News and Reviews

2020 – 2021 Season

"Green-Wood Cemetery is hosting an immersive storytelling event set to live music"
TimeOut - September 18, 2020

"Hearing What We Wouldn’t Have Before: The Benefits of an Expanding World of Recordings"
WQXR - October 7, 2020

"Up on the Roof, Into the Woods, and Down in the Graveyards … Classical Music Lives"
WQXR - October 14, 2020

"Goings On About the Town"
The New Yorker - October 17, 2020

"Death of Classical to Explore Music and Poetry in ‘To America’"
OperaWire - October 20, 2020

"Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives"
New York Times - October 23, 2020

"Q & A: Baritone Kenneth Overton on Returning to Live Performance & Spotlighting the Lives of the Black Opera Greats"
OperaWire - October 24, 2020

2019 – 2020 Season

"New York Today: Biking Over the Hudson: Why It’s Not Easier"
New York Times - November 22, 2019

"Liz Player: Bringing classical music to Harlem"
New York Amsterdam News - September 26, 2019

"America’s First Black Opera Composer Left Behind a Rich, Untapped Archive"
The Saturday Evening Post - October 9, 2019

"Liz Player Works to Bring Classical Music Uptown"
The Uptowner - October 22, 2019

"Officials flip the switch on Harlem Holiday Lights on Nov. 20"
New York Amsterdam News - November 14, 2019

"Over 40 Harlem Institutions Collaborate for Upcoming Harlem Renaissance 100 Celebration!"
Black Star News - January 27, 2020

"Community News 01.29.20"
Manhattan Times - January 28, 2020

"Today in New York: Harlem Renaissance 100th Anniversary Celebration Begins"
NBC News - February 1, 2020

"HSA@HOME and The Harlem Chamber Players to Present Careers in Music Panel"
Broadway World - June 5, 2020

"HARLEM RENAISSANCE 100 Goes Virtual As Second Phase of the Celebration Kicks Off"
Broadway World - June 11, 2020

"A Grand History of Small Operas"
New York Times - June 12, 2020

"Neither Big Nor Small, Music Ensembles Struggle in a Pandemic"
New York Times - June 12, 2020

"Juneteenth: 'The Black Experience in the Concert Hall'"
WQXR.org - June 20, 2020

2018 – 2019 Season

"How Art Can Double as Historical Corrective"
The Atlantic - June 1, 2019

"Juneteenth celebration at Carnegie Hall"
New York Amsterdam News - May 30, 2019

"A Musical Power Couple Salute the Bravery and Fortitude of the Millions Who Made the Great Migration"
New York Music Daily - April 2, 2019

"A Pianist Swings Hard in Both Classical and Jazz"
New York Times: New York Today - February 15, 2019

"Harlem Chamber Players' 10th Anniversary"
American Record Guide September/October 2018 Issue

"New York Today: Today's New York News: New Yorkers on #WhyIDidntReport"
New York Times - September 28, 2018

2017 – 2018 Season

"Friends join Harlem Chamber Players for a tenth anniversary vocal feast"
New York Classical Review - June 2, 2018

"Harlem Chamber Players Present HARLEM SONGFEST, 6/1"
Broadway World - March 16, 2018

"The Cosmopolitan Review: Feb. 15 - Feb 21"
New York Amsterdam News - February 25, 2018

"The Harlem Chamber Players' 10th Annual Black History Month Celebration"
Time Out New York - January 30, 2018

"Two Wings: The Music of Black America In Migration"
Carnegie Hall Presents - January 25, 2018

"Cultural Affairs Dept. disburses $40M to local organizations, focusing on de Blasio's CreateNYC plan"
NY Daily News - December 21, 2017

"City Announces Over $40 Million For Local Arts And Cultural Organizations"
Broadway World - December 21, 2017

"New York Today: ‘Star Wars’ on Stage"
New York Times - September 29, 2017

2015 – 2016 Season

"As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera"
Hyperallergic - August 3, 2015

"ChamberMusicNY to Host Terrance McKnight Concert in 2016"
Broadway World - August 13, 2015

"Harlem Chamber Players & ChamberMusicNY Receive Grant"
Broadway World - October 21, 2015

