Tucson’s Ambassadors of Song

by Tucson Mayor Robert E. Walkup
June 27, 2008

click to see full proclamation

Our Next Engagements

Tucson Pops Orchestra Music Under the Stars

Sunday, May 26, 7:00 P.M.

DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, Reid Park, 900 S. Randolph Way (see map)
Free Admission
Orpheus will join the Pops for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Procession of the Nobles,
Verdi’s Anvil Chorus, Wagner’s Pilgrim’s Chorus, and Battle Hymn of the Republic

See the full program

Memorial Day Veterans’ Service

Monday, May 27, 9:00 A.M.

East Lawn Palms Mortuary and Cemetery, 5801 E. Grant Rd. (see map).
Free Admission.
Orpheus will present several selections during the service. A barbecue will follow.

You are invited to join
Tucson’s premiere men’s chorus!

We’ll be taking a summer break beginning May 27th...

Weekly Rehearsals begin Wednesday, August 21, 2013
from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
at the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus Facility
5770 E. Pima Street (between Craycroft & Wilmot) click for map

All voices are welcome!

Please e-mail us using the address at the bottom of this page,
or call Musical Director Grayson Hirst directly at 621-1649,
to introduce yourself and be notified of any changes to our schedule.

Look here for more information.

For prospective members, a simple, informal “audition” is used to assess voice quality and section placement.

Read our latest newsletter here

Contents:
Spring 2013 Program Notes
Our Spring Concert Schedule
Hogan’s Challenge
Spring Appeal
Fox Theatre Performance
The Musicologist
Notes from San Xavier
Orpheus Stands Tall at San Xavier, and Long
The San Xavier Pet Adoption Agency
Singing in the Rain
Profiling Dave Burns
Sons of Orpheus CDs For Sale
World-Famous Musician also a Well-Known Scientist
Who the Heck is Orpheus?
Donations Received
Our Sponsors

Recent newsletters are in pdf format, viewable in Adobe Reader, downloadable here.

Información en español sobre el coro
Information about the choir in Spanish

Videos: Click to play

The 3:10 to Yuma with Tenor Jim Hogan

The Anvil Chorus by Giuseppi Verdi

Mass at the Vatican, 2012
photo by Kathleen Schumpert

San Xavier with the Tucson Boys Chorus, 2012, photo by Gary Smyth

Holiday Concert fundraiser for the Tucson Food Bank, with the students of Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, 2011
photo by Gary Smyth

Chinese New Year Festival with the Tucson Sino Choir, 2013

The Gazebo at Trail Dust Town, 2012
photo by Gary Smyth

Tucson Estates with Del Pueblo Brass Quintet, 2011
photo by Alan McDonald

The White House, 1998

Director Grayson Hirst

Baseball & Patriotic

Cowboy & Western

Christmas & Holiday
Sacred & Secular

Music From
Around the World

The Welsh Eisteddfod
2002

Alta Pusteria, Italy
2004

Leipzig, Germany
2008

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The Sons of Orpheus choir was founded in 1991 by the distinguished American tenor, Grayson Hirst. It is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, non-affiliated, community-based choral organization comprised of men from all walks of life. Members include professional and amateur musicians, businessmen, retirees, scientists, scholars, students, engineers, teachers, and others.

Sons of Orpheus provides an opportunity for men to sing selections from the rich repertoire written for men’s voices. It parallels such other Tucson groups as choruses for boys, girls, women, and mixed voices.

Sons of Orpheus outside Mahler Hall, Dobbiaco, Italy
7th Annual Alta Pusteria Choir Festival, June 26, 2004

Photo by Gary Smyth

Our mailing address is:
Sons of Orpheus
P.O. Box 31552
Tucson, AZ 85751-1552

Sons of Orpheus is supported in part by grants from the
Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts
with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Visit www.thechoiceisart.org to discover arts programs in your community,
learn about the value of the arts and to support and protect the arts in Arizona.

To send us comments or questions about Sons of Orpheus,
please use your email program to contact us using this address.

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