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Last updated: March 14, 2010

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COLORADO SPRINGS EVENTS
March 28 (Sunday), 3 pm: BACH CELEBRATION CONCERT. First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave (at Cascade), Colorado Springs. The program will feature Brandenburg Concerto No. 6; the humorous Coffee Cantata; a concerto for three harpsichords; a sinfonia from a cantata for strings, organ and oboe d’amore; miscellaneous chamber works; and chorales for audience singing. Performers include soprano Valerie Nicolosi, bass Herbert Beattie, tenor Todd Teske; string players Cynthia Robinson, Monica Nieves, Azi Vieira, Anita Maresh, Karla Powers, Michael Hart, Gerald Miller, David Halvorson; Carlo Scott, oboe d’amore; Kate Unruh, flute; and Bonnie Linder, Joseph Galema, Deke Polifka, Carol Wilson, Evan Becker and Linda Cummings, harpsichord and organ.

March 28 (Sunday), 7 pm: SACRED CONCERT SERIES—The Vienna Boys Choir. First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $25-$40. Order at www.fumc-cs.org.

April 9 (Friday), 7:30 pm: COLORADO VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE—Voice, Verse and Vision. Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Palmer Lake. TICKETS: $12 TLCA Members; $15 non-members; $5 student. Available at the door or visit www.trilakesarts.org. Voice, Verse and Vision returns to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts and initiates a new partnership with the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project. This concert, gallery show, and live poetry reading will feature the work of local poets, artists, and composers. A great event for the whole family!

April 10 (Saturday), 7:30 pm: COLORADO VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE—Voice, Verse and Vision. Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Palmer Lake. TICKETS: $12 TLCA Members; $15 non-members; $5 student. Available at the door or visit www.trilakesarts.org. Voice, Verse and Vision returns to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts and initiates a new partnership with the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project. This concert, gallery show, and live poetry reading will feature the work of local poets, artists, and composers. A great event for the whole family!

April 17 (Saturday), 7pm: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE SPRINGS—Season Finale. Broadmoor Community Church, 315 Lake Ave, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $17 adult, $12 senior (60 and older), $5 student. Program includes Sean Hennessy Pikes Peak or Bust!, Gabriel Fauré Ballad, op. 19 (with guest artist Susan Grace, piano), Louis Moreau Gottschalk Grande Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra, op. 67 (with Susan Grace, piano), and Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60. 6:15 pm pre-concert lecture (Saturday only) by Herbert Beattie.

April 18 (Sunday), 2:30 pm: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE SPRINGS—Season Finale. First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave (at Cascade), Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $17 adult, $12 senior (60 and older), $5 student. Program includes Sean Hennessy Pikes Peak or Bust!, Gabriel Fauré Ballad, op. 19 (with guest artist Susan Grace, piano), Louis Moreau Gottschalk Grande Tarantelle for Piano & Orchestra, op. 67 (with Susan Grace, piano), and Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60.

April 18 (Sunday), 5 pm: SACRED MUSIC SERIES—Poulenc GLORIA and Fauré REQUIEM. First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $5-$10. Order at www.fumc-cs.org. The Chancel Choir of First United Methodist Church, orchestra and soloists. Edmund Ladouceur, conductor; Joseph Galema, organist.

April 30 (Friday), 7:30 pm: MOZART REQUIEM. USAF Academy Cadet Chapel. USAF Academy Cadet Chorale with orchestra; Joseph Galema, conductor.

May 2 (Sunday), 5 pm: SACRED CONCERT SERIES—Ken Cowan Organ Recital. First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada, Colorado Springs. TICKETS: $17-$25. Order at www.fumc-cs.org. Ken Cowan is Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College, Princeton NJ. Co-Sponsored by Colorado Springs AGO Chapter.

DENVER
March 19 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Saint Martin’s Chamber Choir and the Colorado Chorale—Antiphoni Chori. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. TICKETS: $22 General admission, $5 student, $30 premium. Call 303-298-1970 or visit www.StMartinsChamberChoir.org. St. Martin’s collaborates with the Colorado Chorale in this beautiful program of works for two choirs. Featured is Louis Spohr’s Mass for “choirs of unequal size.”

March 21 (Sunday), 3 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Augustana Vocal Ensemble (AVE): Across America. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 East Alameda, Denver. TICKETS: $18 adult/$10 senior/$10 student. Travel through America’s rich musical heritage on a melodious journey with the talented and charming vocal quartet, the Augustana Vocal Ensemble (AVE).

March 21 (Sunday), 3:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Evensong. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Music by William Smith, Thomas Morley, John Ireland and Guillaume Dufay.

March 26 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Opera Colorado—Art Songs. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. This Art Song recital provides an intimate and in-depth showcase of the talents of two of Opera Colorado’s Young Artists: mezzo-soprano Julia Tobiska and tenor Brendan Daly, with accompanist Ruth Ann McDonald. Come experience live vocal music by some of the world’s best composers and poets.

