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YPC Returns from 25-day, 18-city tour of Japan!
YPC has returned from almost a month of touring across Japan! 35 YPC choristers traveled to such places as Aomori, Nagoya, Kobe, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and to their final concert in Kumamoto.
YPC performed in concert halls ranging from 2,000-4,000 seats, enjoying a full audience at every concert. The chorus had a busy performance schedule but still enjoyed time to explore Japan which even included a trip to Tokyo Disneyland!
The Japanese audiences welcomed YPC with open arms, filling the concert halls with their energetic support and embracing the music and the chorus. The tour was truly a success - YPC looks forward to returning to Japan in Summer 2010 for a second tour!
The NEA Awards Stimulus Grant to the Young People's Chorus of New York City™
YPC has been awarded a $50,000 stimulus grant as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 through the National Endowment for the Arts. As part of President Obama's stimulus package, the NEA has awarded grants to fund arts projects and activities that preserve jobs in the nonprofit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.
The list of award recipients is a collection of some of the most highly regarded arts institutions in the country. The grant was awarded based on an assessment of the quality of the organization, the potential and significance of the organization in the arts work force, and the likelihood for further success as an institution. YPC is one of only four choirs around the country to receive this vital support, and the only youth chorus to receive it under the Music category.
The NEA also supports two of YPC's vital programs: the Partner Schools Program which recruits young people from New York City's underserved schools and offers full scholarships to participate in YPC's award-winning after-school chorus, and Radio Radiance™, YPC's new commissioning and performance project that develops new audiences for new music by using the combined resources of radio, digital media and the internet.
Japan Tour Officially Kicks Off!
On July 12, 35 members of Young People's Chorus of New York City and staff set-off on an 18-city, nearly one-month long tour across Japan!
The chorus will be performing an exciting mix of contemporary classical compositions, traditional songs from around the world, American gospel music, and even a celebration of the New York City subway system, with Billy Strayhorn’s Take the A Train and Michael Gordon’s Every Stop on the F Train.
The tour is sponsored by Min-On Concert Association, a Japanese company dedicated to encouraging young people to develop their artistic abilities through music festivals, concerts, and competitions. Min-On has already engaged the chorus to return to Japan in summer of 2010 to sing in 12 additional Japanese cities. Min-On Concert Association is underwriting the tour with additional support from Toyota and All Nippon Airways (ANA), as well as generous individual donors.
Previews of Radio Radiance™ Will Air June 29 & 30 on WNYC!
On June 29 & 30, WNYC's Evening Music will preview music from Radio Radiance™, the innovative radio/internet program created by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ under the artistic direction of Francisco J. Núñez.
Tune in to WNYC 93.9FM on Monday, June 29 at 7:00pm and Tuesday, June 30 at 9:00pm & 10:00pm to hear music from the full-length programs that will be available for download later this year through American Public Media.
You can listen live on the radio or online here!
Radio Radiance™expands the influence of YPC's Transient Glory® Commissioning Series by combining live performance, recording and digital media to attract new listeners to innovative and exciting choral music. The project engages audiences through specially commissioned works that utilize radio and the internet as integral components of the creative and listening experience. In the process, it reconnects listeners to music that distinctly reflects today's society in all its facets.
Check back regularly for more announcements about Radio Radiance™!
Spring Concert a Great Success!
The concert on Saturday, June 20th was truly an event to remember. All five chorus divisions performed to a sold-out crowd at the beautiful Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y. This concert was particularly special because it honored the YPC’s seniors with a graduation ceremony. All of this year’s graduates - many of whom have been part of the YPC for up to 10 years - are heading off to college this fall.
The exuberant audience was made up of old and young; family and friends; new fans and long-time supporters alike. It was truly an inspiring and exciting night of music for all of those performing and in attendance.
The audience thoroughly enjoyed the music on the program. There were moments ranging from utter captivation when the Young Men sang Francisco Núňez’s El Aire Lloro to pure happiness when Prelude sang Hard Knock Life from Annie. Intermezzo’s performance of Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Weber's Grammy Award winning Requiem Mass was truly beautiful and the crowd was breathless after Cantare's performance of Richard Strauss' An der shönen blauen Donau - their mastery of German was quite impressive!
