SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS

Grammy Award-winning boys chorus offering first rate performance experience and musical training to boys in the San Francisco Bay Area for sixty years.

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"We're on our way..."

"Moving On"

 

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"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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"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 Zauberflote." A beautifully packaged, impressive CD by one of the best boys' choruses we've heard."    www.singers.com

Missa Brevis in C, K.220- W.A. Mozart

("The Sparrow Mass")

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Benedictus

Agnus Dei

Erik Carlson - soprano, Jacob Rothenbuhler - alto,

Jim Croom - tenor, Frederick Matthews - Baritone

SFBC Orchestra and Men's Chorale

 

Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339 - Mozart arr. L Lethbridge

 

Fanfare: Gloria in excelsis Deo - Martin Shaw arr. M Jacobsen

 

Panis Angelicus - Cesar Franck arr. H Hopson

 

Sound the Trumpet - Henry Purcell arr. A. Moffat

 

Ave Maria - Franz Schubert arr. R Meyer

 

Psalm 23: The Lord's My Shepherd - Brother James' Air arr. M Archer

 

Little Moon - F Coppola (Ryan Kellett - soprano)

 

May the Words - Isadore Freed

 

Pie Jesu from Requiem - Andrew Lloyd Webber

 

Psalm 92: Break forth, O Israel - Israeli melody arr. H Fromm

 

Coronation Anthem No. 1 (Zadok the Priest) - G F Handel

 

Ave verum corpus - W A Mozart

 

Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo "Kleine Orgel Messe (Little Organ Mass)  Hob.HHII:7 - J Haydn

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Benedictus

featuring Michael Bannett - soprano

Agnus Dei

SFBC Orchestra and Men's Chorale

 

from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Mozart

Zum ziele führt dich diese Bahn

Seid uns zum zweitenmal willkommen

Bald prangt den Morgen zu verkünden

Michael Bannett, Bryan Jolly, Ryan Irwin - sopranos

SFBC Orchestra

 

America the Beautiful - arr. I Robertson

 

An American Hymn - arr. Robertson

Erich Stratmann - tenor

Haleluya! pelo tsa rona (Halleluia! We sing your praises)

South African Freedom Song

 

 

SFBC Intermediate Chorus live performances from

Anaheim Heritage Festival 2001

Bless the Lord - R Henderson

Who can sail? (Scandinavian Folk Song) - C B Agnestig

Some Folks - S Foster