Written by Mary Dan Eades on March 13, 2018
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 Sing”.
Interested singers should email us at info@sbchoral.org or call the office at 805-965-6577 for more information about obtaining the music score and opportunities to rehearse with the chorus in advance.
To take advantage of our SBCS Alumni Special ticket offer — BUY 1 GET 1 FREE — designed to entice you to come sing one more song with your chorus in celebration of its 70th Anniversary Season. Please call the office to secure this special offer
ALUMNI CAN DOWNLOAD AND PRINT A PDF OF THE SCORE HERE
American baritone, Ralph Cato has travelled the world extensively, telling stories in song with his warm, clarion baritone voice.
Tenor, Benjamin Brecher has performed over fifty operatic roles with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies, specializing in the high lying lyric tenor repertoire. He has performed 16 roles with New York City Opera alone. Career highlights include performances with Opera Orchestra of New York, L’Opera de Nice, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, L’Opera de Montreal, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, among many others. His orchestral solo repertoire includes Mozart, Handel, Orff, Bach, Haydn, as well as many performances of Britten. In 2000 he began performing the great Irish Tenor songs in a concert produced for him entitled A Celtic Celebration, Twenty years later, the show has become a North American hit with performances with 45 Symphonies in North America. Ben continues his discography having added his twelfth recording in 2016 Forgotten Liszt, with pianist Robert Koenig, and will record a new release in 2022 entitled “Three Centuries of Thomas Moore” including the music of Britten, Berlioz, and Sarah Gibson on MSR Classics. He is a Professor of Voice at University of California Santa Barbara, where he has served as the Head of Voice.
Born and raised in Southern California, April Amante is a versatile soprano with expertise and facility in repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary musical theater.
Tracy Van Fleet is pleased to return to the Santa Barbara Choral Society. As a soloist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lüneburg Symphony in Germany, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río in Mexico, Pasadena Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Los Angeles Bach Festival, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic, USC Symphony and Chorus, and others. She has had many appearances with the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Opera Pacific, San Diego Opera and Opera Colorado.