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Two Stoppard Songs is featured on the critically acclaimed first album from the Brooklyn Art Song Society. Click here to order. Listen to an excerpt from one of Herschel's pieces for large orchestra, American Steel , commissioned by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
HERSCHEL GARFEIN is a twice-GRAMMY® award winning composer, writer and stage director. He composed Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60 (Delos Records), a collaboration with the late US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
Groundbreaking new music from twice-GRAMMY winning composer Herschel Garfein: The Layers, featuring song cycles with Marnie Breckenridge and cellist Sophie Shao. Here, inspired by great contemporary poetry, Garfein takes imaginative journeys leading everywhere from a rural church in war-torn Bosnia to the boardwalk at Coney Island.
Former US Poet Laureate, Donald Hall, and Grammy Award winner Herschel Garfein shared a remarkable evening of poetry and song on May 13, 2016.
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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.
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 ...
Read more about Herschel Garfein GRAMMY History and other GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated artists on GRAMMY.com.
