Michael Barrett News

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) opens 2011-12 season with 'IN THE MEMORY PALACE'

A glittering and intimate journey into the life of charismatic Leonard Bernstein kicks off the 2011 season at Copland House at Merestead on Saturday evening, September 17, 8pm with Late Night with Leonard Bernstein, a sold-out smash at Lincoln Center last year.

Michael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, will present the third annual Caramoor Fall Festival on September 23, 24 and 25.

Michael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, presents the third annual Caramoor Fall Festival on September 23, 24 and 25.

A glittering and intimate journey into the life of charismatic Leonard Bernstein kicks off the 2011 season at Copland House at Merestead on Saturday evening, September 17, 8pm with Late Night with Leonard Bernstein, a sold-out smash at Lincoln Center last year.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS) creates intimate concerts that breathe new life into an art form that is rich and emotionally resonant, yet is too often treated as genteel, intellectual, and predictable.

On Friday, July 29 at 8:00pm in the Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor presents a seemingly unlikely encounter between singer-songwriter and polymath Gabriel Kahane and cello virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein.

On Saturday, July 16 at 8:00pm Caramoor International Music Festival presents vibrant violinist Sarah Chang and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Douglas Boyd in a program that comes from the heart of the symphonic repertoire.

Marking its 32nd season at Caramoor International Music Festival, Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) returns to its birthplace and summer residence to perform works spanning from Bruch and Beethoven to bel canto.

Caramoor International Music Festival presents a weekend-long celebration of our nation's birthday with three days of unique concert programs representing over 300 years of American music, July 1 - 3.

New York Festival of Song will present Broadway's Kelli O'Hara and opera star Joseph Kaiser in a special event at Carnegie Hall entitled A FINE ROMANCE-SONGS OF JEROME KERN The performance will take place at Weill Recital Hall at 7PM on April 4, 2011.

Michael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, today announced the lineup for the 2011 Caramoor International Music Festival, which opens on June 25 and offers enormous appeal to all audiences with a rich array of artists and repertoire from the worlds of classical, jazz, Latin, pop and American Roots music. The 66th season of this iconic summer festival - which is held annually at the Center's distinguished 90-acre garden estate in Katonah, New York - will run from June 25 to August 10.

No Song is Safe from Us, a ground-breaking new weekly radio series from NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), produced by the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago and hosted by legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, premieres January 2 at 8PM (CST).

No Song is Safe from Us, a ground-breaking new weekly radio series from NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG (NYFOS), produced by the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago and hosted by legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, premieres January 2 at 8PM (CST).

New York Festival of Song will present Broadway's Kelli O'Hara and opera star Joseph Kaiser in a special event at Carnegie Hall entitled A FINE ROMANCE-SONGS OF JEROME KERN The performance will take place at Weill Recital Hall at 7PM on April 4, 2011.