Registration for spring is now open
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BCCO Summer 2025 Tour
BCCO will offer a three-concert tour in France June 15-24, 2025 Enjoy 8 nights, 9 days in France with the opportunity to explore Paris & Tours, get to know your fellow singers better, sing more, and bring BCCO’s music to new audiences! Ming Luke will
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Submit ideas for repertoire to the music committee
BCCO will begin the music selection process to choose repertoire for our coming semesters at an open meeting: 8 PM on Dec 3, 2024 at Ronnie Boynton & Marge Boyd’s house, 77 Domingo Ave, Berkeley. A list of works that have been proposed by singers
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preview the Fall 2024 vocal scores
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Music-to-Text setting in Avodath Hakodesh
(by Gabriela Crane) As a native speaker of Hebrew, I can relate to how the music corresponds to the text in many instances in this composition, which adds a great deal to appreciating the depth of this work. Here are some examples from the first
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Ever wondered how scores with texts in Hebrew are written?
A score book, dated 1912, is hosted in the New National Library in Jerusalem. Among other Israeli and traditional songs, one is the National Anthem, Hatikva “The hope”. This is an example of an attempt to write “Hebrew” scores from right to left, such that
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The fine print in A Child of Our time – the “Jewish theme”
Tippett’s secular oratorio was written in response to the 1938 shooting of a German official by a Polish Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynzspan, which resulted in the Kristallnacht. The composition has several references to a “Jewish motif” 1, which is (typically) a descending succession of 4
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Pronunciation tip: Daniel Sitteth
At rehearsal Feb 13, Ming noted the handy mnemonic “Daniel Sitteth”. It’s a guide that applies when any of the consonants in Daniel Sitteth (D, N, L, S, T, TH) precede a “u” sound. The rule states that you introduce a j-glide sound after the
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Rehearsal Resources for Spring 2022
Rehearsals: Mondays 7-9:30 pm from Feb 14 – June 13, 2022 – June 6, 13 rehearsals at Northbrae Community ChurchFinal rehearsals and concert at Hertz Hall: June 16-19, 2022 Need a mask for rehearsal that’s good for singing? We have a page for that (click
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