Event Calendar

June 2023
David Hayes Conducts the New York Choral Society and Orchestra – A Knee on the Neck
The New York Choral Society presents A Knee on the Neck, a concert that pairs two cantatas that bring our attention to the devastating pain of injustice and conflict in a program that call us to come together with a collective resolve for justice, freedom, and peace. Featuring the New York premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s new cantata A Knee on the Neck Concert Program Fratres (“Brothers”) (arr. for strings) – Arvo Pärt 1989 Dona Nobis Pacem – Ralph Vaughan Williams…
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David Hayes Conducts the Mannes Orchestra
David Hayes conducting. Marion Bauer - Sun Splendor Zhou Tian - Concerto for Orchestra (New York Premiere) Adolphus Hailstork - Symphony No. 4 (World Premiere)
Find out more »November 2022
NYCHORAL Presents Duke Ellington – The Best of the Sacred Concerts
The New York Choral Society presents a historic staging of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. "This music is the most important thing I’ve ever done or am ever likely to do. This is personal, not career. Now I can say out loud to all the world what I’ve been saying to myself for years on my knees.” Duke Ellington Combining elements of jazz, classical music, choral music, spirituals, gospel, blues and dance, Ellington’s three Sacred Concerts in 1965 in 1968, and…
Find out more »NYCHORAL Presents Duke Ellington – The Best of the Sacred Concerts
The New York Choral Society presents a historic staging of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. "This music is the most important thing I’ve ever done or am ever likely to do. This is personal, not career. Now I can say out loud to all the world what I’ve been saying to myself for years on my knees.” Duke Ellington Combining elements of jazz, classical music, choral music, spirituals, gospel, blues and dance, Ellington’s three Sacred Concerts in 1965 in 1968, and…
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