Ars Nova Singers featured in Sharps and Flatirons
Peter Alexander, author of the Sharps and Flatirons blog, included Ars Nova Singers’ opening concerts in his recent post. Read more…
Similar Posts
Time, Eternity, and Inspiration
A Conversation with Artistic Director Tom Morgan and Communications Coordinator Andrea Weidemann Andrea: What was the impetus for choosing these pieces? Tom: Since I learned it in the 1980s, I’ve wanted to perform Frank Martin’s extraordinary Mass for Double Choir. It is recognized in the choral world as one of the pinnacle a cappella achievements of the 20th…
The Third Chain of Inspiration – Alteration 3
One of the joys of Shared Visions: RubyFire is watching how a single image travels—changing shape, meaning, and emotional temperature as it moves from artist to poet to composer. In this third Chain of Inspiration, visual artist Jan R. Carson’s Alteration 3 becomes the starting point for a deeply reflective journey through language and sound….
Welcome to the 39th Season, Contrasts
A message from our Artistic Director I spent some time this summer thinking about Contrasts, about how we hold otherness, how we find balance between the parts of our lives that don’t seem to overlap all that much. People say they are searching for ‘balance’ in their lives, recognizing the importance of finding a middle…
Shared Visions 2024 – Chains of Artistic Inspiration
Fractions amethyst Freedom Night Riding It Out Shared Visions returns in 2024! This is an interdisciplinary collaborative project featuring works by Colorado visual artists, poets, composers, and performers, coordinated and presented by Ars Nova Singers. First presented in 2016 and again in 2019, this project brings together Colorado artists in a unique way,…
Why the Guest Conductor? Where’s Tom? Is he okay?
I want to assure you that I’m still here, and I’m fine. More than fine, actually: inspired, energized, and excited to welcome Joan Szymko to our podium this month. It’s been a while now, but over the course of our history, we’ve had a few guest conductors, including such luminaries as Dale Warland, Giora Bernstein,…
A Fragile Spring: The Beauty of Fauré’s Requiem
“It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience.” – Gabriel Fauré, 1902 fra·gil·i·ty /frəˈjilədē/ noun – the…
