2008-2009 Los Angeles Master Chorale

La Koro Sutro + Chinary Ung

Sunday, November 9, 2008

PROGRAM:

  • Lou Harrison | La Koro Sutro
  • Chinary Ung | Spiral XII: “Space Between Heaven and Earth”
    • PART I: Song Offerings
    • PART II: Prelude - Space Between Heaven and Earth
    • World Premiere

A MINUTE WITH THE MAESTRO!

Listen to our Music Director Grant Gershon talk a little about this upcoming concert

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This season’s most important and adventurous concert is an exotic union of East and West, as two Eastern-influenced works of California-based composers are brought to colorful life by Chorale and company. Sung in Esperanto, Lou Harrison’s La Koro Sutro (“The Heart Sutra”) features 62 singers and an American gamelan ensemble performing this most profound of Buddhist sutras. For the world premiere of award-winning composer Chinary Ung’s latest work, the stage comes alive when the Chorale is joined by a fusion of traditional Cambodian and Western instrumentalists and a dance troupe led by legendary Cambodian choreographer and dancer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Experience an expressive and evocative synthesis of musical cultures that can happen only in L.A.

  • LA WORLD
  • MAPFUND
The World Premiere of Spiral XII: Space Between Heaven and Earth, is the third installment of LA is the World, a multi-year commissioning project made possible, in part, by grants from The James Irvine Foundation, the Durfee Foundation, the Multi-Arts Production Fund (a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation), the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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  • QUICK CONCERT FACTS
    • Start Time: 7:00 PM
    • Disney Hall Box Office Opens: 5:00 PM
    • Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes with intermission
    • Chorale: 62 singers with solo instrumentalists, including the American gamelan players, and dancers

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