by Steven Blier | Aug 23, 2018 | Blier's Blog
Wednesday is pretty much the last day I can work intimately with each singer. From here on in, we need to put a show together, bash away at memorization, and fit each song into the longer arc of the program. So I scheduled a bunch of individual sessions to talk...
by Steven Blier | Aug 22, 2018 | Blier's Blog
My NYFOS residencies are intense, but they’re also short—just a week long. We have a practical task in front of us: getting an intricate concert on its feet, memorized, staged as necessary, and absorbed artistically. But I also want to give something new to the very...
by Steven Blier | Aug 21, 2018 | Blier's Blog
Today was the much-anticipated first day of NYFOS@North Fork, our sixth annual project in Orient, NY. The town is at the very east end of Long Island’s north fork (hence the name). If you kept going, the next piece of land you’d see would be….Europe. Our concert has...
by Steven Blier | Mar 16, 2018 | Blier's Blog
We had our two performances, and I am now dealing with a certain amount of post-partum sadness. It’s always a little hard to let go of a great experience. The two shows were populated by things I expected and things that took me by surprise. In the second category:...
by Steven Blier | Mar 11, 2018 | Blier's Blog
I’ve just returned from seeing the HD broadcast of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” from the National Theater. It starred a colleague of mine, Janie Dee, as Phyllis. I worked with her when NYFOS brought our P.G. Wodehouse concert to London. She was a delight, and a...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2018 | Blier's Blog
We went back to Katonah today, with Mo Zhou riding up with us in the car. I wish everyone could have Mo to themselves for an hour. She’s a delight, a character, a raconteur, a force of nature. Apparently there had been eighteen inches of snow at Caramoor, but most of...
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