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January
Friday, January 20, 7:00 pm
Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn
Jason Asbury, Conductor
Transforming Traditions
Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte; Arvo Part, The Beautitudes; Three African-American Spirituals; Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street at Layfayette Avenue,
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
graceandspiritus.org
Saturday, January 21, 7:00 pm
Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn
Jason Asbury, Conductor
Transforming Traditions
Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte; Arvo Part, The Beautitudes; Three African-American Spirituals; Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street, between Hicks & Henry, Brooklyn Heights
graceandspiritus.org
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Sunday, January 22, 4:00 pm
Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn
Jason Asbury, Conductor
Transforming Traditions
Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte; Arvo Part, The Beautitudes; Three African-American Spirituals; Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
All Saints Episcopal Church, 286-88 Seventh Avenue at Seventh Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
graceandspiritus.org
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Saturday, January 21, 8:00 pm
Schola Sings Solo
Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Artistic Director and Founder
Recital Concert
A musical review including arias, art songs and show tunes, sung by professional soloists from within the Schola Cantorum on Hudson.
St. John's in the Village, 218 West 11th Street, one block west of Seventh Avenue www.scholaonhudson.org
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Sunday, January 22, 3:00 pm
Park Slope Singers
Ira Spaulding, Conductor
Art on the Corner
Excerpts from Haydn's Creation; Robert Convery's setting of a Langston Hughes poem;
traditional American, Eastern European, Israeli songs, spirituals, more.
Church of the Good Shepherd, 4th Avenue at Bay Ridge Parkway, Brooklyn
www.parkslopesingers.org
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Sunday, January 22, 3:30 pm
Russian Chamber Chorus of New York
Nicolai Kachanov, Artistic Director
Tchaikovsky and his Contemporaries
RCCNY will present choral and chamber gems of Romanticism, including Arensky’s Three Quartets for voices and cello, and works of Rachmaninoff and Taneyev.
St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Avenue, between Waverlyand Washington Place
www.rccny.org
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Sunday, January 22, 4:00 pm
The Canby Singers
Sheila Schonbrun, Director
Chiaroscuro: Darkness and Light in Renaissance Works:
Monteverdi, Lassus, Schein, Hassler.
Late Renaissance Composers using musical dissimilarities of mood and character, helping to move music into the Baroque period.
Church of St. Charles Borromeo, 21 Sidney Place, off Joralemon Street
www.canbysingers.org
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Wednesday, January 25, 6:15pm
AMUSE
Robert Isaacs, conductor
Angels & Demons
From Heaven to Hell and back again.
Church of St. Agnes, 143 East 43rd St. between Lexington and Third Avenues
www.amusesingers.org
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Saturday, January 28, 3:00 pm
Park Slope Singers
Ira Spaulding, Conductor
Excerpts from Haydn's Creation; Robert Convery's setting of a Langston Hughes poem;
traditional American, Eastern European, Israeli songs, Spirituals; more.
St. Saviour Church, Eighth Avenue at Sixth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
/www.parkslopesingers.com
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Saturday, January 28, 7:30pm
AMUSE
Robert Isaacs, conductor
Angels & Demons
From Heaven to Hell and back again.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th between West End and Broadway
www.amusesingers.org
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Saturday, January 28, 7:30 pm
The Canby Singers
Sheila Schonbrun, Director
Chiaroscuro: Darkness and Light in Renaissance Works
Same program as January 22.
Church of St. Joseph, 6th Avenue between Waverly and 4th Street
www.canbysingers.org
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Tuesday, January 31, 7:30 pm
The Dessoff Choirs
George B. Stauffer, lecturer
Why Bach Matters
Lecture by the prominent Bach scholar and Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers kicking off Dessoff’s inaugural Midwinter Festival: Refracted Bach.
Liederdranz Concert Hall, 6 East 87th Street
www.dessoff.org
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February
Friday, February 3, 7:00 pm
TENET NYC
Jolie Greenleaf, Music Director
Portraits in Song: Renaissance Italy from Ciaconia to Petrucci Songs and instrumental music by composers contemporary to the artists featured in the exhibition "The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini"
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue
www.tenetnyc.com
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Friday, February 3, 7:00 pm
The Collegiate Chorale
James Bagwell, Conductor
Te Deum and A Child of Our Time
Bruckner’s Te Deum in C Major described by Mahler as a work ...“for chastened hearts, and souls purified in the fire!” and Tippett’s work (1941) reflecting his pacifism and belief that people contain both “shadow and light”.
Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue at West 57th Street
collegiatechorale.org
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Friday, February 3, 8:00 pm
The Dessoff Choirs
Christopher Shepard, conductor
“Stile Antico”
First concert of 2012 Midwinter Festival: Refracted Bach, featuring choral and instrumental
works that inspired Bach and that Bach inspired, including those by Mendelssohn, Reger,
Hawley, and Bach himself.
Church of St. Paul the Apostle, 9th Avenue and 59th Street
www.dessoff.org
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Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 pm
The Dessoff Choirs
Steven Ryan and Catherine Venable, piano
Gilded Goldbergs
Third event of Midwinter Festival featuring above pianists in Robin Holloway’s virtuosic flight of fancy based on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Weill Recital Hall, 154 West 57th Street
www.dessoff.org
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Thursday, February 9, 8:00 pm
Voices of Ascension
Dennis Keene, Artistic Director and Conductor
Durufle Messe 'cum jubilo' and Poulenc's Stabat Mater
Durufle's own organ version of the Messe will showcase Ascension's new French organ,
with Edward Parks, baritone. Stabat Mater with Keene's organ transcription.
Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street
www.voicesofascension.org
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Saturday, February 11, 2:00 pm
The Dessoff Choirs
Christopher Shepard, Conductor
SING-IN: Cantatas Reflected in the Mass in B Minor
Fourth event of Midwinter Festival, featuring an open call to all choral singers, inviting all to read through cantata movements Bach refashioned and placed into the B Minor Mass.
Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lexington Avenue and 88th Street
www.dessoff.org
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Thursday, February 16 at 8:00 pm
Young New Yorkers' Chorus
Michael Kerschner, Artistic Director
Symphony No. 3
World Premiere of Mohammed Fairouz's Third Symphony with Ensemble 212
Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street
www.wnyc.org
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Saturday, February 25, 8:00 pm
Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble
James John, Artistic Director
Reflections on life and death, including J.S. Bach's Cantata 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, and Brahms' Warum ist das Licht gegeben
First Unitarian Congregational Society, Pierrepont St, between Clinton and Monroe, Brooklyn
www.cerdorrion.net
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Sunday, February 26, 3:00 pm
Saint Andrew Chorale & Orchestra
Andrew Henderson, Conductor
MAPC Casavant Organ 50th Birthday Concert
John Weaver, Three Songs of Isaiah (world premiere), choral works by Bingham and Brahms, works for organ and orchestra by Poulenc and Respighi
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue at 73rd Street
www.mapc.com
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March
Friday, March 2, 8:00 pm
New Amsterdam Singers
Clara Longstreth, music director
Juxtapositions
Carol Barnett combines the Latin Mass with new poetry and a bluegrass band.
Also New York premiere of Steven Stucky's "Whispers" and Byrd & Bruckner.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
www.nasingers.org
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Saturday, March 3, 8:00 pm
Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble
James John, Artistic Director
Same program as Saturday, February 25
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, Mott and Prince Streets
www.cerdorrion.net
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Saturday, March 3, 8:00 pm
The Dessoff Choirs
Christopher Shepard, Conductor
Mass in B Minor
The finale of the Midwinter Festival featuring Susan Consoli, soprano; Sabrina Learman, soprano; Sarah Rose Taylor, mezzo-soprano; Matthew Anderson, tenor; Thomas Jones, baritone; Arcadia Players (NYC debut).
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street
www.dessoff.org
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Sunday, March 4, 4:00 pm
New Amsterdam Singers
Clara Longstreth, music director
Juxtapositions
Carol Barnett combines the Latin Mass with new poetry and a bluegrass band.
Also New York premiere of Steven Stucky's "Whispers" and Byrd & Bruckner.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues
www.nasingers.org
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Thursday, March 8, 8:00 pm
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
David Shuler, Music Director
Vespers in Venice – Music of Monteverdi Vespers music from
Claudio Monteverdi's 1640 "Selve morale" collection.
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, 1 block south of Christopher Street stlukeinthefields.org
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Thursday, March 8, 7:00 pm
Voices of Ascension
Dennis Keene, Artistic Director and Conductor
Bach St. Matthew Passion
Bach's masterpiece for double chorus, double orchestra, boys' chorus, and soloists: with Derek Chester, Dominique Labelle, Barbara Rearick, and Kevin Deas.
Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street
www.voicesofascension.org
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Friday, March 9, 8:00 pm
Riverside Choral Society
Patrick Gardner, Director
Of Peace
Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Jennifer Bird, soprano; Randall Scarlata, baritone.
Works of worldly and spiritual peace by Gregorio, Schuman & Spratlan.
