A Modern Person's Guide to
Hooking Up and Breaking Up

Tuesday, February 14 and Thursday, February 16, 2012, 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY

Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; Liza Forrester, mezzo-soprano; Alex Mansoori, tenor; Andrew Garland, baritone; Steven Blier, pianist In this "quirky survey of the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of contemporary relationships" (The New York Times), NYFOS tracks current trends in amorous attraction, just in time for Valentine's Day! Bring a date to Merkin Hall for songs of voyeurism, S&M, self-gratification—and good old-fashioned heart-to-heart love. Works by Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, The Bobs, William Bolcom, Noël Coward, Jason Robert Brown, Ed Kleban, among others.*

Steven Blier talks about A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up: "When we saw that our February concert was going to fall on Valentine's Day, we couldn't resist reviving A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up. It was one of our favority NYFOS shows, a freewheeling, all-embracing look at a dizzing spectrum of amorous attractions. This will be a second edition of the show, including some wonderful new songs I've encountered in the last few years."

Performed without intermission; approx. 90 min
Complimentary wine reception with the artists to follow.

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A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up will also be performed at the Calderwood Performance Hall, Boston, MA. Learn More  >

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This program is funded, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

"A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up" is funded, in part, by the A.L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.

NYFOS programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The Merkin Hall concert series is made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.