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ConcertsWe celebrate our 20-year anniversary of citizens associated in the joy of singing and performing to the general public. 2013 – May 4 & 5 – How Can I Keep from Singing?2012 – December 1 & 2 – Do You Hear What I Hear?PMAA held our 20th annual holiday concert, Do You Hear What I Hear?, on Saturday, December 1 and Sunday, December 2. The concerts included an assortment of seasonal music, including a retrospective of our first holiday concert back in 1992. To hear excerpts of the concert, please click here. 2012 – May 5 & 6 – The Long And Winding Road2011 – December 3 & 4 – We Are LightsMore than 400 music lovers had an opportunity to hear the Foster City Community Chorus and Heart & Soul perform their 21st annual winter concert, “We Are Light” with harp, woodwinds, and the mighty Reuter organ at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 3, and Sunday, December 4. The concert was performed at the newly renovated and acoustically magnificent Transfiguration Episcopal Church, 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo. 2011 – April 30 & May 1 – Sing Me to HeavenOur 21st Spring concert series on April 30 and May 1, 2011 featured music ranging from Maurice Durufle's Requiem to a medley of The Sound of Music, a premiere arranged by our musical director, Paul Hurst. One of the concert highlights featured a reprisal of three Beatles classics (In My Life, Because and Octopus's Garden) from last's years Spring concerts. The program also included choir favorites such as Shenandoah, Distant Land and The Awakening. 2010 – December 4 & 5 – A Holiday PotpourriAn antidote for the Recession blues. The Peninsula Musical Arts Association winter concert featured standard holiday favorites including, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and “Sleigh Ride”; classical favorites, “Ave Maria” by Franz Biebl and “Cum Sancto Spiritu” by Antonio Vivaldi; Hanukkah Music with “The lights of Hanukkah” and “Hanerot Halalu” plus Christmas tunes including ”I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “Angel We Have Heard on High” arranged by our director, Paul Hurst. 2010 – May 1 & 2 – All Together NowThe Foster City Community Chorus and Heart & Soul, joined by the Peninsula Chamber Orchestra, performed a celebration of Beatles classics transcribed by our own Paul Hurst from the original recordings. Works by Mendelsohn, Gabrieli, Rutter, Cole Porter, and other modern composers were also performed. 2009 – December 5 & 6 – A Winter CelebrationPeninsula music lovers had an opportunity to hear the Foster City Community Chorus and Heart & Soul perform their 19th annual winter concert, “A Winter Celebration,” with harp and hand bells. Works included are the complete “A Ceremony of Carols” for choir and harp by Benjamin Britten and choral works by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Maurice Duruflé, Jan Pieters Sweelinck, Alice Parker, Joseph Haydn, plus a world premier composed by Paul H. Hurst. The Hillsdale Methodist Hand Bell Choir were featured in songs such as “Sleigh Bells,” “Christmas Bell Carol,” “Joy to the World,” and “Ring Those Christmas Bells” and an audience sing-along of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. 2009 – May 2 & 3 – Something's Coming!The music performed at our 17th Spring concerts featured a premier of the "West Side Story Choral Suite", from which we take the theme for our concerts. This exciting experience was made possible by a substantial underwriting to realize the varied talents of our directer, Paul Hurst.t arrange Mr. Hursd the instrumental accompaniment to many of our numbers. This concert also featured a 15 professional musicians in our newly formed "Peninsula Chamber Orchestra". The varied program included Cole Porter standards performed by Heart & Soul, Haydn's Te Deum performed by the Foster City Community Chorus and many other beautiful choir and orchestra arangements. 2008 – December 6 & 7 – Images of the Season ConcertThis concert continued a format with the Foster City Community Chorus, Heart & Soul, and the combined PMAA Chorus each performing approximately one third of the concert. For the first time in our history we were proud to premiere a new work commissioned especially for PMAA, a concert arrangement of "Angels We Have Heard On High" arranged by our musical director. He also arranged three sections, normally performed as solos or duets, in the Vivaldi Gloria for Heart & Soul. This is done, according to Mr. Hurst, "as Bach would have done Vivaldi." Additionally, he arranged the instrumental accompaniment to many of our numbers especially for our singers. 