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April 09 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS CLOSES 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON With Premieres and Guest Jazz Vocalist Paula West
San Francisco, April 24, 2009 – Wrapping up an extraordinary 30th anniversary season that featured its New York Lincoln Center debut and an appearance at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the San Francisco Girls Chorus closes its 2008-2009 Bay Area home season with two performances of “Made in the Americas,” Artistic Director Susan McMane has announced. The concerts feature jazz vocalist Paula West and her trio in arrangements with the Girls Chorus and a set of her own. Also on the program are the West Coast premiere of Two Mountain Songs by Gabriela Lena Frank and the World premiere of the complete Just Imagine suite of Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and Irving Berlin songs arranged by Bay Area composer Dwight Okamura, which features guest cellist Emil Miland. The concerts will be conducted by Susan McMane with accompanist Susan Soehner.
February 09 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS 30th ANNIVERSARY GALA MARCH 6 AT HERBST THEATRE. ACCLAIMED CHORAL ENSEMBLE RETURNS FROM PERFORMING AT INAUGURATION “BAROQUE SPLENDOR” FEATURES GUEST ARTISTS PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, CONCERT, DINNER AND MORE
San Francisco, February 2, 2009 – The three-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a concert and black-tie gala Friday, March 6, at Herbst Theatre. Entitled “Baroque Splendor,” the benefit evening honors San Francisco Girls Chorus Founding Artistic Director Elizabeth Appling Bloch and features guest artists Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. In addition to the concert, conducted by Artistic Director Susan McMane, the event will feature cocktails, dinner, and live auctions. Proceeds will support the San Francisco Girls Chorus scholarship fund. The 2009 Gala is chaired by Steven Currier and Kay Bishop.
January 09 | US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION JAN. 20 TO FEATURE TWO GRAMMY-WINNING SAN FRANCISCO CHORUSES
San Francisco, CA, January 14, 2009 – The stage of President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will glitter with some of the world’s top performers on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, and two of the nation’s top choral music groups will share the limelight with Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman: the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Ian Robertson, Artistic Director; and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Susan McMane, Artistic Director. The Choruses were invited to join forces for the inauguration by Senator Dianne Feinstein and the joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to be part of the swearing in ceremonies in Washington, DC.
January 09 | SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM HOSTS US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION SEND-OFF CONCERT THURS. JAN. 15 FOR SF BOYS CHORUS AND SF GIRLS CHORUS
San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2009 – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will send off two of the City’s finest youth and arts organizations as San Francisco’s contribution to the inauguration of US President-Elect Barack Obama with a special free public concert Thursday, January 15, at 4:30 p.m. in San Francisco City Hall’s Rotunda. The combined San Francisco Boys Chorus and San Francisco Girls Chorus will share the stage in Washington, DC, with Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and others for the January 20 Presidential Inauguration. The Mayor’s send-off concert on January 15 will feature the patriotic repertoire the combined Choruses will sing in Washington. The half-hour send-off concert is free of charge and open to the public.
December 08 | OPEN AUDITIONS SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009 FOR SF BOYS CHORUS AND SF GIRLS CHORUS
San Francisco, CA, December 22, 2008
December 08 | US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION JAN. 20 TO FEATURE SF GIRLS CHORUS, Susan McMane, Artistic Director and SF BOYS CHORUS, Ian Robertson, Artistic Director
San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2008 – Two of the nation’s top choral music groups—the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Ian Robertson, Artistic Director; and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Susan McMane, Artistic Director—have been invited by Senator Dianne Feinstein and the joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies for President Barack Obama to perform as part of the swearing in ceremonies scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, 2009, in Washington, DC. The two choruses were selected for their high level of artistic excellence, embodiment of the American spirit and promise for the future, according to Sen. Feinstein. A combined chorus of 86 (43 members of the San Francisco Boys Chorus and 43 of the San Francisco Girls Chorus) will travel to Washington to perform.
November 08 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS CELEBRATES HOLIDAYS WITH THREE BAY AREA CONCERTS
San Francisco, November 5, 2008 – The world premiere of a new commissioned work by composer Eleanor Daley highlights a holiday program of festive voices, organ, strings, bells and harp when the internationally acclaimed three-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus takes the Davies Symphony Hall stage Tuesday, December 23, at 7:30 p.m. Featured will be the 43-voice San Francisco Girls Chorus complemented by 250 voices of the San Francisco Girls Chorus School and alumnae plus an audience sing-along and guest artists Jonathan Dimmock, organ, and the Sonos Handbell Ensemble, all led by Girls Chorus Artistic Director Susan McMane.
