Begin Again
- novawcp
- Apr 28
- 2 min read
There's something about a first rehearsal that I never get tired of. The room fills, voices warm up in corners, and then the music begins — and whatever this group is going to become starts right there.
This Saturday, May 2nd, that moment arrives for NOVA Women's Choral Collective.
NOVA started in Boston in 2021 as a project-based women's choral ensemble — flexible in structure, serious about the music, centered on themes that feel relevant to the world we're actually living in. We sang masked then, in a different moment, with singers who remain dear to me. The world has changed, the faces are new, and in 2026 we are singing freely.
That idea traveled with me to Athens, and this fall it takes root here. Our first Athens project is built around Anne Frank: A Living Voice by Linda Tutas Haugen — a seven-movement work drawn from Anne Frank's diary that moves through fear, grief, and resilience, and holds onto her belief that there is still beauty in the world. It's a piece that asks something of its singers. We think that's exactly the right place to start.
Saturday is our read-through — three hours to meet each other, learn the music, and begin. Then singers will prepare independently over the summer before we gather again in August for weekly rehearsals leading to our performance on September 27th.
This blog will follow that journey. What's working, what isn't, what we're learning as a brand new organization finding its footing in a new community. We're at the very beginning, and we want to share it — honestly, and from the start.
Music-making begins this week. We can't wait!
— Jennifer Kane, Founder & Executive Artistic Director
NOVA Women's Choral Collective · Athens, GA · Spring 2026
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