The 20 voice strong Chamber Chorus of the famed New Amsterdam Singers, with music director Clara Longstreth, returns to rock The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration with song on Sunday, June 14. Admission for the concert at 4:00 is free. In addition to American spirituals and folk and cabaret songs, the group will present German Romantic motets and a cycle based on Hungarian folk tunes composed by Zoltan Kodaly. He was one of the first to seriously study folk tales, and from 1905, he visited remote villages in Hungary to collect and record their songs.

New Amsterdam Singers, which has performed all over the world, appeared in The Chapel last June. They have sung with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, at Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood under Leon Botstein, and at Avery Fisher under Marin Alsop. In 2006, they performed Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light at the World Financial Center for broadcast on WNYC’s “New Sounds.”

Ms. Longstreth, who founded New Amsterdam Singers more than 40 years ago, has served on the faculty of Rutgers University, where she conducted the Voorhees Choir of Douglas College. A student of conductor G. Wallace Woodworth at Harvard, she trained for her master’s at Juilliard. She has conducted the Juilliard Chorus and Orchestra, the New York Choral Society, the West Village Chorale and other groups, and is a frequent guest conductor of the annual Messiah Sing-In at Avery Fisher Hall.

The chapel is located at 45 Market Street, Cold Spring, New York, and free parking is available on weekends at the adjacent Metro North Train Station. The music series is made possible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered in Putnam County by Putnam Arts Council. Individual contributions are welcome.

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