On Wednesday, May 29, at 7pm in St. Paul’s Chapel, NOVUS NY and Downtown Voices present the New York premiere of Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street performs Garth Neustadter’s Memory of Water.
A malhar is an Indian raga designed to beckon the rain. Esmail’s A Requiem for Water captures the beauty and awe of water while contemplating the fear and despair that surround its loss. As water exists beyond all beginnings and ends, Memory of Water considers the consciousness of water and how it carries in its memory both the splendor and devastation of our world.
Featuring Sandbox Percussion and Shabnam Abedi, soprano. Conducted by Stephen Sands and Melissa Attebury.
Doors open at 6:15pm. Please be advised that seating is limited on a first come, first served basis.
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Trinity Church Wall Street’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, is a key player on the contemporary music scene. These “expert and versatile musicians” (The New Yorker) perform new music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review).
Praised by The New York Times for its “incisive, agile strength,” Downtown Voices is a semiprofessional choir made up of volunteer singers and GRAMMY®-nominated members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Directed by Stephen Sands since its 2015 inception, Downtown Voices has performed works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, Webern, Ginastera, Janáček, James MacMillan, and Philip Glass.
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has redefined the realm of 21st-century vocal music with peerless interpretations of both early and new works. Critics have praised the choir’s performances as “thrilling” (The New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (The Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (The New York Times).