The Young Men's performance of the South African freedom song, Tshotsholoza, gave the audience a feeling of hope and joy while Chorale's performance of It Is Possible by Eric Dozier was inspiring and the audience seemed deeply connected to the song and the performers. Concert Chorus performed Picaflor Esmeralda from the YPC commissioned work Two Mountain Songs by Gabriela Lena Frank. The Combined Choruses sang two songs together: Take Me To The Water and Oye - every foot in the audience was tapping at some point during those two songs (many hands were clapping and more than a few people were singing along too!).
Congratulations to all the choristers on a great concert and especially, to the graduating seniors!
Get ready to wish the Young People’s Chorus of New York City yoi ryoko o…
or bon voyage.
On July 12 Francisco J. Núñez and 35 members of the Award Winning Children's Chorus, YPC, are leaving New York for a 25-day, 18-city tour of Japan, taking them from the northernmost tip of the country in Aomori to Kumamoto in the south. The tour is presented by Min-On Concert Association, a Japanese company dedicated to encouraging young people to develop their artistic abilities. Min-On fell in love with the YPC when they first heard the chorus at the World Symposium for Choral Music in Kyoto in 2005.
Japanese audiences are looking forward to hearing the sounds of America from the YPC, and two concerts are already sold out. With a program that includes many YPC favorites concluding with a gospel medley, the YPC will leave Japanese audiences wanting more, which they will get next summer with the YPC’s second tour of the country in 2010.
YPC, WNYC Radio, & American Public Media launch Radio Radiance™ Live Broadcast
May 28, 2009…Radio Radiance™, an innovative radio/internet program created by the Award Winning Children's Chorus, Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ (YPC,) under the artistic direction of Francisco J. Núñez, will be launched on Tuesday, June 2, during a live performance and webstream from WNYC New York Public Radio’s Jerome Greene Performance Space, starting at 5:30 p.m. The concert will be available as a live webstream on WNYC's The Green Space Web site. The four-episode program combines live performance, recording and digital media to attract new listeners to innovative, cutting-edge choral music, and is presented in collaboration with WNYC and American Public Media (APM).
Radio Radiance™ will introduce four new commissioned works by YPC from award-winning composers Eve Beglarian, Robert Kapilow with foley (sound effects) artist Fred Newman, Meredith Monk, and Gabriela Lena Frank, all known for taking music in new and surprising directions. Two of them, world premieres by Beglarian and Kapilow, were written especially for this medium and incorporate radio and digital technology as a component of choral compositions. All four works will be broadcast by WNYC later in June, and on APM’s nationally syndicated Performance Today later this year.
Francisco Núñez honored by ASCAP
May 1, 2009
YPC’s founder and artistic director Francisco J. Núñez was chosen as the recipient for the ASCAP Concert Music Award. Mr. Núñez will be honored at the ASCAP Concert Music Awards 2009 on Thursday, May 21 at The Times Center in New York City.
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 315,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members.
6th Annual Satellite Schools Concert
May 1, 2009
Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y
11 a.m.
The award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) will shine the spotlight on the children who participate in the chorus’s Satellite Schools program in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens schools in “OYE” (Listen), a free concert to be held at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday, May 28, at 11 a.m.
The children from PS 1 and 130 in Chinatown, PS 75 (Upper West Side), HS 515 on the Lower East Side, HS 489 in the Financial District, PS 268 in Brooklyn, and PS/IS 178 in Jamaica Estates, Queens, have been practicing throughout the school year for this annual event. The concert will culminate with a special song-writing session led by composer Jim Papoulis.
April 23, 2009
Rob Kapilow's Family Musik, "Jabberwocky" 
Louis Carroll’s legendary nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” (from Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There) comes to life in these fun-filled performances of music and dance.
New York City
Saturday, April 25, 2009
11 a.m. & 1 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Rob Kapilow, composer and conductor; Matt Kent, choreographer; PickleShoes Dance Theatre; Family Musik Chamber Ensemble; YPC with special guests NYU University Singers
Click here for tickets.
Boston
Saturday, May 9, 2009
12 p.m. & 2 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center
Rob Kapilow, composer and conductor; Matt Kent, choreographer; PickleShoes Dance Theatre; Boston Musica Viva; YPC
Click here for tickets.
