Present:
Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 4pm
White Eagle Hall
337 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, New Jersey
North River Sing was founded by Jersey City resident Liz Morrill in 2014 to give area residents the opportunity to experience the warmth of singing in a group, learn the wonderful, often powerful music of the Great American Songbook, and provide enriching and joyous entertainment for friends and neighbors. North River is a Dutch nickname for the part of the Hudson River that lies between New Jersey and Manhattan and as such reflects the chorus’s openness to members from all over the region as well as a metaphoric link to Broadway.
For more information and to learn how to join NRS, feel free to chat with any of our members after the concert or visit our website, NorthRiverSing.org.
North River Sing is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and welcomes any gift large or small. By supporting NRS, you are actively spreading community spirit throughout greater Jersey City.
“Circle of Life (with Nants’
Ingonyama”
(The Lion King, 1994)
Solos: Arjun Chattoraj, Kat Kelly, Elisha Dorsey,
Kerry Watterson, Corey Batchelder
Elton John
Tim Rice
Lebohang Morake
“Moon River”
(1960)
Henry Mancini
Johnny Mercer
“Muddy Water”
(Big River, 1984)
Roger Miller
“Skylark”
(1942)
Hoagy Carmichael
Johnny Mercer
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
(1941)
Don Raye
Hughie Prince
“Songbird”
(1976)
Solos: Hannah Lee, Lauren Kwei, Lauren May,
Arjun Chattoraj, Nicole Vitale, Alexander Schuetz,
Fitzgerald Mangubat, Kerry Watterson, Gabriel
Cleveland
Christine McVie
“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”
(Hamilton, 2015)
Solo: Dina Kanner
Speaking Solos: Natasha Dzurny, Christine Murray
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Audience Sing-Along
“Killing Me Softly With His Song”
(1971)
Charles Fox
Norman Gimbel
Lori Lieberman
“I Want to Be Happy (Selections from the Musical No, No, Nanette) with I Want to Be Happy; Tea for Two; ‘Where Has My Hubby Gone’ Blues and I’ve Confessed to the Breeze“
(No, No, Nanette, 1924)
Vincent Youmans
Irving Caesar
Otto Harbach
“Hard Times Come Again No More”
(1854)
Stephen Foster
“Caravan”
(1966)
Solo: Nicole Vitale (6/8), Lucy Wood (6/11 & 6/14)
Duke Ellington
Juan Tizol
Irving Mills
“The Sound of Silence”
(1964)
Paul Simon
“This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)”
(1975)
Ensemble: Natasha Dzurny, Carla Squillace, Jamie
Hawkins, Lucy Wood, Janet Zhou, Samantha
George, Christine Murray, Elina Yu, Corey
Batchelder, Kim Mecca, Bobby Benjamin, Elisha
Dorsey, Simon Yang, Fitzgerald Mangubat, Will
Tatz
Chuck Jackson
Marvin Yancy
“Wheels of a Dream”(Ragtime, 1996)
Solo: Fitzgerald Mangubat
Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens
“Hair, A Choral Medley with Hair, Good Morning Starshine, Aquarius, Let the Sunshine In”
(Hair, 1967)
Solo: Kim Mecca
Galt MacDermot
Gerome Ragni
James Rado
(Memorial to Roberta Flack)
[Chorus]
Strummin’ my pain with his fingers
Singin’ my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Tellin’ my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
[Verse 1]
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy
A stranger to my eyes
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
La-la-la, la-la
Oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh
La-ah, ah, la
La, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
[Chorus]
Sopranos
Jennifer Batista
Alix Bickson
Rachael d’Silva
Clare Daughtrey
Ellen Drennan
Natasha Dzurny
Jamie Hawkins
Ying Jiang
Diane Kaese
Dina Kanner
Kat Kelly
Hannah Lee
Erica Lorenzetti
Kathleen O’Malley
Eliza Prasowska
Carla Squillace
Lucy Wood
Altos
Angela Amabile
Rose Arbitter
Samantha George
Lauren Kwei
Julia Lee
Lauren May
Nancy Sue Moore
Christine Murray
Melissa Ragsdale
Jen Searing
Janice Shapiro
Eve Surcobe
Sara Welch
Elina Yu
Janet Zhou
Tenors
Corey Batchelder
Bobby Benjamin
Irina Biller
Alton Burkholder
Arjun Chattoraj
Elisha Dorsey
Matthew Kelly
Kim Mecca
Gladys Mercado
Ido Naor
Jessica Nelson
John Nelson
Nicole Vitale
Jake Wasserman
Basses
Drew Bilcik
Gabriel Cleveland
Davey Fitzpatrick
Bob Garner
Conrad Hardy
Jacques Laden
Eric Linton
Fitzgerald Mangubat
Matt Nelson
Alexander Schuetz
Will Tatz
Kerry Watterson
Simon Yang
