New York Festival of Song Season

All programs are broadcast Sundays at 8 pm.

Jan 15
TITLE: New York Poets

SOLOISTS: Amy Burton, soprano; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Philip Cutlip, baritone; Steven Blier, piano; Michael Barrett, piano

Berg/O’Hara: Lana Turner Has Collapsed Is It Dirty
Bolcom/Weinstein: She’s Peculiar I’m His At the Last Lousy Moments of Love
Rorem/Ashberry: At North Farm This Room
Richardson/Elmslie: What Will I Do Now He’s Gone
Duke/Latouche: Little Poppa Satan
Rorem/Goodman: Rain in Spring The Lordly Hudson
Bolcom/Weinstein: Boardwalk Scene
Thomson/Koch: Prayer to St. Catherine
|Beaser/O’Hara: I’m So Much More Me
Lieber/Stoller: Love Potion Number 9

Jan 22
TITLE: Latin Lovers

SOLOISTS: Dina Kuznetsova, Elizabeth Caballero, Jennifer Aylmer, sopranos; Adriana Zabala, Vivica Genaux, mezzo-sopranos; Paul Appleby, Jeffrey Picon, tenors; Carlton Ford, Scott Hendricks, baritones; Ricardo Herrera, bass-baritone; Rupert Boyd, Oren Fader, guitar; Eric Roberts, Jim Baker, percussion; Steven Blier, pianist and arranger

Ginastera: Cancion del arbol del olvido
Pixinguinha: Carinhoso
Lecuona: Como el arrullo de palmas
Somehano: Dime
Braga: Engenho novo!
Simons: La negra quirina
Grenet: Lamento cubano Tu no sab ingle
Nazareth: Odeon
Gustavino: Viniendo de Chlecito
Gardel: Por una cabeza
Lopez-Buchardo: Cancion del Carretero

Jan 29
TITLE: From Rags to Riches, I

SOLOISTS: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; William Burden, tenor; Steven Blier, piano; Michael Barrett, piano

Joplin: Pineapple Rag
Cook: My Lady Frog
Griffes: Evening Song
Ives: Tom Sails Away
Gershwin: O Gee! Oh Joy!
Blitzstein: Nickel Under the Foot Stay in My Arms
Blake: Hit the Road
Weill: Thousands of Miles
Bernstein: Wrong Note Rag

PROGRAM #: FOS 11-04
RELEASE: January 22, 2011
TITLE: From Rags to Riches, II

SOLOISTS: Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; William Burden, tenor; Steven Blier, piano; Michael Barrett, piano

Rodgers: Take the Moment
Monk: ‘Round Midnight
Sondheim: Ballad of Booth
Newman: Marie
Larson: Hosing the Furniture
Bolcom: New York Lights
DeBlasio: Walt Whitman in 1989
Krane: How Can I Keep From Singing

Feb 5
Title: Lorraine

SOLOISTS: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; Steven Blier, piano; Michael Barrett, piano

Weill: One Life to Live
Schumann: Himmel und Erde Copland: Going to Heaven!
Burleigh: Deep River
Mahler: Urlicht
Turina: Farruca
Ravel: Vocalise-Habanera
Luna: De España vengo
Gordon: I’m Open All Night
Bolcom: How to Swing Those Obbligatos Around, Never More Will the Wind

Feb 12
TITLE: Fugitives

SOLOISTS: Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Steven Blier, piano

Korngold: Sommer My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Zemlinsky: Meeraugen
Tucholsky: Sleepless Lady
Weill: Lottery Agent’s Tango How Can You Tell an American? Love Song Wie lange noch?
Hollander: Black Market
Eisler: Peace Song Der Graben
Jokl: Abendlied
Ullmann: Schoene Hand

Feb 19

TITLE: Paris at Night

SOLOISTS: Frederica von Stade and Helene Delavault, mezzo-sopranos; Kurt Ollman, baritone; Steven Blier, piano and arranger; William Schimmel, accordion; Kevin Kuhn, guitar

Louiguy: La vie en rose
Guilbert: Partie carree La crinoline
Brel: La tendresse Madeleine Les paumes du petit matin
Andre/Poterat: Si j’etait une cigarette
Brown: Je cherche un millionaire
Carcel: Le tango stupefiant
Mireille: Ferme jusqu’a lundi
Porter: You Don’t Know Paree
Trenet: L’ame des poetes Boum/Y a d’la joie
Monnot: Hymne a l’amour