Nico Muhly's "I Drink the Air Before Me" 
Stephen Petronio Company
April 28-May 3, 2009
Joyce Theater
Tuesday–Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday–Friday at 8 p.m.
Saturday at 8 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Choreographer Stephen Petronio commissioned composer Nico Muhly to create a work in celebration of the Stephen Petronio Company’s 25th Anniversary. YPC joins the dance company at the Joyce Theater to perform in the premiere of “I Drink the Air Before Me,” inspired by the power of extreme weather.
Click here for tickets.
Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ to perform in Terry Riley’s “In C”
April 20, 2009
Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Carnegie Hall
David Harrington, Artistic Director
YPC will perform in the work that changed the course of music history and influenced countless artists from John Adams to The Who. Specially curated by the Kronos Quartet, this program features a one-time-only gathering of musicians who perform In C in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage for the first time.
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of “In C,” this once-in-a-lifetime concert has an all-star ensemble that includes Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley, and original “In C” performers Stuart Dempster, Jon Gibson, Katrina Krimsky, and Morton Subotnick.
Plus Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, Sidney Chen, Dennis Russell Davies, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Bryce Dessner, Dave Douglas, Trevor Dunn, Jacob Garchik, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Harrison, Michael Hearst, Scott Johnson, Joan La Barbara, Saskia Lane, Alfred Shabda Owens, Elena Moon Park, Lenny Pickett, Gyan Riley, Aaron Shaw, Judith Sherman, Mark Stewart, Kathleen Supové, Margaret Leng Tan, Jeanne Velonis, Wu Man, Yang Yi, Dan Zanes, and Evan Ziporyn. Also with Koto Vortex, Quartet New Generation, So Percussion, members of the GVSU New Music Ensemble, and members of the Young People's Chorus of New York City.
Tickets start at $21.
To learn more, purchase tickets or hear an excerpt, click here.
YPC’s Gala is an artistic and financial success!
April 2, 2009
The Young People's Chorus of New York City™ (YPC) celebrated its 11th Anniversary with a Gala benefit on March 11, 2009 at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. The night began with a concert in Frederick P. Rose Hall, where 300 children from YPC performed with the New York Pops, and were joined by special guest artists Kate Pierson and Sterling Campbell from the B52s, GRAMMY award winner Paquito D’Rivera, NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi and Broadway Singer Andrea McArdle. In addition, over 150 children from YPC’s Satellite School Program were able to attend the concert, an opportunity made possible by funding from our Gala supporters.
Following the concert, a sold-out dinner was held in the Allen Room, overlooking Central Park, where YPC presented awards to its four honorees – Ambassador and Mrs. Motoatsu Sakurai, Adam Chinn and Linda Golding – for their dedication to the organization.
Our two week online auction with www.charitybuzz.com was a great success, and we encourage you to visit the charitybuzz.com Mother’s Day Auction on May 9, 2009, which will feature several YPC lots.
From YPC, thank you to everyone who supported our 11th Anniversary Gala - our success could not have been possible without you!
Click here to view photos from the Gala.
Proceeds raised from the Gala will go to support YPC’s After-School and Satellite School Programs in the upcoming year. We are still accepting Gala donations.
Click here to see how you can support YPC.
YPC Honor Chorus Festival Makes National News
March 26, 2009
Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the late Leonard Bernstein, composed “NYC Shout-Out,” a song commissioned exclusively for the YPC Honor Chorus Festival. The story was recently picked up the the Associated Press and has appeared in Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, MSN Entertainment News, Yahoo! News and many others.
Read the Associated Press article.
Read the New York Times article.
Read the New York Post article.
The Honor Chorus Festival and YPC's very first affiliate, Young People's Chorus of Erie (Pennsylvania), made headlines in the Erie Times-News. Read the ar
ticle.
Honor Chorus participants will write on YPC’s blog throughout the day on Saturday, March 28. Check back frequently for the latest updates and photos!
Join us for the concert! 7 p.m.
