The centerpiece of The Choral Project’s concert, EARTHSONGS: SOMETHING TO SAY, is Joshua Shank’s “there is something i have to say.”Shank has been a longtime collaborator with The Choral Project, having previously written a commissioned work for the choir titled “rules to live by,” featuring their chorus members’ responses to the prompt, “I believe…” The […]
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The Pasadena Chorale Presents Listening to the Future Concert
The Pasadena Chorale will present its annual student composer concert, Listening to the Future, on Saturday, June 17 at 7 p.m., at the First Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena. Audience members will be the first to hear ten new pieces that were composed by five local high school students for the Chorale’s June concert. […]
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 […]
6/16, SVGMC One-Night-Only Queer + 1983 Concert Party: FORTY RUBYVERSARY
Concert will celebrate and highlight all things 1983, the year SVGMC was founded.The repertoire featured in this landmark concert will include songs that were popular in 1983, such as Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and Bonnie Taylor’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around);” pieces by musicians who were born in 1983, […]
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 […]
Jouyssance invites ACDA members to “Hidden Voices” June 3 and 4
Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble presents Hidden Voices June 3 and 4 ` Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will present “Hidden Voices,” a program of Renaissance and early Baroque music – some recently discovered – by women and composers of color. The concerts will take place June 3, at 8 p.m. at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, at […]