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This highly acclaimed boy’s choir was founded in
1937 when it was situated at Columbus, Ohio. Thirteen years later, in 1950, the
choir re-located to Princeton, New
Jersey, where they have been based ever since.
Since they began performing they have become
nationally and internationally renowned through their many concert
tours. They have given
performances that include premieres, where there has been the whole choir or
individual soloists, with many of the top American orchestras with just a
few of them including the American Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, the Berkshire Music Festival, Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Cathedral Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra of
St. Luke’s, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Princeton Chamber Symphony
and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Other international orchestras they have performed with include Royal
Concertgebouw, The Staatskapelle Berlin, the Vienna
Festival Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Besides accompanying orchestras alone, they have
performed with many other artists that include Kathleen Battle, Beyonce, k.d. Lang, James
Levine, Wynton Marsalis, Alanis
Morrisette, Sir Paul McCartney, Jessye Norman, Twile Paris,
Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor to name just a
few.
The choir is currently led by Fernando Malvar-Ruiz who is their Litton-Lodal
Music Director. Over the years
they have also been led by many conductors that include Pierre Boulez,
Donald Bryant, Robert DeCormier, Charles Dutoit, Donald Hanson, John Kuzma,
James Levine, James Litton, Vincent Metallo, Kurt
Masur and Andre Previn.
The choir have made appearances on many television and
radio broadcasts and no strangers to the studio they have made in excess
forty five recordings. Some of
these many recordings include Arrigo Boito Mephistofele
“Prologue”, Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish
Symphony, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Dixit Dominus, Family
Christmas Favorites, Go West Young Man, Holy
Innocents, Hymnody of Earth, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, The
Lord’s Prayer; O Holy Night, Lost in the Stars, Felix Mendelssohn:
Elijah, Messiah, On Christmas Day, Singing for the Joy of It and Trumpets Sound Voices Ring and the
soundtracks to Interview with a
Vampire, In Search of Angels
and Wide Awake.
In the field of musical education they work with
countless communities and numerous schools in their outreach Arts in
Education program. Their
Resident Training Choir has also been attending schools in South
Jersey in conjunction with the Newark Boys Chorus Training
Choir.
American Boychoir recordings
O Come All Ye
Faithful (John Francis Wade)
Ocaso HR002 (CD: On Christmas Day)
Conductor – James Litton
Music – Cathedral Symphony Orchestra and New
York Vocal Consort
Sources:
- http://www.americanboychoir.org/about/choir-bio.php
- http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/ABC.htm
- http://www.americanboychoir.org/themusic/discography.php
- http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-american-boychoir-q10030/credits/all
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