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San Francisco, November 11, 2011 – The San Francisco Girls Chorus has announced that singer and conductor Brandon Brack will serve as Guest Conductor for the spring of 2012 and conclude the 2011-2012 season with guest pianist, composer and popular From the Top program host Christopher O’Riley for concerts June 8 and 9, 2012 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. www.sfgirlschorus.org.

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SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS PLACES SECOND IN YOUTH CATEGORY AS FIRST-EVER U.S. FINALIST IN BBC CHORAL COMPETITION “LET THE PEOPLES SING”

ONE OF THREE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS THAT COMPETED IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND OCTOBER 16, 2011

San Francisco, CA, September 28, 2011—Coming off its successful Cuban tour and selection as the first-ever U.S. finalist in Britain’s BBC choral competition “Let the Peoples Sing,” the five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls opens its 33rd annual concert season with Rural Inspirations. Joined by guest artist Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble—one of the world’s leading interpreters of Eastern European music and beyond—the Girls Chorus will present music inspired by world folk traditions.

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Webster’s Dictionary (online version) variously defines the word community as:

- a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society <a community of retired persons

- a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests <the international community

- a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society <the academic community

San Francisco, May 24, 2011—The five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus (SFGC) has announced it will tour Cuba July 2-10, 2011, and give four concerts in Havana, Santa Clara and Matanzas. Highlights of the 40-voice SFGC tour will be a performance as part of the United States Special Interest Section Headquarters Fourth of July celebration and concerts as featured guest artists with three of Cuba’s leading choral ensembles.

The spring edition of our electronic newsletter, “Brava,” was emailed earlier this week.  If you haven’t yet read it, it provides an update on some noteworthy events taking place at SFGC this spring and summer, including our annual fundraising gala, the Chorus America conference we’ll host in June, and the exciting tour to Cuba our girls will take in July.  Our newsletter in this format often prompts a range of responses from readers who recall various incarnations of this type of SFGC publication over the past 32 years.

Spring break is over at SFGC, and the girls returned to Chorus last week. Having completed our annual gala at the end of March, the administrative staff is now in the home stretch of the season, working away at projects and programs coming up in the next 3 months, before the end of this fiscal and school year.

What a teaser this so-called spring weather has been! What with Saturday night’s gale force winds, (which took some sheets of tin off our barn roof) and the return of the rain on Tuesday, March seems to be roaring out like a mad, wet lion.