NYFOS On Tour
The following performances will take the New York Festival of Song out on the road. We invite you to join us. For additional information, contact us. All programs are subject to change.
Friday, September 5, 2008 at the Moab Music Festival in Moab, Utah:
Bastianello / Lucrezia
The Moab Music Festival's first performance in its newly renovated Star Hall comes direct from Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York City. An outstanding cast of singers performs the Western US premiere of two one-act comic operas scored for two pianos, each commissioned and premiered by the New York Festival of Song during its 20th anniversary season. Librettist Mark Campbell's double bill draws on two Italian sources: a traditional folk tale (Bastianello), and Machiavelli's play La Mandragola (Lucrezia). The New York Times wrote of the April 2008 world premieres that Lucrezia is a "fast-moving farce.with echoes of tango, Andalusian bullfight music, a Straussian waltz and jazz" with a "witty libretto... crammed with puns and jokes"; Bastianello is a "lighthearted parody about love, forgiveness and the trials of marriage".
Artists include: Lisa Vroman, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Paul Appleby, Patrick Mason, Matt Boehler, Michael Barrett, David Shimoni.
Presented by the Moab Music Festival
Star Hall (Moab, Utah) at 7:00 PM on Friday, September 5, 2008
For tickets and additional information, please visit www.moabmusicfest.org.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 in Chester, CT
Sunday, November 9, 2008 in Andover, MA:
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Modernism and resistance: the coming of age of French song, from the lost innocence of the jazz age and the ripe sensuality of pre-war Paris, to the enduring lyrics of liberation, forged in passionate activism. Music by Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel, Charles Trenet, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, and many others.
Artists include: Julie Boulianne, Paul Appleby, Steven Blier
Presented by Robbie Colomore Concerts:
Chester Meeting House (10 Liberty Street, Chester, CT) at 5:00 PM on
Sunday, October 26, 2008
For ticket information, please visit www.chesterct.org.
Presented by The Andover Chamber Music Series:
The West Paris Church, UCC (129 Reservation Road at Route 133, Andover,
MA) at 4:00 PM on Sunday, November 9, 2008
For tickets and additional information, please visit www.andoverchambermusic.org.
Friday, November 14, 2008 in Washington, DC:
Fugitives
An evening of songs from the concert stage, the movies, Broadway, and Berlin's cabarets, by composers who faced persecution during Hitler's rise to power-some to begin new lives and brilliant careers abroad, others confronting darker fates. Music by Kurt Weill, Franz, Schreker, Arnold Zemlinsky, Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler, Friedrich Hollaender, and many others.
Artists include: Kate Lindsey, Joseph Kaiser, Steven Blier
Presented by Vocal Arts Society of DC:
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC) at 7:30
PM on Friday, November 14, 2008.
For tickets and additional information, please visit www.VocalArtsSociety.org
or the Kennedy
Center.
Sunday, February 15, 2009 in College Park, MD:
Voices of the Jewish Diaspora
Songs in many languages trace the culturally diverse Jewish communities that flourished as the tribes of Israel spread out across the globe. Sephardic music set by Alberto Hemsi and Roberto Sierra; Second Avenue specialties by Irving Berlin and Joseph Rumshinsky; art songs by Ravel, Milhaud, and Rubinstein; and music by Gershwin and Bernstein.
Artists include: Dina Kuznetsova, Rinat Shaham, Steven Goldstein, Michael Barrett, Steven Blier. Additional artists to be announced.
Presented by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center:
Gildenhorn Recital Hall, University of Maryland (College Park, MD) at
3:00 PM on Sunday, February 15, 2009.
For tickets and additional information, please visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Saturday, March 14, 2009 at Caramoor in Katonah, NY:
Songs of the Irish Poets
The lyricism of the Emerald Isle's greatest writers, including Thomas Moore, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Paul Muldoon, as set to music by Beethoven, Britten, Balfe, Barber and others, with a group of Irish traditional and popular songs featuring the fiddle-playing of Paul Woodiel.
This concert culminates a week-long professional training residency sponsored by and presented at Caramoor. Leading the week's events will be NYFOS artistic directors and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett who will be working with a select group of young singers from around the country invited to participate in this auspicious project. The program will be repeated as part of our New York City 2008-2009 concert season at Merkin Concert Hall on March 17, 2009.
Artists include: Paul Appleby, Steven Blier, Michael Barrett, Paul Woodiel. Additional artists to be announced.
Presented by Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts:
The Music Room, Caramoor (149 Girdle Ridge Rd, Katonah, NY) at 8:00 PM on Saturday,
March 14, 2009.
For tickets and additional information, please visit www.caramoor.org.