2008 – May 3 & 4 – I Hear America SingingThe Foster City Community Chorus and Heart & Soul held our our spring concerts, I Hear America Singing: A Celebration of America's Musical Heritage the first weekend in May. Audiences were treated to old favorites like "Shenandoah," "Georgia on My Mind," and "Bring Him Home," as well as some jazz, some swing, and we ended with "From Sea to Shining Sea." Watching and listening to Paul Hurst play "Rhapsody in Blue" was an extra-special treat. 2007 – December 1 and 2 – Home for the HolidaysThis festive concert was directed by internationally acclaimed harpist, Paul Hurst, and included choral numbers ranging from the classics of Pergolesi to holiday favorites by Mel Torme, John Rutter, and Harry Simeone, done in baroque, spiritual, jazz, folk, swing, and traditional styles. Randall Thompson's "Frostiana," a series of Robert Frost Poems set to music, will also be part of this eclectic holiday program. A harp prelude featured Director Hurst. The mightly Reuter organ led the audience in a sing-along of Handel's "Hallelujah!" chorus and favorite carols. And there was a visit from Santa Claus, and a reception following each performance. 2007 – May 5 and 6 – With a Voice of Singing2006 – May 6 & 7, 2006 – Spring... a Time to Sing
2005 – December 3 and 4, 2005 – Holidays Remembered
2005 – June 27 – Carnegie Hall
2005 – April 30 and May 1 – Start Spreadin' the News
2004 – December 4 and 5 – Bright Star Shining Star
2004 – May 1 and 2 – A Jubilant Song2003 – December 6 and 7 – Sound the Bells
2003 – May 3 and 4 – Steppin' Out
2002 – April 27 and 28 – Spring into SummerThe Foster City Community Chorus's rendition of the Spanish song "Canta y Baila" (Sing and Dance) and their "foot-stomping" performance of Wabash Cannonball was not to be missed. But Heart & Soul was not about to be left stranded at the station, and sang the Manhattan Transfer tune "Choo-Choo-Ch'Boogie." Other pieces included Haydn's "The Heavens Are Telling," the spiritual "Ain'a That Good News," and Julia Ward-Howes' "Battle Hymn of the Republic." 2001 – December 8 and 9 – Joy to the WorldThis season marked our tenth holiday concert. Under the direction of Gary Gober, both groups featured holiday favorites offered in some new ways, including joint women's and men's numbers and audience participation in Messiah "Hallalujah Chorus" with organ, brass, percussion, and strings. 2001 – May 5 and 6 – Spring TonicPerhaps our broadest range of styles offered in a single concert, from Baroque to Broadway, sung in American English to Zulu. Massed numbers "O Fortuna," "Hooray for Hollywood", the chorus's "Siyahamba," and Heart & Soul's presentation of "God Bless America" gave everyone in the audience something to cheer about. 2000 – December 9 and 10 – In a Winter GardenA wide variety of numbers from Latvian to Latin, the familiar and
the new. Massed choral numbers "Ave Maria" and "We
Need a Little Christmas" with the singers surrounding the audience
for the final number. May 6 and 7, 2000 - "Spring Toon-Up" 1999 – December 11 and 12 – Celebrating the SpiritReturning to Church of the Transfiguration, the two groups offered 23 numbers ranging from six performed in their native languages to a choral telling of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." After the traditional audience sing-along, Santa led everyone to a reception. For the first time, the grand organ joined brass and strings in our concerts. 1999 – May 1 and 2 – Sing into SpringThe Chorus, under Shulamit Hoffmann, and Heart & Soul under its new director, Gary Gober, presented their first joint concert performances under separate directors. Twenty-three numbers were sung in the Audubon School Theater with the audience invited to join in "Won't You Play a Simple Melody." 1998 – December 13 – A Season of LightThe Foster City Community Chorus, under Shulamit Hoffmann, celebrated
the holidays in the Foster City Recreation Center with 14 numbers
and two piano duets. Santa Claus made his concert debut for the children.
