STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A Staten Island school chorus performed at the inauguration of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. <\/p>\n
The PS 22 Chorus performed \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d with actor and singer Mandy Patinkin during the inauguration at City Hall on Jan. 1. <\/p>\n
The renowned, Webby award-winning chorus \u2014 located at PS 22 in Graniteville \u2014 is directed by Gregg Breinberg, who posted on Facebook to share photos of the performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond proud of the PS22 Chorus for its wonderful performance of \u2018Over The Rainbow\u2019 with the legendary Mandy Patinkin<\/a> at the inauguration of our new NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdan<\/a>i!!!! An incredible honor to be included in this history-making event!!!” wrote Breinberg on Facebook. <\/p>\n The children entered the stage bundled in winter coats and wearing PS 22 Chorus beanies. They joined 73-year-old Patinkin as he led the song, as students sang around him. Upon completing the performance, students and Patinkin received a thunderous applause and standing ovation, including from Mamdani. <\/p>\n New York City Public Schools posted on social media<\/a> to thank Mamdani for including \u201cthe incredible student chorus from PS 22 on Staten Island\u201d for the inauguration.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was so exciting for the kids to sing \u2018Somewhere Over the Rainbow\u2019 with actor Mandy Patinkin. Congratulations to our wonderful students on an amazing performance!\u201d wrote NYC Public Schools.<\/p>\n You can watch the performance during the inauguration video below at the 20-minute mark.<\/p>\n The PS 22 Chorus has been involved in several national performances, including: the televised White House Christmas tree lighting in 2009; the 2011 Academy Awards with a rendition of \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d and Phillip Phillips\u2019 \u201cHome\u201d at the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2012. The chorus also sang four songs at former President Obama\u2019s second inauguration prelude in 2013.<\/p>\n In 2018, Carrie Underwood\u2019s music video for \u201cThe Champion\u201d <\/a>featured a 2012 clip of PS 22 Chorus students. In 2019, the chorus sang at UNICEF\u2019s World Children\u2019s Day event<\/a> at the United Nations.<\/p>\n In 2024, singer\/songwriter Andy Grammer visited PS 22<\/a> for a live performance of his new song, \u201cMagic,\u201d<\/a> which is a track from his album, \u201cMONSTER.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A Staten Island school chorus performed at the inauguration of New York City Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-87640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87640","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=87640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}