hurricane relief

Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 7 pm at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

LA Master Chorale members are generously donating their services for a special Hurricane Katrina relief concert conducted by Grant Gershon, with all proceeds benifitting the AGMA Emergency Relief Fund, the American Red Cross and Catholic Charities.

“The musicians of the Chorale wanted an opportunity to express through beautiful music their solidarity with those in the Gulf states who are faced with huge challenges and devastating loss,” stated Gershon, who is helping to spearhead the concert, which comes just two weeks after the Chorale opens its 42nd season. “We are enormously grateful to our good friends at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for welcoming us so generously and for providing this remarkable space.”

Featured on the full-length program is Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna (Light Everlasting). Composed in 1997 for the Master Chorale, we premiered his work and performed it on our Grammy-nominated recording. The rapturous and powerfully uplifting, luminous Lux uses texts from Latin sources, each containing a reference to light, a symbol of hope and reassurance. National Public Radio said, “…it IS possible for important contemporary music to speak directly to the heart… Lux Aeterna is a rich, complex, intensely moving piece that people will be listening to for a long time to come.”

Download a guide to the season: chorale-seasonguide0506.pdf, 1.1MB