HOLMDEL – A concert, called A New York Romance, by the Wagner College Choir will be held 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
In a series of brief, musical snapshots, the Wagner College Choir, Chamber Singers and Stretto Vocal Jazz Ensemble provide a journey through 175 years of music by composers who lived in, immigrated to, visited for a good while or just kept returning to New York. The program celebrates the native founders of the American Sound who helped us find our nation’s collective musical soul.
Selections will range from Aaron Copland’s “At the River” and Ira Gershwin’s “Sing the Spring” to H.T. Burleigh’s “My Lord” and Duke Ellington’s Come Sunday and many others. From the rich tradition in musical theater, the singers turn to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s retelling of “Romeo and Juliet” on the streets of New York West Side and close with a song from “Hairspray” in which Wagner’s own Kathy Brier appeared in the lead role.
The concert is open to the public. It will be about 90 minutes long with a brief intermission. The suggested donation, free will offering, is $15, which covers the travel cost of the choir and their planned tours to foreign countries.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is at 112 Middletown Road.
