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Brazilian-American composer/vocalist/pianist Clarice Assad, a NYFOS Next curator and featured composer on our mainstage series in recent years, performs the Brazilian classic "Beatriz" with her father Sergio Assad on guitar....
Elly Ameling and Dalton Baldwin perform this sweet mélodie by Gabriel Fauré with text by Leconte de Lisle. A cool breeze of a song on a hot day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4Z2sBeWeQ
This has been stuck in our heads since watching the recent tv series Fosse/Verdon. That noise! That vocal car horn of a sound! Where did come from? How did it end up in the show? Why?!? Better to give up the questions and just enjoy the dance. Bob Fosse and Gwen...
A selection from Karol Szymanowski's sensual and obsessive song cycle Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin,"W południe" ("At Noon") opens in a city "white with heat." Its descending phrases capture the languid, wilting feeling of a humid day, before the singer grows...
Bass Matt Boehler answers our questions on his background as an actor and journey toward composition as our Artist of the Month. Matt is returning to NYFOS on later this month in Manning the Canon in Orient, NY and NYC, and next season in Lyrics by Shakespeare (single...
Composer Laura Kaminsky discusses her hit opera AS ONE, facilitating new works from women composers, and what she's been reading lately in our Artist of the Month interview. Witness the world premiere of her collaboratively created song cycle AFTER STONEWALL in NYFOS...