by Steven Blier | Mar 16, 2018 | Blier's Blog
We had our two performances, and I am now dealing with a certain amount of post-partum sadness. It’s always a little hard to let go of a great experience. The two shows were populated by things I expected and things that took me by surprise. In the second category:...
by Steven Blier | Mar 11, 2018 | Blier's Blog
I’ve just returned from seeing the HD broadcast of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” from the National Theater. It starred a colleague of mine, Janie Dee, as Phyllis. I worked with her when NYFOS brought our P.G. Wodehouse concert to London. She was a delight, and a...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2018 | Blier's Blog
We went back to Katonah today, with Mo Zhou riding up with us in the car. I wish everyone could have Mo to themselves for an hour. She’s a delight, a character, a raconteur, a force of nature. Apparently there had been eighteen inches of snow at Caramoor, but most of...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2018 | Program Notes
Today’s program combines a narrow focus on a single culture — the British Isles — with the wide-angle lens on four centuries of song, thereby ranging across practically the entire span of Western classical music. The purity of the Renaissance gradually gives way to...
by Steven Blier | Mar 9, 2018 | Blier's Blog
We waited till mid-morning to see if we’d be back in our Katonah Zen-garden, or if we’d be working in the homey surroundings of my apartment. We learned at around 10 AM that Caramoor had lost its electricity in the storm. I never knew that Westchester could be...
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