Past Concerts & Repertoire
Venues
The New York Choral Society has performed in over 80 concerts in Carnegie Hall, and 35 in Avery Fisher Hall. It has also performed in the Metropolitan Opera House, Alice Tully Hall, the New York State Theater, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the Colden Center at Queens College, Central Synagogue, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, St. Bartholomew’s Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Riverside Church, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and the Cathedrals of Chartres, and Reims, St. Mark’s Basilica and Chiesa di Santo Stefano in Venice, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai Opera House, Beijing Concert Hall, Century Theater in Beijing, and Sala Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico City.
Signature NYCS Concerts
Holiday Celebration with Peter, Paul and Mary (1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2008) Holiday Celebration with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey (2010); Christmas at Carnegie Hall (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008).
Repertoire by Year
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2000–present
Adams: Harmonium (Metropolitan Opera House)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Bellini: La sonnambula
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Britten: Saint Nicolas
Bruckner: Te Deum
Cilea: L'Arlesiana
De Cormier: Shout for Joy
De Cormier:Under a Greenwood Tree
Delibes: Lakmé
DeMars: Tito’s Say
Duruflé: Requiem
Dvořák: Te Deum
Dvořák: Heirs of the White Mountain
Dvořák: Mass in D
Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Elgar: Great Is the Lord
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Fauré: Requiem
Finzi: Magnificat
Finzi: In Terra Pax
Foss: Behold! I Build an House
Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Concert Suite
Glass: Itaipu
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Ives: Psalm 90
Janáček: Otce Nas
Kodály: Missa Brevis
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Liebermann: Missa Brevis
Mozart: Mass in C minor (completed by Robert D. Levin)
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina Burana (Metropolitan Opera House)
Pärt: De Profundis
Paulus: Whitman’s New York (world premiere)
Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noire
Poulenc: Quatre Petites Prières de St. François d’Assise
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo
Ramírez: Navidad Nuestra
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Rutter: Gloria
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Thomas: Mignon
Thompson: Alleluia
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Vaughan Williams:Dona Nobis Pacem
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Vivaldi: Gloria
Walton: Coronation Te Deum
Xian: Yellow River Cantata
1995–1999
Adams: Harmonium
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Beethoven:Ninth Symphony
Bellini:Norma
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Borodin:Polovtsian Dances
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: Spring Symphony
Del Tredici: Of Cabbages and Kings (world premiere)
Duruflé: Requiem
Dvořák: Mass in D
Glass: Itaipú (Carnegie Hall premiere)
Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Janacek: Otce Nas
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus
Levi: Dayenu, A Passover Oratorio (world premiere)
Mahler: Eighth Symphony
Mahler: Third Symphony
Orff: Carmina Burana
Poulenc: Christmas Motets
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Respighi: Laud to the Nativity
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Schumann: Missa Sacra in C minor
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Verdi: Requiem
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
1990–1994
Bach: Mass in B minor
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Berlioz: Requiem
Berlioz: Te Deum
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Bloch: A Sacred Service
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Copland: Old American Songs
De Cormier: Shout for Joy
De Cormier: Under a Greenwood Tree (world premiere)
Delius: Sea Drift (Carnegie Hall premiere)
DeMars: Tito's Say (New York premiere)
Diamond: This Sacred Ground
Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Estevez: La Cantata Criolla (New York premiere)
Fraser:Missa Iona (world premiere)
Gabrieli: Omnes Gentes
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite
Glass: Itaipú (New York premiere)
Gorecki: Beatus Vir (New York premiere)
Haydn:Lord Nelson Mass
Haydn: Te Deum
Ives: Psalm 90
Kodály: Missa Brevis
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Solemn Vespers, K.339
Orff: Carmina Burana
Rachmaninov: Vespers (excerpts)
Ramírez: Misa Criolla
Ramírez: Navidad Nuestra
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans
Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands
Verdi: Requiem
Wallach: Toward a Time of Renewal (world premiere)
Willcocks:Five Christmas Carols
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1985–1989
Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts
Berlioz: Te Deum
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Bruckner: Mass in E minor
Charpentier: Te Deum
De Cormier: Four Sonnets to Orpheus (world premiere)
De Cormier: Spirituals
Duruflé: Requiem
Dvořák: Mass in D
Fauré:Requiem
Folk Concert with Pete Seeger
Gould: Quotations
Haazen: Missa Luba
Haydn: Te Deum
Honegger:King David
Janáček:Glagolitic Mass
Kodály:Te Deum
Levi:Mark Twain Suite
Mendelssohn: Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
Mendelssohn:Elijah
Mozart: Choruses from Idomeneo
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina Burana
Poulenc: Gloria
Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noire
Poulenc: Quatre Petites Prières de St. François d'Assise
Ramírez: Misa Criolla
Ramírez: Misa por la Paz y la Justicia (North American premiere)
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
