High School Choir Festival
Friday, April 23, 2004, 9 am to 2 pm
All free tickets for this event have been reserved.
The Master Chorale’s annual High School Choir Festival, featuring amssive 900-voice choir, moves to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday, April 23. Conducted by Music Director Grant Gershon, the day-long festival, features singers from 23 schools across the Southland. Sponsored by the Master Chorale Associates, the festival is one of the largest high school choir gatherings in the nation and is the culmination of a year-long in-school music education program that provides vital training for young singers.
This year’s program includes works by six composers spanning the centuries:
- Lumen ad revelationem by William Byrd
- Der Gang zum Liebchen by Johannes Brahms
- Regina Coeli by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Alleluia by Randall Thompson
- Salmo 150 by Ernani Aguiar
- Good News, The Chariot’s Comin’ arranged by Moses Hogan
Festival sponsors
- City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
- Los Angeles County Arts Commission
- Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
- J.B. and Emily Van Nuys Charities
- Georges and Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation
- The Harold McAlister Charitable Foundation
- Rose Hills Foundation
- Lon V. Smith Foundation
- John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation
Participating schools
- Agoura High School (Agoura Hills)
- Alhambra High School (Alhambra)
- Arroyo High School (El Monte)
- Banning High School (Wilmington)
- Cajon High School (San Bernardino)
- Eagle Rock High School (Los Angeles)
- Fullerton Academy of the Arts (Fullerton)
- Glendale Adventist Academy (Glendale)
- Granada Hills High School (North Hills)
- Mayfield Senior School (Pasadena)
- Mira Costa High School (Manhattan Beach)
- Northview High School (Covina)
- Palos Verdes Peninsula High School (Rolling Hills Estates)
- Paraclete High School (Lancaster)
- San Pedro High School (San Pedro)
- Sierra Vista High School
- Sylmar High School (Sylmar)
- Taft High School (Woodland Hills)
- Thousand Oaks High School (Thousand Oaks)
- Valencia High School (Valencia)
- Venice High School (Los Angeles)
- West Covina High School (West Covina)
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Friday, April 23, 2004, 9 am to 2 pm
Grant
Gershon, conductor
Your ticket
gives you access to all the festival events. Come for
the entire day or any one or more of the day’s events.
7:30am
The Concert Hall Café opens for breakfast.
8:30am
Hall opens for seating
9am
Morning rehearsal with all schools
10:20am
Awards ceremony recognizing participating schools and
directors, plus performances by choirs from:
Thousand Oaks High School
Crown City Chorale from Mayfield Senior School
Mira Costa High School
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Fullerton Academy of the Arts
Noon
Break for lunch, you're on your own
12:30pm
Hall reopens for seating for the 1pm concert.
1pm
Free concert
by the massed choirs and the Master Chorale Chamber
Singers