Opera on Tap Presents NEW BREW SINGS NEW YORK, Today

By: Jun. 12, 2014
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After quite the rough winter, summer is almost upon us in NYC. What better way to spend your Friday June 13th than with an icy cold pint and fresh music from Opera on Tap's New Brew! Join us as we celebrate the city that never sleeps with an evening of American songs by New Yorkers spanning this century and the last, curated by tenor Paul Sperry. Featured composers will include Samuel Barber, Paul Bowles, Tom Cipullo, John Corigliano, Vernon Duke, William Flanagan, Richard Hundley, Tom Lehrer, John Musto, New Rorem, William Schmann, David Sisco, Warren Michael Swenson, Virgil Thomson, and Hugo Weisgall, with New Brew's own Christopher Berg on the ivories.

About tenor Paul Sperry:

Hailed by the New York Times as "one of today's leading song recitalists," American lyric tenor Paul Sperry's continues to devote much of his time to the programming and performance of songs from every country and every period of music. Sperry's extraordinarily wide repertory includes songs, chamber works, and oratorios in fifteen languages and includes more than fifty works that have been written for him by many of today's leading composers, both European and American. Among his recordings are four CDs of American songs for Albany Records; Bernard Rands's Canti del Sole, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984; and the complete songs of Ives. Most recently, he has recorded a CD of four new song cycles by Tom Cipullo, Daron Hagen, Libby Larsen, and Paul Moravec. Sperry continues to support young singers and American composers ina multitude of ways, inluding as a professor at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, as well as the director of the organization Joy in Singing.

About New Brew:

New Brew is a new music vocal collective founded by members of the New York City chapter of Opera on Tap. What OOT does for the traditional repertoire, we do for contemporary, living composers. We seek to reach new audiences by creating an immediate, intimate, and uninhibited connection between the performer and the audience, regardless of the language, style, or genre. For more information visitwww.OperaonTap.org/new-brew

New Brew sings New York
An evening of American Song curated by tenor Paul Sperry
Friday, June 13 - 8pm - Barbes



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