by Steven Blier | Sep 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
Our final subscription concert is set for March 17. It’s called The Art of Pleasure, a show I first devised at Wolf Trap and later repeated in Long Island. This time it will come out of our collaboration with Caramoor’s Vocal Rising Stars program, an annual art song...
by Steven Blier | Sep 26, 2019 | Song of the Day
Our continuing preview of this year’s concerts continues with a peek at Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do: Songs of Gay Harlem, set for December 12. After the dizzying success of last year’s tribute to W. C. Handy, I wanted to get the team together again as soon as...
by Steven Blier | Sep 25, 2019 | Song of the Day
Continuing my preview of our fall concerts: Silverlake and No For an Answer, November 19 at Merkin Hall. Michael and I both had a hankering to revive NYFOS’ tradition of presenting rare theater pieces in concert versions. Kurt Weill’s...
by Steven Blier | Sep 24, 2019 | Song of the Day
NYFOS’s 32nd season is upon us, our Lapis Anniversary, and I thought I’d preview our four mainstage concerts this week. Of course, choosing just one song from each is a kind of sweet torture, so I decided just to close my eyes and point. Opening night—October 16—will...
by Kathleen Chalfant | Sep 19, 2019 | Song of the Day
Last week there was a wonderful interview with Linda Ronstadt and at the end she says she wished she had recorded “Paloma Negra”. I read this just the day after my husband Henry had sung the song to a friend of ours for her birthday so the song has been in...
by Kathleen Chalfant | Sep 17, 2019 | Song of the Day
This is a song about ecstasy and abandon. My favorite section of it is:Io vedo il cielo sopra noiChe restiamo quiAbbandonatiCome se non ci fosse piùNiente, più niente al mondoWhat an amazing feeling and what joy to sing about it!!! My husband Henry and I do a party...
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