PROGRAM: SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS Sunday, December 15, 2013 / 2:30 PM / BING Concert HALL SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS ARTISTS PROGRAM San Francisco Boys Chorus The program will be selected from the following: Ian Robertson, artistic director Intermediate Chorus Margaret Nomura Clark, Gloria Nancy Hill Cobb associate artistic director Laudate pueri Dominum, op. 39, no. 2 Felix Mendelssohn Ríu, Ríu, Chíu Linda Spevacek Intermediate Chorus Margaret Nomura Clark, director O Nata Lux Patti Drennan Robert Lee, accompanist Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day John Rutter Concert Chorus and Graduate Chorale Concert Chorus and Graduate Chorale Ian Robertson and Margaret Nomura Clark, Cantata BWV 182, Chorus: So lasset uns gehen Johann Sebastian Bach directors Sancta Maria Mater Dei, K 273 W. A. Mozart Charles Calhoun, accompanist Personent hodie, Piae Cantiones, 1582 arr. Alice Parker A la puerta del cielo (At the Gate of Heaven) arr. Sally K. Albrecht SFBC Bellringers A New Year Carol Benjamin Britten David Knight, director Lone Dog Britten King Herod and the Cock Britten Alleluia David Conte Silent Night arr. Ian Robertson Sleigh Bells Christopher Dedrick All Choruses Go Where I Send Thee Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory On with the Snow arr. Douglas Wagner (Sleigh Ride, Winter Wonderland, Let It Snow!) Sing for the Holidays, carols arr. Robertson This Christmastide (Jessye’s Carol) Donald Fraser Al Shlosha Allan Naplan SFBC Bellringers The Little Drummer Boy Simeone/Davis/Onerati, arr. Daniel Hermany Away in a Manger Traditional, arr. Alan Lohr PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 36 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DeCEMBER 2013 PROGRAM: SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS SFBC performs at numerous civic and private engagements in the Bay Area, including anthems for the San Francisco Giants, the Oakland Athletics, the Oakland Raiders, the San Francisco Marathon, and at the Golden Gate Bridge 75th-Anniversary Celebration. The chorus has performed at the Macy’s Union Square Tree Lighting and San Francisco City Hall’s Tree of Hope celebration, and for many years, PBS has broadcast SFBC’s holiday concert in four California television markets. Recent recordings include It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2009), The San Francisco Boys Chorus Sings Vivaldi: Gloria and Magnificat (2010), The San SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS Burana, the Copenhagen Boys Choir, Francisco Boys Chorus Sings Fauré and The Grammy Award-winning San and, last spring, on a recording of Tom Messager (2010), and The San Francisco Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) was Sawyer with San Francisco Ballet. Boys Chorus Sings Live (2012). founded by Gaetano Merola and Madi Bacon in 1948 to provide trained boy SFBC has for more than 35 years toured New chorister auditions will be held singers for San Francisco Opera and domestically and internationally to more January 11. SFBC has been invited is today led by Artistic Director Ian than 20 countries, including Austria, to participate in the International Robertson. Maestro Robertson, who China, the Czech Republic, the United Boys and Men Choral Festival in also serves as chorus director for San Kingdom, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Arizona this coming summer. Francisco Opera, has since 1996 built Japan, Romania, and the former Soviet SFBC to include over 200 singers Union. Recent tours have included the from 50 Bay Area cities and more Pacific International Children’s Choral IAN ROBERTSON than 120 schools at campuses in San Festival in Oregon, the Coastal Sound Recipient of the 2012 San Francisco Francisco, Oakland, and San Rafael. Festival in Vancouver, Costa Rica, Opera Medal, Ian Robertson (conductor, and a tour to Denmark, Finland, and Concert Chorus and Graduate Chorale) Over the last 65 years, members of SFBC Russia when the choristers performed has been chorus director and conductor have appeared in over 135 productions in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg with San Francisco Opera since 1987, with San Francisco Opera, most recently and in Copenhagen’s Cathedral. having prepared more than 300 Mefistofele, Tosca, Turandot, The Magic productions for the company. He was Flute, and Carmen. SFBC choristers The chorus has performed for Bay awarded the Olivier Messiaen Foundation