Choruses
YMC has three choruses, tailored to age and level of challenge desired:
musicus: one who plays or sings music — musician
musicum: pl. musicus
Now award-winning!
YMC took silver at the
Golden Gate International Choral Festival!
Come see our concert on Dec. 16th!
noon at St. Alban's
Upcoming Performances
Next performance:
Saturday, December 16th, 2023
noon at St. Alban's!
Here's to Song
12:30 on Saturday May 13, 2023
St. Alban's Church on the Berkeley/Albany border
Please all audience members:
wear a mask.
Thank you!
Past concerts:
How Can I Keep From Singing
In Person at St. Albans!
Program
Big Sing
Good Cheer – arr. Audry Snyder
A Musicum
Humpty Dumpty – Jean and Dave Perry
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep – arr. Betty Bertaux
Kusimama – Jim Papoulis
B Musicum
Venga Nel Nostro Coro – Scarlatti
O Magnum Mysterium – Ramos
Amani – Papoulis ed. Nuñez
(special pre-concert look! Rehearsing Amani in solfège)
Collegium Musicum
Três Cantos Kraó dos Indos Nativos – Leite (assisted by B Musicum)
Teomehe-laul – Tormis
Tourdion – Attaignant
Stand Up – Erivo arr. Douglas
Dana-dana – Lajos Bardós
Big Sing
How Can I Keep From Singing – Lowry arr. Hugh/Seeger/Marvit
June 4th, 2022
12:30
Saturday December 17, 2022
12:30 pm
St. Alban's Church on the Berkeley/Albany border
Please everyone wear a mask.
Thank you!
a celebration of light and darkness
A Musicum
Esterházy – Harmonia Coelestis
arr. Audrey Snyder – Il est né le divin enfant
Mac Huff – Happy Hanukkah, My Friend
Emmerson – Hot Chocolate
B Musicum
McKelvey – Deck the Halls in 7/8
Praetorius – Sing dem Herrn
Rutter – Mary's Lullaby
Collegium Musicum
arr. Jansson – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Bartók – Madárdal
Monteverdi – Lasciatemi Morire
Kodály – Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Big Sing
Gustaf Nordqvist – Jul, Jul, Strälande Jul
One Voice
Finally! Music sung together instead of separately!
A Musicum
Es wird scho glei dumpa and Jabberwocky
B Musicum
Farfallina and I've Been in the Storm So Long
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Collegium Musicum
O Magnum, Mysterium – Tomás Luis de Victoria
Viva la Musica – Iván Erőd
Ave Verum Corpus – W.A. Mozart
Tungare – Stephen Leek
Veni, Veni Emmanuel – Z. Kodály
Big Sing
December 18th, 2021
12:15pm
Away from the Roll of the Sea
an almost post-pandemic concert
Program
(A) Away From the Roll of the Sea – arr. S Calvert
(C) Come Again – Dowland
(B) Sailors Prayer – Kesselman
(B) Gift to Sing – arr. Rollo Dilworth
(A) Carry Me Home – arr. JA Shafferman
(C) Since You're Not Here – Troy Robertson
(C) Ubi Caritas – Ola Gjeilo
(TUTTI) Light of a Clear Blue Morning – Dolly Parton arr. Wailin' Jennys
Online:
May 29, 2021
high noon!
The Storm Is Passing Over
Friends, family, alumni, chorus-curious, grandparents, and anyone else who could use a catharsis -- all are welcome!
Program
A La Nanita Nana (arr. Eddleman)
Here In My House (Aline Shader)*
Water Under Snow (Harri Wessman)
Carol of the Bells (Leontovich, arr. Wilhousky)
Lullay My Liking (Holst)
Pie Jesu (from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem)
The Storm Is Passing Over (Tindley, arr. Barbara Baker)
Stabat Mater: Stabat mater dolorosa & Amen (Pergolesi)
Blowin' In the Wind -- a special mashup...
Shut De Do (Randy Stonehill, arr. Gilpin)
* maybe
Online:
December 31, 2020: New Years Eve Day
high noon!
Bartók to Bohemian Rhapsody!!!
Friends, family, alumni, chorus-curious, and especially GRANDPARENTS
-- all are welcome!
Program
Ich will den Herrn loben (Telemann)
Antiphonal Kyrie (Thrift)
Bring me Little Water, Silvy (Leadbelly)
Hymn a la Nuit (Rameau)
Madárdal (Bartók)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Warrior (Baryluk)
Down in the River to Pray (trad American spiritual)
Online:
Saturday June 27, 2020
11:11 sign-in
11:15 start