Coming Up (Some Very Soon!)

The Bay Area has more great choral programs than any one person can get to! Here are three more:

• International Orange Chorale, By Local: Songs of California Composers, including  Georgia Stitt, Eric Tamm, Shaffer McGee, IOCSF co-director Zane Fiala, Jake Heggie', Emma Lou Diemer. David Conte, Halsey Stevens, Eric Whitacre, and Robin Estrada. May 1 at 5 p.m., 55 2nd St., SF, in the Solarium; May 2 at 7:30 p.m., St. Mark's Lutheran, SF.
  
• California Bach Society, From Tallis to Tavener, a concert celebrating the English choral tradition. Works by Tallis, Byrd, Holst, Purcell, Finzi, Gibbons, Stanford, and Tavener. A glorious tradition and a glorious chorus; what could be better? May 1, 8 p.m. at St. Gregory of Nyssa, SF; May 2, 8 p.m., at All Saints in Palo Alto; May 3, 4 p.m. at St. Mark's in Berkeley.
  
• Chora Nova, The Triumph of Love,  Orff, Catulli Carmina and Brahms, Liebeslieder Waltzes. May 24, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Berkeley.