Program History

Includes: Title, Date, Venue, Artists, Program

This page is dedicated in loving memory to Jean Trotzky, our wonderful volunteer, whose dedicated efforts created and maintained this list for many years. The concerts are listed in chronological order.

Lyrics by Shakespeare – 10/9/1988
Greenwich House Music School
Harris, Brenda, soprano
Harris, Braden, bass-baritone,
Danner, Blythe, narrator
Blier, Steven, pianoShakespeare's words set to music -- including a rare performance of Kabalevsky's Shakespeare's Sonnets sung in Russian. Other works by Hector Berlioz, Roger Quilter, Thomas Arne, William Schuman, Dick Hyman, and John Dankworth, all setting Shakespeare's poetry to music
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Americans on America – 10/23/1988
Greenwich House Music School
Holvik, Karen, soprano
Sharp, William, baritone
Blier, Steven, piano
Songs about people and places in our country. Composers include Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Virgil Thomson, Samuel Barber and John Musto.

Obbligato – 11/13/1988
Greenwich House Music School
Pelton, Carmen, soprano
Kazaras, Peter, tenor
Barrett, Michael, keyboards
Tomkins, Leslie, viola
Robison, Paula, flute
A concert of vocal chamber music, featuring works of J. S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Aaron Jay Kernis, and the world premiere of Bright Sheng's Chinese Folk Songs

Rodgers and Hart's Boys From Syracuse – 12/18/1988
Greenwich House Music School
Holvik, Karen, soprano
Trakas, Christopher, baritone
Yahr, Carol, mezzo-soprano
A 50th anniversary concert performance of the 1938 smash hit with full cast

From Rio to Buenos Aires – 4/9/1989
Greenwich House Music School
Fink, Bernarda, mezzo-soprano
Trakas, Christopher, baritone
Blier, Steven, piano
Tangos, ballads, love songs---the rhythm and melody of South America. Works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Francisco Braga, Ernesto Nazareth, Alberto Ginastera, and Carlos Guastavino

Night Songs – 4/23/1989
Greenwich House Music School
Yahr, Carol, mezzo-soprano
Kazaras, Peter, tenor
Sharp, William, baritone
Blier, Steven, piano
A musical journey through the night: romance, incantations, dreams, seductions, people together and people alone. Works by Hugo Wolf, Charles Griffes, Camille Saint-Saens, Robert Schumann, Marc Blitzstein, John Musto, and others.

Red, White and Blues – 5/7/1989
Greenwich House Music School
Ollmann, Kurt, baritone
Barrett, Michael, piano
Blier, Steven, piano French and American Music before and after the Jazz Age. Francis Poulenc's Bal Masqué. The program also includes Darius Milhaud's Scaramouce for two pianos and songs by George Gershwin, Henri Duparc and Charles Ives.

An Evening of Ballads – 3/18/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Burton, Amy, soprano
Trakas, Christopher, baritone
Blier, Steven, piano Love stories, ghost stories, stories with morals and stories with no morals by Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, Karl Loewe, Lee Hoiby, Benjamin Britten, Cole Porter, and others

George Gershwin's Girl Crazy – 2/24/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Bean, Gwenneth (Frisco Kate)
Criswell, Kim (Molly Gray)
Wray, Margaret Jane (Patsy West)
Sharp, William (Danny Churchill)
Hume, Michael (Slick)
Sloman, John (Gieber Goldfarb)
Goldstein Steven; Holmes, Richard; Hume, Michael; Keuther, John (Foursome)
Stoltz, Eric (Narrator)
Barrett, Michael, piano Blier, Steven, piano
A concert version of Gershwin's musical theater play.

George Gershwin's Girl Crazy – 2/25/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Repeat cast of 2/24/1990
Repeat of program of 2/24/1990

Total Eclipse – 4/22/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Landry, Rosemarie, soprano
Ollman, Kurt, baritone
Epstein, Alvin, narrator
Blier, Steven, piano
Tomkins, Leslie, viola
The poetry of Verlaine and Rimbaud set to music by Debussy, Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Lee Hoiby, and Benjamin Britten

New American Works – 5/20/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Burton, Amy, soprano
Charleston, Rondi, soprano
Hume, Michael, tenor
Lessner, Joanne, mezzo-soprano
Mayo, Don, bass
Barrett, Michael, piano
Blier, Steven, piano
A program of songs by Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael John LaChiusa, Ricky Ian Gordon, James Sellars, Jamie Bernstein, and Scott Frankel

Music, Marriage and Madness – 10/21/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Hunt, Lorraine, mezzo-soprano
Ollmann, Kurt, baritone
Barrett, Michael, piano
Lieder by Robert Schumann, nearly all written in 1940.

Ticket to Ride – 11/8/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Hunter, Marsha, soprano
Kent, Brian, baritone
Stewart, Mark, cello
Blier, Steven, piano
A concert of the songs on Lennon and McCartney in unusual arrangements

Ticket to Ride – 11/11/1990
Greenwich House Music School
Repeat cast of 11/8/1990
Repeat of program of 11/8/1990

To be continued....