The Church of St. Paul the Apostle at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue (Admission is $5)
To learn more, visit ypc.org/honorchorus
YPC Will Introduce a New Program, Radio Radiance™, In June 2009
March 19, 2009
YPC will introduce Radio Radiance™, a program commissioning new choral music for young voices written specifically for radio. Works by Eve Beglarian, Meredith Monk, Robert Kapilow with sound artist Fred Newman, and Gabriela Lena Frank will be premiered live at WNYC’s new Jerome L. Greene Performance Center in June 2009. Student and teacher study guides will also become available on the YPC and WNYC Web sites for youth choruses across the country.
Watch the video of composer Robert Kapilow and sound effects artist Fred Newman discussing the creative process behind the YPC-commissioned piece “Crosstown M42”Learn more about Radio Radiance™
The 8th Annual YPC Honor Chorus Festival: A Day of Singing and Friendship!
March 16, 2009
Do you know a young person who loves to sing? Students ages 12 to 18 are invited to attend YPC's 8th Annual Honor Chorus Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2009. Auditions and previous music experience are not required.
Participants will join with leading choirs and conductors to learn new music, make new friends and perform a concert – all in one day!
Featuring:
Guest Conductor, Young Men's Honor Chorus
Dr. Jason Bishop
Director of Choral Activities at Penn State Erie and Artistic Director/Founder YPC Erie
Guest Conductor, Treble Honor Chorus
Dr. Barbara Baker
Internationally Noted Conductor
and Clinician
Composer-in-Residence
Jamie Bernstein Thomas
Narrator, Writer and Broadcaster
Guest Artist-in-Residence
The Ballet Hispanico School Ensemble
The foremost dance representative of Hispanic culture in the United States
Jose Costas, School Director
AND Guest Artists
* Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ Concert Chorus
and Young Men's Divisions
* Young People's Chorus of Erie
* Penn State Erie Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
The $35 participation fee includes a t-shirt, meals and snacks. Scholarships are available.
For more information, contact Amy Kotsonis at 212-289-7779, ext. 12 or akotsonis@ypc.org.
For times and locations or to download an application, visit ypc.org/honorchorus
Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ and San Francisco Girls Chorus in Concert
March 13, 2009
Two of America’s top children’s choirs, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, will come together for a blending of East and West Coast voices on Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. John Schaefer of WNYC Radio will host the event.
The highlight of the concert, which showcases each chorus separately, is their joint performance of the world premiere of a work commissioned specifically for them by American Composers Forum: Gabriela Lena Frank's “Two Mountain Songs,” based on Peruvian Indian folk songs, a part of her multicultural heritage.
The Young People's Chorus of New York City™ under its founder and artistic director Francisco J. Núñez will perform three world premieres: Movement No. 5 of Meredith Monk’s “Three Heavens and Hells”; Nico Muhly’s “I Drink the Air Before Me,” commissioned by the Stephen Petronio Company for the YPC; and a choral arrangement by Mr. Núñez of jazz great Toshiko Akiyoshi’s solo piano work “Hope,” sung in Japanese, with words by Shuntaro Tanigawa, Japan’s most famous poet. The YPC will also sing “Kyrie” from Bok’s Missa Brevis, “Canticle, In Remembrance” by Mr. Núñez; “Warabe Uta” by Ko Matsushita; and the American spiritual, “Music Down in My Soul.”
Host John Schaefer and composers Nico Muhly, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gabriela Lena Frank and Meredith Monk
Read more about the composers.
The San Francisco Girls Chorus, celebrating its 30th anniversary this season, makes its New York debut under its conductor Susan McMane in several works, highlighted by the New York premiere of its Augusta Read Thomas commission “Two e.e. cummings Songs,” which was premiered by the SFGC in October. The chorus will also sing works by Mendelssohn, Purcell, Rachmaninoff, Henry Mollicone, David McIntyre, and the premiere of an arrangement of Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies,” the third movement of a work entitled Just Imagine, which the chorus commissioned from Dwight Okamura for its 30th anniversary.
View the concert program.
All tickets are $25 and available at the Alice Tully Hall box office, by calling CenterCharge 212-721-6500 or through the Lincoln Center Web site.
Bidding Opens for YPC’s Online Gala Auction
March 4, 2009
Bid on a large selection of items in YPC’s online auction from March 4 through March 19.
As part of YPC’s Gala fund raising efforts, an online auction on CharityBuzz.com is now open. Enjoy a play or sporting event, attend a televised award show, take a much-needed vacation, watch your favorite TV show live, get pampered at the spa, enjoy a night on the town or tote around a fabulous handbag; and on top of all that, feel good knowing you supported this award-winning, multicultural chorus.
