by Five Boroughs Music Festival | May 20, 2019 | Song of the Day
This week’s Song of the Day is hosted by Jesse Blumberg and Donna Breitzer, the Artistic Director and Executive Director, respectively, of Five Boroughs Music Festival. It’s great to be back hosting Song of the Day, and Donna and I are excited to share...
by Sam Grosby | Aug 31, 2017 | Song of the Day
Style, ease, grace, beauty, power and a wonderful reminder that perhaps perfection is attainable.
by Steven Blier | Nov 29, 2016 | Song of the Day
One tiny step for mankind: I finally finished the program for NYFOS’s Tchaikovsky concert next January. It had been about 82% done for several months, and I kept swearing I just needed a weekend to polish it off. But the longer I looked at the playlist, and the more I...
by Steven Blier | Sep 19, 2016 | Song of the Day
I had hoped to get all of my NYFOS shows programmed by the end of summer. Labor Day came and went, and I still hadn’t finished them. In fact, my Tchaikovsky show was a complete blur. I felt as if I had let myself down, and was ready to drown my sorrows in a vat of...
by Michael Barrett | Jun 23, 2016 | Song of the Day
This week I’m still exploring the role of the accompanist, especially from unusual, unsuspected talents. Here is soprano Galina Vishnevskaya who married the famous cellist Rostropovich, but here Rostropovich is at the piano for an entire recital of Tchaikovsky....
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