It’s no secret how CHRISTMAS CRAZY I am. So, as the person responsible for programming New York Polyphony’s December concerts, I’m looking at and listening to potential Christmas repertoire…often as early as May. The struggle then is to keep the Christmas tunes off my various media devices as long as possible to avoid the dreaded [...]
Happy Birthday, New York Polyphony! Here it is– 6 years to the day since we as a group first opened mouths to sing. Craig Phillips, founding baritone Scott Dispensa and I put some of Denis Stevens’ editions of the Worcester Fragments on their feet at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square for [...]
Hi fans and friends! Writing this on a plane to Dallas-Ft.Worth International Airport, a hub we’ll see probably a dozen times in the next three-five months. This time around it’s for a concert in Waco, Texas. We’ve had a lovely visit to the beautiful State of New Mexico with concerts and workshops in Portales at [...]
Hi fans, Since I’m sure Craig will be editing this blog before posting, I thought I’d first take the chance to let you all know that he’s really the unsung hero behind making us sound so good in print and looking so good in photos and in all our social media. He really is amazing. [...]
Greetings for Larvik, Norway! A little post-mortem (literally) about our premiere tonight of “Notatar for eit Rekviem” (Notes for a Requiem). In short, it’s a stage adaptation of Odd Klippenvåg ’s novel about Don Carlo Gesualdo, the innovative composer and Prince of Venosa most famous for murdering his wife and her lover. While his noble status [...]
