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Ars Nova Singers: 40 Years of Music Beyond Words
(This article originally appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on Sunday, August 31) Q & A with Ars Nova’s Visionary Artistic Director, Tom Morgan Tom Morgan, on the top of Colorado’s highest summit, Mount Elbert. The co-founder and Artistic Director of Ars Nova Singers reflects on four decades of music and leading one of the…
A Poet’s Eye, A Composer’s Ear
Since we began our “Shared Visions” program 7 years ago, we’ve been starstruck by the power of reciprocal artmaking (that is, turning an existing work of art into another work of art). Minnesota composer Cary John Franklin speaks directly to that alchemic impulse of ours with his piece The Merry-Go-Round at Night (from With a…
What to Listen For at Rivers & Streams
The program, in order, with four specific things to listen for — and everything we have written about the works, the composers and the poets, in one place. October 9 in Boulder, October 10 in Denver and by livestream, October 11 in Longmont.
Meet the Guest Artist: Nicolò Spera on Rivers, Turoldo, and the Ten-String Guitar
He came to the guitar at nineteen, in a country he calls one of the worst in the world for music education. Guitarist Nicolò Spera on his teachers, the ten-string guitar, and Rivers — the work he commissioned about immigration and belonging. He joins Ars Nova Singers on September 12 and October 9–11.
Ars Nova Singers, Guitarist Spera Will Present ‘Postcards to the Future’
Originally published on the “Sharps and Flatirons” blog by Peter Alexander, May 23, 2022 Concerts June 3–5 feature new work by Theofanidis and Pizzetti’s 1922 Requiem Guitarist and CU music professor Nicolò Spera was shocked by things going on the U.S. after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He wanted to respond in…
Remembering Columbine – Reflections by Artistic Director Tom Morgan
25 years ago, the Columbine school shooting rocked the world. Ars Nova Singers participated in a memorial concert just days after the tragedy. Colorado Public Radio is reprising their hour-long feature “Remembering Columbine Through Music” through the end of this month. The first half hour is the story of “American Elegy.” The second half hour…
