OSC has been running a workshop of the Bach B-Minor Mass and we're giving a free recital with the chorus and all the workshop participants on March 13th at the Oakland Cathedral.

More info on the OSC home page and at the cathedral's web site.

The Oakland Symphony Chorus is caroling on the following dates:

• Friday, December 4, in Jack London Square for the Holiday Lighting Ceremony. 6:06 PM - 6:30 PM
• Saturday, December 5, in Jack London Square for the Lighted Yacht Parade. 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
• Thursday, December 10, at the Oakland Zoo/Flamingo Plaza for Zoo Lights. 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

The Oakland Symphony Chorus will be performing in the annual Break Bread concert at the Paramount on December, 13.

In keeping with our tradition, OSC is putting together an ecumenical potpourri of holiday songs for our set...

The Oakland East Bay Symphony opened their season with an opera medly on November 13.

I've found one review so far...

Apparently, I almost own this keyword so I might as well define it fully.

A lollygash is the cut you get on your tongue when you're trying to find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop, and the candy develops a nasty, sharp, edge.

Lollygash is also an (arguably horrendous) genre of music/mash up in which porn sound tracks are mixed with electronica.

Oakland Symphony Chorus provided support for the OEBS in a concert performance of Showboat.

The "concert" version of Showboat, as blessed by the rights holders, is a pretty sterile affair, with a droning narrator and most of the story excised. They've also edited/censored some language to confirm with modern-day political correctness.

On March 20, the Oakland Symphony Chorus joined the Oakland East Bay Symphony's concert performance of Act I of Verdi's Otello.

The concert was reviewed by the Contra Costa Times

On January 31, the Oakland Symphony Chorus held a 50th anniversary gala.

We performed Haydn's Mass in Time of War and Sanford Dole's The Fabric of Peace, which was commissioned for the occasion.

The concert was reviewed by the SF Classical Voice

Another foray into a topic about which I'm mostly ignorant, sorry.

I was practicing major scales, on guitar, in first position. I noticed that, moving from scale to scale around the circle of fifths, there seemed to be a pattern to the geography of each scale and between each adjacent scale, but it was too complicated for me to figure out just by playing.

So I finally wrote everything out, and the pattern is straightforward, and kind of useful.

Fingerings

First, note that when playing diatonic scales in first position, there are 6 possible fingerings on any given string:

Oakland Symphony Chorus is singing on November 2 as part of the Dedication of the Sepulchre ceremony at the Oakland Cathedral of Christ the Light on Lake Merritt.

We're singing Bruckner's Locus Iste and Fauré's Requiem.