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Check Out the Set List for New York City Gay Men’s Chorus' Beyond the Rainbow Concerts
The three New York concerts will feature songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Dolly Parton, and Pat Benatar as well as new commissions.
April 13, 2026 By Andrew Gans
The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus will present Beyond the Rainbow, a choral concert that reflects on LGBTQ+ journeys and imagines the futures we build together, April 24 at 8 PM and April 25 at 3 PM and 8 PM at NYU Skirball Center.
The concerts will feature songs that have been written or performed by Dolly Parton, Annie Lennox, Whitney Houston, and Pat Benatar; newly commissioned work by queer composer Scott Hoying (Pentatonix); a world premiere by Ash with text by Leo Herrera; as well as standards by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Harold Arlen, and more.
The song list for the 100-minute concert is set to include the NYCGMC commissions “Never Go Away” by Scott Hoying and “Our Queer Feature” by Ash, with lyrics derived from poems by Leo Herrera, along with Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's “Pure Imagination”; Arlen's “Over the Rainbow”; Parton’s “Wildflowers”; Lennox’s “Step by Step”; Kander and Ebb’s “We Can Make It,” “Maybe This Time,” “Isn’t This Better?,” and “The Day After That”; Coti Sorokin, Cachorro Lopez, and Diego Torres’ “Color Esperanza”; “An Earth Song” by Marques L.A. Garrett, featuring text by Langston Hughes; “Made It Through the Night”; “Courage to Love” by Frederick Minano and RuPaul Andre Charles; “Golden” by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, and Teddy Park; and Benatar's “We Belong,” by Daniel Anthony Navarro and David Eric Lowen.
John J. Atorino is the artistic director, and Rashad V. Chambers is the executive producer of the Chorus.
For tickets click here. Visit NYCGMC.org.
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