November 04, 2009

GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS

MERKIN CONCERT HALL AT KAUFMAN CENTER AND NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG PRESENT
GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS
NOVEMBER 17 AND 19 AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL
featured will be:
JASON GRAAE, SYLVIA McNAIR, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER
NOVEMBER 13 AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
featuring:
JASON GRAAE, LIZA FORRESTER, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER

MUSIC OF BOCK & HARNICK, BOLCOM & WEINSTEIN, DIETZ & SCHWARTZ, GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN, MALTBY & SHIRE, KANDER & EBB, LEIBER & STOLLER, LERNER & LOEWE, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN, RODGERS & HART

NYFOS¹s Fats and Fields program caused Talkin¹ Broadway to say "What can make you smile for two hours? New York Festival of Song"

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org ) will present Great American Songwriting Teams, an evening of famous and rarely-heard songs honoring the genius of America¹s classic collaborators, on Tuesday and Thursday November 17 and 19 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. Merkin Concert Hall is at 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues), New York, NY 10023. Tickets, $40 - $55 are available by calling 212-501-3330, or visitingwww.kaufman-center.org . In addition, there are group discounts and special $15 student discounts available by calling New York Festival of Song at 646-230-8380. The artists for Great American Songwriting Teams will be: Jason Graae, deemed ³A master of humorous song² by The New York Times; two-time Grammy Award-winning theater/cabaret star Sylvia McNair, who the New York Observer called ³Thrillingly adept at exploring the subtext of song²; and Broadway¹s popular Mary Testa, the Tony Award-nominee recently called ³Absolutely fab² by Entertainment Weekly. NYFOS co-founder and Artistic Director Steven Blier, ³A national treasure when it comes to the art of song (The New York Times) will serve as pianist, host and arranger.

Great American Songwriting Teams will also be presented November 13 at 7:30pm at the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center, under the auspices of The Vocal Arts Society of Washington, D.C. For this performance, the exciting young mezzo-soprano Liza Forrester, soon to make her New York City Opera debut in L¹Etoile, will replace Ms. McNair. Please visit the Kennedy Center¹s website, www.kennedy-center.org/calendar for details about tickets.

Posted by jmwc at November 4, 2009 06:00 PM