[Baritone Carlton Ford is featured in Killer B’s, January 13 at the Peter Jay sharp Theater at The Juilliard School, New York City (Photo by Nick Granito)]
Reva Cooper is Publicist for the New York Festival Of Song. She has provided us with the above photo of Carlton Ford, along with its caption. She also tells AfriClassical: “Music of Harry T. Burleigh (also Charles Brown) is featured on New York Festival Of Song/Juilliard Dept. of Vocal Arts’ Killer B’s: American Song from Amy Beach to The Beach Boys, on January 13.”
“Free Concert, Featuring music of Irving Berlin, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, The Bobs, Harr T. Burleigh, Eubie Blake, William Bolcom, and many others:
NYFOS@Juilliard: Fifth Annual Collaboration with Award-winning Students in The Department of Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School, Wednesday January 13 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
“New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), who 'redefined the song recital with daring and dramatic programming' (The New Yorker), presents its fifth annual program with the Department of Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School on Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 8 PM, NYFOS@Juilliard celebrates the creative energy and superlative vocal talent of tomorrow’s brightest stars, building on NYFOS’s distinctive programming and performing style. Alumni of the joint program have already begun to participate in NYFOS’s mainstage concerts alongside more seasoned artists, while also taking their place in opera houses and concert halls around the world.
Tickets for the event are free and available at The Juilliard School box office (in person only).
“NYFOS Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett are enthusiastic about the NYFOS/Juilliard collaboration: 'We are having a wonderful experience working on this crazy, eclectic program. The students are all deeply involved, researching new songs, looking for spoken material as a bridge between numbers (all by authors whose names begin with the letter B), suggesting repertoire, discussing program order, and writing program notes. They have responded with tremendous creativity, and best of all, they’re teaching us a thing or two as they chart a new, surprising path.'
“The artists in Killer B’s will be Catherine Hancock and Meredith Lustig, sopranos; Carla Jablonski and Naomi O’Connell, mezzo-sopranos; Carlton Ford and Timothy McDevitt, baritones; Adrian Rosas, bass-baritone; and New York Festival of Song directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, pianists/hosts. Choreography is by Jeanne Slater.”
“Harry T. Burleigh (1866 –1949) was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and singer. He was the first black composer to influence the development of a characteristically American music and he helped to make black music available to classically-trained artists by introducing them to the music and by arranging Negro spirituals in a more classical form.” [The African American composer, arranger and bass soloist Henry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
