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SPECIAL SPONSORSHIPS


INTERRUPTED MUSIC PROJECT
Partially sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts
Ruth and Rob Goldston
This project aims to rejuvenate small ensemble works by composers who perished during the Holocaust by creating new compositions for a chamber orchestra. A pilot concert featuring sample ensemble pieces and a pre-concert lecture by Professor Ofer Ben-Amots (Colorado College Music Department) was performed on March 4, 2020 (more information: Interrupted Music Project). The project attracted a matching 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works grant for the commissioning of new works and their performance.
The January 2022 concert will feature:  
  • Works by Dick Kattenburg (Romanian Melody for Violin, Cello and Piano), Hans Krása (Dance for String Trio), Zikmund Schul ("In the Shadow of Your Wings" for String Quartet) and Erwin Schulhoff (Five Pieces for String Quartet)
  • Expansion of Grand Duo for Violin & Cello by Paul Hermann into a complete Double Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra in the hope of giving the piece broader recognition (by Thomas Wilson).
  • Brundibar Suite by Hans Krása

 SENSORY FRIENDLY CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
Sponsored by
Peak Arts Prize 2020
McCauley Fund of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation

This sensory-friendly dance-concert in collaboration the Colorado Ballet Society hopes to reach audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It won the Peak Arts Prize 2020 in the large organization category (more information here: Sensory Friendly Family Concert) and further received support from the McCauley Fund that supports arts programming focused on reaching audiences with disabilities. The orchestra plans to leverage this project to launch a sensory-friendly family series in the Pikes Peak region. 

 Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences. This sensory-friendly dance-concert in collaboration with the Colorado Ballet Society hopes to reach audiences with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It won the Peak Arts Prize 2020 in the large organization category and further received support from the McCauley Fund that supports arts programming focused on reaching audiences with disabilities. The orchestra plans to leverage this project to launch a sensory-friendly family series in the Pikes Peak region. 

 Due to COVID restrictions the project is modified for online dissemination in spring 2021. The recording of the inaugural program, Carnival of the Animals, will be interlayered with appropriate animation and narration to convert it into a reciprocal interaction video for national ASD audiences.

VOICES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Partially sponsored by
The National Endowment for the Arts
Michele Strub-Heer and Jordan Strub
The Shivers Fund of Pikes Peak Library District

This special concert will feature art songs and vocal works with orchestra by African Diaspora composers in partnership with Art Song Colorado and the Shivers Fund. The project attracted a matching 2020 NEA Art Works grant and it features rarely heard works from different time periods.  The performance will feature:
Stephanie Ann Ball, Soprano
Veena Akama-Makia, Mezzo Soprano
Markus King, Baritone

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges (1745-1799)
https://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Page1.html

Overture- L'amant anonime
H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
https://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Adams.html
Night songs
Dunbar Songs
George T. Walker (1922 –2018)
https://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Walker.html
Abu for Narrators and Chamber Ensemble
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
http://www.jessiemontgomery.com/biography
I want to go home
Loisaida, I love you
Zenobia Powell Perry (1908 –2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia_Powell_Perry
Echoes from the Journey
Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953)
https://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Price.html
My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
Andre Myers (b. 1973)
https://www.andremyers.com/biography.html
Double Negative- Nerdcore Hip-hop

ENOUGH: VOICES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Partially supported by
The Bee Vradenburg Foundation
ANB Bank

This collaboration with TESSA (www.tessacs.org, a local domestic abuse help non-profit in town) aims to present an artistic consciousness-raising response to the domestic abuse issues exacerbated by COVID quarantines. The impactful, emotive program of vocal works, intended as an empowering hope-raiser, will center on the nationally renowned Jake Heggie opera “To Hell and Back” which articulates the myth of Persephone in a modern-day spousal abuse setting and will be complemented by several topically relevant musical theater songs (from shows like Hadestown, Waitress, Carousel. Kiss me Kate) and poetry/journaling testimonials submitted by Colorado Springs domestic violence survivors. It is being scheduled for October 2021.


BLIND INJUSTICE
Partially Supported by The National Endowment for the Arts

                This opera composed by African American Scott Davenport Richards and premiered by Cincinnati Opera in 2019, explores the true stories of six people who were tried, convicted, imprisoned, then ultimately freed by the Ohio Innocence Project. The orchestra plans to present it in collaboration with the Opera Theatre of the Rockies
(https://www.operatheatreoftherockies.org)  in 2022. 



The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs is a 501(c)(3) organization-- donations to which are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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1. In every aspect and decision of the organization, and on every level, the only criteria for selection and retention of musicians, board members, management employees or service organizations and businesses, shall be their ability to complete the task for which they are required.
2. The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs follows and surpasses an equal opportunity employment policy, which protects personnel and contractors from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental handicap, veteran status, gender, gender identity, or gender expression.
3. This policy applies to internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, terminations, relationships with outside vendors and customers, use of contractors and consultants and the general public.


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