OUT OF MYSELF - SONGS OF PETER FOLEY
A CONCERT EVENING CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COMPOSER & LYRICIST PETER FOLEY (1967-2021)
Monday, June 5, 2023 at 7:30pm
At Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, at 95th Street)
Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director; Melissa Huber, Managing Director) and the newly launched Peter Foley Music Project have partnered to present Out of Myself—Songs of Peter Foley, a concert celebrating the legacy of the late award-winning composer and lyricist.
Held on Monday, June 5th at 7:30pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, at 95th Street), Out of Myself—Songs of Peter Foley will feature Broadway stars including two-time Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, Pulitzer Prize finalist & Obie Award winner Eisa Davis, Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico, Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano, and Jason Gotay, alongside additional soloists and choral ensemble singers to be announced. The concert will feature a dazzling range of Peter Foley’s theater songs from The Hidden Sky, The Names We Gave Him, Bloom, Songs from an Unmade Bed, and more. Grammy & Emmy Award winner Rob Berman will music supervise.
Peter Foley was an award-winning composer and lyricist who Stephen Sondheim described as “among the best of his generation at setting lyrics and writing music that evokes character and mood.” He wrote primarily for the theater but also for concert, cabaret, television, and film. Foley’s songs have been performed in concert at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the New York Festival of Song, Symphony Space, Town Hall, Joe’s Pub, and Feinstein’s/54 Below. His music is known for its originality, sophistication, beauty, and unique choral sound.
Foley died in 2021 at age 54 after a 10-year battle with ocular melanoma, a rare cancer. The Peter Foley Music Project, a non-profit foundation, was created to further his artistic legacy. For more information please visit www.peterfoleymusic.org.