Transient Glory V concert by YPC features seven new works
(April 2006)
The Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC) will hold its fifth Transient Glory concert on Saturday, April 29 at 8p.m. This year's concert will be held at The Society for Ethical Culture at Two West 64th Street. Conducted by Founder and Artistic Director Francisco J. Nunez, the award-winning Concert Chorus of YPC, which has been hailed for its "pan-stylistic programming and supreme precision" by Gramophone magazine, will sing a program that includes world premieres by a fascinating array of composers: Mark Adamo, Derek Bermel, John Corigliano, Thea Musgrave, Bobby Previte, David Sawer, and pop singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, the latter appearing with the Stephen Petronio Dance Company.
The Transient Glory concerts were created by Francisco Nunez to celebrate the glorious, though fleeting, voices of young people, a sound that imbues the music they sing with a particular poignancy and innocence. Over the past five years, YPC's Transient Glory concerts have premiered works commissioned from such prominent composers as Michael Torke, John Tavener, David del Tredici, Bright Sheng, Benjamin Lees and many others. Transient Glory has now expanded into a publication series of those commissions by spearheaded by Boosey & Hawkes, enabling youth choruses throughout the world to perform this music, and a series of Transient Glory CDs on Vital Records, the first of which was released to critical raves.
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