December 12, 1998 - "Holiday Concert" 1998 – MayChorus rehearsed, under Michelle Girard, videotaped "100 Years of Broadway" and Heart & Soul, under Helen Burns, performed several numbers at Stanford Hospital for Mr. deBoer, who lost his valiant fight in June, 1998. The Peninsula Musical Arts Association was formed to carry forward the vision. 1997 – December 14 – Need a Little ChristmasSeventy-two voices performed the final concert directed by founding director, Fred de Boer. Theme reflects inspiration which the holidays can bring to those faced with difficulties. 1997 – October 19 – Accentuate the PositiveChorus suspended season as Director Fred de Boer undergoes cancer treatments. Smaller chorale renamed Heart & Soul and presented single concert of uplifting and sentimental numbers, including "Set Me as a Seal," "I Get Along Without You," "Up a Lazy River," "Skylark," "Get Happy," and "Happiness Is." 1996 – December 14 and 15 – Round the World A-CarolingFeatureed holiday carols from different countries including Russia, Poland, France, England, Ukraine, Austria, Spain, Israel, and Germany. Selections include "I Wonder as I Wander," "Wassail Song," "Hanerot Halalu," "Deck the Hall," and "Carol of the Bells." 1996 – May 4 and 5 – Sing, Sing, SingTransfiguration Episcopal Church, San Mateo, became new venue for the eighth concert. Opening "With a Voice of Singing," "Bring Him Home," and several in a moon theme: "Moon Magic," Fly Me to the Moon," "Moonlight Becomes You," and "How High the Moon," and, of course, "Moon River." 1995 – December 28 – White House PerformanceThe 16-voice Foster City Chorale represented California in the East Room of the White House during the "Candlelight Tours," performing two 30-minute sets. 1995 – December 9 and 10 – Do You Hear What I HearCunningham Chapel of College of Notre Dame was setting for fourth annual concert by the chorus and chorale. Over 100 singers performed 18 numbers ranging from "Hodie" to "Holiday Fanfare" with the debut of the Foster City Community Band. 1995 – May 6 and 7 – Love Changes EverythingA concert about love and its effect on our lives. Size of the group and audiences requires change to College of Notre Dame Theatre. Ninety-five singers perfomed 18 numbers, ranging from Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" to a poem by Robert Burns "O' My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose." 1994 – December 10 and 11 – A Holiday ConcertFeatured Vivaldi's "Gloria" and ended with a massive spiritual arrangement of "Joy to the World" sung by 73 voices. Debut of the 14-voice Foster City Chorale with a Ray Charles arrangement of "Jingle Bells." 1994 – May 13 and 14 – Music of the Night"A celebration of the joy of music and dreams we have" with 60 singers offering "Sing, Sing, Sing," "A Grand Night for Singing," "Music of the Night," "I Have Dreamed," and "Rogers and Hammerstein On Broadway." 1993 – December 18 and 19 – Holiday ConcertFifty-seven singers and the Royal Court Brass offered our first two-performance concerts with selections including "Angels'Carol," "White Christmas," and the introduction of the now traditional audience carol sing-along. 1993 – May 16 – The Colors of MusicForty voices sang 12 selections, including "Heart and Soul," "Over the Rainbow," "Canon in D," and show tunes from Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, and Andrew Lloyd Weber. 1992 – December – Holiday ConcertOur first concert of the Foster City Community Chorus with 32 members singing seven holiday favorites in the Foster City Recreation Center. |
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