Frederica von Stade has announced her final album. The legendary mezzo-soprano will join Musica Viva NY in an album entitled “Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music” for Naxos. The album showcases the choir alongside artistic director/conductor, Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez performing music by Joseph Turrin, Richard Einhorn, and Gilda Lyons. The first piece is “And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair” by Joseph Turrin {…}
Musica Viva NY has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with “SOUNDSCAPES: Shabnam Abedi & Musica Viva NY Soloists.” The program, featuring the harmonium, tabla and piano, contains a crossover of three worlds of sound. In addition to the choral ensemble of eight voices presenting jazz and Hindustani classical music, there is Hindustani raga music presented by Abedi, as {…}
Musica Viva NY has announced its 2023-24 season. The season kicks off with MEXA: Mexamorphosis & Musica Viva NY. Mexamorphosis is a musical project led by Guadalupe Peraza that aims to bridge cultures through the representation of diverse styles. The program will showcase music from Mexico, Mali, and Hindustan. Performance Date: Oct. 29, 2023 Next up is “Crimson Roses,” which features {…}
Musica Viva NY is set to present “Lux Aeterna” on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at the All Souls Church in New York. The performance will feature such works as Jessie Montgomery’s “Starburst;” Judith Bingham’s “The Darkness Is No Darkness;” Samuel Sebastian Wesley’s “Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace;” Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167; Richard {…}
Musica Viva NY is set to present “The Sorrow and the Beauty” starting on March 12, 2023, at All Souls Church in New York City. The showcase, which kicks off at 5 p.m. local time, will feature performances of Arvo Pärt’s “The Beatitudes” for choir and organ; David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion” for choir and percussion; Caleb Burhan’s {…}
Musica Viva USA is set to present “Songs of Love, Fate and Fortune” on Oct. 30, 2022 at All Souls Church in New York City. The program will feature performances of Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Brahm’s “Liedeslieder Walzer” as performed by Musica Viva NY Choir and the Allen-Stevenson School Chorus. The showcase will alson feature the Sandbox Percussion, and pianists {…}
On March 27, 2022, Musica Viva NY will celebrate springtime with their “In Nature’s Realm” concert. The program will be comprised of works drawing from a variety of styles, exploring nature and human’s place within it. It will include “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Randall Thompson, “Earthrise” by Alex Roth, “Vesper Sparrow” by Missy Mazzoli,” and the world premiere of “Momotombo” {…}
On May 16, 2021, Musica Viva NY will conclude its 20-21 virtual season with “Eine Schubertiade,” a concert of lieder by Schubert featuring the company’s soloists. The concert will be opened by the Music Viva NY Choir singing the “Kyrie” from “Mass in G Major” and “Ave Maria” arranged for solo voice, choir, and organ. The program includes works such {…}
Musica Viva NY is set to present the online concert “Bachmaninoff: Spirituality and Beauty in Bach and Rachmaninoff” on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. The program will features songs for voice and piano by Rachmaninoff including “Vocalise,” “As Fair as Day in Blaze of Noon,” “Oh, Stay my love, forsake me not!,” “The Lilacs,” and “When Silent Night Doth Hold Me.” {…}
Musica Viva NY will present works by composers from three phases of German Romanticism: early (Mendelssohn), middle (Rheinberger), and late (Mahler) in a concert entitled “Great Romantic Composers.” The Musica Viva NY choir will perform Rheinberger’s mass for double choir, interspersed by the movements of Mendelssohn’s last string quartet. The program will also feature Mahler’s “Rückert Lieder,” in a special {…}
Musica Viva NY has announced its 2019-20 season. The performance series kicks off at the St. Vincent Ferrer Chruch in NYC with a concert exploring works in honor of Mary and St. Cecilia. To that effect, there will be music by Britten, Biebl, Pärt, Sandström, Parson, Wadsworth, Macmillan, and Hildegard von Bingen. Performance Date: Nov. 3, 2019 Second is a {…}