It’s not always the best time of the year for most people.
Our culture has a deep love for celebrating holidays and making them joyful, but cold, dark days can dig up painful emotions: memories, regrets, failed expectations, and not-so-festive feelings. I have.
The annual “Winter Song” concert, started in 2000 by the non-profit Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, is no longer a traditional Christmas program, but a tribute to all the sensations we feel at this time of year. rice field. Friday and Saturday is Grace & St Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Performances are free, but reservations are required. Go online to cvae.org.
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“It deals with so much: darkness and light, mystery, and the changing seasons,” said Deborah Jenkins Teske, the ensemble’s artistic director and conductor. “People have the feeling that when the new year starts, planning, organizing, decorating, and storing starts all over again. Then I find myself emotionally raw.”
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This year’s show features medieval and contemporary music, including works by Hieronymus Pretorius, Erorin Warren, Melissa Dunphy and Bob Chilcott, as well as selections by William Blake, Robert Frost and Sarah Teasdale. Including stories and poems are featured.
“One song that features tenor and bass sections is ‘In Winter’s House’ by British composer Joanna Marsh,” says Teske. “We haven’t done anything about her so far. It starts with her experience of loneliness in her home and works its way towards an ending where she lights up.”
The auditioned choir currently has 32 singers, two of whom are rocket scientists, but 28 will perform this weekend, subject to availability.
After graduating from graduate school, Teske founded the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble in 1992 and was considering finding work elsewhere or staying in Colorado Springs, where his family lived. Her father, Don Jenkins, was the artistic director of the Colorado Springs Choir. She worked as an assistant conductor at Grace & St. Stephens Episcopal Church, but she decided to create a group to play her favorite genre, small chamber choir music.
“We started with 14 people and the audience was about 25,” says Teske.
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