New York Starbright Songs of Summer Concert
Sunday | June 18 2023 | 6 pm
$10 student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.
Produced by Impact Culture NYC, Songs of Summer is a showcase of how Asian American choirs celebrate life through song. Featuring the New York Happy City Chorus, the New Jersey Philharmonic Chorus, Starry Arts Group Children’s Chorus, and Melody Children’s Choir. The evening features a mixed palette of musical genres and songs from different eras and global regions. From Irish and Uighur folk songs to Andrew Lloyd Webber to Italian Opera to pop songs and new works. Music is resonance - and the selected songs are all a reflection of the journeys that the singers themselves have taken, as they move around the world, physically and artistically. Some of our singers are professional and seasoned stage performers, while others are just beginning their musical journeys. "Not all who wander are lost", indeed, because in song, and in choir, these cultural adventurers located a sense of community, joy, and belonging. If you, too, understand placelessness without music, then this concert is not to be missed.
Ensembles:
Melody Children’s Choir, Conducted by Melody Li
New Jersey Philharmonic Chorus, Choir Director WeiWei Hu, Conducted by Yalan Zeng and Yan Liu, Piano Accompaniment by Bingbing Zhang and Doris Tao.
Starry Arts Group Children’s Chorus, Conducted by Rebecca Xiao Xing Shen
Ballet by Coco Li and Danny Wei
New York Happy City Chorus, Conducted by Baochun Lu, Piano Accompaniment by Yanjiao Shi
Featuring soloists:
Ya Dong Sun, Chuan Yun Liu, Wei Chu, Bowen Liang, Joyce Li, Ryan Wang, Lucas Zhang, Yaxuan Wang, George Yang, Ella Chai, and Dong Zhao.
Production Team:
Executive Director: Sandy Ying Li
Director’s Assistant: Jiao Li
Stage Mangers: Wallace Chen, Xingxue Stella Zhang
Assistant Directors: Tina Xu, Qiuting Lan
Music Director: Xiren Wang, Dong Zhao
Hosts: Xiren Wang, Rocky
Photography by Jerry Lin
Videography by Jeffrey Wu, Jeffsphotograph
Presented by Impact Culture Inc.
IRISH FOLK SONG - Molly Malone
ALAN MENKEN, BENJ PASEK, and JUSTIN PAUL - Speechless
BRUNO COULAIS and CHRISTOPHE BARRATIER - Vois sur ton Chemin
CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG - Bring Him Home
WENGANG ZHANG and HUA GUAN - Our Land
KAI CHOU LI and BING ZHOU - I Want To Say Thank You
TCHAIKOVSKY - The Nutcracker - Sugar Pas De Deux: Adagio
ALAN MENKEN and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ - God Help The Outcast
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - Memory, from Cats the Musical
SHIGUANG WANG and HONGWEI HU - The Song of YangTze
ROLF LØVLAND and BRENDAN GRAHAM - You Raise Me Up
