Connie Converse: One By One

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  We can hear each other pass, but we’re far apart Right now for every artist who is inspired to create and reach out there is at least one who has lost all...
Schubert:  Who is Silvia?

Schubert: Who is Silvia?

Song of the Day turns 3 this week! Here’s a look back at our first week of songs (beginning June 15, 2015) from NYFOS’s artistic director Steven Blier. I went out to Brooklyn last week and saw the Fiasco Theater’s production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. It was a...
Franz Schubert:  Lied das Florio

Franz Schubert: Lied das Florio

Schubert. So many songs, and yet so few of them are heard in performance. Here is one of my favorite lesser known gems sung by the amazing Nicolai Gedda. For me, he’s the perfect mix of bel canto ease and just plain class. And I, for one, don’t mind that the recording...

Franz Schubert: Du bist die Ruh

To celebrate NYFOS’s 30th Anniversary Season, Song of the Day is featuring some recordings from our archives, along with excerpts from program notes that accompanied them. (If the recording does not appear below in your email, please click on the title above to...