Gershwin, Bernstein, Guettel feat. in NY Festival of Song

The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) opens its 20th Anniversary season on October 16 and 18 at 8PM with "No Song is Safe From Us," an evening of song encompassing four musical genres that have become NYFOS hallmarks: art song, songs by contemporary American composers; Latin song from the Iberian Peninsula to Cuba and South American, and American popular song; Composers range from Mompou to Musto, Grieg to Guettel, and Bernstein to Berlin. 

The evening is composed of highlights from four past NYFOS concerts: Latin Lovers  (Latin song); Since the Seventies (contemporary American songs); (Songs of the Midnight Sun) art song: in this case, Scandinavian; and Songs of Peace and War  (popular song).  The concerts take place at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

Artists will include sopranos Michelle Areyzaga and Jennifer Aylmer, tenor Javier Abreu, baritone William Sharp, and eight students from the Juilliard School's Vocal Arts Department, with Steve Blier and Michael Barrett at the piano.

No Song is Safe From Us
Song List (subject to change)

LATIN SONGS
"Canço de grumet" - Eduardo Toldrá
"Damunt de tu només les flors" - Frederic Mompou 
"Haidé" - Narcis Bonet 
"Yo quiero a un hombre" - Manuel Fernández Caballero       
"Canción del carretero" - Carlos López-Buchardo 
"Adeus Êma" - Heitor Villa-Lobos
"Palmira" - Moisés Simons  

AMERICANS
"Storyette" - Leonard Bernstein
"Requiescat" - Ned Rorem
"Interlude" & "Let Evening Come" - William Bolcom
"The Rose Song" - Marc Blitzstein
"Hero and Leander" - Adam Guettel
"Oif Mayn Chasene" - Leonard Bernstein

SCANDINAVIAN SONGS
"Var det en dröm" - Jean Sibelius
"Det kom ett brev" - Gunnar de Frumerie
"Flickan knyter I Johannenaten" - Wilhelm Stenhammar
"Våren" - Edvard Grieg 
"Till havs" - Gustav Nordqvist

AMERICAN POPULAR SONG: SONGS OF PEACE AND WAR
"Homeward Bound" - George Gershwin
"Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army" - Irving Berlin
"How Many Little Children Sleep" - John Musto
"Political Science" - Randy Newman
"Masters of War" - Bob Dylan
"Now Is the Cool of the Day" - Jean Ritchie