Written by Mary Dan Eades on February 5, 2020
CHORAL TAPESTRY CONCERTS POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
A message from SBCS Board President, Karen Williams…
Dear SBCS friends,
Thank you for supporting the Santa Barbara Choral Society.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation and the County Health directive that all gatherings over 250 people be postponed or cancelled, our March 21-22 Choral Tapestry Concerts, at Trinity Episcopal Church, featuring 80 classical singers under the dynamic direction of Jo Anne Wasserman, with pianist David Potter, have been postponed.
SBCS will honor all Choral Tapestry tickets dated March 21 or March 22, 2020 at the rescheduled concert, date TBD.
If you would prefer a refund or to donate your Choral Tapestry ticket amount to SBCS, please follow these instructions:
- For tickets purchased online, please email SBCS at info@sbchoral.org either 1) requesting a refund, and you will receive an electronic refund of your transaction, or 2) indicating to us that you are kindly donating the amount paid for your tickets to SB Choral, and we will receipt your donation.
- If you purchased your Choral Tapestry tickets at Chaucer’s Bookstore, please mail the tickets to SBCS at 1330 State Street Suite 202 SB CA 93101 requesting a refund and a check will be mailed you, or if you kindly wish to donate the amount of your ticket purchase, Choral Society will receipt your donation.
Your support of the music of the Santa Barbara Choral Society keeps us singing at the highest artistic level, educating students, collaborating with other arts groups, championing living composers, and giving choral art access to the under-served. We deeply appreciate each of you, and look forward to singing our Choral Tapestry concert in the near future.
Stay well.
Sincerely,
Karen
Karen Williams
Board President
We hope we’ll soon be able to reschedule the performances, so stay tuned for updates. And when we’re able, please join us when Conductor Jo Anne Wasserman leads the Santa Barbara Choral Society as they weave a Choral Tapestry. Delight in a program of a cappella and piano-accompanied sacred and folk music from around the world in the rich acoustic of Trinity Episcopal Church. Celebrate the choral art that connects humanity across cultures, languages, and time, with repertoire from the 1500’s to the present, from England, Germany, Moravia, Scotland, Venezuela, Africa and America, featuring composers Britten, Mendelssohn, Kirchner, Wilberg and more!
Choral Tapestry
Santa Barbara Choral Society
JoAnne Wasserman, Conductor
David Potter, Accompanist
POSTPONED
Trinity Episcopal Church
1500 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA
$10 youth
$25 general admission
$50 VIP
(VIP ticket includes premier seating and pre-concert reception on Saturday or post-concert reception on Sunday)
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.
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.
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.