have performed frequently with the Area Nobel Laureates, HRH Prince Prize in 2003 for his artistic contribution San Francisco Symphony since 1952, of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess to the preparation of the company’s most recently in Deck the Hall and of Cornwall, HRH Queen Elizabeth North American premiere of Saint Chichester Psalms and with Paul Simon II of England, His Majesty the King François d’Assise. Robertson made his at the 2012 Black and White Ball. Gustav of Sweden, General Colin San Francisco Opera conducting debut Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the with Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and SFBC has collaborated in performances late Pope John Paul II. The chorus has since led performances of Falstaff, with many organizations, most recently has also performed for Nancy Pelosi, Lohengrin, Rigoletto, La traviata, Don with American Boychoir, Robert at the inaugurations of Lt. Governor Carlo, Turandot, Il trovatore, and La Moses’s Kin Dance Company, the Los Gavin Newsom, Mayor Edwin Lee, bohème. He has led the San Francisco Angeles Children’s Chorus, the San and President Barack Obama, and at Opera Orchestra and Chorus in many Francisco City Chorus in Carmina the 2012 tribute to Tony Bennett. concerts, including the company’s recent 38 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DeCEMBER 2013 Stern Grove appearance, and he has and operated by her parents, and is California State University, Hayward. conducted Così fan tutte and La périchole currently the middle school music teacher He was a counselor at his first San for San Francisco Opera Center and at the Hamlin School in San Francisco. Francisco Boys Chorus camp that frequently led Merola Opera Program’s summer and also began ringing handbells Grand Finale concerts. Other North in the staff chorus. Since then he has American opera credits include productions DAVID KNIGHT been to 23 SFBC camps, 14 as part of with Sarasota Opera, Edmonton Opera, David Knight (conductor, Handbell the music staff, and has directed the and Philadelphia’s Curtis Opera Theatre. Chorus) received his B.A. in music from SFBC Handbell Program since 2002. Before joining San Francisco Opera, Robertson was head of music and chorus director of Scottish Opera, where he led numerous productions, including Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Pearl Fishers, The Secret of Susanna, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The Scotland native trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the University of Glasgow; he studied conducting under Sir Alexander Gibson. Ian Robertson is currently the artistic director of the San Francisco Festival Pinewood is an independent, coeducational, non-profit, Chorale, which has performed many times K–12 college-prep school. Students benefit fromsmall at the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the class size, challenging academic curricula, San Francisco Boys Chorus. A 2009 trip with the San Francisco Boys Chorus took him to the inauguration of the president Kthrough of the United States, and in 2011 he led 12 performances with the Boys Chorus in Passionate Expertise and a wide choice of enrichment activities. St. Petersburg, Russia, and Copenhagen. We offer an environment where each student is Robertson recently served as guest High Academic Expectations a respected and vital member of our chorus master at Chicago Lyric Opera. Unlimited Exploration educational community. We invite you to explore the opportunity for your student to become a part of the Grounded Moral Examples MARGARET NOMURA CLARK Pinewood tradition of academic excellence. For more Margaret Nomura Clark (conductor, Confident Self-Expression information, please visit our website. Intermediate Chorus) has been a part of the San Francisco Boys Chorus since www.pinewood.edu 1996. Clark earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from the Oberlin Conservatory. Her choral aspirations began as a student in the music program at San Francisco University High School and in choral workshops with Robert Shaw. She has worked exclusively with children’s choirs in Ohio, New York, Japan, and California. Clark has also directed the preparatory choral division of the San Francisco Conservatory. She was an administrator and general music teacher for 13 years at the Pacific Academy of Nomura School in Richmond, founded encoreartsprograms.com 39 PS 091213 small 1_2v.pdf ad proofs.indd 1 9/12/13 2:11 PM.