This week, I’ll be sharing a new song each day to remind you (and myself) that how we use this time at home is as varied and limitless as our collective imagination. There’s at least one song, if not hundreds, for everything we’re experiencing in this singular moment, and it wasn’t easy to pick five! […]
Read MoreThis week, I’ll be sharing a new song each day to remind you (and myself) that how we use this time at home is as varied and limitless as our collective imagination. There’s at least one song, if not hundreds, for everything we’re experiencing in this singular moment, and it wasn’t easy to pick five! […]
Read MoreThis week, I’ll be sharing a new song each day to remind you (and myself) that how we use this time at home is as varied and limitless as our collective imagination. There’s at least one song, if not hundreds, for everything we’re experiencing in this singular moment, and it wasn’t easy to pick five! […]
Read MoreLibrettist/lyricist Mark Campbell, originally scheduled to be our Artist of the Month, has chosen to relinquish his title to the late Terrence McNally and offers an appreciation of his colleague’s work. New York Festival of Song recently asked me to assume the mantle of their April “Artist of the Month.” I asked NYFOS if I […]
Read MoreThis week we are reposting music by J. S. Bach shared by Michael Barrett a few years ago. This post original ran on September 22, 2017. To end the week on an upbeat, let’s have a group sing. Here is the opening chorus from Bach’s Cantata No. 11. It is from the marvelous complete cantata […]
Read MoreThis week we are reposting music by J. S. Bach shared by Michael Barrett a few years ago. This post original ran on September 21, 2017. Continuing our quick survey of J.S. Bach, here is another cantata aria. It is really chamber music. The countertenor’s expressive part is underpinned by an incredible duet between the […]
Read MoreThis week we are reposting music by J. S. Bach shared by Michael Barrett a few years ago. This post original ran on September 20, 2017. Today let’s revisit Bach’s Cantata No.199. It’s a favorite of sopranos, for the obvious reason of the absolute beauty and gentleness of the central aria “Tief gebuckt und voller […]
Read MoreThis week we are reposting music by J. S. Bach shared by Michael Barrett a few years ago. This post original ran on September 19, 2017. I’m surveying some of my favorite Bach this week. I won’t be able to make a dent in the 250 surviving Cantatas, Oratorios, Masses, or Passions, alas. It’s true […]
Read MoreThis week we are reposting music by J. S. Bach shared by Michael Barrett a few years ago. This post original ran on September 18, 2017. I’ve just completed a successful time at the 25th annual Moab Music Festival. It’s a big achievement which I am proud of. NYFOS is celebrating our 30th year starting next […]
Read MoreYou never know which concert is going to become the year’s Big Event. I approach every project as if the fate of the world hung on my getting it just right. This season we revived two important, long-forgotten music theater pieces in November (Weill’s Silverlake and Blitzstein’s No For an Answer), gave Harlem’s gay subculture center stage in […]
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