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The chorus returns to Japan in summer 2009 for a four-week, 19-city tour of the country and was recently honored to sing for Pope Benedict XVI at Yankee Stadium on his first papal visit to the U.S. The chorus just returned from Europe, where they won three gold medals in the 2008 Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria, followed by performances in Salzburg and Prague. At the same time, the chorus was featured on PBS-TV on From the Top at Carnegie Hall. Each year, YPC serves more than 1,100 children from 7 to 18 from the New York City area through its core after-school program and its satellite program in nine of the city's public schools. Over the years, YPC has brought together hundreds of children of all ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds who have worked together, learned together, made lifelong friends and developed not only their exceptional artistic and creative abilities, but also the skills that will serve them throughout their lives. The Young People's Chorus of New York City- residence at the 92nd Street Y; Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street; and WNYC, New York Public Radio-has received a 2005 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and Chorus America's 2006 Education Outreach Award. They have also been cited as a recognized leader in demonstrating a strong commitment to urban at-risk youth by the New York State Assembly and the Mayor of New York City and as a "national model of artistic excellence and diversity" by the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities. <img src="http://images.charitybuzz.com/images/auction_catalog/areas/1113_art1.jpg"> Mar 4, 2010 12:00 EST Mar 24, 2010 14:00 EST http://www.ypc.org/ http://cerberus.charitybuzz.com/images/featured_auctions/1113_feature.jpg 112201 112201 10 Personal Training Sessions At Smart Workout In NYC! 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Performing La Commedia The latest music theatre work by Louis Andriessen is primarily based on Dante's "La Divina Commedia". In five "stages", a non linear story unfolds inspired by paintings by Hieronymous Bosch: The simultaneous existence of Heaven, Purgatory and Hell, the parallel nature of different scenes and the use of theatrical means create the complexity needed to do justice to Dante's great creation. The events on stage (including - independently of each other and yet linked - dance, spoken word, song) should however primarily be seen as a reaction to Andriessen's extremely varied music. And at the end we find ourselves in the eternal void in the company of Beatrice and the griping Cacciaguida. Since 2008, the Asko Ensemble and Schönberg Ensemble have been united in Asko|Schönberg: not an ensemble, not an orchestra, but a flexible group of musicians who can appear in formations of any needed size to perform twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. The music of great, established composers such as György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Louis Andriessen who have secured their place in music history. But also the music of a younger generation, composers such as Michel van der Aa, Martijn Padding and Julian Anderson, and even the youngest generation, whose compositions are still wet from the ink. 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