by Steven Blier | Jun 11, 2018 | Song of the Day
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. This song-a-day blog is a project I’ve had in mind for years, and I am thrilled to share some of the...
by Lee Stern | May 26, 2017 | Song of the Day
Last year I saw a ‘new’ musical theatre piece that was a collaboration between lyricist Vid Guerrerio and the greatest musical theatre composer of them all…Mozart. The piece was called Figaro (90210), and it brilliantly updated the opera to present-day L.A....
by Charles McKay | Dec 19, 2016 | Song of the Day
I’m back for a week of holiday music. First up, Leontyne Price with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan from 1960 (it was released Jan 1, 1961). The CD is titled Christmas. It is Price at her prime and her best and in the hands of Karajan with...
by Nicole Dalé Halton | Sep 1, 2016 | Song of the Day
And now for some parent-related frivolity courtesy of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This duet makes having lots of little ones running around sound like nothing but fun, but I’d love to hear another version of this ten years down the line once all of those little...
by Maria Valdes | Apr 21, 2016 | Song of the Day
This week, soprano María Valdés curates Song of the Day. She will perform with NYFOS next Tuesday, April 26th, in Compositora: Songs by Latin American Women, alongside baritone Efraín Solís. She is a recent alumna of the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera where...
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