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Some program ideas emerge in a single moment of inspiration. Fugitives had such a birth: it sprang into being one night in June of 2007, when I was onstage with Kate Lindsey at Wolf Trap. We were doing a concert of German songs from the Weimar years called Berlin...
The idea for this program came to me last spring when I was having tea with the two singers in tonight’s cast, Shelén Hughes Camacho and Joseph Parrish. While pursuing independent careers on the world’s concert halls and opera houses, spanning from Carnegie Hall...
Most of this year’s NYFOS programs have been tied to earthly concerns—societal, cultural, psychological, political. After the tumult of past few months, though, some of us might be feeling that the world is too much with us—or more aptly, that the world is too much...
Beginner’s Luck is a musical snapshot of a precarious moment of arrival: those early years of adulthood with all of their new responsibilities, which might include the beginning of a career or the start of a new family. It is precisely the stage of life where our cast...
Today we had our final run-through—I’d call it a dress rehearsal but we didn’t actually get all dolled up for it. I just asked everyone to wear the shoes they would have on tomorrow, since the transition from rubber soles to concert footwear has occasionally been...
Friday can be a somewhat tense day in a rehearsal period this brief. We’ll have our dress rehearsal tomorrow, and in some years the end of the week brings panic in the streets, mostly about memorization or a piece that a still a little unsettled vocally. That’s why...