NYCS Opens 52nd Season With Concert Featurning Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey 12/7

On Tuesday, December 7th at 8:00pm, New York Choral Society (NYCS) will officially begin its 52nd season with a holiday celebration at Carnegie Hall featuring Grammy Award winners Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary. Led by Music Director Emeritus, Robert De Cormier, the iconic singers will join the Choral Society in a performance of traditional holiday carols as well as their newly recorded version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. The legendary duo will also perform a collection of their time-honored classics including 'This Land is Your Land', 'Weave Me The Sunshine' and the Peter, Paul & Mary standard 'Puff, The Magic Dragon'. The festive evening will close with a new arrangement of 'Auld Lang Syne' written by Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, in tribute of the late Mary Travers.

Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers spent their years together communicating personal, political and social imperatives. The conviction that each individual can make a difference energized Peter, Paul and Mary's political and social activism through the years. Having witnessed the enormous changes wrought by the early advocacies of which they were a part, Peter and Noel remain optimistic as society confronts the challenges and pervasive cynicism of our times. The legacy the trio inherited as well as the legacy they leave will continue to inspire, because theirs is a music and message of activism and hope.

The concert will take place in the Stern Auditorium at 881 Seventh Avenue. Tickets prices range from $40-$150 and can be purchased online at nychoral.org or carnegiehall.org or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office by telephone at 212-247-7800 or in person from 11 am-6 pm.