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About Us |
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The Boy Singers of Maine brings
together musically gifted boys ages eight to eighteen for music
education and performance. Their wide-ranging repertoire features
melodies and challenging harmony from all traditions: the classics
to pop, from church to Broadway, gospel, jazz and beyond.
The Boy Singers of Maine is a non-profit educational organization incorporated
in December 1979 and is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Our choirs rehearse twice a week at St.Mary'sChurch in Falmouth and perform in three self-produced concerts each season. |
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The
Concert Choir - Ages 8 to 14
The Concert Choir is the principal performing treble choir that makes numerous
public appearances each year within and outside Maine . Boys rehearse twice per
week and receive outstanding musical education in the course of preparing for
their busy performance schedule. |
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The
Lower Octave -through age 18
The Lower Octave is a young men's choir comprised of boys through age 18 whose
voices are changing or have changed. Like the Concert Choir, Lower Octave performs
on numerous occasions in a variety of venues. This choir offers talented young
men the opportunity to sing a challenging, sophisticated and varied choral repertoire. |
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The
Lyric Choir - through age 10
The Lyric Choir is the choir where boys begin their musical education with the
Boy Singers. Primarily an instructional choir for younger boys, the Lyric Choir
does perform several times each year in our self produced concerts. Boys are
promoted to Concert Choir as their skills improve. |
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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 . Performances have included 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. |
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Important
for the boys' musical growth is the opportunity to collaborate
with many renowned orchestras, directors, choral groups,
and individual performers. 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. |
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Barenaked
Ladies Dec. 2005 |
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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. In December 2005, the Concert Choir performed
in the opening set with the Barenaked Ladies in
their holiday concert at the Cumberland County Civic Center
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The boys regularly travel on tour,
representing their state as they demonstrate their wonderful
talent and broaden their musical education and experience.
Some of their more notable excursions have include performing
in London , Ontario at the International Boy Choir Festival
under the direction of Dr. James Litton, then director of the
American Boy Choir. In 1998, they were pleased to accept the
invitation to perform at AmericaFest, an exciting choir festival
for men and boys held at St. John's University in Minnesota
. In April of 2000, the Concert Choir traveled to Toronto to
participate in the Toronto International choir festival under
the direction of internationally renowned children's conductor
Jean Ashworth Bartle. In early 2006, Boy Singers was invited
to perform at Carnegie Hall. |
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