Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
at the Broomfield Auditorium
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents a concert of solos and choral settings from musicals by Barbara Damashek, Mary Rodgers, Lucy Simon, Jeanine Tesori and Teresa Wilhelmi.
This program is suitable for ages 10 and older.
Admission: $10 Adults, $5 Seniors/Students
Auditions for ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir are currently being scheduled, please contact Christina Lynn-Craig to schedule an audition.
This holiday favorite by Benjamin Britten will be presented twice
ASTER’s 10th Anniversary Celebration! Saturday, April 24th, 2010
at 7:30 PM at the Broomfield Auditorium.
ASTER Alumni will be featured in several of our favorite pieces,
A commissioned work by Colorado composer Grace Asquith will be premiered.
A reception will follow the performance.
Pen and Ink Artwork by the Broomfield Art Guild will be displayed in the lobby.
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents “Legends, Laughter, and Lullabies” a concert for families with children age 6 and older, featuring story-teller Katherine Linstrom and Celtic Harpist Margot Krimmel. The music we have chosen for this concert combines the best of our previous family concerts. The program includes a rollicking arrangement of a Hebrew folk song “Chad gadyaâ€, Celtic and Spanish lullabies and fanciful songs in Japanese and English about fireflies, spiders, ladybugs, airplanes and much more.
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
1128 Pine Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Southwest Corner of Broadway and Pine
Admission Free, Suggested Donations: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students, $20 family of four or more (any type of family!)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 2 pm – MATINEE!
Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road
Admission Free, Suggested Donations: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students, $20 family of four or more (any type of family!)
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presents “Shakespeare: Songs, Sonnets and Soliloquies”
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road
7:30 PM
Tickets: $12 Adults, $8 Seniors/Students (Tickets available at the door)
A select group of ASTER singers will present choral and solo settings of some of Shakespeare’s greatest texts by composers Amy Beach, John Govedas, Clifton Noble Jr., Roger Quilter and others. Young thespians from Broomfield will perform favorite monologues and sonnets in costume. Special guest Larisa Kholodnaya will perform Charles Gounod’s “Je veux vivre†from his operatic setting of Romeo and Juliet.
For additional information please call Christina Lynn-Craig at (303) 466-2879.
There are many different ways to set the music in Shakespeare’s words. From the highly dramatic to the fanciful and romantic, Shakespeare has it all. Many of his plays include words which were to be sung, and composers from Shakespeare’s time on have delighted in putting their own stamp on these classic lyrics .
ASTER members agree that the music we are singing for this concert is some of the best we have ever done. The combination of Amy Beach’s prim and proper settings of fairy songs, to John Govedas’ wild and witchy setting of the Three Hags’ Haggis from Mac beth, to the bosso nova rhythms of Clifton Noble’s setting of “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” make this a concert you won’t want to miss.
Those who attended ASTER’s first Gala will want to be sure to get their tickets early for this elegant evening. In addition to enjoying the CD release concert, and being the first on your block to purchase an ASTER CD, you’ll find many treasures worth bidding on at the Silent Auction. The ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir Gala will take place on Saturday, June 21st at the Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Drive in Broomfield. Tickets will be $30 per person.
Please contact ASTER’s event coordinator, Melanie Nehls Burrow, at andrewmel@yahoo.com or at 303-817-2634 if you are interested in becoming an event sponsor for the Gala, if you would like to donate an item or service for the Silent Auction, or if you would like to advertise in one of our program booklets.
For tickets, please contact Tina Lynn-Craig at tinaregina@aol.com or at 303-466-2879.
This concert will combine choral and solo settings of sacred music from chant to gospel hymns including music from 15th century Italy to 20th century United States. ASTER has drawn upon works which have been especially popular during our past seven seasons. Gustav Holst’s magnificent eight-part Ave Maria and contemporary composer James Primosch’s Three Sacred Songs will be highlights of this evening of inspirational music.
Saturday, April 19th , 2008, 7:30 PM
Church of the Holy Comforter
1700 West 10th Avenue
Broomfield, CO 80020
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Tickets: $12 Adults, $8 Students/Seniors
ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir presented a collaborative concert with guest artists from Legendary Ladies who presented costumed portrayals of historic women including the Colorado poet Katherine Lee Bates, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, pioneer Helga Estby who walked across North America in 1896; deaf psychic Helen Gilman who told fortunes in Boulder; and leader of the prohibitionist movement Carrie Nation. Musical highlights of the evening include Sandi Peaslee’s setting of Soujourner Truth’s famous text “And Ain’t I a Woman” and a fifteen minute choral tribute to Sacagewea by Broomfield composer and photographer Pete Simpson. Mr. Simpson’s photographs will be displayed in the lobby of the Auditorium prior to each performance.
