New York City Community Chorus at Holy Apostles

A non-sectarian community chorus
located at 28th St. and 9th Ave in Manhattan

Repertoire and Commissions

Commissions | African-American Spirituals & Songs | Gospel |
Classical, Renaissance & Avant-Garde | Audience Sing-a-Long |
Folk & Traditional | Large Works| Jazz, Musical Theater & Ragtime |
Pop, Rock & Comedy | Hymns & Sacred Works

Commissions


• Philip Corner: Counterpoints: Winter Holiday
• Philip Corner: Organ Om
• Philip Corner: Well, Come Well!
• Thomas Garber, arranger of Antonin Dvořàk: Adoshem Roi (The Lord Is My Shepherd)
• Thomas Garber, arranger: Blessing for the Kindling of the Chanukah Lights
• Thomas Garber, arranger of Sholom Secunda's Chanukah
• Thomas Garber: Fond Memories of Ivye: Three Chassidic Tunes
• Daniel Goode: Again and again (noch amol un take noch amol)
• Daniel Goode: Say Your Piece
• John McDowell: Woods Suite
• Marcel van Rootselaar: Song of Praise
• Michael Wimberly: Kosayambey

African-American Spirituals and Folksongs


• Come and Go with Me to That Land, arr Pamela Warrick-Smith
• Couldn't Hear Noboby Pray, arr. William Dawson
• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
• Do don't touch-a my garment
• Dry Bones
• Great Day
• Swing low, sweet chariot
• The Blind Man, arr. William Grant Still
• This Joy that I have, Gullah song
• This Old Hammer, arr. Walter Ehret

Gospel


• Lead me, guide me, Doris Akers
• O Holy Night, Gospel version, arr. J. David Williams
• Sweet, Sweet Spirit, by Doris Akers
• Walk Him Up the Stairs, from Purlie, by Gary Geld

Classical, Renaissance and Avant Garde


• April is in my mistress' face
• Ave Verum Corpus, W.A. Mozart
• Come let us start a joyful song
• Evening Prayer, from Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck, arr. Thomas Garber
• Gesú Bambino, Pietro Yon
• Glory to God, from Messiah, by G.F. Handel
• Gower Wassail, arr. Jerome Epstein
• He Watching Over Israel, from Elijah, by Felix Mendelssohn
• The Heavens are Telling, Ludwig Beethoven
• L'Homme Armé, arr. Jerome Epstein
• My Man's Gone and Leavin' for the Promis' Land, from Porgie & Bess, by George Gershwin
O Felix Anima
• Nativity Carol, by John Rutter
• Peace, be still, Philip Corner
• Psallite, Michael Praetorius
• Salvation is Created (Russian)
• Song of the Hebrew Slaves, Giuseppe Verdi
• Two Hallelujas, Philip Corner
• Watchman, Tell Us of the Night, by Alan Hovhaness

Audience Sing-A-Longs


• A minuit fut fait un réveil, 16th century French noël
• Ah ya Zeen, Arabic folk song
• Ain't Misbehavin' by Thomas Waller, audience
• Angels we have heard on high
• Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan
• Blue Skies, Irving Berlin
• Bye Bye Blackbird
• The Christmas Song (Chestuts roasting...), Mel Tormé
• Frosty the Snowman
• The Gospel Train
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Hit the Road Jack
• Home for the Holidays
• Il est né, le divin enfant
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Joe Hill
• Joseph est bien marié, 16th century French noël
• Joy to the World
• Les bourgeois de Châtre, 16th century French noël
• Let all mortal flesh keep silence
• Let the Sunshine in
• Let there be peace on earth
• Lift Every Voice and Sing
• Look for the Silver Lining
• Look to the rainbow
• Of the Father's love begotten, plainchant
• Maoz Tsur (Rock of Ages)
• Moscow Nights, V. Solovyov-Sedoy
• Nér li
• O Channukah
• O Come, O Come Emanuel
• O Ihr Kleine Lichtelech
• Over the Rainbow
• Pack Up Your Troubles
• Goodbye! from The Producers
• Rise up Shepherd and Follow
• Simu shemen
• Solidarity Forever
• Stille Nacht
• This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie
• Union Maid
• Vine and Fig Tree
• We Shall Not Be Moved
• We Shall Overcome
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• Winter Wonderland
• You're the Top, Cole Porter

