by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts | Mar 1, 2019 | Song of the Day
From Tim Coffey, Caramoor’s Artistic Planning Manager: Coming from an Irish family, my earliest memories of hearing live music came from family parties. The ‘adults’ would each take turns singing a song a cappalla in the circle in the living room. And my great grandma...
by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts | Feb 28, 2019 | Song of the Day
From Maggi Landau, Caramoor’s Artistic Director of American Roots Music: A close friend of mine hosts lively dinner parties mixing exotic foods, unlikely pairings of people, and free flowing spirits. These convivial gatherings last late into the night, fueled by...
by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts | Feb 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
From Kathy Schuman, Caramoor’s VP, Artistic Planning and Executive Producer: Though it ran on Broadway for more than 4 years and was a commercial success, I’ve never met anyone else who saw The Magic Show, a Broadway musical from the 1970s starring magician Doug...
by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts | Feb 25, 2019 | Song of the Day
From Ellie Gisler Murphy, Caramoor’s Senior Artist Planning Manager: Every year, we are asked to contribute to the great NYFOS Song of the Day blog, and each time, I am moved by something in my own life. This time around, there’s nothing more prominent in my...
by Steven Blier | Mar 10, 2018 | Program Notes
Today’s program combines a narrow focus on a single culture — the British Isles — with the wide-angle lens on four centuries of song, thereby ranging across practically the entire span of Western classical music. The purity of the Renaissance gradually gives way to...
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