NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. With a text by Langston Hughes, this song depicts a winter moon as a thin crescent, a rationed portion of a moon for a season when resources grow scarce....
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Richard Strauss: Schlechtes Wetter
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. From NYFOS's recording Unquiet Peace: The Lied Between the Wars, Cyndia Sieden sings "Schlechtes Wetter" by Richard Strauss with Steven Blier at the piano....
Ray Lustig: Velvet Shoes
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. Ray Lustig's "Velvet Shoes" was selected by then NYFOS program consultant Ben Sosland for the very first NYFOS Next program in 2009. It was so striking that Steven Blier brought it to the...
Corinne Winters
"An outstanding actress as well as a singer of extraordinary grace and finesse" (The New York Times), soprano Corinne Winters talks about self-care and favorite rep in our Artist of the Month interview. Corinne will return to NYFOS's Mainstage series in García Lorca: ...
Frank Sinatra sings “The Last Dance”
It’s Throwback Thursday! Isn’t it simply marvelous when we hear a song and we’re immediately transported back to a time and place, just by hearing a few notes. Obviously, it’s better when that reminiscing happens to be a happy memory. It happens to me quite often....
Ben Bliss and Lachlan Glen
Pianist Lachlan Glen and tenor Ben Bliss are co-founders of the millennial-focused arts presenter MISE-EN-SCÈNE STUDIOS (MESS) and our co-Artists of the Month for November. On December 11, NYFOS will join MESS for an updated performance of our annual holiday...