The Big Sing - A Sing New York! Choral Finale
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What: 600+ singersWhen: Monday, June 11, 2012 at 7:30pm; Doors open at 6:30pm
Where: St. Paul the Apostle, 60th and Columbus
Admission: Free! Seating on a space available basis. The public is welcome.
The Sing New York! festival concludes with a gala finale concert the evening of at the St. Paul the Apostle, just south of Lincoln Center. All singers are invited to join forces in a performance of all-time favorite choral works. The evening’s program will feature selected choruses from the works of Handel, Brahms, Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn and more.
The event is free and the public is invited attend and no tickets are required. Seating is on a space available basis, so please come early if you want a seat.
Our Sing New York! gala choral finale does not come without precedent. In 1881, and again in 1882, the 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue in Manhattan was the scene of a music festival held over several days, lauded in the contemporary press as a “brilliant triumph”. The 1881 event boasted some 1,500 singers, hailing from the Oratorio Society of New York and other New York City choruses, and an orchestra of 300 players conducted by Leopold Damrosch. Over five days, beginning on May 3, this impressive ensemble treated audiences to performances of Berlioz’s Requiem, Handel’s Dittingen Te Deum and the beloved Messiah, Rubinstein’s Tower of Babel, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Read more about these events > by downloading a PDF of articles from the archives of the New York Times.
The following year, Theodore Thomas, not to be outdone, conducted a chorus of 3,000 singers. Similar large-scale festivals took place in 1914, 1920, and most recently, the 1991 Carnegie Hall Centennial concert. Our concluding event will, by comparison, be relatively moderate in scale, but no less exuberant in spirit! The public is invited to attend on a space available basis. To learn more about the event, please sign up for a weekly email alert. > Watch the video of the final event >