The Cecilia Chorus of New York Presents a Concert on May 3 at Carnegie Hall - Brahms, Elgar and a World Premiere by The Brothers Balliett

The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director will present Brahms, Elgar and The Brothers Balliett, on May 3 at 8:00 PM at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan.  The concert will be presented with orchestral accompaniment.

The mezzo-soprano solo voice will be featured in a triptych of choral-orchestral works.  The World Premiere of Fifty Trillion Molecular Geniuses which the chorus commissioned from The Brothers Balliett, setting text from the bestseller My Stroke of Insight by neuroscientist and TED speaker Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, will be framed by the Alto Rhapsody by Johannes Brahms and The Music Makers by Edward Elgar. 

Soloists will be mezzo-sopranos Renée Tatum http://reneetatum.com/ , Naomi Louisa O’Connell http://www.naomioconnell.com and Amanda Lynn Bottoms https://www.amandalynnbottoms.com/. Ms. Tatum, who is appearing with The Cecilia Chorus of New York courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera, appeared with the chorus in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (December 2017) and Ms. Bottoms sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the chorus in May 2016 (her Carnegie Hall debut).

Identical twins Brad Balliett and Doug Balliett have been performing together and collaborating on compositions for nearly thirty years. They’re hosts of the WQXR Q2 radio show The Brothers Balliett.  In 2017, they wrote a version of Seneca’s Oedipus the King for The Cecilia Chorus of New York.

Mark Shapiro was appointed the seventh Music Director of The Cecilia Chorus of New York in 2011. The New York Times has characterized his conducting as "insightful" and acknowledged its “virtuosity and assurance,” and “uncommon polish.”  The Cecilia Chorus of New York, winner of the ASCAP/Chorus America Alice Parker Award, was founded in 1906 and has evolved into one of the finest avocational performing arts organizations in New York City.

Tickets for the May 3 concert are $25 to $85, and can be purchased online at https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2019/05/03/The-Cecilia-Chorus-of-New-York-with-Orchestra-0800PM.              

For more information about this concert, visit http://www.ceciliachorusny.org/ or call 646-638-2535. For transportation info, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx.

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