Upcoming Events
December 2021
The Return of Song
This concert features the world premiere of the New Amsterdam Singers commission I Go Among Trees by Robert Paterson, with guest marimbist Makoto Nakura. Plus, we’ll present the New York premiere of We Will Stand Up by Karen Siegel. Inspired by the youth plaintiffs demanding a stable climate in Juliana vs. United States, the work was commissioned by a 10-choir consortium.
Find out more »The Return of Song
This concert features the world premiere of the New Amsterdam Singers commission I Go Among Trees by Robert Paterson, with guest marimbist Makoto Nakura. Plus, we’ll present the New York premiere of We Will Stand Up by Karen Siegel. Inspired by the youth plaintiffs demanding a stable climate in Juliana vs. United States, the work was commissioned by a 10-choir consortium. Tickets will go on sale October 15, 2021.
Find out more »March 2022
American Voices, Classic and New
This program of American music is a combination of old favorites and brand new pieces. Barber’s Reincarnations was last on an NAS program in 2008, sung by Chamber Chorus, who will sing it again. NAS first sang Copland’s In the Beginning in 1980 when we put together an all-Copland 80th Birthday Celebration, attended by the composer. Since it is a great work and a choral showpiece, we have programmed it periodically over the decades and look forward to performing it…
Find out more »American Voices, Classic and New
This program of American music is a combination of old favorites and brand new pieces. Barber’s Reincarnations was last on an NAS program in 2008, sung by Chamber Chorus, who will sing it again. NAS first sang Copland’s In the Beginning in 1980 when we put together an all-Copland 80th Birthday Celebration, attended by the composer. Since it is a great work and a choral showpiece, we have programmed it periodically over the decades and look forward to performing it…
Find out more »May 2022
The Dream Keeper
This concert, featuring the New York premiere of Philip Lasser’s cantata on poems of Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper, is a co-production with The Harlem Chamber Players. The chorus will also sing works of Adolphus Hailstork, Undine Smith Moore, Ulysses Kay, and William Grant Still. And the Harlem Chamber Players will play on their own a string quartet TBD. Tickets will go on sale October 15, 2021. The Dream Keeper Philip Lasser Arise my Beloved Adolphus Hailstork Swanee River (vocalise)…
Find out more »The Dream Keeper
This concert, featuring the New York premiere of Philip Lasser’s cantata on poems of Langston Hughes, The Dream Keeper, is a co-production with The Harlem Chamber Players. Tickets will go on sale October 15, 2021.
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