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center at 65th Street
www.riversidechoral.org
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Friday, March 9, 7:00 pm
TENET NYC
Jolie Greenleaf, Music Director
Tenebrae: Couperin "Lecons des Tenebres"
New annual tradition exploring the wealth of exquisite French Baroque music for Lent, beginning with the work of Francois Couperin
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 152 West 71st Street
www.tenetnyc.com
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Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8:00 pm
Polyhymnia
John Bradley, director
A Feast In Bavaria
Music for double choir by Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532-1594)
Missa Bel Amfitrit altera & Motets Pre-concert lecture at 7 PM
St. Ignatius of Antioch - West 87th between West End and Broadwa
polyhymnia-nyc.org
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Saturday, March 10, 8:00 pm
Schola Cantorum on Hudson
Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Artistic Director and Founder
Rebirth "Healing" as a type of "inner rebirth" through human suffering is the theme. Bach's Cantata #4 is the centerpiece, joined by the Con Vivo instrumental ensemble.
St. John's in the Village, 218 West 11th Street, one block west of 7th Avenue
www.scholaonhudson.org
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Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 pm
Young New Yorkers' Chorus
Michael Kerschner, Artistic Director
Songs Sacred
Music of Arvo Pärt, "Berliner Messe" and J. S. Bach, "Jesu Meine Freude"
Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 Ninth Avenue at 28th Street
www.ynyc.org
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Sunday, March 25, 3:00 pm
The New York Virtuoso Singers
Harold Rosenbaum, artistic director
Choral Masterworks
Repertoire by Zwilich, Gerber, Turcotte, Maconchy, and Musgrave.
Special guest will be organist Christopher Creaghan.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway
www.nyvirtuoso.org
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Sunday, March 11, 4:00 pm
Canterbury Choral Society
Charles Dodsley Walker, Conductor
Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi
Sacred music – Renaissance to contemporary.
Church of the Heavenly Rest, 5th Avenue and 90th Street
www.canterburychoral.org
Thursday, March 15, 8:00 pm
Central City Chorus
Phillip Cheah, Music Director
A la gloire de Dieu
An evening of French sacred music by Poulenc, Durufle, Messian, and Machaut.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, 552 West End Avenue at 87th Street
www.CentralCityChorus.com
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Friday, March 30, 7:30 pm
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
John Scott, Conductor
J. S. Bach: Saint John Passion
Rufus Mueller, Evangelist, and period instrument orchestra, Concert Royal
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street
www.SaintThomas.org
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Saturday, March 31, 8:00 pm
Amor Artis Chamber Choir
Stephen Somary, Music Director
The Complete Bach Motets
Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch, 87th Street, between Broadway and West End Avenue www.AmorArtis.org
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April
Sunday, April 1, 3:00 pm
Professional Choir of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Andrew Henderson, Conductor
Songs of Lamentation
Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Whitacre, When David Heard, Leighton, Crucifixus pro nobis, and works by Kirbye, Tomkins, and Weelkes.
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue at 73rd Street
www.mapc.com
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Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 pm
The Collegiate Chorale
Ted Sperling, Conductor/Director
The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan
The 1885 Savoy Operetta featuring Kelli O’Hara, Christopher Fitzgeralk, Jason Danieley, and Marilyn Horne with the Collegiate Chorale.
Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue at West 57th Street
collegiatechorale.org
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Thursday, April 19, 8:00 pm
Voices of Ascension
Dennis Keene, Artistic Director and Conductor
Spiritual Voices – Old and New
Bora Yoon: Semaphore Conductus;, world premiere by Eve Beglarian;, NY premiere of Tabakova's On the South Downs; Haydn's Theresienmesse
Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at 10th Street
www.voicesofascension.org
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Thursday, April 26, 8:00 pm
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
David Shuler, Music Director
Earthquake Mass! Antoine Brumela's groundbreaking 12-voice mass "Missa Ecce terrae motus" and motets by Brumel, Josquin, Gombert
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, 1 block south of Christopher Street www.stlukeinthefields.org
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Friday, April 27, 7:00 pm
TENET NYC
Jolie Greenleaf, Music Director
Gabrieli @ 400
Works for 8 voices and 8 brass players to mark the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli's death, in partnership with New York Polyphony as part of the Five Boroughs Music Festival
St. Ann's and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn
www.tenetnyc.com
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Sunday, April 29, 4:00 pm
Jolie Greenleaf, Music Director
Gabrieli @ 400 Works for 8 voices and 8 brass players to mark the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli's death, in partnership with New York Polyphony as part of the Five Boroughs Music Festival
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway
www.tenetnyc.com
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Friday, May 4, 7:00 pm
TENET NYC
Jolie Greenleaf, Music Director
Uno + One
The sopranos of TENET-Jolie Greenleaf and Molly Quinn-perform works by 17th century Italian masters including Claudio Monteverdi
Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
www.tenetnyc.com
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May
Friday, May 11, 7:30 pm
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
John Scott, Conductor
BachFest –
St. Thomas in Leipzig
Motets by J. S. Bach and works by Kuhnau, Hiller, Gibbons, Byrd, Britten and James MacMillan
Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street
www.SaintThomasChurch.org
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Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8:00 pm
Polyhymnia
John Bradley, director
Byrd in Flight
Latin motets & English anthems by William Byrd (c.1540-1623) Pre-concert lecture 7 PM
St. Ignatius of Antioch - West 87th between West End and Broadwa
polyhymnia-nyc.org
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Sunday, May 13, 3:00 pm
The New York Virtuoso Singers
Harold Rosenbaurm, artistic director
Choral Masterworks II
Selections include "Snapshot of a Teenaged Moment When Everything Began" by Anna Weesner, "Sanctus" by Jennifer Higdon, "Love Songs" by Augusta Read Thomas.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway
nyvirtuoso.org
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Friday, May 18, 8:00 pm
Riverside Choral Society
Patrick Gardner, Director
Of War and Reflection
David Gompper – An Elm We Lost, for strings, percussion, piano, and harp.
