{"id":190631,"date":"2026-04-09T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:09:43","slug":"brooklyn-art-song-society-to-open-new-voices-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190631\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Art Song Society to Open New Voices Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to open its 2026 New Voices Festival on <a href=\"https:\/\/7tmdixnab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001sMzwY5w8LpTVDxp2xa1qcNqnVGoqRKCEhXv05nWxhQtUClwApkSx8dF6EuRznHFL195yKm4kRCsLqsHFbBfQfMuMg3EEBIbNXQ9YfELSKi-50AwQyEvNDM_yT1a-HHRV5TwoFRFItP9l3gikP11F_ndy-WaKxPpD2ELEG3ykbzH7W7of0Hgjas2y01ugustZ33nZuxnFu8c02M641oJqMg==&amp;c=WTdppfiFT8pBfZgefWSEJBG4LJweSEV_qx541Rb5uclHLnwSvpE9kQ==&amp;ch=NycZJ2MYe2PEP1WZDdQzQkLA2mkxogGBKefVp0fcT0lAx6-Ns1ks6A==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/7tmdixnab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f%3D001sMzwY5w8LpTVDxp2xa1qcNqnVGoqRKCEhXv05nWxhQtUClwApkSx8dF6EuRznHFL195yKm4kRCsLqsHFbBfQfMuMg3EEBIbNXQ9YfELSKi-50AwQyEvNDM_yT1a-HHRV5TwoFRFItP9l3gikP11F_ndy-WaKxPpD2ELEG3ykbzH7W7of0Hgjas2y01ugustZ33nZuxnFu8c02M641oJqMg%3D%3D%26c%3DWTdppfiFT8pBfZgefWSEJBG4LJweSEV_qx541Rb5uclHLnwSvpE9kQ%3D%3D%26ch%3DNycZJ2MYe2PEP1WZDdQzQkLA2mkxogGBKefVp0fcT0lAx6-Ns1ks6A%3D%3D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775227879718000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19S6utz_CvP5pLFt8-NYbt\">Sunday, April 12.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first concert titled, \u201cLonging I\u201d will feature a program spotlighting the extraordinary vitality of composers from the United Kingdom. The concert will feature the world premiere of a new BASS commission by Charlotte Bray, recipient of the inaugural Van Koolbergen Commission Award for Art Song, with text by acclaimed Iranian-American poet Sholeh Wolp\u00e9. The program also includes works by Iain Bell, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Helen Grime, and Hannah Kendall.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will include performances from sopranos Mireille Assalin and Maggie Finnegan, mezzo-soprano Abi Levis, baritones Brandon Bell and Brian Mextorf, and pianists Michael Brofman and Nathaniel LaNasa.<\/p>\n<p>Bray will also give the pre-concert lecture at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Read Related Stories\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to open its 2026 New Voices Festival on Sunday, April 12.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,57224,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-190631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-art-song-society","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}