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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Get Behind-The-Scenes Peek at Chorale's Summer Variety Acts
By Emily Van Cleve
For the Journal
Variety is the key to the Santa Fe Desert Chorale's upcoming summer season. Three guest conductors and the four candidates who are vying for the position of the organization's music director present a series of concerts that transport listeners back in time and around the world.
To help sort out the season, the Chorale's general manager Don Scott Carpenter hosts “Behind the Music-Summer Season 2008,” a one-hour lecture about the music and the people conducting it, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe on Tuesday night.
“This summer we're celebrating the Desert Chorale's most prominent programming, the ‘Glorious Voices, Sacred Spaces' concert at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, but we're also expanding into new venues,” Carpenter said. “I had so much fun checking out our new venues and envisioning the kinds of music we'd like to present.”
In addition to the cathedral, concerts will be presented at Loretto Chapel, Holy Faith Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Scottish Rite Temple and the Lensic in Santa Fe, the Albuquerque Journal Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque and San Francisco de Asis in Taos.
During the lecture Carpenter will talk about each venue and some of the particular pieces that will be performed in it. “Glorious Voices, Sacred Spaces” highlights masterpieces of classical music and is led by guest conductor Simon Carrington, professor of choral conducting at Yale University and a musician who Carpenter said is “one of the top five choral conductors in the world.”
Other guest conductors will be Jonathan Willcocks, a British composer and conductor who spearheads the “Ralph Vaughan Williams … a Retrospective” concert with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, and John Kennedy, founder and director of Santa Fe New Music who will conduct “Vanguards of New Music.”
“I like collaborations, and I'm really committed to new music,” Carpenter said. “That's why I wanted the Desert Chorale to work with John Kennedy again this season. John is an expert in this literature. The ‘Vanguards of New Music' concert, which we do in conjunction with instrumentalists from Santa Fe New Music, gives us a chance to present music we otherwise wouldn't do by ourselves.”
Carpenter explained the idea behind the “Art + Music + Art” concert, which will take place at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and involves coordinating visual art with music and the audience's seating arrangement.
Although he hasn't met any of the four music director candidates in person, Carpenter will share information about Patrick Dupré Quigley, Judith Clurman, Joshua Habermann and Donald Nally during the lecture. A field of 70 applicants was paired down to the top four through audio recordings, phone interviews and DVDs.
“I'll talk about all the rehearsals, interviews and performances these conductors will go through when they get to Santa Fe,” Carpenter said. “This is an important time of transition for the Chorale.”
WHEN: 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 13
WHERE: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe
HOW MUCH: Tickets at the door: $5. For more information: (505) 988-2282
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