For the 1996 holidays, the chorus shared the stage with a much younger group of singers.
“Stars: Songs From the Galaxy”
The Sunday Examiner & Chronicle’s Datebook reported that the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus was teaming up with the San Francisco Boys Chorus for “Stars: Songs From the Galaxy,” a holiday concert of traditional music and comic sketches at the Masonic Auditorium on December 15, 1996. The program included the “Starleluia Chorus” and a guest turn by Madame Stolichnaya singing “The 12 Astrological Signs of Christmas.” It was the first collaboration between the two choruses.
The item also noted the chorus’s Christmas Eve tradition, “Home for the Holidays” at the Castro Theatre, with shows at 5, 7 and 9 p.m.
From the archives: this post retells reporting by the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. The original articles survive only in newspaper archives, so we have told the story here in our own words. Details attributed to those outlets are their reporting; see the sources below.
Sources
- San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, “Datebook holiday music listings”, December 15, 1996. sfchronicle.com