2014 – 2015 Season

"Harlem Renaissance Opera to Hit the Stage for First Time in 86 Years"
DNAinfo - New York - December 10, 2014

"Victoria Theater Redevelopment Gets $1.5 Million From State"
DNAinfo - New York - December 15, 2014

"7th Annual Black History Month Celebration"
TimeOut New York Critics' Pick - January 28, 2015

"BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015: New York celebrates African-American culture and heritage with an abundance of events"
NY Daily News - February 5, 2015

"Long-Unheard Harlem Renaissance Opera Coming in June"
The New York Times - May 1, 2015

"Morningside Opera to Present Long-Lost, Historical Opera VOODOO, 6/26-27"
Broadway World - May 8, 2015

"Morningside Opera Sets Cast of VOODOO, 6/26-27"
Broadway World - June 4, 2015

"Conductor Gregory Hopkins and Soprano Janinah Burnett Talk About 'Voodoo'"
"Here and Now" Channel 7 Eyewitness News - June 14, 2015

"‘Voodoo,’ Opera by the African-American Composer H. Lawrence Freeman, Is Revived"
The New York Times - June 22, 2015

"How ‘Voodoo,’ a Trailblazing 1928 Harlem Rennaisance Opera, Was Reborn"
The Daily Beast - June 24, 2015

"Unearthed in a Library, 'Voodoo' Opera Rises Again"
NPR - June 24, 2015

"‘Voodoo,’ an Opera from the Harlem Renaissance, Gets Its First Revival"
The Wall Street Journal - June 25, 2015

"Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2"
The New York Times - June 25, 2015

"Morningside Opera Presents Long-Lost, Historical Opera VOODOO This Weekend"
Broadway World - June 25, 2015

"Voodoo review – a lost Harlem Renaissance opera soars"
The Guardian - June 27, 2015

"Voodoo"
Voce di meche - June 28, 2015

"Review: ‘Voodoo,’ by Harry Lawrence Freeman, Has First Staging Since 1928"
The New York Times - June 28, 2015

"That Sly Come-Hither Stare"
Parterre Box - June 29, 2015

"After Nearly a Century, Voodoo Opera Rises Again"
Voice of America - June 30, 2015

"Voodoo, a Harlem Renaissance opera, revived in New York"
World Socialist Web Site - July 2, 2015

2013 – 2014 Season

"Harlem Chamber Players Present Affordable Local Concerts"
Morningside Heights Life Magazine - August 2013

Photos of The Harlem Chamber Players
Morningside Heights Life Magazine - November 2013

2012 – 2013 Season

"Eric Einhorn's On Site Opera Brings Blue Monday to The Cotton Club"
WQXR Operavore - June 14, 2013

"Gershwin Fan Produces Mini Opera at Harlem’s Cotton Club"
Bloomberg - June 17, 2013

"Opera Review: Slaughter on 12th Avenue. On Site Opera presents Blue Monday at the Cotton Club"
Superconductor Classical and Opera - June 19, 2013

"Music Review: In Harlem, Gershwin's Brief, Brash, Early Opera"
The New York Times - June 19, 2013

2010 – 2011 Season

"Harlem Chamber Players: 'Music at St. Mary's'"
The New York Amsterdam News - September 8 - September 14, 2011

"The Harlem Chamber Players Open New Season"
Harlem News - September 15, 2011

Summer 2009

"Chamber music is alive and well"
The New York Amsterdam News - June 18 - June 24, 2009

"Sacred sites in Harlem host chamber music programs"
The New York Amsterdam News - June 25 - July 1, 2009

"Stellar program predicted for Prelude to Performance"
The New York Amsterdam News - July 16 - July 22, 2009

Inaugural Music Festival – Summer 2008

"New concert series kicks off summer of classical events in Harlem"
The New York Amsterdam News - June 19 - June 25, 2008

"Opera Theater wows at the Apollo, concert series debuts at St. Mary's"
The New York Amsterdam News - June 2008

"Harlem Opera Theater stars shine at Apollo"
The New York Amstedam News - July 31 - August 6, 2008

"A marathon of opera in Mount Vernon"
The New York Amstedam News - August 14 - August 20, 2008