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The Western Wind at its December 2023 Holiday Concert
                       Photo by Jeff French Segall

Upcoming Events

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Annual holiday concert

Music for Christmas, Hannukah, and More

Sunday, December 14, 3:00 p.m.

Abigail Adams Smith Ballroom

421 East 61st Street, NYC 10065

Tickets available soon!

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Last Season's Concerts

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Looking into the Deep

Meditations for Lent, Holy Week, and Passover

The Western Wind presents an evening of introspective and uplifting music from across traditions and music history by Claudio Monteverdi, Andrea Gabrieli, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Pawel Lukaszewski, Carlo Gesualdo, Heinrich Schalit, Louis Lewandowsky, Salamone Rossi, Moses Hogan, John W. Work, Antonio Lotti, Johann Ludwig Bach, Julia Perry, Laura Jobin-Acosta, and others.

Monday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. - Advent Lutheran Church

2504 Broadway (at 93rd St.) New York 10025

See link to video-recorded performance below under Past Performances.

Mazal Bueno:

A Portrait of the Spanish Jews

The Western Wind, narrator Julie Benko, and guest instrumentalists will perform this moving work by Jane Mushabac to celebrate New York Ladino Day.  Also on the program: Rachel Amado Bortnick's presentations of her “Tales from Ladinokomunita,” the groundbreaking worldwide online correspondence circle which she founded and directs.  Sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation.

Sunday, February 2, 2025, 2 - 4 p.m.​​

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Western Wind Concerts

For over five decades, The Western Wind has expanded and redefined the “classical” a cappella vocal repertoire to include everything from Colonial American anthems, to dramatized Italian madrigals, to the latest scores of Philip Glass, Tania Leon, and Meredith Monk, to sophisticated vocal jazz, to holiday music across traditions, to newly minted settings female astronauts' musings, to imaginative renderings of folk and popular classics. This season's offerings will be equally diverse, topical, vocally challenging, beginning with our distinctive holiday concert on December 14, 2025.  Please join us for all our major concerts, whether in person in New York City or online. Meanwhile, sample video recordings of concerts from the past few season below. 

Past Concerts

Streaming On-Demand
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Looking Into the Deep: Meditations for Lent,

            Holy Week, and Passover

April 14, 2025

Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the

      Spanish Jews  - for NYC Ladino Day

February 2, 2025

We Wish You... Winter Holiday Concert

December 7, 2024

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If We Listened: Seeking Understanding,         Reconciliation & Peace

November 2, 2024

Adult a cappella summer workshop

     One Round Home -  A Concert for       
      Earth Day

April 27, 2024

A cappella singing classes for adults summer

Ke Keresh de Mi?  What do you want from me? - Songs of Love & Relationship

February 17, 2024

Summer vocal harmony workshop for adults

Holiday Light - Music for
Channukah & Christmas

December 2, 2023

Summer a cappella choir workshop for adults

The Five Elements: Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Nothingness

April 29, 2023

A cappella vocal techniques summer workshop

Christmas In The New World

December 17, 2022

Summer a cappella choir workshop for adults

Make Me to Know Thy Ways: A Recusant
Catholic in a Protestant Court
Music of William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

November 4, 2023

Summer a cappella choir workshop for adults

Love: The Five Languages

February 13, 2023

Adult a cappella group singing summer program

Grief: A Necessary Journey

November 19, 2022

singing workshop

A Benefit For Ukraine

May 17, 2022

summer singing workshop

Of Dreams, Desires, & Dragons

March 19, 2022

adult singing workshop
a cappella singing workshop
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