April 9 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Frank Slechta, Organist. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Frank Slechta is Director of Music at Saint Augustine’s Orthodox Church in Denver. He received his Bachelor’s degree in music from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Frank has been active in church music in Denver, serving as Organist/Director at Saint Pius X Catholic Church, and Organist and later Music Director at Church of the Holy Ghost, R.C. He will play a program featuring music composed by American and European composers from the time our Hook pipe organ was built.

April 13 (Tuesday), Noon: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Classical Brass. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver.

April 16 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: New College Choir, Oxford University. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. TICKETS: $25 adults; $20 students and seniors 65 and over; $10 children age 12 and under. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear the Choir of New College Oxford under the direction of Edward Higginbottom. With seventy recordings currently available, the Choir has gained a worldwide reputation and is known particularly for its stylish performances of Renaissance and Baroque music. In addition to providing sung liturgies in one of the grandest chapels in Oxford, the Choir maintains a busy recording and concert schedule in the United Kingdom, performs in Europe several times a year, and also tours further afield. The Choir has appeared a number of times at the BBC Proms, and in recent years performed in Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland and the Czech republic.

April 18 (Sunday), 3:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Evensong. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Music by Thomas Tomkins, H. Balfour Gardiner, Herbert Sumsion, Herbert Howells, and Gregor Aichinger.

April 24 (Saturday), 7:30 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Colorado Women’s Chorale: Putting on the Pops. Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Ave, Cherry Hills Village. TICKETS: $18 adult/$10 senior/$10 student. Celebrating 90 years of popular music from stage and screen, the Colorado Women’s Chorale will delight the senses with a fun-filled promenade down memory lane.

April 30 (Friday), 7:30 pm: SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC: Abigail Chapman, Soprano. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St, Denver. Soprano Abigail Chapman is Saint John’s Cathedral’s Administrator of Music and Worship, as well as one of the professional staff singers in the Cathedral Choir. This recital will feature Hector Villa-Lobos’ famous Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, as well as songs by Claude Debussy, Joaquin Rodrigo, Sergei Rachmaninov, and New York composer Rebekah Driscoll.

May 1 (Saturday), 7:30 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra: ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple. Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 2100 Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$10 Senior/$10 Student. Celebrate Spring with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21 and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. This concert will also feature The Young Voices of Colorado, joinging with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, in performing Canadian composer Srul Irving Blick’s lovely Psalm Triology.

May 2 (Sunday), 3 pm: LAMONT SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT SERIES—Joseph Galema Organ Faculty Recital: Sonata and Symphony. Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 and $16. $10 for AGO members (Newman Center Box Office has a list of current AGO members). Newman Center Box Office (303) 871-7720. Including Leo Sowerby’s “Fast and Sinister” from Symphony in G major, Edward Elgar’s complete Sonata in G major, op. 28, and Charles-Marie Widor’s complete Symphony No. 5 in F minor, op 42. Reception follows the concert.

May 2 (Sunday), 3 pm: AUGUSTANA ARTS—Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra: ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave, Denver. TICKETS: $18 Adult/$10 Senior/$10 Student. Celebrate Spring with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21 and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. This concert will also feature The Young Voices of Colorado, joinging with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, in performing Canadian composer Srul Irving Blick’s lovely Psalm Triology.

REGION VI NEWS
From Jeff Verkuilen, AAGO, Region VI Education Coordinator

If you plan well in advance, consider attending these national conventions (they have big shoes to fill after this year’s Twin Cities’ wonderful convention!):
•AGO 2010 National Convention, Washington, D.C., July 4-8
•AGO 2012 National Convention, Nashville (TN), July 1-6
•AGO 2014 National Convention, Salt Lake City (UT), dates to be determined

Finally, congratulations are in order to the Central Iowa Chapter for agreeing to host Region VI’s 2011 Convention in Des Moines!

Membership

You don't have to be an active organist or choirmaster to join the Guild. In fact, you don't have to be a professional church musician at all. Membership in the Guild is open to all, and the only real requirement is an interest in the organ and/or sacred choral music. To become a member of the Colorado Springs Chapter, contact any Chapter officer. See below for contact information.

Placement

Employers and job seekers are invited to post and search listings of available positions on the Guild's National Website.

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Contact Us

Dean: Deke Polifka, CAGO - deke.polifka@gmail.com

Sub-Dean: Carolyn Steele, AAGO - danolyn@q.com

Secretary: Phyllis Kester - pkester7@msn.com

Treasurer, CLARION editor and Membership Coordinator: Joseph Galema, DMA - joegalema@aol.com

Board Members:
Frank Shelton - baps27@msn.com
Gerald Van Dusseldorp - gvandusseldorp@v7pc.org
Linda Cummings - AllegroMus@gmail.com

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