2012-2013 New Amsterdam Singers Concert Season
Comfort and Joy
Six centuries of sacred song, from the Renaissance through Bach to our own time
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 122 East 88th Street at Lexington Ave.
Friday, December 7, 2012 at 8 pm
Sunday, December 9. 2012 at 4 pm
Passion and Protest—Music of Eastern Europe
Rarely heard works of Taneyev, songs of social protest by Liszt and Kodály, love songs
by Eben and Rautavaara
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street
(between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 4 pm
Premiere!
Music by New Yorkers on poems both strong and stirring, whimsical and silly, from
Whitman to Williams. Don’t miss Matt Harris’s exuberant set of variations on “La
Bamba”
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, 552 West End Avenue (at 87th Street)
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 8 pm