The Brooklyn Art Song Society has postponed its upcoming performance due to COVID-19. The organization noted that “it’s with great sadness that we must announce the postponement of ‘Beginnings, Middles, and Ends IV: Evidence of Things Not Seen,’ originally scheduled for this Friday, Jan. 7. Since the beginning of the pandemic it has been BASS’s guiding principle to continue to {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2021-22 season. The season kicks off with a performance of selections from Wolf’s “Mörike Liederbuch.” The showcase will feature Amy Owens, Sarah Nelson Craft, Daniel McGrew, and Tyler Duncan. Spencer Myer and Erika Switzer will perform at the piano. Performance Date: Oct. 1, 2021 Streaming Date: Oct. 18, 2021 “Remembering” will feature {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to conclude its 2021-22 season with a retrospective of commissioned works from the last five years. The showcase, which is set to stream on June 21 on the BASS Digital Concert Hall as part of the company’s first ever “New Voices Festival,” will feature sopranos Sarah Brailey and Charlotte Mundy; tenor Andrew Fucks; baritone {…}
On May 15, 2021, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the second installment of their “New Voices Festival: Past/Present/ Future.” Each work in the program will adapt a text from the past for a more recent perspective, featuring works by Anna Akhmatova, Charles Baudelaire, Aleksander Blok, Osip Mandelstam George Eliot, Christina Rosetti, and Walt Whitman. The program will include recent {…}
On April 9, 2021, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the first program in its “New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future,” featuring world premieres by composers Katherine Balch and Brad and Doug Balliett. First will be the Balliett Brothers, with a re-setting of Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” that draws upon their idiosyncratic styles of composition and performance. Katherine Balch’s “estrangement” will view Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society will conclude its Schubert Festival with “Schwanengesang” on Saturday, March 13, 2021. The concert will feature tenor Dominic Armstrong and Joel Harder, soprano Kristina Bachrach, and baritone Michael Kelly accompanied by clarinetist Narek Arutyunian and pianists Michael Brofman and Joel Harder. The first half of the concert will feature Kelly and Brofman taking on “Widerschien,” {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present the fourth concert in its 2020-21 season, entitled “Liebe,” on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. The showcase will place an emphasis on love songs composed by Schubert. The first half of the concert will open with mezzo-soprano Devony Smith interpreting “Im Frühling,” “Geheimes,” Nähe des Gelibeten,” “Versunken,” and “Ganymed,” followed by soprano {…}
On December 12, 2020, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the next installment of its virtual Schubert festival. Featuring works not normally shown in mainstage programs, this concert will be filmed live at the Soapbox Gallery in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The program will include “Die Forelle,” “Auf Dem Wasser du singen,” and “Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III).” The artists are {…}
(Photo Credit: Arielle Doneson/Victory Hall Opera official website) The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its new Music Advisory Board. The organization revealed that soprano Laura Strickling, baritone Jorell Williams, and composers Katherine Balch and Lembit Beecher have become the new BASS Music advisors. The four artists will be engaged in devising the long-term plans for BASS’ New Voices Festival, {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its streaming events for the month of August. First up will be a “New Voices Meet and Greet” set for August 22, 2020. In the virtual event, Artistic Director Mike Brofman will interview all the commissioned composers and poets for the 2020-21 season and introduced the newly formed New Music Advisory Board. There {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2020-21 season, which will be presented digitally via the company’s new streaming service. The season will feature over 200 songs by 18 composers. Schubert At the core of the season’s program will be a series of concerts dedicated to the music of Schubert. The first such event will feature a performance of {…}