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

Artistic Director Tom Morgan had the chance to catch up with composer Joel Thompson in anticipation of this week’s performances of his new piece in this world premiere with Ars Nova Singers.

Originally published by Peter Alexander for Sharps & Flatirons.  “We wanted to bring the music from one of our finer performances,” Tom Morgan says. The conductor of Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers wanted to offer a free online gift to the disaster-wearied local community at the start of 2022, before the choir starts having in-person rehearsals…

Ars Nova revisits Will Todd’s Mass in Blue on February 18 In preparation for Ars Nova’s virtual premiere of Made Cool, Executive Director Kimberly Brody caught up with Artistic Director Tom Morgan about this swinging approach to a traditional Latin mass: Kim Well, here we are facing another period during which much of the choral…

A reflection on the year 2025, from Ars Nova Singers’ Artistic Director Tom Morgan Last February, I was conducting our wonderful singers in the phrase in the title above: a line of poetry by Wallace Stevens, set to music so eloquently by Dominick Argento. We performed Argento’s Peter Quince at the Clavier at two performances…

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….

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…