San Francisco Boys Chorus

The San Francisco Boys Chorus, founded in 1948 by Gaetano Merola and Madi Bacon as a resource for the San Francisco Opera, has grown into one of the Bay Area’s foremost musical organizations. Maestro Ian Robertson , well-known for his direction of the highly regarded San Francisco Opera Chorus, has directed the group since 1996, steadily building its membership to more than 140 individual participants.The Chorus has provided choristers for the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet and other Bay Area orchestras and choruses and has been featured in its own regular concerts.  In addition, the SFBC has been heard at a variety of civic events, churches, schools, and conventions, as well as on radio, television and other recordings.  The Chorus’s two current CDs “We’re on our Way” and “Moving On” have been released in the last three years.
 
Officially named “San Francisco’s Singing Ambassadors to the World” by San Francisco Mayors since the 1960’s, the Chorus has participated in the city’s Sister City exchange programs with visits to Osaka, Taipei, Seoul, Assisi and Sydney. The SFBC was also the only chorus group invited to participate at the 2002 Official San Francisco September 11 Memorial at Union Square. Other recent public appearances include Sail San Francisco 2002, and singing at the San Francisco Giant’s and the San Francisco 49er’s games.
 
The Chorus’s talent has also been internationally acclaimed during its many national and international tours. In 1975 the Chorus made its premier appearance in Romania and has since performed in Alaska, Australia, Israel, England, Scotland, Wales , Russia and the Far East. The year 1998 marked the SFBC’s fiftieth anniversary and featured celebrations which included the Chorus’s debut concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall and a summer concert tour to England in which it performed at the Chichester Cathedral Festival, St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, the Henley Arts Festival and the City of Birmingham Choral Festival. In the summer of 2000, the Chorus took a forty-member contingent on its “European Tour 2000,” visiting and performing at high profile venues, including St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Seckau Monastery in Austria, Matthias Cathedral In Budapest, Vienna’s St. Augustiner Kirche and St. Nicolas Church in Prague. Other appearances include the nationally televised "Heroes for the Planet" with Charlotte Church and an

Moving On

Coronation Anthem No, 1 (Zadok the Priest) Ave Verum Corpus Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo "Kleine Orgelmesse" Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -Zum Ziele Fukat Dich Diese Bahn -Bald Prangt, Den Morgen Zu Verjunden America The Beautiful An American Hymn South African Freedom Song: Haleluya! Pelo Tsa Rona Bless the Lord Who Can Sail? Some Folks

For over 50 years the SFBC has been one of America's foremost institutions for singing boys. It is featured regularly at the San Francisco Opera, Symphony and Ballet, as well as civic events and private concerts. With 130 boys of all cultural, ethnic and economic backgrounds, the SFBC is recognized as San Francisco's "Singing Ambassadors." All 17 songs are accompanied, by everything from organ and the SFBC Orchestra to piano and congas. Beginning with Handel's "Coronation Anthem No. 1," and Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus," the Chorus continues with 6 songs from Haydn's "Missa Brevis St. Joannis De Deo," and 3 pieces from Mozart's "Die Zauberflute" (The Magic Flute). Then we have "America the Beautiful," "An American Hymn," "South African Freedom Song," "Bless the Lord," the Scandinavian folk tune "Who Can Sail" and the final tune, the immortal Stephen Foster's "Some Folks." The singing is lovely, especially the guest sopranos and tenor on "Die Zauberflute." A beautifully packaged, impressive CD by one of the best boys' choruses we've heard.

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We're On Our Way

Missa Brevis in C, K. 220 (W.A. Mozart) Laudate Dominum (W.A. Mozart) Fanfare: Gloria in Excelsis Deo (arr. M. Jacobsen) Panis Angelicus (arr. H. Hopson) Sound The Trumpet (arr. A. Moffat) Ave maria (arr. R. Meyer) Psalm 23: The Lord's My Shepherd (arr. M. Archer) Little Moon (F. Coppola) May The Words (Isadore Freed) Pie Jesu from "Requiem" (Andrew Lloyd Webber) Psal, 92: Break Forth, O Israel

The SF Boys Chorus, founded as a resource for the San Francisco Opera in 1948, has developed into one of America's foremost musical and educational institutions for singing boys. Over the years the chorus has regularly provided boys for choruses and solos for the SF Opera, Symphony, Ballet and the Carmel Bach Festival. Officially named "SF's Singing Ambassadors to the World," the chorus has performed in Carnegie Hall and toured in Europe, Russia, Japan, Korea, Italy and Australia. "We're On Our Way" has 16 songs, particularly nice are the 6 movements of Mozart's "Missa Brevis in C, K.220," and his "Laudate Dominum," Cesar Franck's "Panis Angelicus," Henry Purcell's "Sound the Trumpet," Schubert's "Ave Maria," F. Coppola's sweet "Little Moon," and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu from 'Requiem." All piano, organ or orchestrally (by the SF Boys Chorus Orchestra) accompanied. Truly lovely!

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