tickets
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Buy Tickets
Two newly commissioned comic operas by composers John Musto (Bastianello) and William Bolcom (Lucrezia), both with librettos by Mark Campbell; both works are scored for five singers and two pianos and will be presented in semi-staged performances. Bastianello, based on an Italian folktale and set in 18th century rural Italy, is a family fable of love and folly; Lucrezia, a “riff” on Machiavelli’s La Mandragola, is a wickedly funny seduction satire, retold from the viewpoint of the story’s wise and captivating heroine. Artists: soprano Lisa Vroman, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Paul Appleby, baritone Patrick Mason and bass Matt Boehler, with pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. Commission and First Performance of “Bastianello” by John Musto and Mark Campbell and “Lucrezia” by William Bolcom and Mark Campbell by NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG, INC. is supported by The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Additional funding for first performance of Bastianello/Lucrezia is provided by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the A.L. and Jenny L. Luria Foundation .
Obsession à la Russe
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Buy Tickets
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Buy Tickets
From the 18th Century, when French became the court language of the Russian aristocracy, to the conquest of Paris by Les Ballets Russes two centuries later, Russia looked to France as the height of refinement; while France sought in all things Russian an exotic charm and vigor Western Europe seemed to lack. Artistic influences ran rampant in both directions, shaping the musical language of composers from both cultures. This program will feature songs by Tchaikovsky, Cui, Poulenc, Debussy, Gretchaninov, Prokofiev, and selections from the repertoire of Paris denizen Fyodor Chaliapin. Artists: soprano Dina Kuznetsova, tenor Nicholas Phan and baritone Anton Belov, with Steven Blier at the piano.
Obsession à la Russe
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
(tickets available from the Kennedy Center)
From the 18th Century, when French became the court language of the Russian aristocracy, to the conquest of Paris by Les Ballets Russes two centuries later, Russia looked to France as the height of refinement; while France sought in all things Russian an exotic charm and vigor Western Europe seemed to lack. Artistic influences ran rampant in both directions, shaping the musical language of composers from both cultures. This program will feature songs by Tchaikovsky, Cui, Poulenc, Debussy, Gretchaninov, Prokofiev, and selections from the repertoire of Paris denizen Fyodor Chaliapin. Artists: soprano Dina Kuznetsova, tenor Nicholas Phan and baritone Anton Belov, with Steven Blier at the piano.
NYFOS’ 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT
(Fundraiser, Non-Subscription Event)
May 21, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
(tickets TBA)
Frederica von Stade, Stephanie Blythe, Judy Kaye, Anna Christy, Karen Holvik and many other glorious NYFOS luminaries past, present and future join Steven and Michael to celebrate the close of NYFOS’ 20th season and ring in its next great decade in song.
Please visit soon for upcoming news on this event -- ticket prices and order instructions to come.