NYC Master Chorale Celebrates Fifth Annivesary with Concert at Lincoln Center May 20, 2011

The New York City Master Chorale (www.nycmasterchorale.org), under the direction of Artistic Director Thea Kano, will celebrate its fifth anniversary by performing contemporary composer Paul Leavitt’s Requiem for the first time ever in New York City.

Requiem has been praised by The Washington Post’s Contributing Critic Cecelia Porter. In her review, Porter noted that “the Requiem successfully combines the sense of overwhelming grief and consolation that suffuse the requiems of Mozart, Verdi, Brahms and Fauré.”

The Chorale will be joined by approximately 60 singers from Washington, DC including singers from Reformation Lutheran Church and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC to perform Leavitt’s Requiem. A full orchestra and several vocal soloists, including soprano Paige Cutrona, whom The New York Times has described as “passionate” and “vocally striking,” mezzo-soprano Erica Joan Haman, tenor Douglas Benoit, and baritone Gregory Stuart, will be featured. The performance will also include an a cappella piece, Ubi Caritas, by Maurice Duruflé, as well as the composer’s Messe cum Jubilo.

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