I’ve been anticipating—and fearing—this year’s Orient residency, the eighth NYFOS@North Fork concert. I love sharing the beauty of our little town with my younger colleagues, and it’s always a pleasure to make music for such an appreciative, smart crowd. But I haven’t...
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Rachmaninoff: Son
This week we are re-sharing a week of posts from our first summer of Song of the Day! Today’s post by Steven Blier originally ran on July 24, 2015. https://youtu.be/ffA0caLSQYQ I am due to start my work on the Rachmaninoff project soon, and to give my mojo a...
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh
This week we are re-sharing a week of posts from our first summer of Song of the Day! Today’s post by Steven Blier originally ran on July 23, 2015. I have been listening obsessively to the late American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall this week (as one does). Her name...
The Beatles: Julia
This week we are re-sharing a week of posts from our first summer of Song of the Day! Today’s post by Steven Blier originally ran on July 22, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZip_br_v3w I am up to the “White Album” in my summer traversal of the...
Rodgers/Sondheim: Take the Moment
This week we are re-sharing a week of posts from our first summer of Song of the Day! Today’s post by Steven Blier originally ran on July 21, 2015. https://youtu.be/Lol4sVlkQZI Right now I am at Wolf Trap working on a concert devoted to the Rodgers clan—songs by...
Shirley Verrett sings “He’s Going Away”
This week we are re-sharing a week of posts from our first summer of Song of the Day! Today's post by Steven Blier originally ran on July 20, 2015. While the projects mentioned happened years ago, NYFOS looks forward to another exciting project with Julia Bullock this...






