{"id":568,"date":"2006-12-09T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/new-amsterdam-singers\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:56:03","slug":"new-amsterdam-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/09\/new-amsterdam-singers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Amsterdam Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago or so, somebody wrote me. They had been looking for information on El Nino by John Adams, came across my account of it<\/a>, noticed that I was now living in New York, and suggested that I check out the New Amsterdam Singers<\/a>, where a friend of theirs sang. Intrigued, I checked out the website, noticed they had a concert of Renaissance music coming up, and went to go see it last night.<\/p>\n

It was lovely. I was very impressed with the chorus. It was bigger than I expected for an a cappella classical chorus, at about 70 singers, but very good. I’d gone to see another chorus earlier this spring and was very disappointed because I’m a snob, so it was great to see a chorus that was unified in tone, with great diction, who actually looked up from their music, etc. It’s definitely a group I would consider singing with if I had time to join a chorus.<\/p>\n

I was also impressed with the repertoire choices. I sang in various a cappella chamber choruses for something like ten years of my life, so I’ve done a lot of the standard repertoire, yet I had only sung one piece on the program. Coming in, I had been most excited to see the Victoria Salve Regina<\/i>, as Victoria is one of my favorite composers, but that piece didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. Fortunately, there was a lot of other great music on the program, including a couple Handl motets, Senfl’s Ave Maria, gratia plena<\/i>, Tomkins’s When David Heard<\/i>, and the concluding Buxtehude Missa Brevis<\/i>. So definite props to Clara Longstreth, the conductor, for finding interesting music in a space I thought I knew well. <\/p>\n

P.S. I was sitting in the concert last night, and realized that the past ten months is the longest I have gone without singing in a chorus since my junior year of high school, when I first joined a chorus. I definitely missed it last night. Getting to do something right-brained regularly was good for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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