The New York Festival of Song marks its tenth annual co-presentation with Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts tonight, January 14, 2014 at 8:00PM with GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS, to be performed in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at The Juilliard School.
A celebration of our country's illustrious creative duos, Great American Songwriting Teams is a hymn to the iconic ampersands of American popular song: George & Ira Gershwin, Comden & Green, Bock & Harnick, Rodgers & Hart (& Hammerstein), Leiber & Stoller, and many others.NYFOS has mounted several versions of this show over the years. This season's edition will feature many songs new to the program, as well as a new songwriting team: Coleman & Leigh, who will be represented by a delightful number fromLittle Me. The program features some famous songs ("You and the Night and the Music," "Love Potion #9"), some best known to Broadway aficionados ("Little Tin Box," "The Wrong Note Rag"), and some that will be a delightful discovery for listeners (an unpublished Gershwin gem called "Luckiest Man in the World").Seven singers from Juilliard will join Steven Blier for the evening, including Tiffany Townsend, mezzo-sopranos Kelsey Lauritano and Hannah McDermott, tenors James Knight, Alexander McKissick, and Aaron Mor, and baritone Theo Hoffman.Videos