Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present The Dicther Project: Paul Heyse. The concert will be held on March 17, 2024, our annual Dichter Project returns to the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The series has been exploring musical settings of the greatest German poets set by the greatest lieder composers, and this year’s installment will center on Paul Heyse, {…}
Co-Founders and Directors Martha Guth and Erika Switzer, together with National Sawdust present the eighth annual “songSLAM.” The “songSLAM” is fashioned after traditional poetry slams and storytelling events like “The Moth.” Teams present world premieres of art song and compete for audience-awarded cash prizes totaling up to $2,000 and a performance of the 2023 songSLAM Commission Prize Winner. This year’s {…}
Lyric Fest has reveal a lineup of concerts in the Philadelphia metro area and a revival performance of “Cotton” at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Included in the program is a new commission from composer Benjamin P. Wenzelberg that explores Mexican song. Also on the schedule is a celebration of the renowned song composer Ned Rorem. Featured performers include Michelle {…}
Musica Viva NY will present works by composers from three phases of German Romanticism: early (Mendelssohn), middle (Rheinberger), and late (Mahler) in a concert entitled “Great Romantic Composers.” The Musica Viva NY choir will perform Rheinberger’s mass for double choir, interspersed by the movements of Mendelssohn’s last string quartet. The program will also feature Mahler’s “Rückert Lieder,” in a special {…}