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Contemporary Chamber Chorus |
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Sine Nomine - Denver, Colorado |
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When we began selecting songs for this concert, we reflected on interesting arrangements of songs from our childhoods, songs that taught us lessons we appreciate as adults, and songs that made us think about messages we would like to pass along. Highlights of the concert repertoire include John Rutter’s Sing a Song of Sixpence, Harry Belafonte’s Turn Around, and Craig Carnelia’s What You’d Call a Dream. The concert season features the moving Sherri Porterfield poem, Roots and Wings. |
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Sine Nomine performs a wide variety of music, from classical and contemporary chamber music to jazz and pop standards. We focus on the music of living composers, and are proud to have commissioned a few custom arrangements. Please contact us for more details regarding any of our performed repertoire. Click on the name of the concert or on the image to see details about the repertoire performed. |
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The theme of this concert was taken from the words of the poet Rumi: We sit inside the cypress shadow where amazement and clear thought twine their slow growth into us. The most living moment is when those who love each other meet each other’s eyes. Highlights of the concert include two David Childs pieces, The Most Living Moment and Gray Stones in the Grass, a stirring version of Grace by Mark Hayes, a jazz telling of Icarus by Gary Rosen, and two pieces made popular again by Glee. |
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This concert started out with a theme of seasons and change, based on the idea that change is cyclical and natural. For Sine Nomine, this meaning was enhanced by welcoming our new Music Director. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry includes the line, “I will touch 100 flowers and not pick one.” We hope to touch 100 lives, one at a time. Highlights feature the stunning Chris Eaton/Amy Grant Breath of Heaven, Morten Lauridsen’s masterful arrangement of James Agee’s Sure on this Shining Night, Eric Barnum’s setting of Millay’s Afternoon on a Hill, and a chorus favorite, Angel Breathing Out by Alisa Bair. |
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Well, maybe bending the rules more than breaking them. This concert featured modern madrigals, a macabre tune about Mary and her lamb, and an original arrangement of Ben Folds’ The Luckiest, our first commission to Chirs Rishel. Of note, the performance included an aleatoric performance of Bach’s Come, Sweet Death, Eric Lane Barnes’ Lambscapes, with a macabre ending, and a hilarious modern madrigal sequence about love in the information age. |
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We based our winter concert for 2009 on NPR’s series, “This I Believe.” Singers suggested songs that represented their beliefs and values… and we selected a representative set, though our beliefs vary widely. Breath of Heaven, Nella Fantasia, and I Lift My Eyes were featured. We also played with BoomWhackers. |
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July 2008 marked our second anniversary and our GALA premiere. Our GALA set included favorite selections from previous concerts, including Billy Joel’s And So It Goes and Kevin Wojahn’s original Distinctions. We also participated, with all of the GALA SATB choruses, in the commission and world premiere of It Is the Song. |
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The spring 2008 concert could also be called Just Because … we sang music “just because it’s fun, just because it’s pretty, and just because we’re going to GALA.” Highlights included Leonard Cohen’s haunting Hallelujah, a beautiful setting of Scarborough Fair, and the stunning spiritual, I’ve Been in the Storm So Long. This was also the Colorado premiere of Kevin Wojahn’s song, Distinctions. |
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Also known as “A Time and Place for Us” - the fall 2007 concert was themed on the subject of time: We take the time to celebrate and model the community in which we would like to live. We were excited to share the stage with the brand new Mosaic Youth Chorus. Musical highlights included the stunning Edgerton arrangement of Somewhere from West Side Story, the King Singers arrangement of You Are the New Day, and the popular GALA anthem, Everything Possible arranged by Willi Zwozdesky. |
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The GALA Annual Conference in October 2007 kicked off the GALA Choruses 25th Anniversary celebration. All eight Colorado GALA choruses joined for this concert. |
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Our 2007 spring concert was rooted in optimism: the music was chosen to reflect the idea that a new day was before us and we have choices to influence the future. |
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Our premiere concert was titled “All About Music” and included an eclectic mix of music that speaks to the way music touches every part of our lives. |
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Following up on the songs of childhood, we focused on the growth spurred by that beginning. Our fifth anniversary concert is a reflection of our growth and development as a chorus. Highlights of the concert repertoire include Joan Szymko’s I Lift My Eyes, Bradley Ellingboe’s setting of Yeats’ He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven, Steven Burnett’s setting of Sonnet Twenty-Nine, and our first original commission, Turtle Dove Done Drooped Its Wings, composed by Ron Williams. |
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Celebrating the end of our fifth anniversary year, we brought back our favorite and “best” repertoire, and we conducted our first professional recording. The focus of our message has been on uplifting music, and our apparent fixation on the heavens. Highlights of the concert repertoire include Alisa Bair’s Angel Breathing Out, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes, Morten Lauridsen’s Sure on this Shining Night, Frank Ticheli’s setting of the Sara Teasdale poem, There Will Be Rest, and Z. Randall Stroope’s stunning Omnia Sol. |
