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Blier’s Blog: NYFOS@Juilliard / “The Land Where the Good Songs Go”

by Steven Blier | Jan 12, 2014 | Blier's Blog

January 12, 2014 On Friday our last family member arrived: guitar/ukelele/banjo-player Greg Utzig who’d done the show with Hal and me thirteen years ago. I love making music with Greg, but when he reports for work my flower-child days are over. You see, all week long...

Blier’s Blog: NYFOS@Juilliard / “The Land Where the Good Songs Go”

by Steven Blier | Jan 9, 2014 | Blier's Blog

January 9, 2014 There was a blessed event today. No, no one had a baby. But at around 4 PM I heard a voice in my ear murmuring “Hey, Stevie!” in an insinuating way, and I turned around to see that Hal Cazalet had slipped into the chair behind me. I knew he was due in...

Blier’s Blog: NYFOS@Juilliard / “The Land Where the Good Songs Go”

by Steven Blier | Jan 8, 2014 | Blier's Blog

January 8, 2014 Today was one of those days that could have been unpleasant. We had six hours of rehearsal in a room that was wildly overheated, as if to compensate for the ghastly cold outside. We took just one half-hour break, and later a ten-minute breather. In...

Blier’s Blog: NYFOS@Juilliard / “The Land Where the Good Songs Go”

by Steven Blier | Jan 7, 2014 | Blier's Blog

January 7, 2014 There are things you just wouldn’t know about your students until you work with them. For example. Joe Eletto cannot do the shimmy. On the other hand, Alex McKissick can shake his, um, upper torso like an overachieving Maytag washer-dryer set on...

Blier’s Blog: NYFOS@Juilliard / “The Land Where the Good Songs Go”

by Steven Blier | Jan 6, 2014 | Blier's Blog

January 6, 2014 All Iast semester I had been feeling uncharacteristically lazy about this year’s NYFOS@Juilliard show—a program of Jerome Kern songs with lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse called The Land Where the Good Songs Go. I had a fall season filled with fascinating...

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