The New York Choral Society has announced its return to live performances with “Love In Action,” a choral music concert that brings together works by eight contemporary American composers. The concert, which will be performed on April 2, will feature 120 voices performing at the Upper West Side at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The evening will also feature the voices {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced its return to live performance with “Love in Action.” The performance on April 2 will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and it will be a concert of choral music that brings together the work of eight contemporary American composers who explore universal themes of resilience, action and love. {…}
On Dec. 1, 2021, The New York Choral Society premiered its latest multidisciplinary and collaborative digital short, “Morning Light,” which pays homage to Black queer Shaker Rebecca Cox Jackson. In the film, composer Kevin Siegfried and choreographer David Hamilton Thomson bring the 1870s text New York Shaker Lydia Annas life in this digital film collaboration. Jackson, who becomes physically ill {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced two new board members. First up the company is naming Robert Carpenter and Christopher Wogas to its Board of Trustees while Gary Pai has been named as the new elected Chair. Finally, Michael Colesi is taking up a new position of Chair Emeritus. Carpenter is the Founder and President of Insight Management Development {…}
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. {…}