WELCOME BACK!  BIGGER THEN EVER!

September 2016 is here and BCC is back in action!  We are excited to welcome almost 500 new and returning singers to rehearsals. This is one of the biggest groups of singers at BCC ever. We are happy and grateful to our partner locations for hosting our many singers and families.





Oliver Hazard Perry 
K-8 School


   
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS ATK?
BCC REHEARSALS!
One special person who is back is President and Artistic Director Dr. Anthony Trecek-King!  Dr. TK is back from his travels that took him to South America, Africa and Asia. He made lots of diverse and amazing friends from around the globe. Talking to the singers last week he shared some of the stories about the things he saw including the struggles of privilege, poverty and race that span the globe as well as the kindness and beauty that can be found if you are looking for it. Dr. TK quoted a line attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo, "The world is a book and those who do not travel ready only one page." We are happy to have Dr. TK back and able to share some amazing experiences with our students.
Stella Fisher is in the center of all of the action at the Girlchoir National Convention in Philadelphia this summer.
SINGER SPOTLIGHT: STELLA FISHER
I SANG ON THE TODAY SHOW AND ON THE ROCKY STEPS DURING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION...
This summer I had the opportunity to attend the "Let Freedom SING!" Girlchoir National Convention in Philadelphia, PA during the Democratic National Convention. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my entire life. Continue to read about Stella's experience.
Owen Rathbone is all the way to the left.  He and his fellow BCC singers were in Cambodia at Angkor Wat.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: OWEN RATHBONE
When I joined BCC in eighth grade, I couldn't have predicted the impact the chorus would ultimately have on my life. Having sung in various groups since the age of seven, I must have seen the Young Men's Ensemble as just another stop in my vocal journey. You show up, sing for an hour or two, and go home. Every so often you perform a concert and your Mom gives you flowers. I knew the drill. It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment I realized BCC was different, but throughout the following five years, the experience I had was so much more than harmonies, sixteenth notes and Mom's smile from the audience. Continue to read about Owen's experience and what he is doing now.

NATIONAL ARTS IN EDUCATION WEEK
September 11-17 is National Arts Education Week. Designated by Congress in 2010, the field of arts education and its supporters join together in communities across the country to tell the story of the transformative power of the arts in education. In 2016, it is a particularly important time to celebrate arts education, as we usher in a new chapter of American Educational policy with the new Every Student Succeeds Act and its many arts-friendly provisions.  In the new law, the arts remain a "well-rounded" subject and are empowered to be central to a child's education in our public schools.

Use the hastag #BecauseOfArtsEd to share the story of the power of the arts.


CORPORATE SUPPORT
  
(L-R) Celeste Wilson, BCC Managing Director and Meg Clough, BCC Board Member and Vice President, Director of Corporate Communications, and Chairwoman of the Charitable Giving Committee, Loomis Sayles at the Boston Business Journal's Corporate Citizenship Summit on September 8 at Artists for Humanity's Epicenter.  BCC salutes Loomis Sayles, Partners Healthcare, Eastern Bank, TDBank and all the generous companies who care so deeply about BCC and the mission of so many nonprofits throughout Boston.

If your company would like to support BCC, please contact our Celeste Wilson by email.  Corporate supporters receive a range of benefits including being associated with one of Boston's premier diversity and inclusion arts organizations.
UPCOMING  PERFORMANCES

The Ouroboros Trilogy: An ouroboros, an ancient Greek icon depicting a serpent eating its own tail, has become symbolic of eternal renewal. Created by Boston's Cerise Lim Jacobs, Ouroboros Trilogy is a cycle of three grand operas including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning Madame White Snake, along with two World Premieres, Gilgamesh and Naga.

Read the Boston Globe review that calls BCC "sublime."

All performances at the Cutler Majestic Theatre |  $10 - $128 | Tickets  online here.
Use the code "linglong" for a special 40% off discount

September 13 at 7:30pm
Madame White Snake
Premier Choir


September 14 at 7:30pm
Gilgamesh
Concert Choir
September 15 at 7:30pm
Naga
Central Intermediate Advanced Choir
September 17 at 11:00am
Gilgamesh
Concert Choir

September 17 at 3:00pm
Naga
Central Intermediate Advanced Choir

September 17 at 7:30pm
Madame White Snake
Premier Choir

 

September 28 at 6:00pm & 6:30pm
"Hope Coming On": Performance at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.  YME engages with Joseph Mallord William Turner's famous painting "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)" in "The Beal Gallery as part of the 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference. Performance curated by Lanfranco Aceti,  Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Arts Administration and choregraphed by Alex Davis, Urbanity Dance.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Young Men's Ensemble
MFA is free on Wed evenings after 5pm.


 


October 20 at 11:00am
Opening our Doors celebration hosted 
by The Fenway Alliance
The Christian Science Plaza
United South End Settlements Training Choirs
Free Concert
November 19 at 1:30pm
Isbella Stewart Gardner Museum
Young Men's Ensemble
Ticketed Concert | $12 - $27
Purchase tickets here. 



BCC is generously funded by:

BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors




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