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Learn how to bid on Charity Buzz.
Support YPC and bid today! Visit the Online Auction.
YPC Gala Committee Announces Host for A Celebration of Song
March 2, 2009
Actor Lawrence Saint-Victor from the CBS daytime drama “Guiding Light” will host YPC’s fund raising gala, A Celebration of Song: YPC Shaping Lives Through Music on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Mr. Saint-Victor joined the “Guiding Light” cast as crime-fighting cop Remy Boudreau in 2006.
A Celebration of Song will feature unique and exciting performances from special guest artists The New York Pops, the B-52’s Kate Pierson and Sterling Campbell, Broadway Singer/Actress Andrea McArdle, NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi and 450 choristers from all five YPC divisions and the Satellite Schools program.
Funds raised will support YPC’s work in bettering the lives of thousands of children of all economic, religious and ethnic backgrounds from ages 7 to 18.
Tickets are currently available through the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Box Office, 212-721-6500 or jalc.org.
Click here to view the concert program or learn more about the gala.
Members of Prelude and intermezzo to perform at book launching
January 22, 2009
Select choristers from YPC's Prelude and Intermezzo divisions will perform a new piece, “Listen to the Wind,” by Victoria Bond at the book launching of Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea on January 22, 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center. The children’s book tells the story of Greg Mortenson, whose failed attempt to climb Mountain K2 inspired him to build schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The story is adapted from Mr. Mortenson’s novel Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time, a New York Times bestseller.
Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center
1972 Broadway (at 66th Street)
New York, NY
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea is written by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth with collages by Susan L. Roth.
United in Song: YPC joins the Boston Children’s Chorus in a nationally Televised celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 7, 2009
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City™, the Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) and Academy Award winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. will perform in a nationally televised tapestry of words and music honoring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 19, 2009.
“We are delighted to be taking part in this annual tribute to Martin Luther King on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama,” said Francisco J. Nuñez, artistic director and founder of YPC. “It is not only Dr. King’s birthday we are celebrating today, but his dream of all God’s children uniting together in brotherhood and our hopes and prayers for our nation under our new president.”
The show will air live at 7 p.m. EST in major markets around the country, including Boston, Washington, D.C., Tampa-St. Petersburg, Phoenix, Cleveland, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Sacramento, Orlando-Daytona Beach, St. Louis and Pittsburgh.
In New York, the show will air on WABC on Sunday, February 15 at 2:30 p.m.
Date subject to change. For the most update listing and to check airings in other markets, click here.
View photos from the event.
For more information, visit www.mlkconcert.org.
Rave Reviews: Everybody Loves YPC
December 15, 2008
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The extraordinary Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ is no stranger to rave reviews. In December, the chorus and their debut holiday CD, CoolSide of Yuletide, were featured in several publications. From New York to England to Italy and back, YPC continues to shine in the media.
Check out the YPC feature article in the British magazine The Singer and the CoolSide of Yuletide reviews in Classics Today and the Naples, Italy-based Le guide di Supereva.
CoolSide of Yuletide was also mentioned on the American Idol Web site! Click here to view the article.
See more of YPC in the media.
YPC Expands Beyond the City’s Borders
with Its First Affiliate – Young People’s Chorus of Erie
November 17, 2008
In recent years, artistic director and founder Francisco J. Núñez has been approached by several U.S. cities seeking to duplicate the YPC’s dual model of diversity and musical excellence. Now, in January, rehearsals will begin for the first affiliate of YPC: the Young People’s Chorus of Erie, in residence at The Behrend College of Penn State Erie’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences under Dr. Jason Bishop, director of choral activities at the college. The Young People’s Chorus of Erie shares the mission of YPC to provide a comprehensive choral program to children of a wide variety of religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds.
Dr. Bishop, who this past summer traveled as associate conductor with the YPC on its performance tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, is currently auditioning public and private school children ages 7 to 18 from throughout the northwest Pennsylvania region. He will launch the Young People’s Chorus of Erie program in January with 100 choristers in three divisions: an elementary chorus for children 7 to 10; a middle school chorus for those from 10 to 14; and high school chorus for teens from 14 to 18. The Young People’s Chorus of Erie will also be a special guest at YPC’s 8th annual Honor Chorus weekend in New York on March 28.
