Choral

Volti’s Pandora’s Gift, performed with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, leaves a lasting visual impression.

The symphony, with assistance from choristers, performed the Rachmaninoff masterpiece, which is based off the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

The relatively new group Cappella SF put on a heavenly concert at Mission Dolores Basilica.

Hearing is believing: The Girls Chorus comes prepared to knock your socks off, and it usually succeeds.

The New York vocal octet brought Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer-winning Partita and a set of edgy, shorter works to the Twelfth Night Festival.

O.K., maybe you’re thinking King Wenceslas not Henry VIII, but you can usually trust California Bach Society choral director Paul Flight’s inventive programming, so don’t judge this concert by its title.

Hats off to Susan McMane, who will be taking her Young Women’s Choral Projects charges through a sampling of music, including Galuppi’s marvelous Dixit Dominus.

Cantare con Vivo’s May concert is traditionally an uplifting, fun affair, which goes by the title “How Can I Keep From Singing?”

Hot on the heels of the recent exhibition of California-inspired sheet music, comes a fun and fascinating concert by San Francisco Bach Choir of those songs.

If you heard Handel’s Messiah at Grace Cathedral last December, you may be interested in the arrival of the New College Choir from Oxford, which sings J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion at Grace on Good Friday.