by alacarte | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Spotlight
A preview by Marc Shulgold Scen3 fall choral music preview Kids are back in the classroom, Broncos fans are sporting their orange jerseys. The Rockies are in the National League cellar. It must be fall. Which means that amateur and professional choruses have begun...
by alacarte | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Spotlight
A preview by By Marc Shulgold For Leah Peer, breaking from the Colorado Hebrew Chorale in 2013 to form a subsidiary women’s chorus was hardly an act of defiance. Instead, it was, the director of Kol Nashim, says, an act that would strengthen the mixed chorus led by...
by alacarte | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Spotlight
A preview by Marc Shulgold It was a scene right out of a movie: In the fall of 2013, Leah Peer was strolling along a street in Jerusalem with her mother, Ruth Keusch, discussing what they could do to help those in need – specifically, the residents of Woman to Woman,...
by ArielZusya | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
Have you ever found yourself the guest at a Shabbis (Ashkenazi pronunciation of Shabbat, meaning sabbath) table when suddenly your hosts break out in zemirot (Jewish hymns, though folk song may be more appropriate in some instances) and, though the words may seem...
by LeahPeer | Dec 18, 2012 | Blog
Introducing Bonnie Kossoff, CHC board member and long time alto. In answer to the question “How did you hear about CHC and when and why did you join Bonnie responded: “It's so long ago it's hard to remember… I was in Shir Ami before there...
by LeahPeer | Aug 15, 2012 | Blog
At the funeral of Marvin Hamlisch, there were, of course, performances of songs he wrote, and a eulogy by Bill Clinton. It was also reported that the funeral included this line of poetry: “Oh, he had one more melody, and now that melody is lost forever, lost forever.”...
