New York, NY — New York City’s leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, presents ALL’S WELL SISTERS: Blanket of Snow, a one-night only holiday concert on the Upper East Side at All Souls NYC on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Inspired by the Jazz Age’s Boswell Sisters, the dynamic jazz vocal trio All’s Well Sisters known for its playful energy and tight harmonies will blend the charm of 1930’s New Orleans swinging jazz with the sparkle of holiday favorites. From jazz renditions of “A Child Is Born” and “Let It Snow” to fresh takes on “Boswellified” favorites and original music, the All’s Well Sisters and its stellar jazz rhythm section promises an evening brimming with warmth, wit, and winter cheer. Three Musica Viva NY soloists will make cameo appearances with the performer group.
"Holiday time IS music time. It’s a part of the fabric of the holidays as far as we’re concerned, and we’re so excited to be a part of that tapestry for the Musica Viva NY Winter Concert,” says Katie McCreary, Musica Viva NY soprano soloist and co-founder of All’s Well Sisters. “We know how to have a good time, we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and we tend to laugh a lot at performances… but the music? The music is smart, complicated, and thrilling. We base our music off the Boswell Sisters who wrote songs using jazz harmony and imitated the instrumental improvisation by using nonsense syllables (scatting). The Boswells, like all good jazz composers, took songs you already knew and changed the meter, changed the mode, changed the tempo and created counter melodies. They turned melodies backwards, inside out and on their head - all within one song! After this concert, we hope audiences will love the Boswells as much as we do!"
Musica Viva NY has a long history of nurturing young artists including Renee Fleming, Samuel Ramey and Aeolus Quartet, all of whom were at the beginning of their careers when they were presented by Musica Viva NY. In recent years, Musica Viva NY has continued this tradition by providing a platform for exceptionally talented artists such as Bangladeshi-American Shabnam Abedi and jazz pianist Joe Block, Mexican soprano Guadalupe Peraza and her multicultural project Mexamorphosis, and rising opera stars from Spain’s Teatro Real’s Crescendo program. This season continues that legacy—now with a distinctive jazz-inflected reach—as Musica Viva NY is thrilled to collaborate with its soloist Katie McCreary and the All’s Well Sisters in presenting emerging talent. This will be the All’s Well Sisters inaugural professional live concert presented by an organization.
About All’s Well Sisters
All’s Well Sisters started as a remote project during the Covid-19 pandemic influenced by the American Jazz Age trio, the Boswell Sisters. Co-founded by singer Katie McCreary, this all-female singing jazz trio got inspired by the Queen of England’s speech in which she reassured the world that “we will meet again,” referring to Vera Lynn’s 1939 song of the same title. The song became famous during WWII for providing hope to a ravaged world. The All’s Well Sisters “Boswellified” the song and kept looking for more uplifting songs to sing. The New York City-based group sings favorite American tunes with Boswell Sisters-tinged arrangements.
About Musica Viva NY
“Musica Viva NY: sounds of the city…with a commitment to new music and diverse composers, New York City choir Musica Viva NY is paving the way for daring collaborations” – Choir & Organ
Musica Viva NY is a non-profit arts organization that was established nearly 50 years ago. Its mission is to bring world-class music to a wide community through an annual concert series, an active community engagement program, and an ambitious artistic vision. Under the baton of Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez since 2015, Musica Viva NY strives to offer joy, solace and renewal in a complex world by presenting new compositions and classic masterworks in transformative interpretations that ennoble the human spirit.
Musica Viva NY’s superb chamber choir and world class collaborating instrumentalists make their concert home in Manhattan’s historic All Souls Church. It regularly combines its presentation of the classical repertoire with less widely known works, as part of its commitment to perform the works of living American composers, women composers and composers of color, including works that address social, racial or environmental issues. Composers whose works have been featured in recent Musica Viva NY performances include Florence Price, Alexandra T Bryant, Steve Reich, Frank Ticheli, Missy Mazzoli, Alice Walker, Joel Thompson and Jesse Montgomery.
