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4 unusual facts about 92nd Street Y


Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Founded in 1999, Blue Heron presents its own concerts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performs regularly at Monadnock Music in New Hampshire, and has appeared at other venues throughout the northeastern U.S., including the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Lazarus Joseph

His record shows that he was active in many charities, including the 92nd Street Y, United Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

Mariette DiChristina

DiChristina is a frequent lecturer and has appeared at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Yale University and New York University among many others.

William M. Packard

While in New York, Packard hosted the 92nd Street Y’s poetry reading series, was Vice President of the Poetry Society of America, and was co-director of the Hofstra Writers Conference for seven years.


Boston Musica Viva

In addition to its Boston concert season, Boston Musica Viva’s touring engagements have taken them to Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.

David Yezzi

Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City from 2001 to 2005, Yezzi has worked as executive editor of The New Criterion, associate editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and on the staff of The New York Observer.

Mayer Lehman

Irving Lehman - Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1940-1945; Longtime president of the 92nd Street Y and Temple Emanu-El.


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Abigail Pogrebin

She moderated four evenings at the 92nd Street Y with Jewish celebrities from her book, including Jason Alexander, Leonard Nimoy, Beverly Sills, Morley Safer, and Kyra Sedgwick.

Judy Klitsner

Venues have included Harvard University, Brown University, the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Hebrew College, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Judaism, Drisha, Mechon Hadar, Limmud, JOFA, the 92nd Street Y, and the Skirball Center.

Martin Pearlman

His music for three Samuel Beckett plays (Words and Music (play), Cascando, ... but the clouds ...) was commissioned by and premiered at the 92nd Street Y in New York for the Beckett centennial in 2006 and produced at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Paul Hecht

Hecht has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Allentown Symphony, at the 92nd street Y, and performs a program of John Donne Sonnets with the early music group Parthenia.