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