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Long Island University/C.W. Post Chorus
Mark Shapiro, Conductor
 The Long Island University/C.W. Post College Chorus has built a strong reputation and has been
recognized as a leading college/university chorus in the New York area.
In April 2009 the Long Island University Chorus performed at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center,
sharing the stage with Cantori New York as well as soloists and orchestra of
the verismo opera company Teatro Grattacielo in the North American premiere of
Pietro Mascagni's Il Piccolo Marat. The performance earned rave reviews.
Chorus performances in important New York venues have been often and varied. The chorus has performed
numerous major choral works with many Long Island and New York orchestras.
The group has sung, among others, Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Mass in C, Fidelio, and
Symphony No. 9, Dvorak's Requiem, Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Bach's Christmas Oratorio,
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queens Symphony, the National
Orchestra, the New York Virtuosi, and the Opera Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center in Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Colden Auditorium, Tilles Center and the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C. The chorus was led for over four decades by Alexander "Lex" Dashnaw.
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