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The Long Island Choral Society is proud of its unique existence as the oldest continuously performing musical group on Long Island. Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2019, it was founded in 1929 by Dr. Maurice Garabrant who was the organist at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City. Norman Hollett and Robert Kennedy, both organists at the Cathedral, were subsequent conductors. In 1979, Meredith Elaine Baker became the fourth conductor of the Choral Society, continuing after they became independent of the Cathedral. 2019 marked her 40th year leading the group. Michael C. Haigler was chosen to be the fifth conductor in 2021.

The Long Island Choral Society has a reputation for singing the finest works of choral music in performances of the highest caliber with professional soloists and orchestras. This fine all-volunteer choir is comprised of more than forty singers, both amateur and professional, who come from more than forty communities in the Metropolitan area. Among singers of note who have performed with the Long Island Choral Society in the past are John Charles Thomas, Robert Merrill, Gladys Swarthout, Ray deVoll, Betsy Norden, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, and more recently Gary Glaze, Gregory Mercer and Patrick Carfizzi.

Since 1929, the Long Island Choral Society has presented premiere performances of music by Honegger, Langlais, Britten, Bernstein, and Stravinsky. They also performed in the movie This is Cinerama. In 1985 and 1986, the Long Island Choral Society sang with the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point in their 1812 Overture Concert on Labor Day Weekend, the first non- military group to do so. The Choral Society was privileged to sing at Federal Hall in New York City during the celebration of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution in 1987.

In 1998 they made their Carnegie Hall debut in Verdi’s Requiem, and they have returned there several times, notably for two performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Canterbury Choral Society of New York, conducted by one of Meredith Baker’s mentors, Charles Dodsley Walker.

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Long Island Choral Society

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Filmed December 22nd 2019
Meredith Elaine Baker, Conductor
Henry DeVries, Accompanist
Katrina Montagna, Soprano
Ashley Mulcahy, Mezzo Soprano
Bryce Westervelt, Tenor
Michael Pitocchi, Bass-Baritone

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