San Francisco Lyric Chorus Summer 2014 Auditions

Sing With The San Francisco Lyric Chorus, Summer 2014, And Help Restore Trinity Church As A Performance Space

The San Francisco Lyric Chorus, under the direction of Music Director, Robert Gurney, invites singers to join us for our Summer 2014 trimester. We have openings in all parts.

Tenors and Basses especially are needed.

Program:

Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Joseph Jongen: Mass

Special Benefit Performances for the Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Building Restoration Fund. Concerts will be given IN Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Main Sanctuary.

Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is an historic landmark building with outstanding acoustics and a magnificent E.M. Skinner symphonic organ. This wonderful performance facility has been closed to the public since 2009 because of seismic concerns. Our Summer concerts in the Main Sanctuary will serve as special fundraisers for the building restoration fund, and, in the near future, groups will once again be able to perform at Trinity+St. Peter’s!

Singers have the special opportunity to sing these fundraising concerts IN Trinity Church!

Rehearsals begin Monday, May 19, 2014

Rehearsals are held on Monday nights from 7:15-9:45 p.m. in the:
Chapel
Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
1620 Gough Street (between Austin and Bush Streets)
San Francisco

To arrange for an audition (ability to blend and sing in tune, some sight reading skill expected) or obtain further information, contact Music Director Robert Gurney at 415-721-4077 or [email protected]. For further information about us, check our website at http://www.sflc.org

Our concerts will be held on Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, August 24, 2014 at 5 p.m.

For our Summer 2014 season, we perform Maurice Duruflé’s beloved Requiem and Joseph Jongen’s dramatic, yet impressionistic Mass.

French composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) composed his Requiem as a memorial to his father. It is a work that emphasizes tranquility, rest, and peace, rather than fear and turmoil. Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) composed his Mass in the tradition of the powerful, theatrical French organ mass, with complicated and dramatic organ accompaniment and soaring choral lines, complimented with quiet, lyrical and melodic passages. Since both Duruflé and Jongen are noted for their fine organ compositions, it is only fitting that we have the special opportunity of performing these works accompanied by acclaimed organist Jonathan Dimmock playing the world-famous Trinity+St. Peter’s Episcopal Church E.M. Skinner symphonic organ.