A Few of My Favorite Things

A celebration of new American choral classics

To celebrate her 57 seasons leading New Amsterdam Singers, Music Director Clara Longstreth will return to contemporary American choral works that are among her personal favorites. Those include works by Ben Moore, Michael Dellaira, Ronald Perera, Matthew Harris, Abbie Betinis, and Robert Paterson. Plus, we’ll present four works that are new to the chorus, all by notable Black composers. Those include Undine Smith Moore’s setting of Langston Hughes’ stirring poem, “I, Too, Sing America,” and Marques Garrett’s 2023 work, Lucis, Creator Optime, which the composer describes as having “a percussive drive that accompanies elongated chant melody…harmonized by the voices around it.”