Subscription Series

Concert Series at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
All concerts begin at 8pm and will be performed without intermission except where noted. Each will be followed by a complimentary wine reception with the artists.
Tickets: $40–$55 for single tickets; student tickets $15

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Program I
In the Memory Palace
Tuesday, October 25 and Thursday, October 27, 2011
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Rebecca Jo Loeb, mezzo-soprano;
Paul Appleby, tenor; Andrew Garland, baritone;
Steven Blier, Michael Barrett, pianists In his song cycle The Memory Palace, Gabriel Kahane's haunting music and mordant lyrics point the listener along Kahane's own private East Coast route, an odd yet familiar-feeling detour dotted with personal landmarks and delicately remembered scenes of love and longing. An alternating series of cycles and quartets by other composers including Frank Bridge, Enrique Granados, Stephen Sondheim, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, follows the theme of desire across more distant borders of geography and imagination.

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*Paul Appleby appears with the cooperation of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
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Program II
A Goyishe Christmas to You!— Yuletide Classics by Jewish Songwriters
Tuesday, November 29 and Thursday, December 1, 2011
Lauren Worsham, Stephanie Blythe,
Joshua Breitzer, John Brancy, and Joshua Jeremiah, vocalists;
Alan Kay, clarinetist; Steven Blier, pianist Christmas songs—from beloved favorites to rare surprise packages, all filled with good things—by Jewish songwriters including Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Marks, Irving Berlin, Jay Livingston and many others.

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*Stephanie Blythe appears courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.
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Program III
A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up
Tuesday, February 14 and Thursday, February 16, 2012
Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; Liza Forrester, mezzo-soprano;
Alex Mansoori, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, baritone; Steven Blier, pianist In this "quirky survey of the awkwardness, pain, lust and perversity of contemporary relationships", 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, and self-gratification—to 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. .

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A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up is funded, in part, by the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.
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Non-Subscription Concerts
Tickets: $50-$35 for subscribers; $55-40 for non-subscribers
$25 Real Deal Tickets; $15 students
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Manning the Canon: Songs of Gay Life - Back By Popular Demand!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Scott Murphree, tenor; Jesse Blumberg, Timothy McDevitt, baritones;
Matt Boehler, bass; Steven Blier, pianist A tribute to gay composers and a celebration of the lives of gay men in songs by Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Griffes, Bernstein, Porter, Blitzstein and many others. After last year's rapturously received performance, Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times: "Such programs can easily fall into the trap of social politics and turn maudlin, agenda driven and campy. This one was insightful and imaginative, touching and funny."

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New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Members of Caramoor's 2012 Vocal Rising Stars program;
Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists New Yorkers' and Parisians' eloquent hymns to their hometowns and their dream vacations: Americans in Paris, Parisians in exotic climes. Featuring songs by Ned Rorem, Charles Trenet, Darius Milhaud, Albert Roussel, George Gershwin and others. This concert concludes NYFOS's fourth annual professional training residency at Caramoor.

Please note: Because this program is the product of a training residency for young artists, it will run just under two hours, and will have an intermission. This format will ensure each young artist enough time on stage to spread his or her vocal wings and make the program a meaningful and artistically enriching experience.

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The NYFOS Merkin Hall Concert Series is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council