Ars Nova Sings About Love… For a Change – A Preview by Marc Shulgold

This next Chain of Inspiration begins with visual artist Claire Ibarra and her photographic work Cloud Dance. Sky moving across water. Color shifting before you can name it. A moment that feels both still and alive at the same time. There’s something quietly spacious in this image. Sky and water seem to meet and trade…

“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…

One of the marvels of our Shared Visions projects is watching how a single image becomes a meeting place for memory, language, and music. In this fourth Chain of Inspiration, visual artist Gayle Gerson’s Bridge Impressions opens the path. Gerson’s artistic journey began later in life, after years devoted to family and education. Since turning…

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…