NABGC Supporter Spotlight
NABGC Visit to Old First Reformed Church
NABGC Annual 5K Walk
Remembering a True Patron of the Arts
Music Making a Family Value
Boyhood Passion Endures
Listening to the melodious bass/baritone tones in which David Rockefeller speaks today, you might never suspect that he was a soprano until he was around thirteen years old. But, he says unabashedly, that is the case…
Choral Singing is Good for Your Health
Choir supporter Richard Johnson is an enthusiastic fan of choral music for everyone. For a long time, he sang in an Episcopal church choir in Connecticut, but after he married soprano Sunny Hayward, he joined her in New York’s Canterbury Choral Society where he sings baritone…
Throwback! A Star-Spangled Day at the Hyatt!
“I feel like a member of the choir,” former president Bill Clinton said as he stood with the members for a photo. He had just shaken hands with every member of or choir. It’s not every day that the NABGC meets a President. But they did on June 11 when they sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a luncheon where former president Bill Clinton was named “Father of the Year.”…
Alumni Spotlight: Carl Chisolm
When New York photographer Carl Chisolm was around 11, his mother signed him up for the New Amsterdam Boys Choir.
New Member Spotlight: Welcome, Kyle!
The New Amsterdam Boys & Girls Choir welcomes Kyle, our first new member for our 2021-2022 season!
NABGC at Church of the Living Hope
In the fall of 1985, our Founder & Artistic Director James Backmon was hired as the minister of music at the Church of the Living Hope in East Harlem, and the following spring, the congregation gave permission for the newly founded New Amsterdam Boys Choir to be housed at the church.
Warm Memories
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down so much, I find myself remembering the kinds of pleasurable activities that once seemed so usual to our choir…
Choir During COVID-19
On Sunday March 3, the NABGC and ASCC gave a scheduled performance at All Souls Church, not knowing this would be the last performance for the 2019-2020 season. Less than two weeks later, it was decided that NYC public school would temporarily close due to the COVID-19 virus…
NABGC History: Letter from the Director: Twentieth Anniversary (Oct. 2015)
This year the New Amsterdam Boys Choir is celebrating twenty years of providing East Harlem boys with the joys of choral music…
NABGC History: A Walk Through Historic Harlem (2005)
The New Amsterdam Boys Choir held its third annual Walkathon on Saturday, October 22. Despite the early morning rain, there was a great turnout of choristers, family members, friends, and supporters, ready to “take a walk through Historic Harlem.”…
Season Highlights, 2017-18
The New Amsterdam Boys and Girls Choir thanks you for all your support this year! Here are some highlights from our 2017-2018 season!
Season Highlights, 2004-2005
Fifteen boys joined by world-acclaimed soloist Darryl Taylor and the Ensemble Toki performed the choir’s spring concert on Sunday, April 17th to a full house at the newly restored St. Edward the Martyr Church on East 109th Street…