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Since its founding in 1988 by Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, the New York Festival of Song has brought an extraordinary diversity of song recitals to its audience in New York City and throughout the world.
Dina Kuznetsova, soprano
Nicolai Janitzky, baritone
Steven Blier, pianist
Kathleen Chalfant, narrator
Juliette Kang, violin; Thomas Kraines, cello
Poets Without Heroes
The program honors Anna Akhmatova, the "tragic queen" of Russian poetry, her circle and her followers, from Boris Blok to Joseph Brodsky.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Little Island
(Balmont)
A Passing Breeze (Balmont)
“A-oo!” (Balmont)
Sergei Prokofiev
Five Poems by Anna Akhmatova
1. The Room Was Filled with Sunlight
2. Real Tenderness
3. Memory of the Sun
4. Good Day!
5. The Grey-Eyed King
Georgii Sviridov
From Russia Cast Adrift (Yesenin)
I Left My Home Behind
Russia Cast Adrift
Beyond the Hills of the Milky Way
An Owl Cries in Autumn
I Believe in Happiness
O My Homeland, O Happy and Eternal Hour
Nicolai Slonimsky
Song of the Final Meeting (Akhmatova)
A Girl Was Singing in the Church Choir (Blok)
Pyotr Ilyitch Tchikovsky
The Nightingale (Pushkin)
The Statue at Tsartskoye-Selo (Pushkin)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Romance-Suite, on poems by Alexander Blok
Ophelia’s Song
Hamayun, the Prophetic Bird
We were together…
The City Sleeps
Storm
Mysterious Signs
Music
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Little Island
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