Susan McMane, formerly of the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Vance George, Chorus Director Emeritus of the San Francisco Symphony, are moving forward, joining for a choral event.
Members of McMane's Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco and of the Ragazzi Boys' Chorus will give a pair of concerts on March 22 at First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto; and on March 23 at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco.
From Joyce Keil's Ragazzi, tenors and basses constitute the Young Men's Ensemble, collaborating with the Young Women's Chorus, the combined choruses to be conducted by George. The program, with orchestral accompaniment, includes Giovanni Martini's "Domine adjuvandum me festina," Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, and Leonard Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide, and "Somewhere," from West Side Story.
The boys will perform the spiritual "Wade in the Water," "Non vos relinquam orphans" by Donati, and a Dale Wood arrangement of the plainsong "Conditor Alme." The girls will present Hildegard von Bingen's "Karitas habundat," Bay Area composer Frank La Rocca's "Ave Maris Stella," Brahms' "Regina Coeli," and more.