The Greenwich Village Singers is in its 32nd season performing secular and sacred choral music of the 17th through the 21st centuries. The 50-voice mixed chorus, based in Greenwich Village, attracts members from all over the greater New York metropolitan area. Led by Mark Mangini, Music Director and Principal Conductor, The Greenwich Village Singers is a recognized creative force in New York City’s music community. The Greenwich Village Singers is a vibrant choral ensemble, known for its sociability and inclusiveness, in addition to the intimacy of its performances. The group has a strong commitment to support the community in which it resides, often performing for charity and with other community groups. Over the three decades of its existence, the chorus has performed a wide variety of works, including the Handel oratorios Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah, and Solomon. Baroque and pre-baroque composers also include Bach, Schütz, Monteverdi, Charpentier, and Vivaldi; other performances have encompassed settings of the Mass by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvoràk, Kodály, Stravinsky, and Rossini; a capella works by Bach, Poulenc, Duruflé, Monteverdi, and Bruckner; and twentieth-century works by Respighi, Barber, Britten, Honegger, Copland, Ives, Rutter, Bernstein, Hoiby, Rorem, and Earnest. In 2007 the Greenwich Village Singers teamed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Choral Society of the Hamptons to produce two gala performances of American composer Lukas Foss’s monumental secular cantata The Prairie. The Greenwich Village Singers is committed to the presentation of new works by contemporary composers. This has included two newly-commissioned world premieres in 2005 by Walter Hilse and Jonathan David. The chorus has produced three live-concert CD's: In Dulci Jubilo , Natale in Venezia and Dido & Aeneas . The Greenwich Village Chamber Singers is a select group of 18-20 singers chosen by special audition from the larger chorus to perform on an occasional basis. The Chamber Singers perform with the larger chorus in addition to their own concerts. Recent performances include two at Hunter College (2004) of an a cappella program featuring works of Monteverdi, Byrd, Debussy, Hindemith, Finzi, and Britten; the world premiere of Eleanor Cory's Canto XXVI, The Examination of Divine Love (Caritas)—St. John; the soundtrack for a film commissioned by AT&T and a performance at the Festival of Lights at the Bronx Zoo. The Chamber Singers released their first studio recording of a cappella repertoire, “ My Spirit Sang All Day” in April 2008.
						Berenice Abbott Patchin Place with Jefferson Market Court in Background Silver gelatin print November 24,1937 Museum of the City of New York Federal Arts Project: Changing New York 40.140.194 © Museum of the City of New York