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Intermezzi group goes on a weekend tour to Monterey every June. The Cantori
group tours in the United States. The Troubadors and Changed Voice boys
tour around the world. Pacific Boychoir boys have toured to about a dozen
US states and eleven foreign countries. |
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Intermezzi group has a daycamp in the summer at the Pacific Boychoir headquarters.
Each day is a combination of singing and an afternoon activity that might
be bowling, hiking, or an overnight camping trip. The Cantori and Troubadors, the oldest boys, go to overnight camp for a week. All the counselors have been in a famous boys choir, so they know how to help make the best singers possible. The campsite is really cool, with a pool, a baseball field, and a volleyball court! You can find out more about summer camp here. |
You
don't need to know anything about music to audition! Mostly, you just need
to want to learn how to sing. We check to see what your voice sounds like,
if you can copy some notes. If you sing along with TV commercials at home,
you're probably in the right place. You're welcome to sing a song you know, and play piano if you take piano lessons. It's really quite simple and painless, just a check to see if you'd make a good member of the Boychoir. Visit the audition page for more speciifc information on auditions. |
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What's it like to sing for 40,000 people at once? | What kinds of places do we sing? |
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Some
of the boys in the Pacific Boychoir actually go to school here. A school
where all the students are in a choir is called a choir school.
Some famous choirs have choir schools, like the Vienna
Boys Choir in Austria or the Drakensberg
Boys Choir in Africa. Our choir school is the only one on the West
Coast of the USA.
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The
Pacific Boychoir sings for local professional sports teams all the time:
the A's, the Giants, Warriors, and the Raiders. At one game, the boys got
to shoot around with some of the Warriors after our sound check. We hung
out in one of the locker rooms before the game, where the photo for one
of our CDs was taken. Sometimes we have to sing both the American and Canadian National Anthems! On our anthem, the crowd always cheers when you get to "the land of the free." You can't listen to the speakers, because they play back your singing up to three seconds after you hear it! You can find out about games we've sung at here. |
We
sing at baseball, basketball, and football games, and in different states
and countries as you can see. Sometimes we sing for weddings or schools
or churches. We've done concerts with choirs from Harvard University and
the University of Michigan. As you maybe can imagine, lots of people want
us to sing for them in December to get them in the holiday spirit. Sometimes we sing with other choirs or with professional orchestras, like the Berkeley Symphony or the San Francisco Symphony. Some of the concerts we did with the San Francisco Symphony were recorded and the recording won a Grammy award in 2004! You can find out more about this recording here. |
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