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BAY CHORAL GUILD
announces its 43rd SEASON 2021-2022 |
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After staying home last December we asked, “What traditional activities did we miss?” Our December concert examines three areas of holiday merriment: singing Christmas carols, attending a choral concert, and going to the ballet to see The Nutcracker. You’ll hear modern settings of carols from Britain as well as Central and South America. We’ll introduce several new-to-us Christmas pieces, including the premiere of Sanford Dole’s recent composition, Peace on Earth. Finally, you’ll dance your way home after hearing Harry Simeone’s inimitable choral arrangement of the Nutcracker Suite, which adds charming texts to Tchaikovsky’s familiar score.
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This program is dedicated to all the people whom we have lost since the last time we were together before the pandemic. The centerpiece of this a cappella concert is Eleanor Daley’s Requiem—the Canadian composer’s gentle and heartfelt setting of the traditional Latin texts is interspersed with psalms and poetry in English. The concert also includes an excerpt of one of the most beloved masses for the dead, the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, arranged for unaccompanied choir. Other works, suitable for a memorial service, include shorter pieces by Pavel Chesnokov, Melissa Dunphy, Jake Runestad, and other contemporary composers.
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Our season closer celebrates our return to live performance, and will showcase the upbeat side of the choral art form over the centuries, from Sweelinck to Bach to Roxanna Panufnik. We plan to perform old favorites, such as Charles Stanford’s Beati quorum via, and pieces that are new to us and probably to you, including Wake Up, My Spirit, by Adolphus Hailstork, and A Little Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott. The program concludes with a delightful bit of Americana, a medley of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma.
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View our full-color season brochure (pdf).
Performance Venues:
Campbell United Methodist Church • 1675 Winchester Boulevard, Campbell (Fridays)
First Palo Alto United Methodist Church • 625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto (Dec 4)
First Congregational Church of Palo Alto • 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto (Mar 6 & June 5)
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church • 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco (Dec 5)
St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church • 500 DeHaro Street, San Francisco (Mar 5 & Jun 4)
Campbell United Methodist Church • 1675 Winchester Boulevard, Campbell (Fridays)
First Palo Alto United Methodist Church • 625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto (Dec 4)
First Congregational Church of Palo Alto • 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto (Mar 6 & June 5)
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church • 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco (Dec 5)
St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church • 500 DeHaro Street, San Francisco (Mar 5 & Jun 4)