Musica Viva NY Presents: EINE SCHUBERTIADE

Musica Viva NY wraps up this virtual 2020-21 season with a concert of gorgeous Lieder by Franz Schubert, featuring all the Musica Viva NY soloists, accompanied on the piano by Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez. The choir will sing the Kyrie from the Mass in G major and "Ave Maria" (Ellens dritter Gesang, D. 839) arranged for solo voice, choir, and organ. Join us for this special evening to enjoy a rich musical experience. We hope this will be the last concert that we present virtually, and that when we return in the autumn we will be in our newly renovated space of All Souls Church, Musica Viva NY’s concert home.

Pre-concert talk with  George Stauffer: 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific
Concert: 5pm Pacific / 2pm Pacific

Digital access to this concert will be provided to ticket holders.

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About Musica Viva NY

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.

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 Czechia (2006), and Italy (2012).