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Sons of Orpheus—The Male Choir of Tucson

We’re headed to Italy! Want to come with us?

Join Sons of Orpheus for our 6th international concert tour

Rome, Tuscanny, and the Italian Riveria

including concert performances in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sienna Duomo,
Lucca, Florence, and the Cinque Terre

June 14–24, 2012

We invite new singers and former members of Sons of Orpheus to join us!

We also invite friends, relatives, and music lovers to join us for the tour.
We have plenty of space available for non-singers to accompany us on our travels.

You'll find more information here.

 

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

Weekly Rehearsals on Wednesdays
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:
Orpheus Will Sing at the Vatican
Our Holiday Concert Schedule
Remembering Ray Tess
Excerpts from Grayson Hirst’s Eulogy for Raymond Lee Tess
Our Annual Food Bank Fundraiser
Three in a Row in November
A Second Tenor to the Rescue
The Editor’s Coast Guard Service
The Envelope, Please
Adiós, Iván and Patricia Berger
Our Aspiring Student Travelers
Sons of Orpheus at Tucson Estates (Photos)
Our Lineup of CDs
The Choristers

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

 

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

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

Click on pictures to enlarge

Listen to music from our CDs with the streaming Flash audio player below.
Click on any of the tracks to start the player

or click here to stream the playlist to a music player on your computer instead,
such as Windows Media Player or Apple Quicktime.
You can also listen to individual clips on our CDs & Audio page.

The above player requires Adobe Flash Player Plugin version 7 or higher.
If you do not have Flash installed on your computer, you can download it here.

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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.

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

Photo by Gary Smyth

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

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.