Musica Viva NY has commissioned and premiered numerous works by contemporary composers including Bora Yoon, Seymour Bernstein, Elena Ruehr, Joseph Turrin, Bruce Saylor, Jean-Louis Petit, Eugenio Toussaint, Gilda Lyons, Richard Einhorn, Trent Johnson and Trevor Weston.
Beyond high-quality concert performances, Musica Viva NY also serves the communities of New York City through a growing variety of rich community engagement programs. Currently, Musica Viva NY partners with New York city public schools, extracurricular youth ensembles, New York Public Library branches and the All Souls’ Monday Night Hospitality dinner program, offering free performances, artist clinics, interactive workshops, and more. Musica Viva NY has nurtured young artists throughout its half century of existence. Great musicians who have been Musica Viva NY singers and soloists include the Metropolitan Opera stars Samuel Ramey and Renée Fleming, and Broadway’s Aladdin, Michael Maliakel.
Its discography’s latest addition Crimson Roses: Contemporary American Choral Music (Naxos) features a crowning performance by mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. An indispensable recording of contemporary American choral music by Joseh Turrin, Richard Einhorn, and Gilda Lyons, Crimson Roses is hailed for its “warmth, vitality and cohesion (Gramophone),” and “superbly articulated, tonally rich and keenly balanced exceptional performances (Fanfare).”
The organization was founded as an annual concert series in 1977 by Walter Klauss, who directed the group for 38 years, and adopted the name “Musica Viva” in 1985. Under Walter Klauss’ baton the choir toured in Paris (2004), Germany and Czechoslovakia (2006) and Italy (2012). In 2026 it will tour in Spain under the auspices of Teatro Real of Madrid.
Ticketing Program Information:
Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. (pre-concert talk at 4:00 p.m.)
All Souls NYC, 1157 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Train 6 to 77th St or 4/5/6 to 86th St
Tickets: $50 general/$30 students/FREE for children 12 and under. Tickets are available from MusicaViva.org.
Performers:
Katie McCreary - AWS founding member, soprano
John Evans - AWS founding member, arranger, guitar and keys
Tynan Davis - AWS founding member, alto
Caitlin Caruso Dobbs - AWS alternate member, mezzo-soprano
Nathan Siler - MVNY tenor
Shawn Bartels - MVNY tenor
Nick Hay - MVNY bass
Jennifer Hodge - bass player
Justin Hart - AWS founding member, percussion arrangement and kit player
Program:
Let It Snow, Jule Styne, arr. John Evans
‘Tis Autumn, Henry Nemo, arr. John Evans
Here Comes the Sun, George Harrison, arr. John Evans
Creole Love Call, Duke Ellington and Adelaide Hall
Comes Once in a Lifetime, Jule Styne
Make Someone Happy, Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, arr. John Evans
Blanket of Snow, Katie McCreary and John Evans
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, traditional, arr. John Evans
Heebie Jeebie Blues, Boyd Atkins, arr. The Boswell Sisters
Crazy People, Edgar Leslie and Jimmy Monaco, arr. The Boswell Sisters
Right Hand Man, Wayne Kirkpatrick, arr. John Evans
Mele Kalikimaka, Robert Alexander Anderson, arr. John Evans and the Digi Sisters
60 Seconds in a Minute, Mills Brothers
Sing Sweet Nightingale, Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, arr. John Evans
Everybody Loves My Baby, Spencer Williams, arr. The Boswell Sisters
Everybody Eats, Cab Calloway, arr. John Evans and All’s Well Sisters
A Child is Born, Thad Jones
We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Lin Manuel Miranda, arr. John Evans
Coffee and a Crepe, Katie McCreary and John Evans, arr. John Evans (based on a tune by Lily Rose Peck)
We’ll Meet Again, Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, arr. John Evans
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