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This week New York Festival of Song honors the great Jessye Norman and her legacy with a series of remembrances from those she inspired. Today's tribute comes from mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford. In high school at Fiorello H. LaGuardia, it was “Take your daughter to...
Ms. Norman, speaking at NFYOS's 2014 gala honoring Leonard Bernstein. This week New York Festival of Song honors the great Jessye Norman and her legacy with a series of remembrances from those she inspired. We begin with a tribute from soprano Julia Bullock. Ms....
Baritone Justin Austin answers our questions on his transition from boy soprano to baritone, having opera singer parents, and what's so special about 'song.' Hear Justin sing some of those special songs with NYFOS in Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do: Songs of Gay...
Soprano Sari Gruber answers our questions on her path to music and long history with NYFOS, as we anticipate her return to NYFOS this November in Blitzstein's No For An Answer and Weill's Der Silbersee. If my research is correct, you’ve been singing with NYFOS for...
I grew up with the sound of tight harmony in my ear from my many mornings in a country church. Every time I hear this song of freedom I can hear my grandmother harmonizing in her tenor voice with the rest of the country choir. ...
What do you get when you google 'summer songs' to close out a week at Song of the Day? Donna Summer. May you be soothed by her dreamy vocals as you cruise down a traffic-free highway to your disco party on the beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0