September 08 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS GUESTS WITH SF OPERA, SF SYMPHONY AND PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
San Francisco, September 22, 2008 – Performances with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra highlight the San Francisco Girls Chorus 30th Anniversary 2008-2009 season. Guesting in three Opera productions, a major Mahler work with the Symphony and a celebration of the Mendelssohn bicentennial year with Philharmonia will give Bay Area audiences the opportunity to hear the three-time Grammy Award winning San Francisco Girls Chorus’ virtuosity and versatility. The Girls Chorus own home season features four concerts including premieres and guest artists October 24, 2008-June 6, 2009 in San Francisco and the East Bay, plus a New York debut, and tour to South America.
September 08 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS OPENS 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
San Francisco, September 17 2008 – The San Francisco Girls Chorus opens its 2008-2009 30th Anniversary season with two concerts of “Dreams and Visions”, featuring two centuries of music including the world premiere of settings of e. e. cummings’ poetry by American composer Augusta Read Thomas and guest organist David Higgs. Two performances of “Dreams and Visions” will be given, Friday, October 24, at 8 p.m. at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, and Sunday, October 26, at 3 p.m. at First Congregational Church in Berkeley conducted by Artistic Director Susan McMane.
September 08 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS FEATURED ON FROM THE TOP
The San Francisco Girls Chorus will appear on a broadcast of From the Top, the hit NPR program on KDFC featuring America’s best young classical musicians and hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O’Riley on the Bay Area’s KDFC 102.1 FM, Sunday, September 28 at 7 pm.
July 08 | SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS ANNOUNCES 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Four home season performances, a New York debut, a debut tour to Brazil, guest appearances with San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, guest artists and a new recording highlight the 30th anniversary season of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Fetured premieres include commissions by composers Augusta Read Thomas, Gabriela Lena Frank, Eleanor Daley and Dwight Okamura. Season guest artists include organist David Higgs, jazz vocalist Paula West, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and cellist Emil Miland.
April 08 | San Francisco Girls Chorus April 11 Gala supports acclaimed performance and education organization
Celebrating 29 years as an internationally celebrated performing arts and music training organization, the three-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus 2007-2008 Season gala will be held Friday, April 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Palace Hotel.
December 07 | San Francisco Girls Chorus celebrates holidays with three Bay area concerts
Festive organ, brass, bells, percussion and the internationally acclaimed voices of three-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will ring out as the Girls Chorus continues its 2007-2008, 29th anniversary season by celebrating the holidays with three concerts including its 25th annual, highly popular concert at Davies Symphony Hall.
October 07 | SFGC shares in $7.7 million grant to Bay Area arts
The San Francisco Girls Chorus, Susan McMane Artistic Director, will share in major grant money awarded by The Wallace Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, and Grants for the Arts it was announced on October 30th.
October 07 | SFGC 2007-2008 Season opens with "Music Fit for a Queen"
The three-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus opens its 2007-2008, 29th anniversary home season by celebrating 900 years of English choral music in a program entitled “Music Fit for a Queen.” Pre-Concert talk starts at 7:15 with Peter Susskind.
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October 07 | Chorissima Ensemble and Level IV perform with Luciana Souza at the Herbst Theater
October 20, 2007 - Presented by San Francisco Performances, the Girls Chorus joined Luciana Souza, singing specially-arranged songs of Luciana's Brazilian childhood.
October 07 | Level IV rehearses with Rollo Dilworth
Rollo Dilworth, assistant professor of music, director of the bachelor of music education program, and director of the choral program at North Park University, Chicago, IL, visited Kanbar Performing Arts Center to work with Level IV on the songs he had arranged.
August 07 | New Website
We are excited to announce the launch of our new and improved website. Developed by New-York based Patron Technology, our website was designed to better serve audiences, the public, media and its members and familers. Click here for more information.
July 2007 | 2007-2008 Season Announcement
San Francisco Girls Chorus’ 29th Season!
Our concert season begins with "Music Fit for a Queen", a program of great choral repertoire from the British Isles. Our Annual Sing-Along at Davies Hall marks the 25th anniversary of this Holiday tradition. Celebrate with us as 300 choristers sing carols of the season accompanied by brass and organ. Our final season concert will include special guest artists from ODC Dance Company, performing a new work co-created by SFGC and ODC titled "Catch and Release". Click here for more information.
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