2023-2024 Season
Annelies
Saturday, November 12, 2023, 8pm
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
David Recca, Artistic Director
Nola Richardson, Soprano
Noel Doblas, Violin
Christopher Jung, Cello
Tommy Shermulis, Clarinet
Andrea Lodge, Piano
Annelies, James Whitbourn
Libretto by Melanie Challenger
Would You Harbor Me?
Saturday, May 13, 2023, 8pm
PS151Q, Queens
Saturday, May 20, 2023, 8pm
Adler Hall, the New York Society of Ethical Culture
West Village Chorale
Colin Britt, Artistic Director and Conductor
Rong Zhang, Assistant Conductor
Elena Belli, Pianist
New York City Master Chorale
David J. Recca, Artistic Director and Conductor
Andrea Lodge, Pianist
Combined Choirs
Would You Harbor Me?, Ysaye M. Barnwell
New York City Master Chorale
Beati mundo corde, William Byrd
Long Time Trav’ling, arr. Abbie Betinis (b. 1980)
- Clyde Voce, tenor
- Chester Martin, tenor
Nigra Sum, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm (b. 1971)
- Kieran Walters, tenor
My name is Lamiya: Don’t Call Me “Refugee”, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
West Village Chorale
Esti Dal, Zoltán Kodály
Set me as a Seal, Margaret Burk
- Jacqueline Jones, soprano
Uprooted, Sarah Rimkus
- Ellen Gottlieb, soprano
- Allie Rose Moore, soprano
- Katie FitzGerald, soprano
- Wei-Ting Duo, soprano
- Nathalie Fadel, alto
- Kimberly Mossell, alto
- Dianne Patterson, alto
- Loren Silber, alto
- David Reinhart, tenor
- Joseph Hatem, tenor
- Thomas Higgins, bass
- Justin Beck, bass
I am What I Am, Jerry Herman
arr. Liam McNamara
- Nicholas Gottlieb, tenor
Make Them Hear You, Stephen Flaherty
arr. Mark Hayes
- Dianne Patterson, alto
- Michael Figueroa, tenor
- John Onderdonk, tenor
Combined Choirs
My heart be brave, Marques L.A. Garrett
The Times They Are A-Changin’, Bob Dylan
arr. Adam Podd
- Teedo Bilecky, bass
- Rachel Yohe, soprano
Evening's Empire
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8pm
Adler Hall, the New York Society of Ethical Culture
David J. Recca, Artistic Director and Conductor
Makoto Nakura, Marimba
Andrea Lodge, Pianist
Abendlied, op. 69, no. 3, Josef Rheinberger
Nachtwache I (from Fünf Gesänge, op.104, no. 1), Johannes Brahms
Nachtwache II (op. 104, no. 2), Johannes Brahms
Verborgenheit (from Gedichte von Eduard Mörike), Hugo Wolf
- Jillian Tibbetts, soprano
Verlorene Jugend (op. 104, no. 4), Johannes Brahms
Lamentations, João Lourenço Rebelo
Look Down, Fair Moon, Charles Naginski
- Charley Mills, tenor
The Haughty Snail-King (from Songs to the Moon), Jake Heggie
- Susan Secunda, alto
Return of the Moon, Peter Klatzow
Makoto Nakura, Marimba
I. In that place
II. Prayer to the moon
Alexander Resnick, tenor
Skip Teel, baritone
III. Blue mist like smoke
Alexander Resnick, tenor
IV. Rainmaking
Skip Teel, baritone
V. The broken string
Rebekah Hobbs, soprano
Jennifer Jung, soprano
Alexander Resnick, tenor
Grant Glovin, baritone
Connor Nelson, bass
I Am, Dominick DiOrio
- Carrie Salmon, soprano
Harlem Night Song, Tara Mack
Nighttime Ninja, Tara Mack
World Premiere Performance, commissioned by the New York City Master Chorale
Good Morning, Tara Mack
