Following its performance as part of the prestigious New York Philharmonic Biennial June 9, the five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will return to San Francisco perform the new works featured in New York as it closes its 2015-2016 season. The concert, entitled Luminous Premieres, will feature newly commissioned works by Aaron Jay Kernis, Gabriel Kahane, Theo Bleckman and SF Girls Chorus Artistic Director Lisa Bielawa's My Outstretched Hand with text by Mary MacLane, plus Timo Andres' Comfort Food and Thierry Escaich's Vocis caelestis (2009) with an instrumental chamber ensemble. The concert will be conducted by Music Director Valerie Sainte-Agathe.
Following its performance as part of the prestigious New York Philharmonic Biennial June 9, the five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus will return to San Francisco perform the new works featured in New York as it closes its 2015-2016 season. The concert, entitled Luminous Premieres, will feature newly commissioned works by Aaron Jay Kernis, Gabriel Kahane, Theo Bleckman and SF Girls Chorus Artistic Director Lisa Bielawa's My Outstretched Hand with text by Mary MacLane, plus Timo Andres' Comfort Food and Thierry Escaich's Vocis caelestis (2009) with an instrumental chamber ensemble. The concert will be conducted by Music Director Valerie Sainte-Agathe.
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