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NEW YORK PRETENDING TO BE PARIS,
a new album of art songs — based on poems by Morrie Creech, Richie Hofmann, Susan Kinsolving, Thomas March, Aaron Smith and Cynthia Zarin — has been released on the Albany Records label.
“Beautiful…Stunning” — The West Side Spirit
"One of the top 10 classical vocal albums of the year. A wonderful collection of art songs...Highlights? Too many to mention…Schorr's gift for tone painting is evident throughout... His lyrical style dovetails seamlessly with the yearning articulated movingly by the poets...The songs sparkle...Portraits about courtship, a small-town psychic, a harried mother and vengeful wife, and gay men longing for love and to belong—human stories infused with humanity, in other words—have the capacity to resonate for anyone with a beating heart." — textura.org
”A captivating disc…Schorr embraces the opportunity to depict musically the profound emotional responses to instances of daily life. His music is affecting, and brimming with melody and humanity. Puccini was a master of this approach, and Schorr’s songs are a worthy successor to that tradition.” — Fanfare Magazine
CRITIC’S CHOICE. “Exquisite tracks…A welcome alternative to the alienating clichés of experimentalism. Schorr’s style is elegant and emotionally sincere…The melancholic beauty of his tonal world inhabits the same lonely spaces as Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper’s canvases. In a word, Schorr has mastered the art of bittersweetness. The composer has a way of unexpectedly pivoting to a pang-inducing minor or diminished chord that triggers waves of nostalgic longing. He’s a first-rate tunesmith and earns these poignant passages. His melodies are far more sophisticated than anything on Broadway today, harking back to Sondheim, Barber and Elgar.” — Opera News
Recommended by The New Yorker Magazine
Listen to a podcast about the album featuring poets Susan Kinsolving and Aaron Smith, baritone Michael Kelly and composer Eric Schorr at
Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Soundcloud.
You can read more about the album here and an interview with Eric here.
CDs are available for purchase at Albany Records and Amazon.
You can also listen on iTunes and Spotify.
You can read what folks are saying on Amazon here.
Piano/Vocal Scores are available from
American Composers Alliance (ACA).
Below you can view and download the CD booklet.
(To view, you can click the arrows to the left and right of the cover image below)
SPOTLIGHT: CHIP FABRIZI, RECORDING ENGINEER
This new album would not exist were it not for the expertise — and infinite patience — of Chip.
Here you can read about his impressive credentials and credits.
Chip Fabrizi is the engineer and owner of PPI Recording, one of the longest-running recording studios in NYC. He holds a degree in percussion and has played drums and percussion on many of the tracks he's recorded.
Some of his recording credits include “TREVOR”, various Academy Award, A & E Documentaries, “CHUCK JONES” (Emmy Award), “LARRY FLYNT: The Right to be Left Alone”, “THE HEIRESS” (Tony Award), "Princess Diana" (BBC), and numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
Mr. Fabrizi has engineered, mastered, produced and performed on over 200 CDs ranging from classical, opera, and musical theater to pop and R&B. He has recorded with Alicia Keyes, Roberta Flack, Phoebe Snow, Mickey Dolenz, Petula Clark, Paul Newman, Kathleen Turner, Marvin Hamlisch, John Kander, Walter Marks ("I Gotta Be Me"), The Midtown Men (original Jersey Boys cast), just to mention a few.