1980–1984
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Part I
Bach:Mass in B minor
Beethoven: Mass in C
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Bellini: La sonnambula (excerpts)
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Bizet:Te Deum
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: A Boy was Born
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
De Cormier: Legacy (world premiere)
De Cormier: Shout for Joy
Dvořák: Requiem
Fauré: Requiem
Gould: Quotations (world premiere)
Haydn: The Creation
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Haydn: Te Deum
Haydn: The Seasons (translated by Jane May)
Kodály: Missa Brevis
Levi: Mark Twain Suite (world premiere)
Meyerbeer:Les Huguenots (excerpts)
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Mozart: Mass in C minor
Mozart: Regina Coeli
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina Burana
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
Poulenc: Gloria
Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Schubert: Mass in A-flat Major
Telemann: Christmas Cantata
Thompson: Frostiana
Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor portraits (New York premiere)
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Verdi: Quattri Pezzi Sacri
Verdi: Requiem
Vittoria: O Magnum Mysterium
Weill: Das Berliner Requiem (translated by M. Feingold)
1975–1979
Bach: Cantata No. 50
Bach: Magnificat
Bartok: Six Choruses (for women’s voices)
Beethoven: Mass in C
Benson: Songs of O (world premiere)
Biber: Requiem(New York premiere)
Bloch: A Sacred Service
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Brahms: Nänie
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
De Cormier: Shout for Joy (world premiere)
Dvořák: Mass in D
Dvořák: Te Deum
Fauré: Pavane
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Haydn: Creation (new English version by J. May)
Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
Haydn: Paukenmesse
Henze: Moralities (New York premiere)
Ives: Psalm 90
Kodály: Kallo Dance
Kodály: Te Deum
Martinů: Military Mass
Mayer: Spring and Yes Forever (world premiere)
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Mozart: Mass in C minor
Orff: Catulli Carmina
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
Poulenc: Gloria
Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Vaughan Williams: Hodie
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Verdi: Requiem
Vivaldi: Gloria
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
1970–1974
Bach: Cantata No.4
Bach: Mass in B minor
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: Cantata Academica
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Britten: Voices for Today
Fauré: Requiem
Haazen: Missa Luba
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Haydn:Harmoniemesse
Haydn: St. Nicholas Mass
Haydn: Te Deum
Haydn: Theresienmesse
Ives: The Celestial Country
Kodály: Te Deum
Mozart: Mass in C minor
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina Burana
Poulenc:Gloria
Purcell: Jubilate Deo
Ramírez: Misa Criolla
A. Scarlatti: Messa di Santa Cecilia
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Vivaldi: Beatus Vir
Vivaldi: Gloria
Weill: Ocean Flight (New York premiere)
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Guest Performances and Collaborations
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1st New York International Festival for the Arts
American Ballet Theatre
American Boychoir
American Composers Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
Collegium Ducale Orchestra (Venice)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dancing in the Streets
Delaware Valley Symphony
Great Performances at Lincoln Center
José Limón Dance Company
Soloists
Roberto Alagna
June Anderson
Stephanie Blythe
Andrea Bocelli
Vinson Cole
Ghena Dimitrova
Mary Dunleavy
Mignon Dunn
Jane Eaglen
Aretha Franklin
Elina Garanča
Marcello Giordani
Denyce Graves
Jill Grove
Maria Guleghina
Eglise Gutierrez
Jerry Hadley
Thomas Hampson
Jennifer Larmore
Salvatore Licitra
Angela Meade
James Morris
Heidi Grant Murphy
Jessye Norman
René Pape
Paul Plishka
Florence Quivar
Samuel Ramey
Bryn Terfel
Indra Thomas
Eva Urbanová
Margaret Jane Wray
Dolora Zajick
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The Hartford Chorale
Lincoln Center Festival
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Youth Symphony
New York City Ballet Orchestra
New York City Opera Orchestra
Opera Orchestra of New York
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Orchestre Symphonique Bell’Arte, Paris
Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería
Qingdao Symphony
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala
Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra
Sisters of Mercy
St. Thomas Choir
The New York Philharmonic
The September Concert
Young People's Chorus of New York City
Conductors
Marco Armiliato
Ankush Bahl
Charles Barker
Leonard Bernstein
Joseph Colaneri
Sergiu Comissiona
Dennis Russell Davies
Robert De Cormier
Asher Fisch
Joseph Flummerfelt
Lukas Foss
John Daly Goodwin
Margaret Hillis
Yong Yan Hu
Eugene Kohn
Jahja Ling
Fabio Luisi
Zubin Mehta
Yehudi Menuhin
Steven Mercurio
Peter Maag
John Nelson
Francisco Núñez
Daniel Oren
Robert Page
Carlos Miguel Prieto
Eve Queler
Julius Rudel
Gerard Schwarz
Elizabeth Scott
Robert Shaw
Leonard Slatkin
Robert Spano
Alberto Veronesi
Roger Wagner
Hugh Wolff
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Operas performed by the New York Choral Society with the Opera Orchestra of New York
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Composer
Bellini
Ciléa
Delibes
Mascagni
Massenet
Puccini
Rossini
Smetana
Smetana
Tchaikovsky
Thomas
Verdi
Wagner
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Opera
La sonnambula
Adriana Lecouvreur
Lakmé
Cavalleria rusticana
La Navaraisse
Edgar
William Tell
Libuše
Dalibor
The Maid of Orleans
Mignon
Nabucco
Tristan und Isolde
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