Thursday July 28, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Free and Open to the Public
(Suggested Donation $15)
Aster Talent Show
3 Community Road, Broomfield, CO 80020
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3 Community Road, Broomfield, CO 80020
April 16 – Broomfield and April 22 – Centennial
ASTER returns to its roots with this concert. We are delighted to be performing works by two Colorado composers, Grace Asquith, Alex Craig, Kathleen Fagre and Peter Simpson. Mr. Simpson’s cantata Sacagawea is a fourteen minute musical journey which tells Sacagawea’s story in first person narration along with choral movements, flute solo and piano accompaniment. Grace Asquith’s No Such Music was commissioned by ASTER to compose a piece setting the words of May Sarton’s poem Girl with Cello, so naturally, there is a large part for solo cello in this beautiful piece. Aster is delighted to repeat Kathleen Fagre’s commissioned composition O Unico Amore, which honors Mother Cabrini, and Alex Craig’s Song from Astersongs,
Other works on the program include settings of poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sojourner Truth’s And Ain’t I a Woman speech, Kathryn Lee Bates’ ode to America’s beauty, and some lighter fare. For more information, please contact Christina Lynn-Craig at 303-466-2879 or tinaregina@aol.com.
Two performances:
Saturday, April 16th at 2 PM
Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, CO 80020
Admission: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students
Tickets available at the AUDI Box Office T/R/S from 1 – 3 PM
or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2491293
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8545 E. Dry Creek Rd., Centennial, CO 80112
(Just west of Yosemite Street on Dry Creek Road; west of I-25)
This concert is part of the Music with a Mission series. A free-will offering to benefit The Crisis Center will be taken. There is no admission cost. The Crisis Center exists to end domestic violence through advocacy, education, and prevention; while helping communities live free of violence.
Artistic Director, Christina Lynn-Craig will be holding auditions throughout the Summer. No sight-reading involved, but an ability to learn music quickly and a willingness to memorize music. Experienced choral singers ages eighteen through seventy-something are encouraged to audition.
Aster Women’s Chamber Choir
Appropriate for ages 10 and older.
Tuesday July 28, 2015 7:00 PM
Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, 80020
Free and Open to the Public
Suggested Donations $10 Adults and $5 for Students & Seniors
Broomfield Enterprise: ASTER, Apollo ready to sing through the ages at Broomfield Auditorium
With a millennia of music to choose from, selecting songs to sing for an audience can be fairly overwhelming. The solution ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir came up with was picking songs from several eras, providing a little something for everyone.
“From Baroque to Boogie and Beyond” will offer music lovers a variety of tunes ranging from the great masters, such as Mozart and Bach, to jazz legend Dave Brubeck and American Songbook composer George Gershwin.
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir joins forces with the Apollo Chamber Brass Quintet to present From Baroque to Boogie and Beyond — a concert celebrating ASTER’s fifteen seasons. Two performances will be held on Saturday, April 25 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm at the Broomfield Auditorium. The program will feature music by Bach, Mozart, Dave Brubeck, Gershwin and others which will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. The contrast between women’s choir and handsome men playing brass has proven to be a winning combination! ASTER is eager to bring in new audience members for this lively concert, so please invite a friend or two to come with you to the performance! For the younger music lover in your life, this show is appropriate for ages 10 and older. Admission for this event is $12 for adults and $8 for seniors and students. Tickets will be available at the Audi Box Office on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1-5 pm; through brownpapertickets.com or at the door. Be sure that you purchase tickets for the correct performance time. For the 2 pm show you may purchase your tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1157982. For the 7:30 pm show, you may purchase your tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1157984.
Apollo Chamber Brass
Corrie and Ayla
ASTER Chamber Choir
Dorothy Fields
Saturday, October 18th at 7:30pm
Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd
Admission: $12/adults, $8 students/seniors
Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or at the Audi box office
Spring in Scandinavia, Original Artwork by Corrie Frank
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir is delighted to be presenting a program of pieces which celebrate the return of Spring in Scandinavia. Many of the pieces we will sing are choral arrangements of folk songs. Folk songs, folk dances and folk arts and crafts offer people an insight into the distinctive ‘personalities’ of the countries where they originated. Percy Scholes said in his article on Folk Song in The Oxford Companion to Music that folks songs are “….seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past ….” Most traditional folk songs are very old and have been passed down from one generation to another by oral tradition. They were sung by the plain folk. People who are of Scandinavian ancestry will want to make a special effort to attend this concert to hear the music that their great-grandparents might have heard or sung.
In order to learn these pieces, ASTER is collaborating with guest artist Dr. Riikka Pietaläinen-Caffrey on our “Springtime in Scandinavia” concerts. Riikka is from Finland and has made arrangements of several Finnish folk songs for the choir to perform. She is an amazing and enthusiastic diction coach, which is very good, because most people in the choir do not speak Swedish, Finnish or Norwegian!
In addition to the folk music, you will hear pieces by Sibelius, Grieg, Anders Edenroth (from the contemporary Swedish a cappella group The Real Group) AND a set of pieces composed for the choir by Broomfield resident Alex Craig called “Astersongs” and an original composition by Dr. Riikka Pietaläinen-Caffrey based on a poem written by her grandmother.
with guest artists
Margot Krimmel, Celtic Harp, Beth Gadbaw vocals and Bodhran,
Jean Ballhorn, Fiddle and Natalie Bixler, Irish Step Dancer.
Gadbaw & Krimmel
The program will include the Welsh lullaby Suo Gan, Morning Has Broken -the hymn Cat Stevens made famous in the 70’s, along with Irish Blessing, and Danny Boy, the most famous song of farewell ever sung. ASTER will also offer some new very lively pieces, The Rattlin’ Bog and Stuttering Lovers.
The always delightful Gadbaw and Krimmel have been crowd pleasers on several previous ASTER concerts. Beth Gadbaw came of age traveling from pub to folk club in the West of Ireland and the South of England. Harpist Margot Krimmel is the winner of first place medals in the Pop and Harp Jazzfest and the Colorado Scottish Highlands Games. Their original carol, The Donkey and the Doves, was voted in as one of Colorado Public Radio’s Top Fifty Carols.
This family friendly program is appropriate for children ages 7 and older.
Friday, November 8th at 7:30 PM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Boulder
2200 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302 (NE corner of Pine and Broadway)
Saturday, November 9th at 2 PM at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter
1700 W 10th Ave, Broomfield, CO 80020 (SW corner of 10th Avenue and Highway 287)
Admission: $12 adults, $8 students and seniors, $5 children 12 and under.
Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com or at the door. (Advance purchase is advised.)
ASTER is holding auditions for the upcoming concert season. The choir rehearses on Tuesday evenings in Broomfield beginning on September 3rd.
Our Fall concert will be a Celtic Celebration with guests Margot Krimmel and Beth Leachman. Performances will be on Friday, November 8th and Saturday, November 9th.
Please call Christina Lynn-Craig at 303-466-2879 to schedule an audition. The Spring concerts will be “Spring in Scandinavia” with guest conductor Dr. Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey on Saturday, May 17th and another date TBA.
