With our December program, we both celebrate our return to the neighborhood and pay tribute to all those we lost, and who suffered through the ordeal which began in New York, in March of 2020. Antonin Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony is a perennial and poignant favorite and has special meaning as we perform it just two blocks from the composer’s New York home. Founding Member of the GVO and acclaimed New York actor Helen-Jean Arthur takes the stage as narrator in Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, another work with newfound significance in this time. “Brownstone Baritone” Peter Kendall Clark, whose “stoop performances” last summer brought him national attention, joins us for the occasion, which opens with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s luscious Hiawathaoverture.