PROGRAM:

• Lauridsen | Mid-Winter Songs
• Marshall | Savage Altars (L.A. Premiere)
• David O | A Map of Los Angeles (Reprise)
• Whitacre | Cloudburst

Part of the West Coast, Left Coast Festival, an LA Phil Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall in November- December 2009, this concert spotlights four Left Coast composers. Mid-Winter Songs by our beloved Morten Lauridsen (premiered by the USC Chamber Singers with Grant Gershon in the chorus), based on Robert Graves’ passionate poetry, is rhythmically and harmonically propulsive. A Map of Los Angeles will be reprised after its stunning success two seasons ago. Originally part of the LA is the World commissioning project, Map celebrates the diversity of Los Angeles in an exuberant, yet intimate, snapshot. Ingram Marshall is a New Yorker who “found his voice” when he came to the West Coast in the 1970s. In Savage Altars he juxtaposes ancient texts for choir, violin, viola and prerecorded sounds to achieve a beautiful and wistful tapestry of sound. Eric Whitacre’s extraordinarily evocative Cloudburst is, in the composer’s words, “a celebration of the unleashed kinetic energy in all things.”

"David O’s much-anticipated 'A Map of Los Angeles' in its world premiere performance was an immediate hit ...the excitement level bubbling over into intermission." – Classical Voice

Programs, artists, dates, prices and availability subject to change.

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