Benjamin Britten: "London" from Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74
@julianchanpiano
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I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
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August 2, 2025 @yellowbarnmusic
Sound Engineering: @jmcbrowne
📣Announcing our International Art Song Competition finalists for 2026📣
Please join us for finals open to the public one week from today!
📍Joy In Singing Finals
Marc Scorca Hall
American Opera Center
330 7th Avenue, NYC. 7th Floor
⏰2:30 PM - doors open at 2:00 PM
✨The finalists are (in order of appearance):
Mairin Srygley, Mezzo-Soprano
Nathaniel Sullivan, Baritone
Anna Kelly, Mezzo- Soprano
No tickets are required.
#artsong #competition #finalists
Sunday March 8th Brooklyn Art Song Society LIVEstreams Ned Rorem’s magnum opus the song cycle “Evidence of Things Not Seen” about all the breadth of life (with soprano Sara LeMesh, mezzo Anna Laurenzo, tenor Daniel McGrew, baritone Nathaniel Sullivan, and pianists Mila Henry, Nana Shi, and Miori Sugiyama. 5 PM EST 2 PM PST 23:00 CET 9 AM AEDT - https://brooklynartsongsociety.vhx.tv/ (Stream: $10.99)
We cannot recommend this highly enough. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...”
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Yesterday we gathered at OPERA America for the first run through of Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen, which we present on Sunday at 5PM in the final installment of our Cycles series.
Soprano Sara LeMesh, mezzo-soprano Anna Laurenzo, tenor Daniel McGrew, and baritone Nathaniel Sullivan join pianists Mila Henry, Nana Shi, and Miori Sugiyama to bring Rorem’s evening-length cycle to life.
Join us at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn as we conclude Cycles with one of the most ambitious works in American art song. Tickets available now.
#BrooklynArtSongSociety #ArtSong #ClassicalMusic #NYCConcerts #Rehearsal
Cast Change Announcement 🔔
On Sunday, March 8 at 5PM, baritone Nathaniel Sullivan joins Brooklyn Art Song Society for Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen, making his BASS debut in this landmark evening-length cycle.
Praised by Opera News as an “alert and highly musical baritone,” Nathaniel has appeared as Jochanaan in Salome with Heartbeat Opera in New York, as The King in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at Tanglewood, and with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Opera Parallèle. This season he performs Jochanaan with West Bay Opera, appears in the world premiere of Constance: A Confession with Experiments in Opera, and sings Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Abendmusik at Carnegie Hall.
We look forward to welcoming Nathaniel to the BASS stage on March 8. Tickets available now.
#BrooklynArtSongSociety #ArtSong #ClassicalMusic #NYC #Baritone
Many thanks to @t.odell.keys and the @cathedralofallsaints for having me over for some Messiah last night! Had such a beautiful couple of days in Albany with these exceptional souls:
Sopranos: @emilyfinke@alexandrahendersonsoprano
Altos: Emily Marvosh & Darcy Meadows
Tenors: @finbarrcalamitousec@junmoyangg
Basses: Ross Tamaccio & me! 🎶 Swipe over for some clips of “Thus saith the Lord” and “The people that walked in darkness” from rehearsal 🎶
Halloweenskies is coming…..🎃
Had such a fun weekend partaking in all the spooky activities Woodstock has to offer with @i_m_laura62@jbracken3640@hannahsopranah & @mr.ocarina
BIG shoutout to @mfrazierprops for the Jokanaan-turned-Headless-Horseman head, and to @mr.ocarina for crafting my torso extension out of a single box and some duct tape. Some comments I overheard in Woodstock while walking around: “Oh my god, it looks so real!” “That’s disgusting.” “Holy sh*t, is that your neighbor who p*ssed you off?”
Julian Anderson: "A Thought" from "I'm nobody, who are you?"
@hayoung_violin@shuwennn
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A thought went up my mind today
That I have had before,
But did not finish,—some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor definitely what it was,
Have I the art to say.
But somewhere in my soul, I know
I've met the thing before;
It just reminded me—'twas all—
And came my way no more.
–Emily Dickinson
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August 8, 2025 @yellowbarnmusic
Sound Engineering: @jmcbrowne
The 2025 China Now Music Festival concludes with a dynamic 3-part program of multi-sensory and multi-disciplinary performances, featuring propulsive percussion, contemporary dance, and a new chamber opera.
The Bard East/West Ensemble performs, comprising of a Western string quintet, seven Chinese instrumentalists, and two percussionists, with Jindong Cai conducting.
🌟 Guan Naizhong -From The Age of the Dragon percussion concerto 《龙年新世纪》
Shutong Li, conductor and arranger
Shiqi Zhong, Chinese percussion
Jaelyn Quilizapa, percussion
🌟 Ma Hanrui - Mi 谜 (The Enigma), a chamber opera
Pan Geng, libretto
Erike (the Officer): Eric Carey, tenor
Feng: Yu Xiangwei, Peking opera male dan
Reporter/Judge: Nathaniel Sullivan, baritone
🌟 Wang Danhong - Four Seasons in Lingering Garden symphonic poem 《四季留园》
Shutong Li, arranger
Dai Jian, choreographer
Wang Kan, female dancer
Peng Mi, male dancer
📅 One Night Only!
🗓️ Oct 5, Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
🎟️ Tickets: barduschinamusic.org/music-in-motion
#ChinaNowMusicFestival #USCMI #bardconservatory #bardcollege #chinesemusic #musiceducation #music #art #culture #chineseculture #performingarts #lincolncenter #nyc #chamberopera #percussion #MusicInMotion #moderndance #musicanddance #thingstodoinnyc
I don’t quite know how to sum up my time at @yellowbarnmusic . On the surface, it was five weeks of making music with some of the best artists I’ve ever had the honor of working with. Five weeks of making new friends who, at a quiet and unidentifiable moment, started to feel like family. Five weeks of nature and music and beauty and countless shenanigans.
Beyond even all of that, it meant something more to me that I’m having difficulty putting into words. On Saturday—the final day of the festival—I watched Spirited Away, one of my favorite films of all time. The complicated feeling I always experience at the end of that movie is very much how I felt leaving Yellow Barn yesterday: a beautiful mess of gratitude, nostalgia, sadness, wonder, longing, joy, and vertigo. Vertigo because I find myself following the same path I took to get there but in reverse and some time later, and while I know it’s the same ground beneath me, I feel connected to it in a different way because of the journey taken and the people encountered.
“Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.”
(I took some of these pictures; the better ones were taken by @sophiewilliams_photo . You can certainly tell which ones by their quality.)
August 4, 2024. One year ago today.
Before we said “I do,” you were already making my world brighter each day. You were already filling me with laughter, love, and light. And then a year ago, we got to celebrate that love out loud and on purpose, surrounded by our friends and families.
It was a perfect day.
I love you so much, @jbracken3640 . I love the grand adventures we’ve experienced together, as well as the mundane moments that are extraordinary because I get to share them with you. Your love and all that you are make me the best version of myself.
Cheers to the first of many anniversaries, my love 🥂❤️
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