Past Concerts and 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, St. Paul the Apostle Church, St Bartholomew's Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Riverside Church, the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and the cathedrals of Chartres, and Reims.

Signature NYCS Concerts

Holiday Celebration with Peter, Paul and Mary (1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2005)
Christmas at Carnegie Hall (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006)

Repertoire by Year

2000–present

Adams: Harmonium (Metropolitan Opera House)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Bellini: La Sonnambula
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: Saint Nicolas
Bruckner: Te Deum
Cilea: L'Arlesiana
DeCormier: Shout for Joy
DeCormier: Under a Greenwood Tree
Delibes: Lakmé
Dvorak: Te Deum
Dvorak: Heirs of the White Mountain
Dvorak: Mass in D
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Elgar: Great is the Lord
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Fauré: Requiem
Foss: Behold! I Build an House
Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Concert Suite
Glass: Itaipu
Ives: Psalm 90
Janacek: 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)
Part: De Profundis
Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge Noir
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
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
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Walton: Coronation Te Deum
Xian: Yellow River Cantata

1995–1999

Adams: Harmonium
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Beethoven: Ninth Symphony
Bellini: Norma
Berlioz: La Damnation du Faust
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Britten: Spring Symphony
Del Tredici: Of Cabbages and Kings (world premiere)
Duruflé: Requiem
Dvorak: Mass in D
Glass: Itaipu (Carnegie Hall premiere)
Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Janacek: Otce Nas
Kodaly: 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 Chloë
Respighi: Lauda a la Vergine
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
DeCormier: Shout for Joy
DeCormier: Under a Greenwood Tree (world premiere)
Delius: Sea Drift (Carnegie Hall premiere)
DeMars: Tito's Say (New York premiere)
Diamond: This Sacred Ground
Dvorak: 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 Corpis
Mozart: Solemn Vespers, K.339
Orff: Carmina Burana
Rachmaninov: Vespers (excerpts)
Ramirez: Misa Criolla
Ramirez: 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 Carols

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
DeCormier: Four Sonnets to Orpheus (world premiere)
DeCormier: Spirituals
Duruflé: Requiem
Dvorak: Mass in D
Fauré: Requiem
Folk Concert with Pete Seeger
Gould: Quotations
Haazen: Missa Luba
Haydn: Te Deum
Honegger: King David
Janacek: 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 Prieres de St. Francois d'Assise
Ramirez: Misa Criolla
Ramirez: 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: Four Sacred Pieces

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
DeCormier: Legacy (world premiere)
DeCormier: Shout for Joy
Dvorak: Requiem
Fauré: Requiem
Gould: Quotations (world premiere)
Haydn: The Creation
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Haydn: Te Deum
Haydn: The Seasons (translated by J. 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
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor, Wassail Song
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
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)
Beethoven: Mass in C
Benson: Songs of O (world premiere)
Biber: Requiem (New York premiere)
Bloch: A Sacred Service
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Brahms: Nanie
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
DeCormier: Shout for Joy (world premiere)
Dvorak: Mass in D
Dvorak: 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
Martinu: 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 #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
Kodaly: Te Deum
Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina Burana
Poulenc: Gloria
Purcell: Jubilate Deo
Ramirez: Misa Criolla
A. Scarlatti: Messa di Santa Cecilia
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
Vivaldi: Beatus Vir
Vivaldi: Gloria
Weill: Ocean Flight (New York premiere)

Guest Performances and Collaborations

1st New York International Festival for the Arts
American Ballet Theatre
American Boychoir
American Composers Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
Collegium Ducale Orchestra (Venice)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dancing in the Streets
Delaware Valley Symphony
Great Performances at Lincoln Center
Jose Limon Dance Company

The Hartford Chorale
Lincoln Center Festival
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Youth Symphony
New York City Ballet Orchestra
Opera Orchestra of New York
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala
Shanghai Broadcast Symphony Orchestra
Sisters of Mercy
St. Thomas Choir
The New York Philharmonic
The September Concert
Young People's Chorus of New York City

Soloists

June Anderson
Stephanie Blythe
Andrea Bocelli
Ghena Dimatrova
Jane Eaglen
Aretha Franklin
Marcello Giordani
Denyce Graves
Eglise Gutierrez
Jerry Hadley
Thomas Hampson
Salvatore Licitra
James Morris
Heidi Grant Murphy
Jessye Norman
Rene Pape
Paul Plishka
Florence Quivar
Samuel Ramey
Bryn Terfel
Eva Urbanova
Margaret Jane Wray
Dolores Zajick

Conductors

Marco Armiliato
Ankush Bahl
Charles Barker
Leonard Bernstein
Joseph Colaneri
Sergiu Comissiona
Dennis Russell Davies
Robert DeCormier
Arthur Fegan
Asher Fisch
Joseph Flummerfelt
Lukas Foss
John Daly Goodwin
Margaret Hillis
Jahja Ling
Zubin Mehta
Yehudi Menuhin
Steven Mercurio
Peter Maag
Eduardo Mata
John Motley
John Nelson
Francisco Nunez
Daniel Oren
Robert Page
Eve Queler
Julius Rudel
Gerard Schwarz
Elizabeth Scott
Robert Shaw
Leonard Slatkin
Robert Spano
Roger Wagner
Hugh Wolff
Hu Yongyan