New York, New York, Theme from: SATB Choral Octavo

Carl Strommen's arrangement honors the Sinatra legacy while building something entirely singable for mixed voices. The 12-page octavo gives your choir enough musical meat to dig into without overwhelming rehearsal time, and the recorded accompaniment support means you can focus singers on learning their parts rather than piano score reading.

Urbane and confident. The arrangement captures the glamour and self-assured charm of the original without requiring your singers to impersonate a legend. It's jazzy enough to feel contemporary, yet rooted in the golden age of songwriting.

SATB choirs ready for a piece that sits comfortably in a secular concert or musical theater program. This works for both high school and college singers who can handle the rhythmic sophistication and the poise the song demands.

• Balance the legit singing required in the verse with the swung rhythms that make this tune swing. These aren't contradictory if you think of the style as sophisticated rather than loose.
• Let the alto and tenor lines breathe independently in the harmony sections. Strommen wrote countermotion between voices that gets lost if everyone locks into block chords.
• Shape the phrase arcs so the song feels like conversation, not recitation. Sinatra phrased across bar lines, and your arrangement will land better if singers follow that sensibility.

Pair this with other standards from the mid-century American songbook to create a concert section that connects your audience to classic musical theater repertoire. It also sits naturally in a program alongside other Kander work or as a closer that leaves listeners humming as they leave the hall.

• Singing jazz and swing inflections within a legit choral framework
• Reading and executing syncopated rhythmic figures in ensemble
• Balancing harmonic independence across four voice parts
• Phrasing across bar lines and sustaining musical line through rests