No Song is Safe From Us

No Song Is Safe From Us - The NYFOS Blog
 |  Andrew Garland

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  The world’s gone crazy This was Song of the Day just five months ago, but this performance of the song was released just a little more than five days ago. A song can mean something so […]




 |  Andrew Garland

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  “This song is beautiful, and a little rough” I met Andrew Owens singing an interesting project: an operatic prequel to Carmina Burana. The Book Collector, by Stella Sung and Ernest Hilbert, a story of an evil […]




 |  Andrew Garland

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  Are you going to play ‘Art Teacher’? Today is a song written and performed by Rufus Wainwright. While Rufus isn’t a NYFOS artist, there are fewer than six degrees of separation between him and NYFOS.  In […]




 |  Andrew Garland

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  What’s in a name? From their Chicago apartment Hugh Russell and Craig Terry have been entertaining us and keeping us sane on a daily basis. From their vast selection of quarantine serenades, I chose this one, […]




 |  Andrew Garland

This week I’ll be sharing a new song each day that features NYFOS artists making music in their homes.  We can hear each other pass, but we’re far apart Right now for every artist who is inspired to create and reach out there is at least one who has lost all motivation or who has […]




 |  Andrew Garland

Andrew Garland wraps up his week curating NYFOS Song of the Day: “So viel Liebe fehlt auf diese Welt” sung by Hermann Prey The song of the day is about making discoveries: discoveries of greatness in unlikely places, discoveries of different types of voices and new depths of emotional commitment. Today my discovery is that […]




 |  Andrew Garland

(Curator: Andrew Garland) It’s all relative. In my first year of undergrad my voice teacher would have me over to his apartment to listen to opera recordings. I remember our first session vivdly: I had just decided to change my major to voice performance and was suddenly ready to listen to as much opera as […]




 |  Andrew Garland

(Curator: Andrew Garland) “Urlicht” From Symphony No. 2 Resurrection by Gustav Mahler Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado In 2007 I had the privilege of taking part in Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues. I attended a masterclass where she coached Jamie Barton on Gustav Mahler’s Urlicht. Ms. Barton’s performance was, of course, unforgettable. Anyone in the […]




 |  Andrew Garland

(Curator: Andrew Garland) “Ich Habe Genug” Cantata BWV 82 Johann Sebastian Bach Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano, Emmanuel Music Orchestra, Craig Smith, conductor Lorraine Hunt Lieberson is my hero. Nay, she is my superhero. Much has been said about her, I cannot add to that. There is not much I can say about this selection either. Many […]




 |  Andrew Garland

This week’s selections are coming to us from frequent NYFOS collaborator, Andrew Garland, a baritone of “commanding intensity” (The New York Times). Be sure to catch him in our December 8th program Schubert/Beatles, alongside soprano Sari Gruber and tenor Paul Appleby. Get your tickets today! “Burden in My Hand” Soundgarden Listen to this song, even just the […]