Performances

Chanticleer, the renowned male chorus from San Francisco, presents five concerts in the Bay Area devoted to San Francisco’s diverse musical heritage. Gordon Getty’s “All Along the Valley” from his choral work Victorian Scenes is included in a program that highlights music of Bay Area composers past and present. 

• March 22, 5:00 PM, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
• March 23, 7:30 PM, First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
• March 24, 7:30 PM, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941
• March 27, 7:30 PM, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306
• March 28, 2:00 PM, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Hume Hall, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco CA 94102

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City, led by Founder & Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez, presents its Annual Gala Concert and Benefit Dinner on March 16, 2026. The program, which includes five movements from Gordon Getty’s Young America, features a musical journey through American culture and song in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. 450 young choristers will sing alongside special guest, mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato, this year’s YPC Artistic Honoree.

Festival Napa Valley presents Festival Live! Forrest Eimold, with pianist-composer Forrest Eimold performing a program of Gordon Getty’s piano music. The program includes Four Traditional Pieces, selections from Ancestor Suite, First Adventure, Scherzo Pensieroso, the West Coast Premiere of Follow Me, and the World Premiere of Impenitent Ultima.

Des Moines Metro Opera, in partnership with Des Moines Film, presents two screenings of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Gordon Getty’s opera reimagined for film. Directed by Brian Staufenbiel and conducted by Nicolle Paiement, the film stars Nathan Granner, Marnie Breckenridge, Lester Lynch and Kevin Short. 
View the “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” trailer here.

Festival Napa Valley presents Uytengsu Family Opening Night, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato singing songs and arias, including composer Luna Pearl Woolf’s world premiere orchestrations of two songs from Gordon Getty’s The White Election: “Beauty Crowds Me” and “The Going From a World We Know.” The program also features violinist Tessa Lark and the Festival Orchestra Napa, conducted by Clelia Cafiero.

Festival Napa Valley presents soprano Alexandra Armantrading, baritone Lester Lynch, and pianist Kevin Korth in an intimate recital of song and operatic music that includes the world premiere of How Shall I Learn?—a new setting by Luna Pearl Woolf of Gordon Getty’s poem “Sonnet”—as well as the duet for Hostess and Falstaff from Getty’s opera Plump Jack. The program also includes music of Verdi, Barber, Berg, Schubert, Mahler, Poulenc and Bach.

The San Francisco Symphony, conducted by James Gaffigan, performs three of Gordon Getty’s works for chorus and orchestra—St. Christopher, the Intermezzo from the opera Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Old Man in the Snow. Also on the program are Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, K. 618, and Verdi’s Requiem.

Festival Napa Valley will premiere Gordon Getty’s Old Man Trilogy at its Vocal Fantastique concert. The choral works (“The Old Man in the Night,” “The Old Man in the Morning” and “The Old Man in the Snow”) are written for chorus and orchestra and will be performed by the Volti Chorale and Festival Orchestra Napa.

Art credits from left to right: BTEU/Gerfototek / Alamy Stock Photo • The Garden at Eragny in Spring by Camille Pissarro (Photo © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images) • Sunset on the sea by Giuseppe Fattori / Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy (Luisa Ricciarini / Bridgeman Images)