Noon: The 55-member Newport-Irvine Rotary Club meets at the University Club, 801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine, for a Valentine's piano and song program, candy, a rose and dessert for the spouses of Rotarians.
On Tuesday Mr. Dargel will reprise selections from "Removable Parts," a 2007 cycle, for a New York Festival of Song program assembled by the composer Phil Kline.
A music review on Thursday about a New York Festival of Song program at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, for which the composer Kevin Puts was the curator, misstated, in some editions, the date of the premiere of his opera, "Silent Night," by the Minnesota Opera.
Saturday has a triple bill: in the afternoon there will be "Very Young Composers"; at 5 p.m. the violinist Elmira Darvarova and the pianist Shoko Inoue play works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Franck; and at 8 p.m. the acclaimed soprano Carole Farley, with friends, presents an "Art of the American Song" program.
Over the course of the evening, Mr. Linderman, who created the show and serves as its master of ceremonies, musical director and first pianist, leads a cast of 8 through a 30-song program that interweaves the audience's choices with preselected numbers.
("When you're not working, what do you like to do?" "If you could choose an actor / actress to star in your biographical movie, who would it be and why?") A couple of weeks later, he sent me a six-song program, which contained nothing connected to what I think of as my main musical phenotype ("classic rock"); in fact, five of the six tracks were by artists I'd never heard of.
It's interesting song programming.
"When this all gets to be digital, the network doesn't care whether it's a song, a TV program, a phone call or a Web page.
The N.B.A. used a song from the program, "Squirrels in My Pants," intercut with game video to promote its recent playoffs.
