Annual Spring Gala Fundraiser May 19, 2018 at Rockwood Woman’s Club All Aboard! Tickets available online here. Conductor JoAnne Wasserman will lead the SBCS chorus in a concert of music from Broadway hits and standards from the 1940s, followed by an evening of wine and retro cocktails, a cornucopia of canapés, dessert, dancing to big Read More »
Meet the Chorus
JoAnne Wasserman, Conductor
The 2017-18 Season marks JoAnne Wasserman’s 25th year as Artistic Director and Conductor of SBCS. While you can read her full bio here, we’d thought we’d share a few things about her that you might not be aware of. She’s a California native, born, raised, and educated in the greater Los Angeles area, where she Read More »
Val Noronha – Bass
New to the SBCS Bass section this season, Val is not new to music and singing. He grew up embedded with musicians in Bombay. His mum had played lead roles in Il Trovatore and Pirates of Penzance. His dad worked alongside Victor Paranjoti (India’s Leonard Bernstein) and Mehli Mehta (father of Zubin Mehta), among others, Read More »
Calling All SBCS Alumni – Sing a Song for the 70th
In celebration of our 70th Anniversary Season and her 25th Season at the baton, Conductor JoAnne Wasserman invites all SBCS Alumni (former singers) to join the chorus on Saturday April 7 or Sunday April 8 for a rousing rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 5 Mystical Songs: Antiphon – “Let All the World from Every Corner Read More »
70 Years of Choral Society History
We gratefully acknowledge the Hutton Parker Foundation and Northern Trust for making our 70th Anniversary insert in the Independent possible. Read the full article here: 1005 SBCS 4c 4P Insert PROOF 092717
70th Anniversary Season 2017-18 Announced
Since our founding in 1948, we’ve been singing for Santa Barbara continuously for 70 years, offering area singers the opportunity to study and perform great choral masterworks and by those performances contribute to keeping the works alive for the cultural benefit of our community locally, regionally, and even globally. Though now, as we begin our Read More »
The Neuroscience of Group Singing: It’s good for you!
Singing is simply good for us, as individuals, as couples, as groups of friends, as a community. That’s something those of us who love to sing have always believed, certainly, but now there’s science to back it up. If you’re a singer — even if you’ve been unable to do any group singing for a Read More »
Why Choral Singing Builds Strong Bonds and Happier People
Research led by psychologist Nick Stewart of Bath University indicates that people who participate in a choir experience a greater sense of psychological well-being, brought about in part because they enjoy a greater feeling of togetherness and being part of a collective endeavor than others involved in different social activities. As many of our singers Read More »
