Colorado Women’s Chorale May 13, 2008

Augustana Arts presents the Colorado Women’s Chorale in
“L’Chaim!” (“To Life!”)
 featuring the Colorado Hebrew Chorale and other local artists
 
The Colorado Women’s Chorale, Charlotte Adams, conductor, will perform a program focusing on Hebrew music and themes, including Five Hebrew Love Songs, by Eric Whitacre, and Psalm 47, by Srul Irving Glick, and will feature the Colorado Hebrew Chorale performing arrangements of The Music of Sholom Secunda, Bai Mir Bisti Sheyn and other Hebrew songs on Tuesday, May 13, at 7:00 p.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 East Hampden Ave., Denver.
 
The Colorado Women's Chorale, Charlotte Adams, music director, is Augustana Arts' newest program. Its mission is to contribute to the cultural life of the greater Denver community and to promote awareness of the arts through performances in a wide variety of musical and cultural settings.
Charlotte Adams, music educator, is the founder and Principal Conductor of the Colorado Women's Chorale, a select adult women's choir in Denver, Colorado from 2003 to the present.  Over the last 30 years, she has served as a pillar of the choral music community, specifically women's choral music, in Colorado.  Ms. Adams was Conductor for 2007 World Voices Australia International Choral Festival, Sydney Opera House and will be Conductor for Choral Salute to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  She holds a BA from Colorado College and an MM from Indiana University where she studied with the late Julius Herford.  She was selected to receive the “Teacher Appreciation” award from the Denver Stake of the Latter-Day Saints.  She is active as a choral clinician and adjudicator for choral festivals throughout the USA.  Her choirs have toured throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.
 
The Colorado Hebrew Chorale was organized in September 1993 by its Music Director, Carol Kozak Ward, to preserve, promote, perform and celebrate the richness of Hebrew choral music throughout the Rocky mountain region.  Since its inception, this highly dedicated volunteer chorus has given voice to the legacy and culture of the Jewish experience through song.  Now entering its fourteenth season, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale retains its commitment to communal service as its raison d’être.
For over thirty years, Carol Kozak Ward has been an educator, performer, conductor and specialist in the Hebrew choral repertoire.  Ms. Ward is an advocate of contemporary choral music, having commissioned such composers as Gerald Cohen, Martin Bresnick and Pulitzer Prize-winner Aaron Jay Kernis.  Ms. Ward has taught at public, private and parochial schools and universities, in the U.S. and abroad, and is presently on the faculty of the Montessori School of Denver.  Ms. Ward holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Yale University School of Music as well as an M.A. in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As an undergraduate at New York University, she majored in Near Eastern Studies and spent her junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Ward and her family lived in Haifa, Israel for six years before relocating to Colorado in 1991.
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Augustana Arts presents the Colorado Women’s Chorale in “L’Chaim!” (“To Life!”) featuring the Colorado Hebrew Chorale and other local artists.
Tues. May 13, 7:00 p.m.
Bethany Lutheran Church
4500 East Hampden Ave.
$12 Adult / $10 Senior / $5 Student/Child
866-464-2626, www.TicketsWest.com and at all King Soopers
 

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