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Biography
unreferenced|date=August 2010The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional Choir|chorus in Los Angeles, California . 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 , who is now Music Director Emeritus.
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.Citation needed|date=June 2011 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 Esa-Pekka Salonen , Zubin Mehta , Andre Previn , Pierre Boulez , Michael Tilson Thomas and Roger Norrington , among many others. Notable guest conductors have included Robert Shaw (conductor)|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.
Music directors
Grant Gershon , 2001–present
Paul Salamunovich , 1991–2001
John Currie, 1985–1991
Roger Wagner , 1964–1984
Recordings
With music directors conducting
The Master Chorale has recorded four CDs under Grant Gershon:
A Good Understanding by Nico Muhly (Decca)
Daniel Variations by Steve Reich ( Nonesuch Records )
You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich ( Nonesuch Records )
Philip Glass ’ Itaipu (composition)|Itaipu and the world premiere recording of Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund by Esa-Pekka Salonen (RCM)
The Master Chorale released three CDs under the baton of Paul Salamunovich:
The Grammy -nominated Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen (also featuring other Lauridsen works: Les Chansons des Roses , Ave Maria , Mid-Winter Songs , and O Magnum Mysterium ) (RCM)
Dominic Argento 's Te Deum and Missa "Cum Jubilo" by Maurice Duruflé (with Rodney Gilfry as baritone soloist and Frederick Swann on organ (RCM)
* Rodgers & Hammerstein , The King & I , John Mauceri conducting (Phillips Classics)
* Schoenberg / Ravel , Earth Day , John Mauceri conducting (Phillips Classics)
* Hollywood Nightmares (various composers), John Mauceri conducting (Phillips Classics)
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 , Dracula (1992 film)|Bram Stoker's Dracula , The Sum of All Fears (film)|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.
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.
External links
http://www.lamc.org/ Official website
http://www.laphil.com/music/artist_detail.cfm? id=90 Information on Los Angeles Philharmonic website
Information on Los Angeles Music Center Website http://www.musiccenter.org/
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