by Jack Snyder | Nov 6, 2017 | Song of the Day
NYFOS begins its fall season tomorrow with an evening devoted to the music of Leonard Bernstein, who worked with Steve Blier and Michael Barrett in founding their inimitable art song enterprise. One of the many perks of being a NYFOS board member is being invited to...
by Steven Blier | Nov 4, 2017 | Program Notes
Today is an auspicious double anniversary: the New York Festival of Song is thirty years old, and NYFOS’s Founding Advisor Leonard Bernstein is…well, nearly one hundred. He’ll officially round off his century mark on August 25, 2018. But centennial festivities are...
by Michael Barrett | Aug 3, 2017 | Song of the Day
Summer is usually the time when love has the greatest opportunity to bloom. The soft evenings, the lingering twilight, the wonderful cuisine—fresh produce of every kind—all add up to an awakening of the senses. The collection of German folk poetry Des Knaben...
by Amy Asch | Jun 26, 2017 | Song of the Day
I first encountered Candide in a college production that my high school’s Thespian Club attended. It was exciting and irreverent and the “Make Our Garden Grow” finale had me walking on air. I talked about the show so much that my mom bought me the double LP (1974...
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...
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