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MAY 31, 2009
The six choirs of the PBA performed spirituals and folk and classical favorites for families and friends.
When: Sunday, May 31, 2009, 5:00pm
Where: St. Augustine's Catholic Church, 400 Alcatraz Ave, Oakland
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APRIL 17-26, 2009
Rigoletto
Pacific Boychoir soprano Jack Lundquist performed the page role in San Francisco Lyric Opera's production of Verd's Rigoletto. Established in 1996, San Francisco Lyric Opera is dedicated to the performance of classical opera, traditionally staged and sung in the original language with English supertitles. These performances of Rigoletto, under the musical direction of Barnaby Palmer and Stage Director Attile Beres, marked the first collabration between the PBA and Sf Lyric Opera. The production featured Jesus Leon as the Duke and David Cox and Rigoletto.All performances were at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
Visit the SF Lyric Opera site.
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APRIL 24 and 25, 2009
On April 24 and 25, 2009, one of the country's leading boys choirs teamed up with one of the country's leading jazz ensembles, the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra. The ensembles, plus jazz vocalist Faye Carol, performed arrangements of spirituals and classics by Duke Ellington on the 110th anniversary of his birth, and pieces from Marcus Shelby's oratorio on Harriet Tubman, heard for the first time with a choir. Original choral arrangements by Christopher Kula and original charts by Marcus Shelby. These concerts were the first opportunity to hear what happens when the energy of a jazz orchestra meets the energy of a 55-voice SATB boys choir highly regarded for performing spirituals.
When: Friday, April 24, 2009, 7:00pm
Where: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 7:00pm
Where: First Congregational Church, Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way
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APRIL 20, 2009
Every year, for the Holocaust remembrance event, several temples in Contra Costa County do a one-hour service focusing on something specific. In 2009, they focused on Theresienstadt. For the first time, the Pacific Boychoir performed from the moving collection of pieces, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, music written by Charles Davidson with text written by children in the Terezin concentration camp.
When: Monday, April 20, 2009, 7:30pm
Where: Temple Isaiah, Lafayette
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MAY 10, 2009
Continuum, the Pacific Boychoir Academy’s premier high-school choir, sang music for mom in a lighthearted afternoon tribute.
When: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 4:00pm
Where: Montclailr Presbyterian Church, Oakland
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MAY 8, 2009
 PBA boys sang TWO national anthems as the Oakland A's take on the Toronto Blue Jays.
When: Friday, May 8, 2009
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, 7:05p.m.
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MAY 2, 2009
Chapel College, a joint ensemble of the Pacific Boychoir Academy and the Pacific Collegium, presented music drawn from its liturgical season of First-Sunday Evensong at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, featuring Byrd, Britten, Walton, Howells, and other composers.
When: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 7:00pm
Where: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito, Oakland
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APRIL 10, 2009
 Choristers from the PBA's choir school performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, in its entirety, with boy soprano and alto soloists and string accompaniment, as part of St. Augustine Catholic Church's Stations of the Cross service at 1pm on Good Friday, 2009.
When: Friday, April 10, 2009, 1:00pm
Where: St. Augustine's Catholic Church, 400 Alcatraz Ave, Oakland
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DECEMBER
20-22, 2008
 Amahl and the Night Visitors
Pacific Boychoir soprano David Kerns starred as "Amahl" in Trinity Lyric Opera's production of Amahl and the Night Visitors, Alan Thayer, Executive Producer, and John Kendall Bailey, Music Director. In "Amahl and the Night Visitors," we become acquainted with the young boy, Amahl, disabled, and given to telling "tall tales," and his poor mother struggling to make ends meet. Suddenly, three splendidly-dressed kings, while on their journey to bring gifts to a wondrous Child, knock at the door of their humble residence and ask to spend the night. The wonder of the Christmas story unfolds as young Amahl is suddenly able to walk, and sets off to accompany the three kings on their journey to give homage to the Child.
The program also featured the West Coast premiere of "The Gift of the Magi" by David Conte.
When: Saturday, December 20, 2008, Sunday, December 21, 2008
Where: Castro Valley Center for the Arts
When: Monday, December 22, 2008, Sunday, December 22, 2008
Where: San Francisco Conseravtory of Music
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DECEMBER
20, 2008
 A Family Holiday Sing-Along
People came to sing their favorite carols of the holiday season with the Boychoir's Cantori and Trouveres at Grace Cathedral. Check the concerts page for the 2009 dates.
When: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 11am
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DECEMBER 14, 2008
 A Family Holiday Celebration
The seven choirs (Minstrels, Intermezzi, Cantori, Trouveres, Troubadors, Changed Voices, and Continuum) of the Pacific Boychoir perfomed holiday favorites for their families and yours.
When: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4:00pm
Where: St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Oakland
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DECEMBER 6 & 13, 2008
 Harmonies of the Seaon
The Harmonies of the Season concerts have become a highlight of the holiday season in the Bay Area. The Pacific Boychoir singers are internationally renowned for rich and pure tone, bringing life and magic with them every time they sing. The Boychoir brought back Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful Ceremony of Carols, written for boys' voices and harp, as well as pieces featuring the boy soloists you've come to expect from the Pacific Boychoir, and Continuum, the Boychoir's polished, entertaining group of elite young tenors and basses.
Featuring harpist Anna Maria Mendieta
When: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 7:00pm
Where: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Oakland
When: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:00pm
Where: Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, Lafayette
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DECEMBER 4, 2008
 The PBA continued the tradition of singing at the Montclair Stroll in Oakland's Montclair District, where the PBA was founded. The boys sang holiday favorites and stroll through the village where the stores stay open later than usual.
For more information, check out the stroll flyer or visit the Montclair Village website |
DECEMBER 10, 2008
The Boychoir's Cantori and Trouvere ensembles sang for Oakland's
Children's Hospital's Sickle Cell program on Wednesday, December 10 at the Oakland Marriot.
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NOVEMBER 19-23, 2008
  The Pacific Boychoir joined the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the San Francisco Symphony and Symphony Chorus for Mahler's massive Eighth Symphony. This was the second time the Pacific Boychoir has performed Mahler VIII for SFS. As the SF Symphony describes it, "It is a quintessentially Romantic work by Mahler--a tale of damnation and salvation--but it owes a great debt to the music of the Baroque, especially the towering choral works of J.S. Bach." These concerts represented the last Mahler symphony to be recorded as part of SFS's Mahler recording project.
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OCTOBER 11-22, 2008
 The choir school boys represented the PBA in Hungary for the first time. The 2008 fall tour has the boys performing in four stops in Hungary, the world's birthplace of modern music education. The boys performed in Györ, Kesckemet, MIskolc, and Budapest, including the residence of US Ambassador April Foley. For more information on the tour, including photos, visit the tour page.
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