Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble to Perform ‘Five Borough Songbook, Volume III’ Premieres

By David Salazar

Five Boroughs Music Festival has announced its fall 2022 season.

The season will revolve around performances of the “Five Borough Songbook, Volume III” with separate Queens, Manhattan, and Bronx premieres. First up is the Queens Premiere, which will take place at Flushing Town Hall on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022.

The Bronx premieres comes one day later at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory. The Manhattan premiere will be on Oct. 23 at the Chapel at Hebrew Union College.

The Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble will perform. The group is comprised of soprano Nicole Joseph, soprano Gitanjali Mathur, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte, tenor Haitham Haidar, and baritone Jonathan Woody. They will be joined by pianist Erika Switzer, violinist Pala Garcia, and cellist John Popham.

The Songbook features a wide number of songs from different boroughs. Representing The Bronx are “New York Revisited” by Will Healy and Joseph Tusiani; “Mantras from Jesup” by Brian Lawlor and Valerie Seeley;” and “The Rocking Chair” by Laura Jobin-Acosta and Noel Quiñones.

The Manhattan portion of the songbook features “TimesSquare” by Darian Donovan Thomas; “We Met at the Symphony” by Nkeiru Okay,” and “by the bone dry fountain of an early winter” by Juri Seo and Nick Main.

“You Can Find Queens” by Arianne Abela and Tom Lee; “Other Will See” by Colin Britt; and “The Sea Rolls Along” by Majel Connery represent Queens.

Representing Staten Island are “جزيرة (The Island)” by Kinan Azmeh and Firas Sulaiman; “Nonnas” by Jessica Meyer;” and “Song of Fresh Kills” by Aaron Siegel.

Finally, Brooklyn will be featured in “In Kings” by Jonathan Woody;” “Between islands” by Raquel Acevedo Klein;” and “Hello Beautiful” by Angélica Negrón.

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