Jason Graae, Sylvia McNair, Mary Testa Set for New York Festival Of Song’s 2009-2010 Season

The New York Festival Of Song has announced its 2009-2010 season, which will feature performances at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center and at The Juilliard School. Among the highlights is Great American Songwriting Teams (November 17 and 19), which will feature performances by Jason Graae, Sylvia McNair, and Mary Testa. This evening of famous and rarely-heard songs in honor of America’s classic songwriting collaborators: George & Ira Gershwin, Dietz & Schwartz, Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Bock & Harnick, Kander & Ebb, Leiber & Stoller, Bolcom & Weinstein, and others.

The season will also include the concerts Where We Come From (October 13), KILLER B’s: American Song from Amy Beach to the Beach Boys (January 13), The Voluptuous Muse (February 16 and 18), The Sweetest Path (March 16), the NYFOS Annual Gala (April 12), and The Newest Deal (May 4 and 6), which will feature the premiere of Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle by 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist Harold Meltzer.

Additional performers during the season will include The Metropolitan Opera’s Amy Burton, Paul Appleby, Sasha Cooke, Joseph Kaiser and Kate Lindsey; Chicago Lyric Opera artists Dina Kuznetsova and Sari Gruber; Grammy nominee William Sharp; rising stars including Anne-Carolyn Bird and Andrew Garland; and James Martin. Pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett will narrate and accompany the programs.

For more information, visit www.nyfos.org.