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Ars Nova Singers Presents a Chain of Inspiration
by Marc Shulgold, featured on Denver’s performing arts blog, The Scen3 For Tom Morgan, the concept for concerts by his chamber choir seems pretty straight forward. In fact the title of those concerts and name of his ensemble say it all. “Shared Visions is truly ‘ars nova’ – new art,” he wrote me, “forged from shared…
SHARPS AND FLATIRONS Blog Post
by Peter Alexander ARS NOVA PRESENTS NEW WORKS IN “SHARED VISIONS” Composers set poems that were in turn inspired by visual artworks Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers will present “Shared Visions,” a unique concert bringing together works by Colorado visual artists, poets and composers, this coming weekend. Violinist Alex Gonzalez Performances will be Friday in Longmont,…
Read Turoldo: The Poet Nicolò Spera Insisted On
Asked what an audience should read before the concert, Nicolò Spera said come unprepared — and then named one poet. David Maria Turoldo was a Servite priest, a Resistance organiser, and a man his own church sent abroad to live among emigrants. He is almost unknown in English.
Grief Into Art
“We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence:…
Celebrating the Solstice, Inspiring Creation
Inspired by Ars Nova Singers’ holiday concerts, Light/Shadow, audience member Fran Hamilton wrote this beautiful poem in response to our music, particularly Arvo Pärt’s “Magnificat.” it is enough I have discovered it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. …the melody and accompanying voice…is one. One and one is one, it is not…
Two Works That Quote Each Other
Corrado Margutti finished Rivers in 2020 and wrote it to stand beside a piece from 1951. Then he opened it by quoting that piece. A note on the two works Ars Nova Singers performs on October 9, 10 and 11, and the music hidden inside one of them.
