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Vocalist Lucy Dhegrae To Open ‘The Processing Series’

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(Credit: Kathryn Raines)  Lucy Dhegrae, vocalist and founder of the acclaimed Resonant Bodies Festival, will open The Processing Series on Nov. 23 at National Sawdust, with a program entitled “More Beautiful Than Words Can Tell.” The four-concert residency will explore the nature of trauma, and how music can help us to recover and process the aftermath of a traumatic experience. The {…}

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Roulette Announces 45th Spring Season

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Roulette, a space for promotion and presentation of contemporary experimental performing arts in Brooklyn has announced its 45th spring season. For the purposes of this article only classical vocal events are included. Lila Meretzky’s “Songs at Night” large-scale new song cycle of the poems of Yiddish-language poet Anna Margolin makes its world premiere. Shelley Washington’s “A Kind of Lung” and {…}

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New York Festival of Song’s Next Festival Presents ‘In Her Own Words’

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The New York Festival of Song continues the Next Festival on Nov. 19 at Rubin Museum of Art with a mini concert entitled “In Her Own Words.” The program curated by curated by Nathaniel LaNasa shines a spotlight on singer-songwriters who have emerged from the classical tradition. The featured composer-performer Molly Joyce is a musician whose limited mobility in her {…}

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New York Festival of Song to Present Annual NYFOS Next Festival

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The New York Festival of Song is set to present its annual NYFOS Next Festival with two performances. The first performance will take place on Oct. 15, 2023 and centers around the themes of frustrated communication, getting lost in translation, being misunderstood on purpose, and the tragedy and comedy of being known and unknown through language. The program features the {…}

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New York Festival of Song Announces 2023-24 Season

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The New York Festival of Songs has announced the lineup for the 2023-24 season. “100 Years of Broadway Love” is presented by soprano Kerrigan Bigelow, mezzo-soprano Sophia Baete, and baritone Shavon Lloyd, with Steven Blier as pianist following a weeklong residency in Orient, NY. Performance Dates: August 21-27, 2023 Kicking off its 36th season mainstage season is curators and co-pianists {…}

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The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR Announce Winter 2023 Season

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The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, New York Public Radio’s performance space and production studio has released its lineup for the winter 2023 season. Where there are multiple performances taking place, for the purposes of this article we will solely focus on classical voice related events. First up is “Queen of the Night with Thorgy Thor.” WQXR’s inaugural event of the {…}

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Kati Agócs to Premiere New Song Cycle ‘Voices of the Immaculate’

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On December 9th, 2021 at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City, composer Kati Agócs will premiere a brand new song cycle, “Voices of the Immaculate.” The new song cycle will be performed by mezzo-soprano Lucy Dhegrae, with whom it was closely developed, and the chamber ensemble Third Sound. The evening will also feature Agócs’s “Immutable Dreams,” {…}

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Death of Classical to Explore Music and Poetry in ‘To America’

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Death of Classical is set to present “To America,” an immersive event which comes in partnership with The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. This event is inspired by the poetry of James Weldon Johnson, writer of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” who is also buried in the cemetery; it will be curated by DoC founder Andrew Ousley, Harry Weil, the cemetery’s {…}