NYFOS & Juilliard Present Free Concert Jan.16

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS) founders Steven Blier and Michael Barrett and the students of The Juilliard School's Vocal Arts Department will present "A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up," a free evening of song on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 8PM at The Juilliard School, Peter Jay Sharp Auditorium (65th Street, west of Broadway).

The evening's performance, which will feature undergraduate and graduate singers, as well artists from the Juilliard Opera Center, is the most recent product of a three-year collaboration between NYFOS and Juilliard's Vocal Arts Department, led by NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett.  The collaboration celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of the Juilliard students, building on NYFOS's distinctive programming and performing style. 

Mating, dating, betrayal, sexual urges of many stripes, and true love - by Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Bruce Springsteen, Jacques Brel, Adam Guettel, Jerome Kern, Paul Moravec, Cy Coleman, William Bolcom, André Previn, Kurt Weill, and many others – are the subjects of the evening.  The artists include Paul Appleby, Paul LaRosa, Rebecca Jo Loeb, Meredith Lustig, Alexander Mansoori, David McFerrin, Renée Tatum, Marc Webster and Jennifer Zetlan, with Steven Blier and Michael Barrett at the piano.

The Juilliard School's Department of Vocal Arts, one America's most prestigious programs for educating singers, offers young artists frequent performance opportunities in its own recital halls and on numerous stages including NYFOS's season concerts alongside veteran artists. 

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) was founded in 1988 by its co-artistic directors, Steven Blier and Michael Barrett.  NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater. Unified by a single theme or idea, NYFOS concerts draw together little-heard songs of vastly diverse genres, exploring the character and language of other regions and cultures and the personal voices of song composers and lyricists. With a far-ranging repertoire of art songs, concert works and theater pieces, its thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from the 19^th-century salons of Paris to Tin Pan Alley, from Russian art song to Argentine tangos, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music.  

The Juilliard Box Office is located on the plaza level at The Juilliard School, Broadway at 65th Street and opens Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed weekends). Tickets are available at The Juilliard School Box Office after January 2, 2008, or can be reserved by calling 646-230-8380.  The Juilliard Box Office does not accept telephone or e-mail reservations.  

For further information about this and all NYFOS programs and events, visit www.nyfos.org