Folk tunes and traditional songs


• A la Media Noche (Puerto Rican aguinaldo)
• A la ru (Spanish folksong)
• Acht Kleine Bruder (Yiddish folksong)
• African Noël, arr. André Thomas
• Alegría (Puerto Rican aguinaldo)
• Bebe Jesu, O Betelehem (Nigerian)
• Cuando el Rey Nimrod (Ladino folksong, arr. Matthew Lazar)
• Dansaron, Catalan (Provençal)
• De Tierra Lejana Venimos (Puerto Rican aguinaldo)
• Down by the waters of Babylon (American round)
• Drey Zikh, Dreydele (Yiddish)
• Free and Equal Blues
• Going Down the Valley (Mennonite)
• Hard Times, Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
• Hava na shira, Hebrew
• I am a Little Dreydl, Yiddish, arr. Zuckerman
• Il est né, le divin Enfant!, traditional French, arr. Nicholas Burt
• I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen, Irish
• La Virgen Lava Pañales, Spanish
• My Home the Beautiful Steppes, Mongolian national hymn
• O Channukah, Yiddish
• O men from the fields, Irish
• Pastores a Belén, Puerto Rican aguinaldo
• Quanno nascette Ninno, Italian
• Si Me Dan Pasteles, Puerto Rican aguinaldo
• Simple gifts, American, arr. Aaron Copland
• Tum balalaika, Russian
• The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
• The Voices That Are Gone, Stephen Foster
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Large Work


• Messe de Minuit pour Noël, Narc-Antoine Charpentier (1700)

Jazz, Musical Theatre, Ragtime


• Aunt Dinah Has Blowed the Horn, Scott Joplin
• Before the parade passes by, from Hello Dolly!, by Jerry Herman
• The Begat from Finian's Rainbow, by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg
• The Eagle and Me from Bloomer Girl, by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
• The Farmer's Daughter from Bloomer Girl, by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
• Fugue for tinhorns from Guys and Dolls, by Frank Loesser
• Hooray for What? by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
• How Are Things in Glocca Morra from Finian's Rainbow, by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg
• It Was Good Enough for Grandma from Bloomer Girl, by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
• Leave the Atom Alone from Jamaica by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
• Oklahoma! Medley by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
• Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Weber
• Seasons of Love from Rent by Jonathan Larson
• Send in the Clowns, from A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
• Sympathy Waltz from The Firefly by Rudolf Friml
• That Great Come and Get It Day from Finian's Rainbow, by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg
• There'll Be No New Tunes on this Old Piano: A Twenties Medley
• There's no business like show business from Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin
• Too Darn Hot from Kiss Me Kate! By Cole Porter
• West Side Story medley, by Leonard Bernstein

Pop and Rock and Comedy Songs


• Autumn Leaves
• Baby, what you goin' to be?, by Natalie Sleeth
• By the Rivers of Babylon, B. Dowe and F. McHaughton
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• From a Distance
• Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, by Irving Berlin
• Good King Kong Looked Out, P.D.Q. Bach
• Ho! Ho! Holidays
• I Say a Little Prayer, by Burt Bacharach
• In My Room, by Brian Wilson
• O Little Town of Hackensack, P.D.Q. Bach
• Play for me a simple melody, Irving Berline
Respect, by Otis Reding
• Samba Santa, Kirby Shaw
• Sleigh Ride, arr. J. David Williams
• White Christmas, Irving Berlin
• Without a song

Sacred Works and Hymn Arrangements


• At the river, arr. Aaron Copland
• Away in a Manger
• By the Waters of Babylon, by Salamone Rossi
• David's Lamentation, by William Billings
• Kol Haneshamah Tehalel Yah, by Bonia Shur
• Let all mortal flesh keep silence, French plainsong
• Maoz Tsur, transcribed by Benedetto Marcello
• Ozi VeZimrat Yah, Yemenite Psalm
• Prière Silencieuse and Lekha dodi from Service Sacré, by Darius Milhaud
• Stille Nacht
• Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One, William Billings
• Wondrous Love, from The Sacred Harp



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