Our Concerts

Honoring History, Culture, and the Joy of Song
OUR CONCERTS THROUGH THE YEARS

From folk and gospel to Broadway and pop, our concerts reflect the diversity and spirit of our community. Take a look back at performances from the past thirty years.

  • Over the years, we’ve approached concert themes in many different ways. Sometimes we’ve chosen to commemorate the anniversary of a historical event — such as our concert of all women composers on the centenary of the 19th Amendment, our anti-war program on the anniversary of the Armistice of 1919, or our concerts featuring music from the Woodstock Festival and the Stonewall jukebox of 1969. We also performed a full program of Woody Guthrie’s songs on his centenary.

    At other times, we’ve explored cultural and ethnic traditions, including concerts of slave songs, music from the African diaspora, and a program of Spanish zarzuelas. And we’ve often highlighted the work of individual composers and lyricists, such as Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Yip Harburg, and Dorothy Fields.

    Jack Eppler: Founder and Artistic Director

Spring 2026 Concert: Looking Back, Moving Forward

Winter 2025 Concert: Three Decades of Song

    • We Are the Music Makers

    • Everyday People

    • I Am Come into my Garden

    • In My Room

    • Lean on me

    • Ain't I a Woman with Chorus Soloist, Rachel Simmons-Northcross

    • This River with Guest Soloist, Anthony Turner

    • Y entonces

    • Kol Haneshamah

    • O Mary, Don't You Weep

    • Rivers of Babylon with Chorus Soloist, Lea Ibragimov

    • Oma wani yea

    • Chanukah with Chorus Soloist, Ursala Macfarlane

    • Lighting of the Menorah with Chorus Soloist, Bonnie Rosenberg

    • MEDLEY: Hava na shira / A ya zein / Peace, be still

    • Bring Him Home with Chorus Soloist, Neal Goff

    • Send in the Clowns

    • Lost in the Stars with Guest Soloist, Anthony Turner

    • I’ll be home for Christmas with Chorus Soloist, Owen Mayfair

    • Il est né with Small Treble Chorus: Yumi Choi, Rachel Courtney, Gigi Etienne, Nealie Glasser, Rachel Glasser, Trude Glasser, Jenny Greeman, Mary Greenberg, Tyleah Hawkins, Carolyn Holtzman, Lea Ibragimov, Judith Jablonka, Amber Jahn, Edith Kealey, Kseniya Kosmina, Marliece Krebs, Judy Lasko, Yining Liu, Ursula Macfarlane, Sharon McLaughlin, Natalia Meneses, Nadia Morris, Hanee Park, Susan Petito, Sarah Porter, Katie Rasheed, Bonnie Rosenberg, Gale Sorel, Liudmyla Voinalovych

    • Silver Bells

    • What the world needs now

Spring 2025 Concert: The British Invasion!

    • Sumer Is Icumen In

    • If Music Be the Food of Love

    • We’ll Meet Again

    • Don’t Sleep in the Subway

    • Let It Be

    • Wild Horses

    • Satisfaction

    • Life on Mars

    • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

    • Your Song

    • Michelle

    • Because

    • Help

    • Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

    • Moonraker

    • Skyfall

    • Smooth Operator

    • I Fought the Law

    • Somewhere Only We Know

    • With or Without You

    • Stairway to Heaven

Winter 2024 Concert: Inheritors of the Dream

    • We Are the Music Makers

    • People Get Ready

    • I Never Felt Such Love In My Soul Before

    • Tell All My Father's People Don’t You Grieve for Me

    • The Lord's Prayer

    • Total Praise

    • Song of our Savior

    • L’chah dodi

    • All I Want for Christmas Is You

    • I Heard It through the Grapevine

    • Ain't No Sunshine

    • Purple Rain

    • You Keep me Hanging On 

    • Let's Stay Together

    • A Prayer

    • You Are the Sunshine of my Life

    • Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing

Spring 2023 Concert: Celebrating Harlem Renaissance

    • Take the A Train

    • I’m Beginning to See the Light

    • In a Mellow Tone

    • Satin Doll

    • Solitude

    • Mood Indigo

    • Honeysuckle Rose

    • Ain’t Misbehavin’

    • The Joint is Jumpin’

    • Lush Life

    • You Showed me the Way

    • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

    • Come Sunday

    • Sinner, Please Don’t Let this Harvest Pass

    • Scenes from the Ballet, Lenox Avenue

    • Day In and Day Out

    • Misty

    • Between Two Rivers

    • Goodnight, Angeline

    • Baltimore Buzz

    • I’m Just Wild About Harry

    • Shuffle Along

Winter 2023 Concert: Divine Ladies

    • Back to Before

    • Oh Mary, Don’t you Weep

    • You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman

    • The Woman in the Moon

    • Sinner Man

    • If I Could Turn Back Time

    • Proud Mary

    • Think

    • True Colors

    • Hymn to the Theotokos

    • Anandamayi (traditional Hindu Kieran) with Foreigner’s I Want to know What Love Is

    • Après un Réve

    • Als die alte Mutter

    • She’s Always a Woman to Me

    • Once in Royal David’s City

    • Xicochi

    • Ocho Kandelikas

    • Ain’t I a Woman

    • Where is it Written

    • A Piece of Sky

Spring 2022 Concert: Let’s Get Loud

    • E Oru O

    • Firework

    • Rumours

    • Bye Bye Love

    • Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Going to the Chapel

    • Let’s Get Loud

    • Y Entonces

    • Silentio Nocivo

    • Esmeralda

    • We were Diamonds

    • Save the Country

    • It’s too Late

    • Don’t Wait Too Long

    • Time After Time

    • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    • Jolene

    • Rehab

    • Am I Wrong

    • Let the River Run

Winter 2022 Concert: To New York with Love

    • Seasons of Love

    • If I Loved You

    • I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

    • Taking a Chance on Love

    • New York State Of Mind

    • I’ll be Home for Christmas

    • It Had to be You

    • We Kiss in a Shadow

    • Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

    • So Far Away

    • Ain’t Misbehavin’

    • Gravity

    • Here Comes the Rain Again

    • River

    • Hail Mary

    • Barukh Ate, Zingt Der Tate

    • One Little Candle

    • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

    • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    • Maria

    • Somebody to Love

    • (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

Fall 2021: Virtual Video Concert

In the midst of the pandemic, our chorus continued to share music with our community. We rehearsed on Zoom, recorded our vocal parts at home, and combined those recordings into virtual videos. In April 2020, we released our first video, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” followed by eleven more that premiered during a live-streamed performance on November 1.

    • Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

    • Save the Country

    • March of the Women

    • Fragile

    • Come to my Garden

    • You Are So Beautiful

    • Up Above My Head

    • Back to Before

    • Do You Hear the People Sing?

    • Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

    • Home

    • A Change is Gonna Come

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I was deeply moved by the NYC Community Chorus’s concert, which celebrated the music of the Harlem Renaissance.

It was incredibly heartwarming to see this diverse group of people coming together and making music in the community. Overall, this concert was healing for my soul, and it made me realize how important it is for a group like this to exist.

JOEL MOREL | AUDIENCE MEMBER