“As the YPC has demonstrated for 20 years in New York, bringing together children with diverse backgrounds is a powerful force that builds unity, community and long-lasting friendships,” said Dr. Bishop. “Until now, students in northwest Pennsylvania may have had great experiences singing in local school or church choirs, but, typically, that exposes them only to children with similar backgrounds.”
“We hope the creation of Young People’s Chorus of Erie is just the first step in a long- held dream to expand the successes of the YPC model to children in other cities,” said Mr. Nunez, “to demonstrate the often untapped capabilities of children of all backgrounds.”
YPC Joins Jazz at Lincoln Center
October 15, 2008
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City has begun a new relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center as its first chorus in residence at its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, located at Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.
YPC’s goals and mission are parallel to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s. Gail Beltrone, Vice President of Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to Jazz at Lincoln Center says, “We are delighted and excited to welcome the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and Francisco Núñez to the Jazz at Lincoln Center family. We think they will be a tremendous asset to an already bustling facility.”
“We are thrilled to be affiliated with such a visionary and ground-breaking organization,” said Francisco J. Núñez, founder and artistic director of the Young People’s Chorus New York City. “We look forward to a long and mutually rewarding association.”
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Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, yearly hall of fame inductions, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curriculum for students, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops and interactive websites.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Lisa Schiff and Executive Director, Adrian Ellis, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce nearly 3,000 events during its 2008-09 season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world.
The perfect Gift Idea for the Holidays
October 03, 2008
An exciting new take on traditional holiday carols is the new CoolSide of Yuletide CD from the chorus best known for commissioning and premiering more than 50 pieces of music from a Who’s Who of composers as part of their Transient Glory series of concerts, recordings and publications. Carols on CoolSide of Yuletide include "Little Drummer Boy," "Let it Snow," "Deck the Halls," as well as "How Many Christmases," a new seasonal anthem of hope sung by a global choir of thousands of choristers from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Available November 25, 2008 at all retail outlets and from the Young People’s Chorus of New York City Web site. Read more about the making of CoolSide of Yuletide, by visiting www.coolsideofyuletide.com.
“Every Stop on the F Train” Video
September 26, 2008
Click here to view Video
“Every Stop on the F Train”
Music (2007) by Michael Gordon
Text from the NYC subway stations
Film by Bill Morrison
Commissioned (2007) by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Michael Gordon’s “Every Stop on the F Train”, premiered by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City at the 2007 “Transient Glory” concert, captured wide-spread attention. In 2008, the work returned in a new format—a music and film collaboration by Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison, whose acclaimed collaborations have produced “Decasia”, “Gotham”, and most recently, “Dystopia”, their conception of urban Los Angeles. The work, given its world premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in January of 2008, was called “dazzling” by the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Morrison’s music/film collaborations are unusual in that the music is written first, before the film portion is created.
New York Times Review - Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis
September 18, 2008
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City was featured in the New York premiere of Oresteia, the only opera of Iannis Xenakis, in three performances at the Miller Theater—September 13, 16, and 17. Oresteia incorporates theater, dance, music and projections in Aeschylus’s epic tragedy, as re-imagined by Xenakis through the lens of Japanese Noh theater. Luca Veggetti choreographed and directed Oresteia, the cast of which also included bass Wilbur Pauley, a chorus of 36 singers, six dancers, and orchestra with Steven Osgood conducting.
Read the Review of Oresteia in The New York Times.
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City took part in two 9/11 commemorations this year
September 12, 2008
The chorus opened the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero by singing the national anthem and closed the service with Sara McLaughlin’s I Will Remember You.
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) under its Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez once again joined the New York Choral Society and the Cathedral Choir of St. Patrick in “The September Concert” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Fifth Avenue and 50th Street) on Thursday, September 11, at 7 p.m. The chorus sang four inspirational works—Ko Matsushita’s Ave Maria, In Paradisum by Ernst Krenek, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, and Is it Possible (I Dream a World) by Eric Dozier, arranged by Mr. Nunez
“The September Concert” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral was free and open to the public and was presented by the September Concert Foundation.