Feb 26
TITLE: All Together Now

SOLOISTS: Jane Archibald and Leena Chopra, sopranos; Alexandra Montano and Christianne Rushton, mezzo-sopranos; Javier Abreu and William Ferguson, tenors; James Martin and Evan Rogister, baritones; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists

Jannequin: Les cris de Paris
Mendelssohn: Zigeunerlied
Montano: Bermuda Triangle
Holst: Song of the Blacksmith
Larson: Hey You
Hogan: Ezequiel Saw the Wheel
Hogan: Ain’t That Good News
Taylor: I Wish I knew How It Feels to Be Free
Wilson/Usher: In My Room
Madsen/Greene: Trash
Bowles: The Garden Section from Picnic Cantata

Mar 4
TITLE: Poets Without Heroes

SOLOISTS: Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Nicolai Janitzky, baritone; Steven Blier, piano; Juliette Kang, violin; Thomas Kraines, cello; Kathleen Chalfant, narrator

Sviridov: I Left My Home Behind Russia Cast Adrift Song of the Final Meeting
Cui: Statue at Tsarskoye-Selo
Shostakovich: Storm Secret Signs Music
Rachmaninoff: The Little Island

Mar 11
TITLE: Lost Tribes of Vaudeville

SOLOISTS: Judy Kaye, mezzo-soprano; LaChanze, soprano; Anika Noni Rose, soprano; Bruce Adler, tenor; Darius de Haas, tenor; James Martin, baritone; Steven Blier, piano; Alan R. Kay, clarinet; Greg Utzig, guitar

Muir: Play That Barbership Chord
Jordan: Lovey Joe Nelson/Pease/
Leonard: Josephine-a Please No Leana on the Bell
Yrain: My Man My Sam
Ruby: The Sheik of Avenue B
Warshauer: Dinah
Kanapoff: Houtsasa
Nemo: Abi Gesint
Traditional: Ot Azoy
Secunda: Bei Mir Bist du Schoen

Mar 18
TITLE: Kurt Weill’s Berlin

SOLOISTS: Constance Hauman, soprano; Kimberly Barber, mezzo-soprano; Peter Kazaras, tenor; Greg Utzig, guitar and banjo; Steven Blier, piano and arranger

Hollaender: Wenn der alte Motor wieder tackt, Tritt mir bloss nicht auf der Schuh, Oh Just Suppose
Bienert: Augen in die Gross-Stadt, Parc Monceau, Song of Indifference
Weill: Shopgirls’ Duet, Der Song von Mandelay, Nana’s Lied, Berlin im Licht
Eisler: There’s Nothing Quite Like Money

Mar 25
TITLE: Romance in the Belle Epoque

SOLOISTS: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Ollman, baritone; Steven Blier, piano

Massenet: Ouvre tes yeux bleus Le nid
Chabrier: Les cigales
Paladilhe: Psyche Faure: En sourdine
Roussel: Sarabande
Hahn: Infidelite
Mozart: La ci darem la mano (in French)

Apr 1
TITLE: A Modern Person’s Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up

SOLOISTS: Jennifer Zetlan and Meredith Lustig, sopranos; Rebecca Jo Loeb and Renee Tatum, mezzo-sopranos; Paul Appleby and Alex Mansoori, tenors; Paul La Rosa and David McFerrin, baritones; Marc Webster, bass; Tae-Hee Im, violin; Heidi Schaul-Yoder, violin; Andrea Hemmenway, viola; Min-Jeong Kang, cello; Steven Blier, piano and arranger; Michael Barrett, piano

Cummings: May I Feel, Said She
Loesser: Standing on the Corner
Bienert: “That”
Bolcom: I Knew a Woman
Kleban: Do It Yourself
Sellars: JNNY
Guettel: The Light in the Piazza
Kern: Some Girl Is On Your Mind
Previn: Vocalise
Springsteen: Ain’t Got You
Madsen/Greene: Through the Wall
Lehrer: Masochism Tango
Kahane: Neurotic and Lonely