Coming in December:
Just as Spring looks different through Vivaldi’s eyes than it does through Stravinsky’s, the winter holidays look different in beautiful New York City than they do anywhere else. A metropolitan Christmas is a special one that can’t be compared. The vast and sleepless city of eight million changes its air and becomes a little more caring, a little more loving and a little more personal than at other times. From the echoing halls and corridors of Manhattan, in the rush of day or lit up at night, any moment is a New York Moment at Christmas. This momentariness is captured eloquently and equally in the music of Bach, Mathias, Sondheim, Corigliano, Billings, and more.
Tickets $20
www.chameleonicnyc.org
Featuring works by Bach, Berlin, Billings, Corigliano, Elder, Heigen, Martin, Runestad, Sondheim, and Stopford.
From the President On behalf of the Board, I thank you all for a t t e n d i n g t o n i g h t ’s i n a u g u r a l C h o r a l Chameleon Benefit event. This is not a blacktie gala in a grand ballroom in Manhattan we’re exactly where we need to be, here with friends and family who understand the significance of what we’re doing in a space which allows our professional ensemble to shine.
Annual Benefit featuring
This is a great season to be on the Board or to be supporting us financially or in-kind:
1. Choral Chameleon is taking its next step into the world with video and recording projects – allowing people near and far to experience the warmth and excellence of their sound that comes from making good music with good people. The more people hear them, see them, the more influence they can have on the wider choral community and the more collaborations and invitations we can pursue in the quest to reinvent the art of choral music.
2. If last year’s Board learning curve was a producing-heavy exploration of complex interdisciplinary site-specific performances, this year we hope to codify and harmonize our processes internally to allow valuable nonsingers to join our Board and to create more space and time for grant-writing.
3. Chameleonic is focusing less on the number of concerts and more on musicianship and community, to be simply the best place in New York for a volunteer singer to be and to become an even greater tool for composers and conductors to work with.
4. The Summer Institute is ready to embrace more students and expand its curriculum.
There couldn’t be a better time to join us in stewarding the organization forward. If you have any interest in becoming involved with the governance of Choral Chameleon, please email me at Nicole@choralchameleon.com
Nicole Belmont Board President
with special guests Katie Zaffrann, Co-Founder of Choral Chameleon Leo Wiggins, Beatbox and Amanda Lo, Violinist
Monday, November 16th, 2015 7:30pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 199 Carroll Street, Brooklyn
Concert Program
From the Artistic Director: Friends,
Stephen Chatman: from Time Pieces I. Tempus Irving Fine: from The Hour-Glass I. O Know to End as to Begin Soloists: Liz Hanna, Erika Lloyd Whiteley, Kelly Baxter Golding, Jonathan May, Alex Canovas, Andrew Cook-Feltz
Benjamin Britten: Three Choral Dances from Gloriana I. Time II. Concord III. Time and Concord Soloist: Bill Heigen
Soprano
Alto
Erika Lloyd Whiteley* Liz Hanna, Julie Waters* Katie Zaffrann*
Kelly Baxter Golding* Jacqueline Perez* Jonathan May Clare Maloney
Chatman: II. Come, My Celia Cyndi Lauper (arr. Erika Johnson): Time After Time Soloist: Katie Zaffrann; Alex Canovas, Guitar
Chatman: III. I Saw Eternity Tenor
Bass
Alex Canovas Evan Crawford Bill Heigen
Mark Johnson Joseph Bellino* Andrew Cook-Feltz*
Vince Peterson*, Artistic Director
*- denotes Founding Member
Amanda Lo, Violin
Irving Fine: from The Hour-Glass VI. The Hour-Glass Chatman: IV. Clocks ——— Lloyd Whiteley (arr. Vince Peterson): Time Pops Bubbles Soloist: Erika Lloyd Whiteley; Leo Wiggins, Beatbox
To learn more about these artists, visit us at:
www.choralchameleon.com
A catered reception follows in the adjacent Parish Hall. Please join us!
Thank you so much for being here to support Choral Chameleon tonight. Of all the ways that you can support us, I think the most important way is by simply being here and sending your energy back and forth with us as we sing. This is, after all, the essence of what choral music is about: people physically coming together in a common place to share a palpable life understanding which can’t be expressed in words alone. We take our charge as artists in this rite very seriously, and we know that if you’re here, you do as well. This means everything.
This concert program is very dear to the singers’ hearts and is undeniably a part of the fabric of what has made this group so important to us and our shared music community over the last seven years. It deals with the notion of time and how music is possibly the only thing that can truly affect how we perceive its passing. When we enter into the concert experience, time can do many things in the hands of music. It can stop. It can speed up. It can slow down. We can also get a glimpse of its very essence. It does what we want it to do, for a change. We’re suddenly friends with it. We no longer feel threatened, rushed, or held back. We are no longer time’s puppets. In music, time can bring us face to face with love, eternity, strength, and perseverance. It can even bring peace. Given all that is going on in this world today, we hope that this special performance will do exactly that for you.
Once again, thank you very much for joining us and for all your love and support!
-Vince Peterson