Dates:
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location:
Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road
Broomfield, CO 80020
Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at the door or from any choir member. To reserve tickets or for general information please contact Christina Lynn-Craig at (303) 466-2879 or tinalynncraig@aol.com.
(Sorry, this performance is sold out!)
Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 2 PM
at the Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road, Broomfield
Admission $10
(A limited number of $20 tickets are available which include a delightful tea at 12:45 in the lobby of the auditorium prior to the performance. Perfect for “Red Hatters” or others who like to sip tea while they visit.)
Join select members from ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir as we perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s nostalgic comic operetta (in English!). The operetta includes the wonderful soprano aria “Steal Me, Sweet Thief”, the baritone aria “When the Air Sings of Summer, I Must Wander Again”, and a charming duet for the two old maids.
The performance is a fundraiser for ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir. The cast includes Robert Dickert, Christina Lynn-Craig, Karen Murphy and Mariena Richards.
For more information, please call Christina Lynn-Craig at (303) 466-2879 or contact her at TinaRegina@aol.com. ASTER is offering a “two for the price of one” special on tickets to The Old Maid and the Thief for tickets purchased before June 1st (performance tickets only – no discount available for Tea tickets!).
ASTER thanks Mayor Karen Stuart and the Broomfield City Council for their ongoing support of the arts, and for the many upgrades to the AUDI during the past five years!
Celebrate National Poetry Month with ASTER
The Poet Sings will present beautiful choral and solo vocal music, live and recorded poetry readings, portraits and dramatic excerpts to bring the poems of Dickinson and Cummings to the audience in a vivid and memorable way.
It will feature musical settings of poems by Emily Dickinson and E. E. Cummings by Broomfield’s own Alex Craig, along with Vincent Persichetti and other contemporary American composers. The audience will also hear recordings of Cummings reading his own poetry, and see scenes from The Belle of Amherst, a dramatization of the life of Emily Dickinson. Additionally, a self-portrait of E. E. Cummings will adorn the stage during the performance.
This concert will be a collaboration between ASTER and the Mamie Doud Eisenhower (MDE) Library as a part of National Poetry Month and is appropriate for ages twelve and older.
Saturday, April 14th – 7:30 PM
at the Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road in Broomfield
Saturday, April 21st – 7:30 PM
at Trinity Lutheran Church
2200 Broadway (at Pine Street) in Boulder
Both concerts are free and open to the public.
Donations are gratefully accepted!
A Musical Play by Molly Newman & Barbara Damashek
Music & Lyrics by Barbara Damashek
Christina Lynn-Craig, Artistic Director
Lisa Baird, Stage Director
Featuring Mariena Richards in the role of Sarah
Quilt Blocks and Legacy Quilt made by Karen Edmonds
Friday, November 17,2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
At the Broomfield Auditorium
3 Community Park Road
Broomfield, CO
7:00 PM
Doors open for Quilt Exhibit at 6:00 PM
Both performances are sold out.
Originally developed and produced at the Denver Center Theatre company, this joyous and moving celebration of American Womanhood became a record-setting regional theater success before its presentations on Broadway and at the Edinburgh Festival. Combining music, dance movement and scenes of vivid dramatic intensity, the play pays eloquent tribute to the courage and spirit of our nation’s pioneer woman.
“Who would have thought that quilts, quilting—quilters—had so much joy and pain, laughter and tears, so much life, beauty and drama in them?” ~ Drama-Logue.
“…an unqualified success, as bright as the colors used in the quilts themselves.”
~ Hollywood Reporter.
“QUILTERS is a show pieced together with love and stitched with pride…a thing of beauty, comfort and joy.”
~ NY Post.
“…a tender and moving theatre work, a human patchwork rippling in the breeze of memory.”
~ Newsweek.
QUILTERS celebrates the strength, humor, faith and creativity of the women who helped settle the prairies of the American West. ASTER’s production will feature folk instruments and a larger than usual cast, bringing greater warmth and depth to the musical numbers. Though many scenes are playful and light-hearted, because of the adult nature of some of the shadow blocks, ASTER is rating this production “PG-13″.
