by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Jul 31, 2018 | Song of the Day
From Hanako Yamaguchi, Lincoln Center’s Director of Music Programming (Great Performers, Mostly Mozart Festival, White Light Festival): It is incredible how this simple plaintive melody that begins with a note materializing out of nothing, suspended in space, never...
by Sarah Nelson Craft | Jun 18, 2018 | Song of the Day
With today’s selection I’d like to pay homage to two of my favorite things: a favorite composer and a favorite singer who combine in the most wonderful way on this track. There’s no singer I admire more than Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. She was...
by Michael Barrett | Sep 18, 2017 | Song of the Day
I’ve just completed a successful time at the 25th annual Moab Music Festival. It’s a big achievement which I am proud of. NYFOS is celebrating our 30th year starting next month, so this seems to be a big anniversary year for me. Moab and NYFOS have converged on many...
by Michael Barrett | Aug 1, 2017 | Song of the Day
Summer is full of nature, and it’s the time we usually get out into it, and let our senses partake of the beauty, inhale smells, and feel warm breezes on our skin. Then there is the plucked flowers perspective. Death is imminent, but the rose lives on as an unworldly...
by Michael Barrett | Apr 11, 2017 | Song of the Day
J.S. Bach is still the guiding light for most of us who have studied and practice classical music. He created a kind of purity that I think married humanity with the loftiest concept of God. I personally find Bach is enough, without religion. And when Lorraine Hunt...
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