Ringa in Ljuset:
Calling Forth the Light

Performed with the Colorado Children’s Chorale
December 3 & 4, 2011

A composition by Deborah Schmit-Lobis commissioned by the Colorado Children’s Chorale will be presented with the CCC’s Christmas program on December 3 & 4 at Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

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Ticket: Ticketmaster www.ChildrensChorale.org/xmas2011

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Deborah Schmit-Lobis grew up playing Classical music but much to her teachers chagrin, would always improvise or ‘recompose’ sections of the music she was learning or change the endings. Why she thought at such a young age that she could compose better than Mozart or Beethoven is anybody’s guess, but it has served her well. She’s become a premier improviser of not only Classical music, but all styles of music.

Deborah grew up in the Dakotas, far from any large metropolitan area. She grew up riding horseback and playing the piano. Her love of Classical music was fostered by wonderful teachers and her grandparents. In his younger days her grandfather Albert had played with Lawrence Welk, (originally from Strasburg, ND), at dances held in church halls and barns on the weekends.

When young, she was really only interested in the Classics and no one told her she was actually ‘improvising’. She was taking ‘liberties’ where liberties were not to be taken in Classical music. She grew up trying to cover up her ’secret’ and only played those kinds of things for herself.

Over time, she began to learn about other styles of music and slowly found that what she had been doing was improvising, although most Classical players never improvised on the Classics. If people improvised, it was in the realm of jazz. She delved into jazz, folk and even some rock and roll, and over time has taken elements of it all and made it her own. She just calls it ‘playing music’, but it is a unique style. Some would call it New Age, some Adult Contemporary. Non Classical folks call it Classical, although most Classical folks call it jazz. Let’s just say it’s a synthesis of many styles.