Founding 1964 Website lamasterchorale.org Founded 1964 | Music Director Grant Gershon Founder Roger Wagner Genre Holiday | |
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Affiliation Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles Music Center Origin Los Angeles, California, United States Albums The Gospel According to the Other Mary Similar Grant Gershon, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Paul Salamunovich, Morten Lauridsen, Gustavo Dudamel Profiles | ||
Morten lauridsen lux aeterna o nata lux los angeles master chorale
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional chorus in Los Angeles, California, and one the resident companies of both the Los Angeles Music Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the three original resident companies of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Grant Gershon has been its music director since 2001, replacing Paul Salamunovich.
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- Morten lauridsen lux aeterna o nata lux los angeles master chorale
- Morten lauridsen lux aeterna introitus los angeles master chorale
- Music directors
- Artists and Composers in Residence
- With music directors conducting
- With the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- With the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
- Motion pictures
- Awards and recognition
- Education programs
- Songs
- References
The Master Chorale performs about ten times per year in its own season. It has presented more than 450 concerts, including early choral music to contemporary compositions. Noted for presenting numerous world, U.S. and West Coast premieres, the chorus has commissioned 24 and premiered 40 new works. The Master Chorale regularly performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, both at the Music Center and at the Hollywood Bowl, with such leading conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas and Roger Norrington, among many others. Notable guest conductors have included Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Margaret Hillis, Robert Page and Richard Westenburg. It served as the chorus for Los Angeles Opera during that organization's early years before it had established its own in-house chorus. It also performs in community concerts throughout Southern California.
The Chorale originally performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but since 2003 the group's principal concert venue has been Walt Disney Concert Hall. Morten Lauridsen was its composer-in-residence from 1994 through 2001.
Morten lauridsen lux aeterna introitus los angeles master chorale
Music directors
Artists and Composers in Residence
With music directors conducting
The Master Chorale has recorded five CDs under Grant Gershon:
The Master Chorale released three CDs under the baton of Paul Salamunovich:
With the Los Angeles Philharmonic
With the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Motion pictures
Salamunovich also conducted the Los Angeles Master Chorale on the soundtracks of numerous major motion pictures, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, My Best Friend's Wedding, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Sum of All Fears and Waterworld. Gershon conducted the Chorale on the soundtracks for the motion pictures Lady in the Water and License to Wed.
Awards and recognition
In June 2003, the Master Chorale received the prestigious ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming. In 2008, one of the Chorale’s highly successful outreach program, “Voices Within,” earned the coveted Chorus America Education Outreach Award. The Master Chorale with Paul Salamunovich conducting, received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance for the recording Lux Aeterna in 1998.
Education programs
Since 1990, the Master Chorale has held the Los Angeles Master Chorale High School Choir Festival, one of the largest high school choir festivals in the nation.
"Voices Within," another of the Chorale's highly successful outreach programs, is an in-depth, ten-week, in-school residency program for fifth and six grade students that helps children who have little or no musical background to “find their voices.” With the assistance of a teaching artist, lyricist, and composer who work with teams of students in the classroom, children write music and lyrics to create original songs.
The Master Chorale provides education outreach to approximately 13,000 children each year.
Songs
Lux Aeterna: O Nata LuxLauridsen: Lux Aeterna · 1998
A Good UnderstandingA Good Understanding · 2010
Mid-Winter Songs: Lament for PasiphaëLauridsen: Lux Aeterna · 1998