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Normally Wednesday is a carefree, playful day during a week-long residency. The concert seems pleasantly distant, though it’s only four days from now (forever, we think). Everything is simmering nicely, and no one is anxious about memory. There’s plenty of time to...
When you have a program with a bunch of duets, and you also have a director on duty, Day 2 is going to be Stage the Duets Day. A solo song doesn’t usually need a lot of movement, and both of the guys have already done some prep work on their material before they...
The NYFOS@North Fork concert always provokes a lot of conflicting feelings in me. It’s late summer and I’d really like to relax, spend time reading, start my cocktail hour a little earlier, and watch some movies. But the Orient program—Orient, NY, that is, at the...
Even when a project has been satisfying, there can be a certain pleasure when it’s over. The release from all that intensity is sometimes just as beneficial as the joy of the music. Still, I admit that it has been a little hard to say goodbye to Eros & Co. The...
My cell phone dings—a message from Bénédicte Jourdois, who joins me every year to mastermind NYFOS’s annual residency at Caramoor. Our texts are often a bit—what’s the word?—unbridled, and they have been known to make me laugh so hard that I attract stares on the 104...
During a five-day residency, Friday can feel a bit sad (“It’s almost over”); it can feel unsettling (“Some things just aren’t ready”); it can be anxiety-producing (“We have four hours to knock this show into shape”). This year we managed to avoid all those negative...