NYFOS & Juilliard Present GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS Tonight
By: BWW News Desk Jan. 14, 2015
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aficionados ("Little Tin Box," "The Wrong Note Rag"), and some that will be a delightful discovery for listeners (an unpublished Gershwin gem called "Luckiest Man in the World").Seven singers from Juilliard will join Steven Blier for the evening, including Tiffany Townsend,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.
Tickets are $20 for the public, $10 for students, and free for Juilliard students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are available for purchase online athttp://events.juilliard.edu, by calling (212) 769-7406, or in person at The Juilliard School Box Office, located in the lobby of Juilliard at 155 West 65th Street.
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