by Naomi Louisa O'Connell | Oct 16, 2019 | Song of the Day
I do love a good rhyme. Maybe this was my gateway drug… My brother and I watched the Marx Brothers a lot when we were kids and At The Circus was one of our favorites. Here’s Groucho singing ‘Lydia, the Tattooed Lady’. (I mean, let’s talk about the...
by Penny Ross | Jun 12, 2017 | Song of the Day
One antidote for the daily news is music. These are some songs and artists that have worked as a (temporary) anti-depressant and continue to do so. Let’s start with Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. To know their music is to love it. They wrote a string of classic...
by Chelsea Shephard | Feb 6, 2017 | Song of the Day
I’m delighted to be curating the NYFOS Song of the Day project on Facebook! As a singer/musician raised in a very musical household, I am finding it incredibly difficult to pick only five songs! My mother was a classical pianist. She played John Cage, Alban Berg, and...
by Joseph Thalken | Nov 1, 2016 | Song of the Day
Ah, the pleasures that come from a well-sung note held for a long, looooong time. Rodgers and Hart had a lot of fun with that idea in their song “Johnny One Note,” from their 1937 musical, Babes In Arms. Of course, that wasn’t the first time a composer used that...
by Efraín Solís | Mar 1, 2016 | Song of the Day
This week we welcome baritone Efrain Solis to Song of the Day! He has sung with companies such as San Francisco Opera, Virginia Opera, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. You can hear him with NYFOS on Tuesday, April 26th concert at Merkin Hall in Compositora: Songs...
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