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Table of Contents Festival at a Glance ................................................................ 4 Schedule of Events ................................................................. 5 Legacy Award Winners ........................................................ 17 GALA Mission ........................................................................ 18 GALA Board, Staff, and Volunteers .................................... 19 Denver Performing Arts Complex Map ............................. 20 A Colorado Welcome ........................................................... 21 Blockbuster Concert Schedules ................................. 22 – 45 Youth Choruses .................................................................... 46 Chorus Programs (in alphabetical order) ............... 47– 210 Workshops ................................................................ 211 – 214 Presenter Bios ........................................................... 215 – 217 Festival Ten-Timers ............................................................ 218 GALA Store .......................................................................... 219 3 Festival-at-a-Glance Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 9:00 a.m. Coffee Concert Coffee Concert Coffee Concert 9:30 a.m. 9:00 9:00 9:00 Coffee Concert 10:00 a.m. 9:30 10:30 a.m. Coffee Concert Coffee Concert Coffee Concert 11:00 a.m. 10:30 10:30 10:30 Coffee Concert 11:30 a.m. 11:00 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Concert Block Concert Block Concert Block 1 3 5 Concert Block 2:00 p.m. 12:00 12:00 12:00 7 12:30 2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Concert Block Concert Block Concert Block 2 4 6 Concert Block 3:30 p.m. 3:00 3:00 3:00 8 3:00 4:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. GALA Flash Mob 4:45 p.m. A Colorado Welcome 5:30 p.m. Coffee Concert 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Engendered Classical 7:30 p.m. Species Masterworks Opening 7:00 PM Singalong 7:00 PM 8:00 p.m. Concert 1 Mosaico Women’s Voices 7:00 7:30 PM Youth Invasion 8:30 p.m. Rising Show Tune from Gay to Z 7:00 PM Showdown & Ensemble Late Night 7:00 PM 9:00 p.m. Closing Concert Festival Ensembles Naked Man 20th 7:30 PM 7:00 7:30 PM Late Night 9:30 p.m. Anniversary Ensembles 7:30 PM Closing Party Opening Holiday 8:00 PM 10:00 p.m. 10:00 PM Hullabaloo Concert 2 New Songs, Gender Blender, 10:30 p.m. 8:30 Vibrant Voices 9:15 PM Gender Queer 9:00 PM 9:00 PM 11:00 p.m. 4 Schedule of Events Friday, July 1, 2016 Saturday, July 2, 2016 Music for Tyler: Benefit concert for Tyler GALA Flash Mob Clementi Foundation & GALA Choruses 4:30pm - 4:45pm 7:00pm - 8:30pm Denver Pavillions First Baptist Church Join 500 GALA singers as we share our gay Join organist David Dehner for music of Dupré, spirit in a Festival opening Flash Mob. With Gigout, Bach, Durufle and “Cantique de Jean choreography designed and led by the Columbus Racine” of Faure, conducted by Joe Piazza and Gay Men’s Chorus we’ll perform from two balcony sung by the audience and delegates from GALA levels at the Denver Pavilions off of the 16th Festival 2016. This event is a benefit concert for Street pedestrian mall. the Tyler Clementi Foundation & GALA Choruses. $10 donation suggested. A Colorado Welcome 4:30pm - 9:00pm Galleria Our Colorado choruses will utilize singers, dancers and musicians uniquely placed in the Galleria to welcome our Festival delegates to Colorado. The performance will include the debut of a new commission by Dr. Nathan Hall based on the sights, Saturday, July 2, 2016 smells and sounds of Colorado. Open Table Conversations Coffee Concert: Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus 1:00pm - 3:00pm 5:30pm - 6:30pm Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Buell Theatre Join us for open table conversations for GALA Finding OZ is a fully-staged and choreographed people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore production featuring the music and themes from ways to make our choruses more racially diverse all iterations of the story of OZ – both stage and and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, screen – and the catalog of Dorothy herself, Judy pick up resources and meet some new GALA Garland. Finding OZ is about taking that yellow friends. brick road with friends and supporters to find our way to self-acceptance. Sister Singers Network Women’s Chorus Mingle Opening Concert I 2:30pm - 3:30pm 7:00pm - 7:45pm The Curtis Hotel Keep Away Room Boettcher Concert Hall Sister Singers Network nurtures the spirit, energy, and diversity of the women’s choral movement Festival 2016 opens with a collage concert by serving as a resource for responsible music featuring selected GALA choruses and ensembles sharing; communication among women’s choral performing in the round throughout Boettcher groups; production of regional, national, and Concert Hall. Hosted by performers Matt Alber, international choral festivals; and active support Melanie DeMore and Holly Near the concert of women composers and arrangers. Join welcomes delegates with a celebration of members of SSN for discussion of the mission mountains, music and the passion that grounds and history of SSN. our LGBT movement. 