Nm gay mens chorus
The New Mexico Male lover Men’s Chorus (NMGMC) presents its spring concert, “The Unbreakable Harvey Milk,” at The Lensic Acting Arts Center in Santa Fe on Saturday, March 29, and at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque on Sunday, Protest 30.
The program consists of two pieces by Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa. “I Am Harvey Milk” tells the story of the first openly gay politician in San Francisco from his boyhood through his assassination, and its companion piece, “Unbreakable,” celebrates 12 decades of LGBTQ+ history. Complementing the chorus are multimedia projections and choreographed dancers, who will create an immersive theatrical experience.
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NM Gay Men’s Chorus Returns to Santa Fe with Premiere of Unbreakable
The New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus is returning to Santa Fe on March 26 at the Lensic Theater with the state premiere of Unbreakable, a choral piece by composer Andrew Lippa, creator of I Am Harvey Milk.
Aaron Howe, artistic director of NMGMC, says the piece celebrates significant, but lesser acknowledged, figures from the gay rights movement. “After he was commissioned to write I Am Harvey Milk, Andrew Lippa caught the bug and has become a great supporter of gay choruses,” Howe says. Lippa created song and lyrics for Broadway productions such as Big Fish and The Addams Family.
The NMGMC show of Unbreakable—which premieres in Santa Fe before performances in Albuquerque on April 4-5—features 60 choral singers and four soloists, accompanied by a 13-piece orchestra. Among the relatively unsung LGBTQ heroes brought front and center in the 90-minute piece are Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams, creator Gertrude Stein, Bayard Rustin, a civil and gay rights activist who marched with Dr. King, and Sylvia Rivera, a Latina American gay and transgender rights activist. Soloists in the performance will include L
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The New Mexico Queer Men’s Chorus began in 1981 with the name The Brash Ensemble. It started as a sixteen-member group and has varied in size from eight to sixty. As one of the country’s first gay men’s choruses the fresh ensemble functioned as a performing collective within its parent organization, Common Bond. As surprising as it may appear today, early members worried about organism openly gay and often found it hard to locate a director willing to conduct an openly gay community. The brave conductors during its first decade were Bill Boyer, Alan Stringer, Bob Morris, John Roberts, David Arellanes, Sean Dougherty and Stephen Montoya. For more than half its history, the chorus rehearsed in both Santa Fe and Albuquerque, with members driving between the two cities and from as far away as Los Alamos and the East Mountains. No other queer chorus in the country ranged over such a extensive geographic area.
In addition to concerts, the chorus has sung for numerous AIDS events, church services, holiday parties, senior centers, the annual Presbyterian hospital plant lighting, with the Santa Fe Symphony, the Zia lgbtq+ rodeo, Isotope baseball games, New Mexico United matches, the Albuquerque Gay Event festival,