The spring performance by the Queens College Choral Society, Treble Choir, Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra will feature Faur\u00e9\u2019s Requiem, along with the world premiere of Walt Whitman\u2019s Leaves of Grass: Cantata for Soprano Solo, Chorus and Orchestra by Los Angeles-based composer and college alumnus David Stern.<\/p>\n
The show, a major draw every year, is set for Saturday, May 16, at 8 pm in Colden Auditorium, at 153-49 Reeves Ave., on the college campus in Flushing. It will be the society\u2019s 85th annual spring concert.<\/p>\n
Soloists will include an alumna and two students from the college\u2019s Aaron Copland School of Music. Soprano Lydia Saylor has a master\u2019s degree in vocal performance from the music school, while baritone Yilin Chen and soprano Curtlyn Ifill are both vocal performance majors.<\/p>\n
The show will be led by Copland professor James John, who has directed the society since 2002.<\/p>\n
Tickets are $28, or $7 for Queens College students and anyone under 18, and are available via (718) 793-8080 or online at kupferbergcenter.org<\/a>, where more information also is available. Ticketmaster fees apply. Parking is free. For special family ticket pricing, one may contact qcchoralsociety@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Peter C. Mastrosimone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spring performance by the Queens College Choral Society, Treble Choir, Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra will feature Faur\u00e9\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4982,35414,9,24,63,122,10205,124,123],"class_list":["post-223759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-arts","tag-colden-auditorium","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-college-choral-society","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}