San Francisco Girls Chorus plans ambitious 30th Anniversary Season
By Bruce Bellingham

The San Francisco Girls Chorus will perform with the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in its 30th Anniversary Season with performances of Dreams and Visions. It features two centuries of music, including the world premiere settings of E. E. Cummings’s poetry by American composer Augusta Read Thomas and guest organist David Higgs. Two performances of Dreams and Visions will be given: Friday, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, and Sunday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m. at First Congregational Church in Berkeley, both conducted by artistic director Susan McMane.

Members of the Girls Chorus return to the San Francisco Opera stage for productions of Die Tote Stadt, Sept. 23–Oct. 12; Boris Godunov, Oct. 22–Nov. 15; and La Boheme, Nov. 16–Dec. 7.

The Girls Chorus will also perform and record Mahler’s monumental Eighth Symphony, Symphony of a Thousand with the San Francisco Symphony and music director Michael Tilson Thomas. Four performances will be given at Davies Symphony Hall Nov. 19–23.
San Francisco Girls Chorus: opening night tickets $15-$28 at City Box Office, 415-392-4400 or www.sfgirlschorus.org; season subscriptions $61-$163 for four-concert packages at 415-863-1752 x304. For tickets to the S.F. Opera productions, visit www.sfopera.org, and for the Philharmonia Baroque, visit www.philharmonia.org.