Young performers sing works from musicals.
Today Ms. Mazzara will sing works by Purcell and Gilbert and Sullivan.
He also continued to sing, working as a cantor at synagogues in the city and the suburbs.
Accompanied by Wally Harper as music director and conductor, Ms. Cook will sing works by Stephen Sondheim.
The two will sing works by Gounod, Debussy, Mendelssohn and Mompou, as well as present the New York premieres of works by Gabriela Lena Frank, David Bruce and Jonathan Leshnoff.
Warner's preferred device of grouping the chorus, from which soloists step forward to sing, worked well for this chorally rich work.
Accordingly, they sing works by Andrew Smith and the early-twentieth-century Estonian master Cyrillus Kreek, as well as pieces by the Renaissance composers Francisco de Peñalosa and Loyset Compère ("Officium Crucis").
Both groups sang work songs as they labored in the fields; for both, such songs moderated the pace of labor.
"There's no documentation that slaves here were singing work songs, but I bet they were," he said.
Friday's program, "Hear and Now," featured the Broadway baritone Michael Winther singing work by emerging, mostly obscure, theater-oriented songwriters.
Between songs, a translator described a disappearing rural existence in which women farmed from dawn to sunset alongside men, singing work songs that were also about romance.
