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Review: Sacred Jazz
Originally published by Betsy Schwarm for The Scen3: “Sacred Jazz with Ars Nova Singers” The excellent Ars Nova Singers have long been one of the most adventurous ensembles in the region, with a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to music of current composers. The ensemble’s October concerts this year brought out yet one more side…
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:…
Rivers of Light – A Conversation with Mezzo-Soprano Emma Vawter
Executive Director Kim Brody had a chance to catch up with Emma Vawter, mezzo-soprano with Ars Nova Singers. When she’s not singing, Emma is an Adventure Director with Natural Habitat Adventures. Emma is an adventurer at heart – in her free time, you’ll find her birding, hiking, biking, trail running, camping, singing, practicing wildlife photography,…
Marc Shulgold Review: Streaming Becomes a New Art
Review originally published by Marc Shulgold for The Scen3: “Singing in Zoom Time – Streaming Becomes a New Art for Ars Nova” Yes, we know: The past year has been tough for performing arts groups forced to cancel concerts, find new revenue sources and struggle to stay afloat. But most have survived (so far). Thank…
Soothing Music in Troubled Times from Ars Nova Singers: A Review of “Made Fragile” by Marc Shulgold
This review was originally published on theScen3.org on April 4, 2022 Thomas Morgan put it succinctly in his program notes for a recent concert by Ars Nova Singers. “Everything feels fragile right now,” the chamber choir’s artistic director wrote. And so it does. Appropriately, the group’s evening of uplifting music was titled “Made Fragile,” offered…
Introducing Shared Visions – How the Project Began and How It Has Evolved
by Tom Morgan, Artistic Director Shared Visions is truly ars nova – new art, forged from shared inspirations of visual art, poetry, and sound. It is a project that sprang from seeds planted in the 1980s. In 1986, the Tate Gallery in London published an anthology of poetry based on visual art in their collection, entitled With…
