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Introducing Our 2022-2023 Season – Reflections by Artistic Director Tom Morgan
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity… – Henri Matisse (“Notes of a Painter,” 1908)
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Ever Winging Up and Up
Reflections by Artistic Director Tom Morgan
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending has been a part of the soundtrack of my life since I was about 10, exploring the orchestral repertoire with my mother as she was working on a degree to become a public school music teacher. Then in college in the 1980s, the piece was the basis for some music…
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Ars Nova Singers Opens Its 37th Season with Gala 2022: ORIGINS
The Ars Nova Singers annual fundraising Gala – ORIGINS – is just around the corner! On the evening of September 11 we will be serving up a rustic, yet refined, evening of fine food, craft beer, wine, and cultivated song. We’ll nourish you with a light supper, quench your thirst with an array of craft…
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Walking a Tightrope With Ars Nova – A Concert Preview by Marc Shulgold
This post by Marc Shulgold originally appeared in The Scen3 on May 30, 2022 Tom Morgan understands the dangers of controversy. The music director of the Ars Nova Singers has accepted the challenge of programming a new work which doesn’t shy away from addressing some of the contemporary issues that have divided public opinions, that…
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DEIA | Performances | Singers | Tom Morgan
Sharing the Process: A Conversation with the Composer and the Poet
Artistic Director Tom Morgan had a chance to catch up with Christopher Theofanidis and Melissa Studdard, the creators of Door Out of the Fire, which Ars Nova Singers will premiere this weekend, featuring Nicolò Spera, guitar, and Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano. Tom Morgan I just want to say up front that I personally really love this…
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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:…
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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…
