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"York is the Avant-garde diva...Ingenious ...radical.... extravagant talent...this daring vocalist and conceptualist is able to turn her ruminations into fascinating musical explorations. York takes us to parts un-dreamed of. ” The New Yorker

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Announcing the inception of my new project  Water Water Everywhere ... not a drop to drink - I am at the earliest stages of a new song cycle that engages the topic of climate change through the lens of WATER . I am conceiving the new piece as a response to George Frideric Handel’s -- Water Music.  I will riff off of the Baroque masterpiece -- with the ideas of  scientists, and global activists --- on and around the subject of WATER –


painting by Jerry Kearns
Amelia -- new song with amazing band and artist Jerry Kearns
Dear all -- please check out the new work with artist Jerry Kearns -- click here to see/hear this song about Amelia Earhart-- exploring a way to relate visual art and music in a slow  way -- enjoy -- nora
new video ... collaboration with paintings of Leon Golub
Leon Golub was my friend and also a hero of mine. watch the new work - an excerpt from TripSwitch -- with a small survey of the great American artists work.  The Song is Rome is Burning -- written with Jamie Lawrence -- he is also playing the piano -- !! click here
LISTEN TO MUSIC FROM JUMP!
Nora York received a 2009 Composers Commission from the New York State Council on the Arts for her NYFA sponsored music theater project JUMP . In development at The Public Theater in NYC is Nora York's response to Puccini’s Tosca, with David Greenspan's re-imagining of Sardou's play La Tosca. Headlining the cast of characters is Sarah Bernhardt whose fin de siecle autobiographical insights form an armature
Click here or above on the RADIO button to listen.  With HUGE TALENTS --  bass singer Kevin Burdette and tenor Andrew Drost... and THE amazing Band.  Listen here.
Featured TRACK of the DAY
Hey -- listen here! Joined by the AMAZING BAND -- Nora sings Handel's Oh Sleep -- from Semele -- like you've always wanted to hear it -- perhaps... 
especially if anyone has suffered from insomnia! listen up! CLICK HERE to hear
OH SLEEP
Listen Power/Play - NPR / WNYC
Click here -- to listen to a podcast POWER/PLAY on NPR / WNYC radio show Spinning on Air hosted by David Garland --  Power/Play for the full hour! helping to cope with these troubling times! listen here
POWER/PLAY FREE DOWNLOAD!
You can download POWER/PLAY -- free. click here. 
Be sure to scroll all the way down -- ignore the stuff about projects - seek and ye shall find!
LOVE TED? LISTEN TO NORA's TED TALK (er sing!)
NORA YORK SINGS LIVE at TED -- Enjoy this link -- then stay on the site to roam around TED and dive deep into positive consciousness raising! 
FoxFire Nora's performance collaboration with artist Nancy Spero

Click here to see FoxFire -- part of The Franklin Furnace’s inaugural webcasting season  1998 == Nora's collaborative work with artist Nancy Spero, She received a Future of the Present grant to create this work and it remains online as part of the Franklin Furnace’s archive.

MUSIC for FILM and TV including KLIMAWECHSEL ( CLIMATE CHANGE) ZDF
Hear here ... Listen to the new title song Nora wrote with Jamie Lawrence for a new German TV show (written and directed by Doris Dorrie! ) KLIMAWECHSEL ( a comedy about menopause.. imagine!? ) Click and go to Youtube to see the opening sequence clip.

And hear the songs from Alchemy that ABC's show BROTHERS AND SISTERS used -- Click on the radio and listen. 

CLICK HERE FOR ARCHIVED LIVE concert
Dear all you can click here and scroll through "latest Videos"  to view and listen to a live performance from Nora's DEC.11th concert SWERVE !!! free fun
 
Learn to SING! Cabaret Workshops available
Do you want to perform and sing on stage. Make your own Cabaret?  Let me help you realize that dream!  Click on this link see what She is teaching at NYU...
Nora York is planning workshops summer of 2011 and beyond.
SAMPLES OF NORA YORK RECORDINGS
LISTEN to some of the commercial recordings of Nora York here.
What I Want
Click here to purchase WHAT I WANT* Cd or download. (*limited addition)
(also you can purchase a download only version of a rare recording of the CD ALCHEMY co-written with ArtistShare composer Maria Schneider.)
LYRICS AND MUSIC to WHAT I WANT
click here to download lyrics and chord chart for
WHAT I WANT
POWER/PLAY WNYC radio 10/16/07
WNYC's John Schaefer speaks with Nora about POWER/PLAY ...
"Improvising Chanteuse Nora York offers a timely revival of POWER/PLAY, a haunting progression of songs leading from post World war TWO optimism to the turmoil of Viet Nam, and onward to our current malaise.
-Time Out New York-

Post Modern Chanteuse unveils POWER/PLAY which cleverly re-arranges and interweaves anti-war pieces by the likes of Bob Dylan.
-The Daily News-
CONCERTS EVENTS YOU CAN BOOK!
Furtiva Lagrima ( secret tear)

Power/Play: All Work and No Play

What I Want

I Dreamed I Saw: The music of Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Foster

listen to the radio for samples
Artist JERRY KEARNS ( and husband)
My husband Jerry Kearns is a wonderful painter Click this link to see images... also our collaborative music/video is on youtube! You are on your own to find that.
TEACHING! Yes, I teach -- find out more...
On the voice faculty at New York University Tisch School of the arts, Nora gives workshops and private lessons when her schedule allows -- To find out more about studying with her -- click here
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