The Sangre de Cristo Chorale is singing again!
Our group values great singing, hard work, a supportive rehearsal and performance climate, a diversity of voices, and fun! We just completed our first concert after a nearly two-year hiatus. We invite you to sing with us in the remainder of the season. Information about auditions and future concerts follows below.
Your contributions to Sangre de Cristo Chorale in 2021 enabled us to start the new year on a solid financial footing and represent a strong start to our fundraising for this fiscal year. Here’s a quick update on our December fundraising appeal.
Chorale members who established the goal of a $5,000 matching grant for year-end fundraising actually contributed $5,600. We are pleased to report that your gifts exceeded the matching grant. Singers, concertgoers, and other supporters contributed gifts that totaled $6,875.
Your generosity helps sustain Sangre de Cristo Chorale during these uncertain times and enables us to attract a wide variety of singers who create a stronger choral community.
Happy New Year! We look forward to sharing more music with you in 2022!
A beloved carol to wish you Merry Christmas!
Thank you to all who participated in our Winter Day concerts. We were thrilled to be singing together again. The added joy of hosting Katie Kring, our commissioned composer, elevated the sense of finally being able to perform together again. Being joined by cellist Dana Winograd topped off the occasion in a very special way.
Our concert began with an elegiac section, mourning our losses and remembering the pain of the last two years. Katie’s piece “The End and the Beginning,” proved to be even more prophetic than anticipated. When we commissioned Katie to write a piece for our first live concert in many months, we assumed that the pandemic would be over and that everything in our lives would be back to normal. This, of course, did not turn out to be the case. Although we may now, in Katie’s words, “Let the air be filled with singing again,” we know that not only are things not back to normal, but also that we do not yet know what our new “normal” will be.
Dana Winograd was our artistic partner for this pair of concerts, and her presence inspired all of us. The cello part is integral to Sarah Quartel’s A Winter Day, and Dana brought authenticity, poignancy, and joy to the piece. At the end of the concert, Dana led us into singing Shawn Kirchner’s arrangement of “Silent Night.” You can hear it by clicking on the image below.
Singer Sidebars, Virtual Concerts, and Musical Works in Progress are our way of staying in touch with our audiences while we were unable to sing for you in person. The entire archive is available here.
Future Concerts
A Shakespeare Sampler (Saturday and Sunday, February 19-20, 4:00PM — Concert Postponed due to Covid Omicron surge; new dates to be determined) will present a concert of settings of Shakespeare, including Matthew Harris’s beloved "Shakespeare Songs."
Songs of Nature (Saturday, May 7, 4:00PM) will feature flutist Bonnie Schmader in a concert linking music with sounds of nature, including works of Craig Hella Johnson, Jocelyn Hagen, and Judith Cloud.
Auditions
We are always interested in new singers wishing to join our ranks. For information and to express interest in auditioning, please contact Music Director Fred Graham at sdccmusicdirector@gmail.com
The Sangre de Cristo Chorale singing at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, October 2019.
