Some 30 Dorchester and 14 Mattapan residents will be among the 350 members of the Boston Children’s Choir wowing crowds at the BCC’s free Season Finale Concert here in Uphams Corner this weekend. A few of these talented 44 locals will also travel throughout Great Britain performing this summer.
All 10 BCC subchoirs including the Dorchester House Training Choir and Dorchester House Intermediate Choir will sing a varied program this Sunday at 2 p.m. before an anticipated audience of at least a thousand at the Strand Theatre. In addition to arrangements of folk songs from such far-flung places as Angola and the Andes, Jamaica and Venezuela, Israel and South Africa, Artistic Director Anthony Trecek-King has selected spirituals and choral music classics for the sub-choirs to perform as individual groups and in various combinations of groups.
The BCC is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic arts education organization that purposefully unites area children ages 7-18 across differences of race, religion and economic status.
Every other year select BCC members go abroad as “ambassadors of harmony.” This year from June 27 to July 8 sixty-one members of the BCC, ages 12-18, will tour the United Kingdom giving a series of performances at venues in Edinburgh, Gateshead, Birmingham, Oxford, and London and serving local communities through workshops and volunteer outreach projects.
To preview Sunday’s free concert or to sample the CDs and videos of this much-honored musical organization, visit bostonchildrenschorus.org.
