About Transient Glory®
Symposium
For
the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute’s first season, the Weill Music Institute
has partnered with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) for the Transient Glory Symposium, a three-day
workshop that focuses on training choral conductors to work with newly
composed, serious music for young voices. During this workshop, participants
explore in depth this new genre in three ways. On one day, they will prepare
for the public performances to be presented. Another day, they will explore the
literature by learning, examining, and interpreting a range of pieces written
from the Transient Glory series. Sessions
on another day focus on effectively presenting the music to singers and
audiences through conducting lessons, score analysis, and presentation methods.
This workshop is an offshoot of YPC’s highly acclaimed Transient Glory concert series, and its mission has been a passion
of YPC’s MacArthur “Genius” Award–winning Artistic Director and Founder
Francisco J. Nuñez for more than 10 years. For this Transient Glory Symposium, eight conducting fellows from around the
country were selected by application and joined by eight associates to work
with Francisco J. Núñez and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. All of
the music studied during the symposium will be performed in three nights of
concerts at different New York City venues: (Le) Poisson Rouge, the 92nd Street
Y, and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Each concert features choral works for
young voices conducted by symposium fellows, chamber music selections by
featured composers performed by the JACK Quartet, newly commissioned world
premieres, as well as interviews with the composers hosted by John Schaefer of
WNYC, New York Public Radio.