They All Laughed
If It's Magic
Someone to Watch Over Me
There's a Boat That’s Leaving...
Paper Moon
Some Other Time
In a Sentimental Mood
Glad to Be Unhappy
Hero and Leander
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This heartfelt song collection is a purely American phenomenon--supremely gifted musicians that can't be categorized or quantified: Stevie Wonder meets Leonard Bernstein; Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and the Gershwins rubbing shoulders across the years with Richard Rodgers, Adam Guettel, and Harold Arlen; songs from the Great American Songbook, musicals, Hollywood films, and opera. And all performed with exquisite style, poetry and nuance by vocalist Darius de Haas, and pianist Steven Blier. Blier, one of today's leading advocates for American song, describes working with Darius de Haas as like “backing up a moody tenor sax...hypnotizing me with his voice.” It's the hypnotic intensity of these recordings that implore us to turn to one another, asking for Quiet Please, as we enter a world of soaring melody and extraordinary emotional depth.
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"In 'Quiet Please' Broadway's Darius de Haas, with NYFOS's Steven Blier at the piano, elevates 17 tunes to new heights on this recording that would be a grand surprise for aficionados of the American Songbook."
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"Sexy, sensitive, jazz and Broadway singer Darius de Haas has joined forces with superb pianist and musical director Steven Blier of NYFOS to create a lush new recording of ballads and contemporary standards that’s as romantic as it can get. Whether wrapping his caramel-smooth tenor around “Good Morning Heartache” or “Glad to Be Unhappy,” de Haas creates unadulterated magic with Blier.
"Darius de Haas effortlessly scats like a dragonfly rejoicing, lighting here and there on a lazy summer river."