Lord Nelson Mass by Franz Joseph Haydn.
St. Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th Street, between Broadway and 6th Avenue. www.riversidechoral.org
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Saturday, May 19, 8:00 pm
The Canticum Novum Singers
Harold Rosenbaurm, artistic director
Bach's Mass in b minor
Guest performers will be Tiffany Rosenquist de la Torre, Soprano; Meg Bragle, Mezzo-Soprano; Steven Caldicott Wilson, Tenor; and the Artemis Chamber Ensemble.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway
www.nyvirtuoso.org
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Saturday, May 19, 8:00 pm
Queens College Choral Society
James John, Music Director
71st Annual Spring Concert Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem
Colden Auditorium, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Kissena Blvd and Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing, Queens
www.qcchoralsociety.org
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Saturday, May 19, 8:00 pm
Schola Cantorum on Hudson
Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, Artistic Director and Founder
Thresholds
The chorus's Ethnic Series looks at cultures, extinct or on the verge of extinction, whose character is defined by healing. Composer and ethnomusicologist Andrea Clearfield is fundamental in this presentation.
St. John's in the Village, 218 West 11th Street, one block west of Seventh Avenue
www.scholaonhudson.org
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Sunday, May 20, 3:00 pm
Saint Andrew Chorale
Andrew Henderson, Conductor
Psalms for the Soul
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms, Mendelssohn, Hear My Prayer, Vaughan Williams, Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge, and works by Paul Halley & James Macmillan.
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue at 73rd Street
www.mapc.com
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Monday, May 21, 7:30 pm
The Collegiate Chorale
James Bagwell, Music Director
Contemporary Voices
The final concert of The Chorale’s 70th season. The concert will open with a work the The Chorale premiered in 1947, Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning.
Saint Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue at East 51st Street
collegiatechorale.org
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Tuesday, May 22, 8:00 pm
Voices of Ascension
Dennis Keene, Artistic Director and Conductor
Masters of the Renaissance: The Netherlands School
A cappella works by Dufay, Busnois, Ockeghem, Josquin, Isaac, Lassus, and more
Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street
www.voicesofascension.org
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Thursday, May 31, 8:00 pm
New Amsterdam Singers
Clara Longstreth, conductor
Songs of Birds and Angels
Composers from Brahms through Matt Harris use poetry on the lark, the falcon,
the bat, and a caged bird and Rautavaara evokes angelic sounds.
St. Ignatius of Antioch, West 87th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway
www.nasingers.org
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June
Friday, June 8 at 8:00 pm
Young New Yorkers' Chorus
Michael Kerschner, Artistic Director
Songs Profane
Carl Orff, "Carmina Burana"
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
www.ynyc.org
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Saturday, June 9, 7:30pm
AMUSE
Robert Isaacs, conductor
Spaced - Music in 3D
Buckle your seatbelts and be ready for a ride.
St. Ignatius of Antioch - West 87th between West End and Broadway
www.amusesingers.org
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Sunday, June 10, 5:00 pm
The Peace of Heart Choir
Robert René Galván, Music Director
Summer Fundraiser Concert
All our songs contain positive messages of healing, growth, personal reflection, hope, peace, and love. Songs of joy appropriate to the season are included.
Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, E. 69th Street (between Park and Lexington)
www.peaceofheartchoir.org
