(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…
David Korevaar is an adventurer, in the mountains and on the piano.
For Season 39, Ars Nova Singers commissioned one of the visual artists represented in our June, 2024 Shared Visions project, Chris DeKnikker, to create our season artwork. Each of our concerts this year will feature an image of a piece by Chris, specially chosen to reflect our theme of CONTRASTS. We thought you would enjoy…
by Peter Alexander ARS NOVA PRESENTS NEW WORKS IN “SHARED VISIONS” Composers set poems that were in turn inspired by visual artworks Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers will present “Shared Visions,” a unique concert bringing together works by Colorado visual artists, poets and composers, this coming weekend. Violinist Alex Gonzalez Performances will be Friday in Longmont,…
by Marc Shulgold, featured on Denver’s performing arts blog, The Scen3 For Tom Morgan, the concept for concerts by his chamber choir seems pretty straight forward. In fact the title of those concerts and name of his ensemble say it all. “Shared Visions is truly ‘ars nova’ – new art,” he wrote me, “forged from shared…
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 preview by Marc Shulgold Glancing at the accomplishments of composer Joan Szymko, it’s no surprise that she emerged from an encouraging home environment. Born in Chicago in 1957 to a devout Catholic family, where (her bio states) “faith, education and the arts were core values,” she began piano at 8. Pursuing a life in music seemed…
Rare performance of Thomas Tallis’s 40-voice motet Spem in alium By Peter Alexander Sharps and Flatirons Sometime around the year 1570, the English composer Thomas Tallis wrote what some have called his “crowning achievement.” The work in question is more often discussed than heard: Spem in alium, a motet in 40 voices, arranged in eight choirs of…