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Morris, and Nkeiru Okoye in what is sure to be a seminal recording with Albany Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344158988-AR99RCSOXDWVPZ3MM7FF/A1PmgjykGtL._SL1500_.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide - Descent/Return (Albany) Sparks editor, soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, joins her husband, pianist Ryan McCullough, for a program released by Albany Records featuring song and solo piano works by American composers John Harbison and James Primosch, including numerous world premiere recordings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159005-KZ1KWD92S170LNH5Y9L2/AV2400.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide - Where Only Stars Can Hear Us GRAMMY Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman and historical keyboardist Yi-heng Yang present a star-crossed program of nocturnal Schubert songs— “a voyage that traverses darkness and yearning.” Yang plays an 1830s Viennese fortepiano made by Joseph Simon in this album from Avie Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344158950-INVTGYPXUS7J54MF0Y24/Cover-600-x-600.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide - Summer Night We couldn’t help but include this 2019 release from Sparks co-founder, soprano Martha Guth, featuring works by Canadian composer Healy Willan alongside baritone Peter Barrett, mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy, and pianist Helen Becqué. 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Released by Avie in January, this critically-acclaimed album is an important reassessment of the sisters’ vocal oeuvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159042-Z73MO4TJ83R0IYD48C2E/9780252085109_lg.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159035-JWZRTB7RSXVUOBLLS3OO/61dKkwwvPPL.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159069-S32QVY7SFTD7Q7F26K2Z/9780439269674.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159078-96Y2KMEZQA5P5QVCXMC3/Your_Name-is-a-Song-Oversized_Jacket-New-Artwork-Sept2019.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159101-5GCO0K1QJ8SQPQ5RRWJ9/SWC-cover-front.png All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159131-NOYYOW7514FDCVL8TKDR/BASS%2Blogo.jpg All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159124-STTDNLPB5ACKJ2JZH6XL/CSI_FullColor_A.png All Articles - YEAR IN REVIEW | 2020 Holiday Gift Guide https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/12/4/schubertiade-laura-strickling-24r93 monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/11/27/schubertiade-niloufar-nourbakhsh-and-bahar-royaee-h2pnl monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344158911-78K6Q3Y0P5TK6ZB1VH1O/Screen+Shot+2020-11-27+at+1.05.49+PM.png All Articles - SCHUBERTIADE | Niloufar Nourbakhsh and Bahar Royaee Please click through to listen to this selection in a separate window. https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/10/7/schubertiade-rebecca-hass-nyb5w monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/11/16/songslam-festival-announcement-5axbl monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/11/13/schubertiade-clara-osowski-zwwdj monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/10/30/schubertiade-will-liverman-xs2ch monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/10/27/schubertiade-fleur-barron-5k9xs monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://www.sparksandwirycries.org/magazine/2020/8/18/mark-gotham-an-ode-to-digital-scores-for-singers-mdn9c monthly 0.5 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344159232-6EGZ0RPKZVVY91EN9ZVI/Example+of+a+score+%28Elle+est+gravement+gaie%2C+by+Lilli+Boulanger%29%29++from+OpenScore+Lieder+Corpus. 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The New York Times praised The Scarlet Ibis as an “outstanding new chamber musical” and The Wall Street Journal called it “subtly subversive, and its production groundbreaking.” Visit stefanweisman.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344134252-TYF7YCAL6BWBHQWT72U0/Erika+Switzer.jpg Meltdown - Erika Switzer, music director & piano Erika Switzer (Music Director & Piano) is an accomplished collaborative pianist who performs regularly in major concert settings around the world, such as New York’s Weill Hall (Carnegie), Frick Collection, and the Kennedy Center. Her performances have been called “precise and lucid” (New York Times), and “intelligent, refined, and captivating” (Le Monde). She has won numerous awards, including best pianist prizes at the Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and Wigmore Hall International Song Competitions. Switzer is a cofounder of the organization Sparks & Wiry Cries, which curates opportunities for art song creators, performers, and scholars through innovative initia­tives that capture the stories of diverse com­munities. She is assistant professor of music at Bard College and director of collaborative piano studies at the Conservatory, and holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344134224-O0482ODXUZ30R9KXJ0RB/Camilla-Tassi-headshot-299x425.png Meltdown - Camilla Tassi, projection design Camilla Tassi (Projection Design) is a NYC-based projection designer from Florence, Italy. Design credits include Falling Out of Time (Carnegie Hall), King Arthur (Lincoln Center, Juilliard415), SEACHANGE (Miami City Ballet), The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera), Adoration (BMP & PROTOTYPE), SANDRA (TheaterWorks Hartford), Elijah Reimagined (Kennedy Center), Alcina (Yale Opera), Iphigénie en Tauride (Boston Baroque), and Malhaar (Walt Disney Concert Hall). Broadway: Illinoise, Associate. She has sung in the NY Phil chorus. Tassi holds degrees in computer science, music, and projection design. Burry Fredrik design award and Robert L. Tobin Director-Designer opera prize. Yale, MFA. 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She is the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship and a cofounder of the Black Classical Music Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68912ab9b18926609afbd930/1754344148929-UWYWWZJNR9SG9WEFGRL8/Tsitsi+Jaji.jpeg Songs in Flight - Tsitsi Ella Jaji Tsitsi Ella Jaji is an Associate Professor of English at Duke University with expertise in African and African American literary and cultural studies, and with special interests in music, poetry, and black feminisms. She previously has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center, Mellon Foundation, and National Humanities Center. Her most recent poetry collection, Mother Tongues (2019), was awarded the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize. 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