New Program: New York Festival of Song

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) is a non-profit, concert-giving organization based in Manhattan that has been delighting audiences and dazzling critics for over two decades. Newsday has rightly called NYFOS “the most reliably excellent musical organization in New York.” Sundays at 8 pm on Classical 90.5

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

Hansel & Gretel

The Metropolitan Opera season continues Saturday at 1 pm on Classical 90.5 with Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. Aleksandra Kurzak is Gretel and Kate Lindsey is Hansel.

Lunchtime Classics Live – Holiday Edition

The Tedder/Ximenes Piano Duo presents holiday selections on the next Lunchtime Classics, Wednesday at noon. Reserve a free lunch from City Cafe. This holiday presentation is sponsored by Mayor’s Healthy Hometown.

Holiday Programs Schedule

Classical 90.5 presents special broadcasts for Honukkah, Christmas and New Year’s with new programs and old favorites. Check out the schedule here.

Holiday Program Schedule

12/21 Wednesday

8 pm Chanukah in Story and Song (PRI)

A returning one-hour Chanukah favorite, a celebration by The Western Wind performing Ladino songs of Spanish Jews, Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe and modern Israeli tunes. Leonard Nimoy is host.

12/24 Christmas Eve

10 am: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
A Live stereo music and spoken-word broadcast from the chapel of King’s College in Cambridge, England presenting the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service (Biblical readings and music) as performed by the 30-voice King’s College Choir.

5pm Leroy Anderson Christmas Special

6pm Christmas Daybreak with Bill McLaughlin
In this one hour holiday special the singers of The Crossing and actors from the Pig Iron Theatre company present new music for Christmas by American and British composers.

7 pm: Lessons and Carols from Washington National Cathedral

The annual, one-hour special broadcast from the National Cathedral with the Cathedral choirs and Cathedral Choral Society, the Bishop of Washington, Dean and canons of the cathedral.

8 pm: St. Olaf Christmas Festival
A service in song and word that has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. Tickets to the event, which takes place at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, are always gone months in
advance. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra.

12/25 Christmas Day

12pm St Olaf Christmas Festival
A service in song and word that has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. Tickets to the event, which takes place at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, are always gone months in advance. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, and
orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra.

2pm Classical 90.5 Holiday Choral Festival 2011
Classical 90.5′s Alan Brandt hosts our annual choral celebration with the IUS Community and Concert Choirs and the U of L Cardinal Singers. View the music program here.

6pm A Chanticleer Christmas
A Chanticleer Christmas is American Public Media’s one-hour celebration of the season as told through the glorious voices of Chanticleer, the 12-voice San Francisco-based men’s choir. The program spans the globe and the centuries — from England in the 1300s to new
arrangements of classic and contemporary carols.

7 pm : A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (rebroadcast of live performance)
A Live stereo music and spoken-word broadcast from the chapel of King’s College in Cambridge, England presenting the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service (Biblical readings and music) as performed by the 30-voice King’s College Choir.

1/1 New Year’s Day

11am – 1pm Live from Vienna
A New Year’s tradition for many years on Classical 90.5, featuring the Vienna Philharmonic direct from the Musikverein in Vienna.

No Lunchtime Classics December 14

There is no live Lunchtime Classics recital this Wednesday. We’ll return on December 21 with our next live performance.

Louisville Vocal Project Concert

The Louisville Vocal Project, directed by S. Timothy Glasscock, will perform Sunday at 4pm at St Paul’s United Methodist (at Douglas Loop). They will perform a cappella works by Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Rene Clausen, Palestrina, and Louisville composer Richard Burchard.

Christ Church United Methodist Christmas Concerts

This year’s concerts “The Yearning Within Our Hearts” features the church’s 130 voice Chancel Choir, two handbell choirs and a 25 piece orchestra including members of the Louisville Orchestra. Centered on the singing of traditional carols, the program also includes choral music of Verdi, Pinkham and Clausen, along with a six-part men’s setting of an exciting Kenyan, “Alleluia” with African Drums. The three programs are Sunday, December 11th 5:00pm, Wednesday December 14th 7:30pm and Tuesday December 20 7:30pm Christ Church United Methodist is located at 4614 Brownsboro Road.