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Boy Singers of Maine - USA
The Boy Singers of Maine was established in 1979.
Over the past 25 years, the choirs of the Boy Singers of Maine have
performed extensively throughout Maine, New England and other states,
Canada, England, France, and the former Yugoslavia. They sang at the
White House for the National Festival for Peace, at inaugural
festivities at the Maine State Inaugural Ball, and at the New England
Governors' Conference. The have performed for Senators William Cohen
and George Mitchell and for three Maine Governors.
Their
wide-ranging repertoire features melodies and challenging harmony from
all traditions: from the classics to pop, from church to Broadway - and
throw in gospel and jazz as well. They were honored to perform
Britten's War Requiem with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra. In a less
classical vein, they accompanied Judy Collins at the State Theater
Christmas Concert. As guest artists with the Portland Symphony, the
boys joined in Mahler's Third Symphony and performed numerous times in
the Magic of Christmas, singing both by themselves as well as
accompanying Maine's own young star vocalist, Laura Darrell. The boys
have appeared many times in the Maine State Ballet's The Nutcracker,
and appeared with the Choral Art Society in Orff's Carmina Burana. The
boys also collaborated with the Portland Youth Symphony to debut The
Lighthouse, composed by Michael Braz, himself a former music director
of the Boy Singers of Maine.
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