The Glass Menagerie Chorus
Making Music in Greenwich Village since 1986
Welcome!
The Glass Menagerie is a 50-voice community chorus based in Greenwich Village. We’ve been making music together since 1984. We rehearse on Thursday evenings during the academic year at LREI (Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School), 272 Sixth Avenue at Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014. Our regularly scheduled concerts take place in December and May.
Join Us!
Come make music on Thursday evenings with a joyful, hardworking chorus of 50 singers from all walks of life and levels of experience.
Rehearsals begin on September 4, 2025, and take place every Thursday during the academic year from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at either LREI - Little Red School House (272 Sixth Avenue at Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014) or LREI - Elisabeth Irwin High School (40 Charlton St., New York, NY 10014).
If you are interested in singing with us this fall, please join us for our first rehearsal on September 4. Susan Glass will audition you during the rehearsal break. Come see if this is the chorus for you! No audition preparation is necessary, but singers interested in joining us should have some prior choral experience and a basic ability to sight read music. The rehearsal beforehand will give you a good idea of our level and our way of learning.
To sign up, please complete the webform on the “Join Us” page here. If can't make the September 4 rehearsal, please complete the sign-up form anyway, and we'll try to accommodate you.
Upcoming Fall Concert
Strings Attached: Music for Chorus and Violin
With guest artist, violinist Ashley Horne, the program features
Eric Whitacre’s Hebrew Love Songs; works by Edward Elgar and contemporary composers such as Dan Forrest, Sean Ivory, and Joseph Rubenstein; along with our traditional sing-along of seasonal favorites.
Sunday afternoon, December 7, 2025, at 4:00 pm.
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Avenue at 28th Street
New York, NY 10001
Listen to our April 28, 2024 performance of Rich Campbell’s “Border”:
How Can We Keep From Singing?
During the darkest days of the pandemic, the Glass Menagerie Chorus was determined to keep making music together. We rehearsed on zoom every week and made this video—because how could we keep from singing?
The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock
For five consecutive nights in October (3–7) 2018, 1,000 singers from across New York City, including members of The Glass Menagerie, came together on the High Line for the first-ever performances of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock. Audience members were active participants in this ambitious, collective, free choral work.
Audience members walked along the park, moving in and out of groups of singers, immersing themselves in hundreds of stories, inspired by the accounts of a wide range of New Yorkers, about life in our rapidly changing city.
7 o'clock means something different for everyone. What does it mean to you?
For more information, head on over to milelongopera.com
Dr. Susan Glass is the 2015 recipient of the Organization of American Kodály Educators' Outstanding Educator award!
Read about us in the New York Times!
Check out the New York Times’ interview with our Artistic Director Susan Glass. The occasion was our March 4, 2015, appearance in THE EVENTS, an innovative theater production by Scottish playwright David Greig, at New York Theatre Workshop.
May 3, 2014: The Glass Menagerie Receiving The council of New York city proclamation marking the celebration of our 30th anniversary.
More than 30 years of singing!
In May 2014 we received a Proclamation from the New York City Council marking our 30th anniversary making music together in Greenwich Village.