He may host voice ensembles with young people to engage with poetry, perhaps taking a poem by Walt Whitman and then having a group write a poem together to perform in spoken word or with music.
An arrangement of John Dowland's gentle "Come Again" for voice and lute, featuring Sting (who has recorded Dowland's music), sounded odd in this version for piano, violin, voice and ensemble backing.
The program, which featured not only Dawn Upshaw, singing classic works for voice and ensemble by Stravinsky and Ravel, but also a luminous arrangement of four Schubert songs by Osvaldo Golijov, was both alluring and bold, and the playing was uniformly first-rate.
They would have to be to sing the contemporary repertory the 16-voice ensemble specializes in.
GARDEN CITY Adelphi University Performing Arts Center The Adelphi Chorus, a 60-voice ensemble, under the direction of Michael Hume.
The membership of the 80-voice ensemble, incidentally, represents more than 25 different communities in the area.
Musical Stories Voci de Camera, the 19-voice ensemble, presents "Tell Me a Story," today at 3 p.m.
This hourlong show also features the 360-voice ensemble singing "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World," accompanied by ballet dancers.
"They found members by looking in the phone book for Japanese names," said Higeno Okamoto, a spokeswoman for the 35-voice ensemble.
He demonstrated some of those notions at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Wednesday evening, leading his six-voice ensemble in one of its signature pieces, Machaut's "Notre Dame Mass," in the center's free Movado Hour series.
Yet, on Sunday evening, the Crossing, the impressive 24-voice ensemble, ended a varied program of pensive, contemporary choral pieces with a performance of this nearly 40-minute score, which won Mr. Lang the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2008.
