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2021-09-25 05:19:00
Classical Music News of the Week, September 25, 2021
New York Festival of Song Presents 2021 NYFOS Next FestivalNew York Festival of Song (NYFOS), led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, is presenting the 2021 NYFOS Next Festival with two concerts held at the Ann Goodman Recital Hall at Kaufman Music Center.On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:00pm, the festival kicks off with 9 UNDER 34: Composers Younger Than NYFOS, co-curated by baritone Gregory Feldmann. The evening will feature works by composers born after NYFOS’s first program was presented, performed by baritone Gregory Feldmann and mezzo-soprano and 2021 Naumberg Award winner Erin Wagner, together with pianists Nathaniel LaNasa and Shawn Chang and cellist Thapelo Masita. Works include songs by Jake Landau, Sato Matsui, Shawn Chang, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, David Clay Mettens, Emily Cooley, Tariq al-Sabir, Curtis Stewart, and Molly Joyce.Co-curator Feldmann says about the 9 UNDER 34 program, “In building this program, I hoped to present composers from a wide […]
2021-09-25 05:19:00
Classical Music News of the Week, September 25, 2021
New York Festival of Song Presents 2021 NYFOS Next FestivalNew York Festival of Song (NYFOS), led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, is presenting the 2021 NYFOS Next Festival with two concerts held at the Ann Goodman Recital Hall at Kaufman Music Center.On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:00pm, the festival kicks off with 9 UNDER 34: Composers Younger Than NYFOS, co-curated by baritone Gregory Feldmann. The evening will feature works by composers born after NYFOS’s first program was presented, performed by baritone Gregory Feldmann and mezzo-soprano and 2021 Naumberg Award winner Erin Wagner, together with pianists Nathaniel LaNasa and Shawn Chang and cellist Thapelo Masita. Works include songs by Jake Landau, Sato Matsui, Shawn Chang, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, David Clay Mettens, Emily Cooley, Tariq al-Sabir, Curtis Stewart, and Molly Joyce.Co-curator Feldmann says about the 9 UNDER 34 program, “In building this program, I hoped to present composers from a wide […]
2019-06-28 08:35:38
American composer and music theorist Peter Westergaard has passed away – aged 88. Mr Westergaard served long-term Professorships at Columbia University, Amherst College and Princeton University – his famed works including a string quartet, a number of vocal cantatas and the operas Charivari and Alice and Wonderland. Our condolences are with Mr Westergaard’s family, friends, colleagues […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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