The Chorale Connection

May 2022

This month we are celebrating music educators, including our own Boulder Children's Chorale directors, Larisa Dreger, Kim Dunninger, and Nathan Wubbena who just completed a very successful weekend of concerts! We hope you enjoy this short excerpt from "A Grand Night for Singing".

A Grand Night for Singing - Boulder Children's Chorale (Excerpts)

Boulder Children's Chorale "A Grand Night for Singing"

Honoring Teachers

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week (May 1-7, 2022), the Boulder Children’s Chorale would like to thank and acknowledge all music educators in the Boulder Valley School District, St. Vrain Valley School District, Jefferson County School District, and all districts in the greater-Denver area, as well as private music instructors. Your time and dedication in teaching students to sing, dance, create, read and write, and perform music is noticed and appreciated! We know that the fundamental skills and foundational love for music making develops within homes and classrooms throughout our community, and are further fostered in our Boulder Children’s Chorale rehearsals, performances, and choral-education programming. Our singers come each week to share their excitement for music, and we as directors bear witness to the musical growth that transfers from music classrooms and private lessons into our rehearsal spaces. Thank you for introducing and inspiring the youth of our community to listen to, appreciate, and create beautiful music for a lifetime. If you have a moment during this time of Teacher Appreciation, say thank you to the music educators in your life as well. They will appreciate knowing that the musical experiences cultivated and provided in classrooms and lesson spaces everywhere are making a difference to those that receive them!

Brahms' Requiem

The Boulder Concert Chorale just finished two glorious performances of Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. Audiences remarked about how wonderful it was to return to live music. One concert-goer said, "When the Chorale started singing, I started crying. I had forgotten how wonderful it is to hear a chorus live!" Here is a selection from that beautiful concert.

Boulder Concert Chorale Brahms' Requiem

Mahler's Symphony No. 3

Audiences will have another chance to hear the women of the Concert Chorale and singers from our Children's Chorale in our season finale with the MahlerFest Orchestra at Macky Auditorium Concert Hall on Sunday, May 22nd. Mahler's Symphony No. 3 was voted by the critics and readers of BBC Magazine as one of the Top 10 Symphonies of All Time. This work is a perfect follow-up to the Brahms. Written about 30 years after the Requiem, it is a glorious Romantic era pantheistic homage to nature and love as only Mahler can write! At one hour and 30 minutes, it is the longest symphony in the repertoire, but the six movements are so engaging that the piece flies by. Whereas Brahms is controlled and influenced by the structures of Bach and Palestrina, Mahler allows his emotional life to be front-and-center, and to be the great world builder of music. Long before George Lucas created the world of Star Wars, Mahler was the symphonic king of the Romantic period's ideal world.

Please join us for this rare opportunity to hear Mahler's Symphony No. 3 live! In the meantime, here is that great champion of Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, conducting the piece. Was there ever a conductor and composer as well-matched as Mahler and Bernstein? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXVueK5sjlQ

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As our season comes to an end, we are feeling grateful for all we have been able to accomplish this past year. We could not have done it without you, our loyal Boulder Chorale community.

We are off to a good start! Won't you please consider supporting the continued work of the Boulder Chorale by making a donation to our end-of-season fundraising campaign today?

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