by Steven Blier | Mar 11, 2014 | Blier's Blog
March 11, 2014 VOCAL RISING STARS, SIXTH SEASON: Day 2 The first day is always the honeymoon; and on the second day I can see what the week’s work is going to be about. These singers all have such fertile imaginations that they are sometimes bombarded with thoughts,...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2014 | Blier's Blog
March 10, 2014 VOCAL RISING STARS, SIXTH SEASON: Day 1 Today was the first day of the 2014 Vocal Rising Stars program at Caramoor—the sixth season NYFOS and Caramoor have collaborated on this project. Every year has its own distinctive atmosphere, like the unique...
by Steven Blier | Jan 12, 2014 | Blier's Blog
January 12, 2014 On Friday our last family member arrived: guitar/ukelele/banjo-player Greg Utzig who’d done the show with Hal and me thirteen years ago. I love making music with Greg, but when he reports for work my flower-child days are over. You see, all week long...
by Steven Blier | Jan 9, 2014 | Blier's Blog
January 9, 2014 There was a blessed event today. No, no one had a baby. But at around 4 PM I heard a voice in my ear murmuring “Hey, Stevie!” in an insinuating way, and I turned around to see that Hal Cazalet had slipped into the chair behind me. I knew he was due in...
by Steven Blier | Jan 8, 2014 | Blier's Blog
January 8, 2014 Today was one of those days that could have been unpleasant. We had six hours of rehearsal in a room that was wildly overheated, as if to compensate for the ghastly cold outside. We took just one half-hour break, and later a ten-minute breather. In...
by Steven Blier | Jan 7, 2014 | Blier's Blog
January 7, 2014 There are things you just wouldn’t know about your students until you work with them. For example. Joe Eletto cannot do the shimmy. On the other hand, Alex McKissick can shake his, um, upper torso like an overachieving Maytag washer-dryer set on...
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