The Tucson Girls Chorus Advanced Choir is heading to China, and they know they can’t take all of us with them. So they are giving us a sneak peek Saturday night of the concert they will perform during a 15-city, three-week Asian tour.
The program will includes folk songs, Broadway tunes, pop songs and some classical pieces, and the girls will be singing works in Chinese, Latvian, French, Spanish and English.
Admission to the 90-minute concert is free, and it starts at 7 p.m. Saturday at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1200 N. Campbell Ave. near East Speedway.
The Tucson Girls Chorus is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, serving generations of young women from kindergarten through 12th grades. The girls are divided into six choirs. The organization is led by by Director Marcela Molina. The chorus also has three satellite choirs — Sahuarita, southwest Tucson and downtown — and is often joined by its alumnae concert group. Open enrollment is ongoing through the summer; see tucsongirlschorus.org for details and to sign up.
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The 25-member Advanced Choir, whose members have served two or more years (and many have clocked in seven or more years), goes on tour each spring following the end of the school year. An international tour happens once every few years. The choir will perform 13 90-minute concerts in major Chinese concert halls during the tour, arranged by the Poly Theatre Management Company.
The Girls Chorus is among a handful of Tucson performing arts groups invited to tour China. The Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus was among the pioneers, performing in China in 1987.
More recently, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra made history when it was the first Western community orchestra invited to China in 2009; the group returned in 2012.
Artifact Dance Project went to China in 2011.
