We’re dancing our way into the season with a truly eclectic program! Featuring Brahms’ beloved Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes for choir, soloists, and four-hand piano; we’ll also offer Appalachian and Samoan folk songs; jazzy Broadway melodies; rollicking dances from Sephardic Spain and Romani Central Europe; and lush and lively works by Fauré, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and others. […]
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8/18, Requiems by Mozart and Shchetynsky
The San Francisco Choral Society returns to Davies Symphony Hall for its second annual Summer Festival Chorus featuring two compelling U.S. premieres by Ukrainian composer Alexander Shchetynsky, Requiem and Lacrimosa, alongside Mozart’s iconic Requiem. The Summer Festival Chorus program brings experienced singers from across the country and beyond to join the Resident Chorus for one […]
6/16, Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary
June 16, 7:30-9:30pm; June 17, 3:00-5:00pm and 7:30-9:30pm; June 18, 3:00-5:00pm The San Francisco Girls Chorus concludes its season with the world premiere of Tomorrow’s Memories: A Little Manila Diary, a new SFGC-commissioned choral-opera from American composer Matthew Welch. The semi-staged work is based on Tomorrow’s Memories, A Diary, 1924-1928, the diary writings of Filipina […]
World Premiere of “BE NEAR ME”
The Serenade ensemble associated with the Masterworks Chorale will present the world premiere of “BE NEAR ME,” my SATB setting of a poem by Alfred Tennyson, on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at 8pm, at the Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco. Also on the program will be ten additional new choral works by […]
San Francisco Choral Artists: Shakespeare and Friends
More than 450 years later, Shakespeare’s words still inspire composers. Together with San Francisco actor Kina Kantor, we’ll offer a musical tribute to the genius of Shakespeare and Friends, including Dickinson, Rilke, Hirshfield, Rossetti, cummings, Basho, Anonymous, and others. Also – world premieres by Composer-in-Residence José Daniel Vargas, Composer-Not-in-Residence Caroline Mallonee, and our 2023 New […]
5/21, U.S. Premiere of Shvedov’s Liturgy
Slavyanka Russian Chorus presents the U.S. premiere of Konstantin Shvedov’s Liturgy, a rarely-performed Russian sacred masterwork for mixed choir that was written more than one hundred years ago. Before the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, a revival of sacred music centered at the Moscow Synodal School. Konstanin Shvedov wrote his Liturgy […]