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Herschel Garfein (born January 17, 1958) is an American composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script Analysis. Garfein is widely known for his libretto written for Robert Aldridge 's Elmer Gantry, which won two 2012 Grammy Awards including ...
Herschel Garfein is a twice GRAMMY®-winning composer, writer, and director. “His music and themes are deeply American and rooted in the mores of Gens X and Y” (Time Out New York) . His song-cycle Mortality Mansions (with poet Donald Hall) has been praised as “one of the most deeply moving and impressive vocal works of the twenty-first ...
Herschel Garfein is a twice-GRAMMY® award winning artist who creates music, libretti and theater works. He has collaborated with poets, composers and performers such as Donald Hall, Tom Stoppard, Fred Hersch and Joyce DiDonato.
American Steel - The Alabama Symphony, Chris Confessore cond. 00:00 / 00:00. An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope, an album benefiting amfAR, features three songs composed and/or with lyrics by Herschel. Click here to order. "No Giggly Time" (Herschel Garfein) Monica Yunus, sop. Thomas Bagwell, pno. / An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope.
Music Adjunct Faculty. Music and Performing Arts Professions. hg24@nyu.edu. Website. Two-time GRAMMY® winner Herschel Garfein is active as a composer, librettist and stage director. In 2012-13 he was the proud winner of an NYU Teaching Excellence Award.
Art Song, contemporary music, Herschel Garfein — Acis - an independent classical label. 120,000 album. streams on Spotify. “Recorded with clarity and depth…Shao’s tone comes through with ineffable sweetness…it’s an altogether gorgeous recording of this compelling music. Breckenridge at her sensitive best…the music inhabits an emotional knife-edge.”
Herschel Garfein is a twice GRAMMY®-winning composer/writer. “Music of Romantic flavor with a cinematic rhythm sense.” — Blog Critics “Deeply American.” —Time Out NY
