The fundraiser was held at The Griffin N.Y.C., and guests enjoyed a performance by Music Unites' exuberant PS 153 choir with The Bravery's Michael Zakarin.
At the original church, members felt crowded by Sunday-morning tourists, but the new building offers ample room to enjoy the choir's exuberant renditions of gospel standards and the Rev.
At the song's climax, with the choir's exuberant support, I almost expect her to overcome the self-inflicted insults to her instrument and reputation; and blast into a past when she starred opposite Kevin Costner as the powerhouse siren.
Those pieces were clear precursors of much of the exuberant contemporary music of the second half, which the choir sang with infectious energy.
The choir is at its best in the several exuberant choruses praising God's majesty and power.
February 21 2015 Trinity Church Wall Street's outstanding new-music orchestra, under the exuberant leadership of Julian Wachner, will team up with the church's choir and the Washington Chorus in a concert that offers two monuments of twentieth-century music.
Even more astonishing was the chromatic mist at the end of the Confiteor, in which Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir made the music float, out of time and out of tonality, before another exuberant affirmation of the promise of the afterlife.
Comparisons with the Dawn sea interlude from Peter Grimes are inescapable but, while the occasional bird skitters across Britten's score, Matthews's Toward Sunrise, given an exuberant world premiere by Lahav Shani and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Lichfield festival last week, has whole choirs of birds trilling in ecstatic praise of first light.
