ACFEA is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2015. Over the years, we have received many excellent photos from our groups, several of which we’ve included in our annual newsletter, Tour Notes. In honor of our anniversary year, I’ve selected my 60 favorites from the newsletters I helped put together over the last 12 years. Here are the first 20, […]
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Here is what our groups are up to on tour this week: Monday, July 13 Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Mass participation followed by a concert in Seville, Spain in the Iglesia Santo Angel, 8:30pm Tuesday, July 14 Portland Symphonic Girlchoir, Concert in Cordoba, Spain in the Real Circulo de la Amistad Liceo Artistico y Literario, 8:30pm Shallaway, Concert in Cambridge, England in Great St. Mary’s, the
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Welcome to Staffer Spotlight, our new monthly column where we get to know ACFEAers. First up is Yuhi Aizawa Combatti, our new Tour Administrator in the San Francisco office. Take it away, Yuhi! My husband Tegan and I on New Year’s Eve visiting a Shinto shrine in Kamakura, Japan Imagine that airline regulations
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Sylvia Garcia Marin, ACFEA’s Manager for Latin America, based in Guadalajara, Mexico, has long been extolling the attractions of Costa Rica as a concert tour destination. We were therefore delighted when the San Francisco Boys Chorus (Ian Robertson, Artistic Director) chose that country for its 2013 tour. Among the many features that the boys’ chorus enjoyed were the spectacular volcanoes, lakes and cloud
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An interview with Stephen Sano, chair of the music department at Stanford University. In June, he took the Stanford Chamber Chorale and Taiko Ensemble on a tour of the United Kingdom. What was unique about touring with two very different ensembles?Logistics was the biggest challenge, since none of the performance events between the two groups overlapped. We planned carefully for
When we asked then artistic director Ryan Brandau for a few quotations to include with the article we were writing about Santa Clara Chorale’s tour of Uruguay and Argentina, he took the ball and ran with it. We love it when directors give feedback, and it doesn’t get much better than this: The trip crescendoed
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