NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. With a text by Langston Hughes, this song depicts a winter moon as a thin crescent, a rationed portion of a moon for a season when resources grow scarce.
Read MoreNYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. From NYFOS’s recording Unquiet Peace: The Lied Between the Wars, Cyndia Sieden sings “Schlechtes Wetter” by Richard Strauss with Steven Blier at the piano.
Read MoreThe first piece that I knew I wanted was “Velvet Shoes,” by Ray Lustig. I heard it in November at our first new music salon, NYFOS Next, and the song took my breath away.
Read MoreLongtime MESS & NYFOS favorite Theo Hoffman absolutely slays this conniving, wicked aria from act 1 of Britten’s masterpiece.
Read MoreIn early 2016 Ben & Lachlan arranged a concert for a small audience of friends in the crypt of Church of the Intercession at 155th & Broadway. This piece, a favorite of Ben’s since college, was a highlight of the evening.
Read MoreCo-founders Lachlan Glen and Ben Bliss (in their pre-MESS days) collaborate in an early original arrangement for their 2015 Lindemann Young Artist recital.
Read MoreBrahms’ ‘Ronda alla zingarese’ is a favorite of MESS co-founders Ben Bliss and Lachlan Glen. It was also performed (by Mr. Glen) at MESS’s very first Premier Event. Its expansive, romantic string setting and virtuosic, rhapsodic piano was a highlight of the night.
Read MoreThis piece, performed by the Verona Quartet, opened MESS’s very first Premier Event in October of 2017. It’s playful, inviting sound world invited our audience into the fresh new classical music scene that is Mise-En-Scène Studios!
Read MorePerhaps the most famous contemporary cross-cultural composer, Bright Sheng has an original compositional dialect that combines Western traditions and Chinese traditional and folk music. His music results from both his personal cultural upbringing and his intentional study and research of the principles underlying both nations’ musical traditions. His schooling was primarily in America. However, he is constantly involved in compositional and academic endeavors that strive to blend and define international musical styles.
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