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11-12 season launching with the help of our faithful audience, supporters, friends, family and LAB 5

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Officially, the 11-12 season ( our 34th) started on August 10 in Germany with 12 engagements in six European countries (you can read about it on this blog.)  The season always really starts for us, however, when we make the rounds of our Bay Area venues and the audiences who have been with us for so long. Some since the beginning!  An evening at the SF Conservatory was followed by the mission at Santa Clara.  Along with people who have the most amazingly long memories of Chanticleer and everyone who's ever been part of it, were about half of LAB 5 who had rehearsed all day in San Francisco then come on down to see us.

 

Usually when we go up to Sacramento we can count on one of two things – it will be extremely hot, or it will be raining (Christmas).  Yesterday was a divinely beautiful day for "Love Story" at St. Francis of Assisi.

Back to the SF Conservatory this Wednesday evening, San Luis Obispo on Sunday, then…Canada, Maine, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Idaho.  Come see us, wherever you are!

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A rainy and Romantic weekend

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Over the weekend we rolled out our "Romantic Chanticleer" program, which included the world premiere of Stephen Paulus' "The Lotus Lovers" and pieces by Lesur, Whitacre, Strauss and Mahler.  A nice program for a rainy weekend – yes, apparently, now it DO rain in California in the summertime…   A huge busload of sophomores, juniors and seniors from Bismarck High School in North Dakota came for the Friday concert at the San Francisco Conservatory – our home hall.  We are really sorry to hear about their flooding back home.

We repeated "Romantic Chanticleer" in Berkeley on Saturday and then in Saint Francis in Sacramento on Sunday.

Tomorrow night Santa Clara – then Chorus America arrives in town – all 400+ choral people from all over the country.  We're the co-host of the conference.  We'll do the opening concert on Wednesday night and a Community Sing for one and all on Saturday.  We'll finish the "Romantic Chanticleer" run on Sunday back in S.F. and then it's Chanticleer in Sonoma with 60 of our nearest and dearest fellow choral singers from around the country.

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Tens of thousands of miles later, we’re feeling “Romantic”

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Looks like many other warmups you've seen, but this was our last on the road this year.  Who knows how many miles and how many warmups later… and a few bouts of laryngitis and some tornados….Our concert in Livermore brought the 10-11 season of "Out of this World" to a close.  We'll sing some of that for Chorus America in a few weeks in San Francisco, but meanwhile we're sleeping at home and preparing "Romantic Chanticleer" for Bay Area audiences, coming right up.  For those of you who liked our last Bay Area concert "The Boy Whose Father Was God" – we hope to have the recording available for you at our next concerts.

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Review from San Jose performance of “The Boy…,” we’re heading East.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Starkgate reviewed the San Jose performance of "The Boy Whose Father Was God."

We're packing our bags for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,  including our return to the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  a private appearance at Miss Porter's in Farmington and our annual Youth Choral Festival at Darien High School on April 12, as well as concerts in Princeton and New Jersey.  And that's just the first week of this next tour!

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Sellout in Grace Cathedral for the last “The Boy Whose Father Was God,” Roxanna Panufnik came from London, Eric sang

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

We sang "The Boy Whose Father was God" last night in San Jose, and tonight at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill, where we come to do sacred programs of this sort.  Eric, almost recovered from his laryngitis, was ready to sing, so Laura McLellan and her cello didn't have join us.

The concert sold out and was given a very enthusiastic response, as at the other venues. Ilyas Ilya, composer of the Aramaic Lord's Prayer was there and Roxanna Panufnik, composer of "Let Me In" about a miracle performed by the child Jesus, flew in from London for two days.   As we're having a mini-heatwave, and as she had never been to the West Coast before, she took a minute to go see the Golden Gate Bridge from Crissy Field

and then to have dinner with our Commissioning Club and hear the concert.  We hope she was pleased – she seemed to be.  After the concert with Jace and our board member Peggy Skornia:

We'll turn up in New York for "Out of this World" at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday.

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