New Music Series Vocal Currents Reimagines and Redefines Today’s Music

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On Saturday, November 3, in a concert of music as diverse as the young singers who performed it, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City presented Vocal Currents, its newest commissioning series, at Merkin Hall.  With WNYC’s John Schaefer hosting, Francisco Núñez and Elizabeth Núñez conducting, and most of the composers on hand to talk about their compositions, YPC performed eight 2018 commissions and the New York premiere of a 2010 composition, with visual images, lighting, and choreography that enhanced the performances and enchanted the enthusiastic, capacity audience.
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Choristers performing at Vocal Currents, YPC’s newest commissioning series
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Francisco J. Núñez and radio personality John Schaefer, host of WNYC’s Soundcheck
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Francisco J. Núñez and composer Douglas J. Cuomo
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John Schaefer and composer Nils Vigeland
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John Schaefer and composer Yuka Honda
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John Schaefer and composer Eve Beglarian
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John Schaefer and composer Arturo O’Farrill
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John Schaefer and composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez
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Francisco J. Núñez and composer Tim Sharp as he accompanies the chorus in his piece “I Don’t Need No Man”
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YPC Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez
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Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Núñez
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Choristers performing at Vocal Currents, YPC’s newest commissioning series
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Composers on stage for their final bows at Vocal Currents
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Photos by Stephanie Berger 
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