Audition now for the East Bay premier women’s ensemble! Recent winners of the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award, WomenSing’s 2010-11 season New Beginnings will celebrate not only its 45thanniversary but also the auspices of a new decade. In December, ...
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Artistic Director Martín Benvenuto, composer and mentor Libby Larsen, and YIY composer Joshua Fishbein review Fishbein’s score for Unseen Secrets
The finishing touches are being put on the last WomenSing performance of the season as we prepare to premiere two new pieces, the latest in the...
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Audition now for the East Bay premier women’s ensemble! Recent winners of the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award, WomenSing will celebrate its 45th ...
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We are thrilled to share the news, just announced in the press, that WomenSing has been awarded the 2010 national CHORUS AMERICA/ASCAP ALICE PARKER AWARD. This award “...
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It’s all about the music, as WomenSing brings together pieces that illuminate emotions and places, the familiar and not so familiar. Join us this Sunday, March 28, at St. Mary’s Chapel, as we welcome the spring with Shadows...
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(excerpt from “Reflections”)
Inspired by this...
Shadows and Reflections, WomenSing’s spring concert, is just around the corner, so mark your calendars and make sure not to miss it. The program includes the premiere of Jack Henry’s Sombra del Mar (part of the Youth Inspiring Youth project), Eric Whitacre’s sensualShe Weeps Over...
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WomenSing’s three-year composition competition, in partnership with River of Words, continues to be an exciting and eventful project! With high anticipation, we look forward to the premieres of compositions by Elizabeth Lim and Joshua Fishbein this May...
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Auditions will be held on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 (and by appointment for more experienced singers), for WomenSing, the East Bay’s premiere women’s ensemble! Sing with us for the remainder of our 2009/10 season, For Love of Place. High sopranos and low altos are...
Come hear innocence and hope in Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece and audience-favorite, written on his voyage home to Britain in 1942. Britten’s decision to return home after his time in the United States was certainly influenced by “a love of place”. A stunning Magnificat in 10 parts (...
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It’s only a few more weeks until our first concert of the 2009-2010 season, and we’re putting the final touches on what will be a very exciting performance.
Leading off the evening is an audience favorite, A Ceremony of Carols (op.28), Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece for treble...
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Early this season Gail Doering, a new WomenSinger, offered to create a blog with her reflections on rehearsals, the music, and the experience of singing with WomenSing in general. Gail is a pastor at Clayton Valley Presbyterian. She’s married with two college-aged daughters who sang in high school choirs with our own Paul Caccamo. Gail loves to travel, hike, read, dabble in all things arts, and she jumps at any opportunity to see a play, the ballet, the symphony or a good movie.
