by Steven Blier | Apr 8, 2025 | Program Notes
Most of this year’s NYFOS programs have been tied to earthly concerns—societal, cultural, psychological, political. After the tumult of past few months, though, some of us might be feeling that the world is too much with us—or more aptly, that the world is too much...
by Steven Blier | Mar 17, 2025 | Program Notes
Beginner’s Luck is a musical snapshot of a precarious moment of arrival: those early years of adulthood with all of their new responsibilities, which might include the beginning of a career or the start of a new family. It is precisely the stage of life where our cast...
by nyfos | Mar 13, 2025 | Program Notes
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by Steven Blier | Feb 24, 2025 | Program Notes
Le tour de France is finally making its New York début after a four-year delay. The product of a collaboration between the pianist Bénédicte Jourdois and me, it received its initial outing at Caramoor as part of NYFOS’s annual Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program. We...
by Steven Blier | Nov 16, 2024 | Program Notes
JUSTIN AUSTIN, co-artistic director As a child, I was profoundly captivated by the Grammy-winning a cappella group Take 6, a remarkable ensemble of six young Black men whose music celebrated the transformative power of goodness and love. Years later, their artistry...
by Steven Blier | Mar 18, 2024 | Program Notes
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...
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