San Francisco Girls Chorus Presents 'Echoes of the Classics'
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The Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus continues its 2015-2016 season with guest cellist, composer and TED fellow Joshua Roman in a program entitled Echoes of the Classics: Canons by Brahms, Franck and Haydn, Sunday, April 10 at 4 pm at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Conducted by San Francisco Girls Chorus Music Director Valerie Sainte-Agathe, the concert demonstrates how some of history's great composers elevated the complex yet humble form of canons and rounds to high art.
Included will be the world premiere of a new work for chorus and cello by Joshua Roman, Veni Mater Gracie - Dou Way Robin (Anonymous), a selection of canons by Haydn, In Meeres Mitten by Schumann, Panis Angelicus by Franck, Zwei Gesange Op. 91, #2 - Geistliches Wiegenlied and Canon Op. 113, #13, Geographical Fugue by Ernst Toch and Snow by Alan Vincent.
$18-$36.
Presented by San Francisco Girls Chorus