Photo Credit: Catherine Hancock Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) opened its 14th season with “Circles I: Clara, Robert & Johannes” on Friday, October 6th 2023 to an audience of engaged listeners and avid art song lovers. Artistic director Michael Brofman welcomed everyone and introduced Dean Whiteside of the Goethe-Institute for his pre-concert lecture pertaining to the intimate details behind some {…}
Aural Compass Projects invites emerging composers to submit art song compositions for a chance to win a $250 cash prize and the opportunity for the work to be produced, performed, and recorded as part of a future ACP project. The music organization’s 1st Annual Emerging Composers Competition opened for submissions on September 1 and will close at 11:59 p.m. ET {…}
As so much of the world hunkers down during a pandemic that has shuttered live music venues for the foreseeable future, there’s no better time than now to discover new music. “Off the Beaten Track” highlights an album of note–not necessarily a new recording, but one that has caught my attention as I explore the universe of classical vocal music. {…}
Music is a rush. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but when something unexpected hits my ears, stirs up emotion, invokes thoughts of the past, sends a lightning bolt up my spine and rattles my body in a way that causes the person next to me on the train to wonder if I’m having some sort of fit, I want to {…}
It was one of New York City’s truly beautiful, spring days on May 14, 2017, which made it all the harder to leave the sun and enter into the glass lobby of the Alice Tully Recital Hall, but Carolyn Sampson was here to give a recital of her floral-themed program of art song, from her CD “Fleurs,” released in 2015. {…}