New York Choral Society Announces Three New Board Members
The new board members are: Alain Obadia, Darin Arita, and David Munkittrick.by Chloe Rabinowitz
New York Choral Society has announced the appointment of 3 new members to its Board of Trustees: Alain Obadia Darin Arita, and David Munkittrik.
Board Chair Michael Colosi comments, In a time of great challenges for performing arts organizations, these new trustees bring valuable skills and insights to support our goal to be New York s premiere symphonic chorus and to continue bringing great performances of live choral music to New York.
New trustee Alain Obadia, the imaginative and creative CEO of Quantum Technologies Laboratories, Inc., provides clients with new generation technology solutions to protect their work. Obadia contributed to the creation La Fugue, based in Paris, France, a niche travel company offering clients exceptional experiences with musical events in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Vienna, and New York. Alain also o
Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance
Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
Larissa Gerszke and Chalvar Monteiro in Claudia Schreier’s duet to “God Is Seen at the Irondale, a church turned performance space, in Brooklyn.Credit.via New York Choral Society
By Marina Harss
Watching: New York Choral Society, ‘God Is Seen’
Like dance and the other performing arts, choral singing has had a tough year. Singing is breath, breath carries germs, and these days large groups of people singing together is the stuff of nightmares. But the urge to raise voices in song together, like the urge to move to music, is powerful. Now, the New York Choral Society is combining the two dance and song in a new short film to be released on Feb. 23.