by Steven Blier | Mar 11, 2016 | Blier's Blog
Steven Blier on the NYFOS@Caramoor Residency: Day 4, March 10 Today was a very satisfying day, Caramoor Rising Stars at its best. The tentativeness of the beginning of the week has melted away, and the place was really buzzing with energy. Everyone brings high quality...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2016 | Blier's Blog
Steven Blier on the NYFOS@Caramoor Residency: Day 3, March 9 Wednesday is usually the last day of free exploration before the reality of Sunday’s performance starts to assert a kind of Realpolitik. Soon we’ll all start to see where the boundaries of our techniques and...
by Steven Blier | Mar 9, 2016 | Blier's Blog
Steven Blier on the NYFOS@Caramoor Residency: Day 2, March 8 Today was the first time we got into the hall, after a morning spent doing musical work in two rehearsal spaces (boys with Mikey, girls with me). It felt kind of a bit roguish, going off with just...
by Steven Blier | Mar 8, 2016 | Blier's Blog
Steven Blier on the NYFOS@Caramoor Residency: Day 1, March 7 This year’s residency at Caramoor was scheduled so close to my concert at San Francisco Opera that I simply collided into the first day of rehearsal today. I’d done as much as I could to get ready but I had...
by Steven Blier | Jan 9, 2016 | Blier's Blog
Yesterday we had a break in our routine. It was our first day without Adam Cates, the choreographer, and that always makes us feel as if daddy has gone away. (Were we bad?) And Mary Birnbaum, our director, also took most of the day off for meetings time-sensitive...
by Steven Blier | Jan 8, 2016 | Blier's Blog
A few years ago I had the brilliant inspiration to take another pianist on board to help me with the Juilliard rehearsals. We work six hours a day, seven days in a row, and in previous years I found myself morphing into a rehearsal pianist, exhausted, taking short...
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