5 Schedule of Events Saturday, July 2, 2016 Saturday, July 2, 2016 Ensemble Concert: Ellie Open Table Conversations 7:00pm - 10:30pm 7:00pm - 9:00pm Ellie Caulkins Opera House Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Performers: Join us for open table conversations for GALA Counterpoint 7:00 people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore Hot Flashes 7:15 ways to make our choruses more racially diverse Boy Howdy 7:30 and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, Canyon Echoes 7:45 pick up resources and meet some new GALA Influence 8:00 friends. Vocal Harmonics 8:30 Common Chords 8:45 Opening Concert II (Repeated) HarMENy 9:00 8:30pm - 9:15pm Heartsong 9:15 The Coastliners 9:30 Boettcher Concert Hall OVation 9:45 Festival 2016 opens with a collage concert Illuminati 10:00 featuring selected GALA choruses and ensembles performing in the round throughout Boettcher Ensemble Concert: Stage Theatre Concert Hall. Hosted by performers Matt Alber, 7:00pm - 10:30pm Melanie DeMore and Holly Near the concert welcomes delegates with a celebration of Stage Theater mountains, music and the passion that grounds Performers: our LGBT movement. Cascade 7:00 Vocal Infusion 7:15 Denver Gay Men’s Chorus Welcomes GALA to Männerchor 7:30 Denver New Mexico QTones 7:45 9:30pm - 12:30am Minor Adjustments 8:00 Brotherly Love 8:30 Denver Wrangler OutLoud! 8:45 “DGMC Welcomes GALA to Denver” party and Nothing but Treble 9:00 beer bust on July 2nd from 9:30-12:30 p.m.at Spectrum 9:00 the legendary Wrangler (1700 Logan Streeet, Prism 9:15 Denver) – within walking distance from the Menage 9:30 downtown Denver hotels. This will be a beer bust OUTLOUD 9:30 – unlimited beer – for $10 and DGMC members Rock Creek Singers 9:45 and volunteers will be pouring the beer. GALA Potomac Fever 10:00 registrants must show their badges to get in (closed to the general public). 6 Schedule of Events Sunday, July 3, 2016 Sunday, July 3, 2016 Coffee Concert: Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus The Art of Gullah Stick Pounding 9:00am - 10:00am 9:00am - 10:15am Ellie Caulkins Opera House The Curtis Hotel Patty Cake Room When I Was Your Age: Our Fathers. Their Learn the basics of Gullah Stick Pounding. We will Sons. Real Stories. AGMC explores the unique create a foot stomping, hand-clapping rhythmic relationship between fathers and sons in this community and combine it with singing spirituals compelling work of choral theatre. and songs of protest and peace. Participants will learn about Gullah/Geechee culture through it’s Call Me Kuchu dynamic music and rhythmic heart. We will, as 9:00am - 11:00am a community, turn the whole place into a living, breathing drum. The Curtis Hotel Peek a Boo Ballroom Presenter: Call Me Kuchu is a 2012 American documentary film Melanie DeMore directed by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. The film explores the struggles of the Open Table Conversations LGBT community in Uganda, focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato. The film 9:30am - 11:30am jointly received the 2014 GLAAD Media Award for Wolf Room (Buell Lobby) Outstanding Documentary. The film is the inspiration for Aluta Continua, The Passion of David Kato Join us for open table conversations for GALA Kisule, being performed by Coro Allegro in Concert 2 people of color, trans* people and allies. Explore Boettcher. John Wambere, featured in the film, will be ways to make our choruses more racially diverse on hand for Q&A after the film. and inclusive of trans* people. Share your ideas, pick up resources and meet some new GALA Dollars and Donors: It’s All About the Base friends. 9:00am - 10:15am Coffee Concert: Seattle Women’s Chorus The Curtis Hotel Duck Duck Goose Room 10:30am - 11:30am Where did all the donors go? Your donor prospects are filling every seat at your concerts, auctions, activities, Buell Theatre galas, meetings, outreach programs and fundraising We Can Do It! A new musical highlighting events. Strategic fundraising all starts with your base. And believe it - every chorus has a great base. From the accomplishments and progress made by holiday concert attendees, season ticket holders, event American women during World War II.