Legendary musicians Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, and Stevie Ray Vaughan have all given memorable performances at Carnegie Hall, and tomorrow night, the Barnard-Columbia Chorus will have their turn. The choristers will sing Bach’s B-Minor Mass---a two to two-and-a-half hour piece---at the prestigious music venue at 8:00 pm to benefit the people of Haiti.
The chorus has sung in other venues before---like our local Riverside Church---but never at Carnegie Hall, which boasts a main hall with over 2,500 seats on five different levels. For this concert, the chorus self-selected 40 singers from their usual 65 members because they are teaming up with another choir, “L’Ensemble Médical” from Munich, Germany, a chorus composed entirely of doctors in the spirit of the concert’s beneficiary: Doctors Without Borders.