The award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City has sung in 9/11 tributes each year since the first anniversary of the date in 2002 when they were the only New York City choir to sing Mozart’s Requiem in the worldwide Rolling Requiem commemorations of those lost the year before. The chorus, which this past July, won three gold medals in the 2008 Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria, was founded by its Artistic Director Francisco Nunez in 1988 with a commitment to diversity and musical excellence. Comprising more than 1000 children from 7 through 18, the chorus has distinguished itself as one of the finest youth choruses in the world, representing the United States and bringing honor to New York City with performances on three continents. Upcoming performances by the chorus include the Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) with the Juilliard Orchestra and the Oratorio Society of New York conducted by Alan Gilbert at Avery Fisher Hall.
“The September Concert” is a series of free musical events which have been held every year since September 11, 2002, and created to bring communities together, to reaffirm hope for peace, and to celebrate life and universal humanity. In addition to concerts across the country, 50 concerts are planned in Japan, nearly 20 in Italy, as well as cities in Ghana, India, In addition to concerts across the country, 50 concerts are planned in Japan, nearly 20 in Italy, as well as cities in Ghana, India, Morocco, and Mexico. More information is available from www.septemberconcert.org
Once Again, young people's chorus of nYC brings home the gold
July 14, 2008
Concert Chorus and Young Men’s Division of YPC Win Three Gold Medals in 2008 World Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria.
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City have once again established that they are among today’s finest youth choruses anywhere and No. 1 in New York. Competing against 180 choruses from all corners of the globe, the Concert Chorus and the Young Men’s Division conducted by their Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez, scored three gold medals in the Young Men, Treble Chorus, and Gospel and Spiritual categories.
The Concert Chorus opened their competition program with Ernst Krenek’s In Paradisum, and sang three works they recently commissioned and premiered—Michael Gordon’s Every Stop on the F Train, Ko Matsushita’s Warabe-Uta, Jim Papoulis’s Panta Rhei. The Young Men sang Dúlamán by Michael McGlynn, Schumann’s Die Rose Stand im Tau, Matsushita’s Ave Maria, and Laudate Domino by Mr. Núñez. Both choruses came together for Heaven Bound Train, Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down, It Is Possible (I Dream of a World), and Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel. In their first Choir Olympics competition in 2004 in Bremen, Germany, the Concert Chorus and the Young Men brought home two gold medals.
Following their triumph in Graz, Mr. Núñez and the two YPC divisions traveled to Salzburg and Prague for performances including the 2008 Rhapsody Music Festival, before their return home to New York on July 21.
Summer Tours 2008 - Graz, Austria and Powell River, British Columbia
July 1, 2008
July is an eventful month for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. In addition to the national telecast of From the Top at Carnegie Hall, three of the chorus’s five divisions are competing in international choral competitions and performances in Europe and Canada.
"From the top" appearance Sunday, July 27 @ 11:30 am*
June 22, 2008
( *Also available for viewing online on the From The Top website.)
The multicultural Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), among today’s finest youth choruses, will be featured on PBS’s Emmy-nominated From the Top at Carnegie Hall on public television stations throughout the country in July. The program airs in New York City on Thirteen/WNET, Channel 13, on Sunday, July 27, at 11:30 a.m.*
Hosted by pianist Christopher O’Riley, the From the Top at Carnegie Hall series showcases America’s most extraordinary young musicians from 8 to 18, capturing the excitement of a Carnegie Hall performance both onstage and off. It gives a behind-the scenes look at a typical rehearsal conducted by YPC Artistic Director and Founder Francisco J. Núñez and a glimpse into how Mr. Nunez’s vision of combining diversity and musical excellence forever changes the lives of its members. The segment concludes with the chorus singing Luis Kalaff’s Guayacanal and Panta Rhei, a work commissioned by the chorus from Jim Papoulis, a composer who combines contemporary sounds with musical traditions from around the world.
From the Top at Carnegie Hall is a co-production of WGBH, From the Top, and Don Mischer Productions in partnership with Carnegie Hall.
*For stations and times, please to go to the From the Top Web site at www.pbs.org/wgbh/fromthetop/pages/ or e-mail tvcomments@fromthetop.org
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