The New York Choral Society, New York’s has announced its 2021-2022 season featuring three multidisciplinary digital performances and an anticipated return to in-person performances. The season opens with “Earth Song,” a multi-disciplinary collaboration with choreographer Danielle Russo and creative technologist Henry Holmes. The work is a digital performance of American composer Frank Ticheli’s a capella choral work. Premiere Date: Oct. {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced that Gabriella Reyes will join Anthony Roth Costanzo and Brandon Cedel for a concert on May 11, 2021. The virtual concert will showcase the premiere of “Invitation to Love” by Jennifer Higdon. The choral work is based on the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar in collaboration with sculptor and performance maker Gordon Hall. {…}
The New York Choral Society announced the fourth installment of its season, “Our Voices” with the premiere of Undine Smith Moore’s six-minute short film, “Mother to Son.” The work is based on Black poet, Langston Hughes’ poem. The Society set the premiere for release on April 6 on both the company’s website and YouTube channel. “Mother to Son” reflects upon {…}
On Feb. 23, 2021, the New York Choral Society will present the third installment of its virtual season, “Our Voices,” with the premiere of Alice Parker’s famous arrangement of the shape note hymn “God is Seen.” Shot in Irondale Theater, this short film will see the chorus joined by dancers Larissa Gerszke of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Chalvar Monteiro of {…}
The New York Choral Society is set to present the second installment of its virtual season with the premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s “A Carol For All Children.” The second installment will be launched on Dec. 15 and will highlight a distinctive collaboration of acapella music at the intersection of modern dance by contemporary artist Brendan Fernandes while highlighting themes of {…}
The New York Choral Society is currently streaming “Peace unto Zion,” the first production of its “Our Voices” innovative 2020-21 season. The production is a distinctive collaboration among an arranger of Shaker hymns and a sculptor who captures the range of emotions she’s experienced throughout her spirited life. “Peace unto Zion” features artwork from Joyce McDonald and Kevin Siegfried’s arrangements {…}
The New York Choral Society is set to kick off its virtual season with the premiere of “Peace unto Zion” on Nov. 11, 2020. The short art film juxtaposes the utopian idea of the Shaker hymn with a modernized world full of injustice and racial inequality. “There has been so much energy moving through me as I create this work. {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced “Our Voices,” a digital 2020-21 season between November and May. “The challenge of social distancing – so ‘unchoral’ – has prompted us to consider new ways of creating performances of choral music,” said NY Choral Society’s Music Director David Hayes in a press release. “The digital media space is an exciting opportunity for {…}
The New York Choral Society is set to perform a concert entitled “My Shadow and My Light.” The concert set for Nov. 12, 2018, at Carnegie Hall, will showcase Barber’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio – “Agnus Dei.” a rarely performed piece, the work that showcases the same simplicity and gut-wrenching emotional power of its orchestral counterpart. The concert will {…}
The New York Choral Society will present a concert dedicated to the sea entitled “Where Even the Sea Sings.” The program will include the East Coast premiere of the Frank Ticheli’s Symphony No. 3, “The Shore,” which conveys the power, beauty, and mystery of the sea. The piece has been described as a subtle but commanding score set to poetry in {…}
The New York Choral Society (NYCHORAL) has announced its opening night performance. Under the baton of music director David Hayes, the season will open on Saturday, Nov. 18 with Roads Less Traveled, a performance of works by Schubert and Randall Thompson. The concert will include Schubert’s Mirjam’s Siegesgesang, D. 942 Der 23. Psalm, D. 706 Widerspruch, D. 865 and Thompson’s {…}
