Preview: World Premiere - A Map of Los Angeles
Watch Grant Gershon, Composer David O, and Mexican Harpist Sergio "Checo" Alonso preview our new commission A Map of Los Angeles, which will be premiered on our next concert, May 4.
- Henryk GÓrecki | Lobgesang (Song of Praise)
- Morten Lauridsen | Nocturnes, with the composer at the piano
- David O | A Map of Los Angeles world premiere
- Esa-Pekka Salonen | Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund
- Steven Stucky | Three New Motets
- Eric Whitacre | When David Heard
- Grant Gershon, conductor
- Guest artist: Sergio “Checo” Alonso, harp
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
Get up to speed on the A-list of today’s most important names in choral composition, most of them from right here in Southern California. Every piece in this tasting menu of hip, eclectic music is a winner and will highlight the Master Chorale in all its virtuosic glory. The Mexican folk harp has its own personality. Nobody plays it better than Mexican-American Sergio “Checo” Alonso. OUr exciting multi-season project continues with A Map of Los Angeles A three-way collaboration among composer David O, master musician Alonso and the Master Chorale — the second installment of L.A. is the World. Hear it first!
Listen Up! pre-concert conversation with Grant Gershon, composer David O, harpist Checo Alonso, and KUSC’s Alan Chapman — Sun, May 4 at 6 pm in BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Free to concert attendees.
Post-concert party with Grant Gershon and special guests Esa-Pekka Salonen and Morten Lauridsen. For Circle of Friends donors of $10,000 or more — Sun, May 4 following the concert. To RSVP, email Patrick Brown or call 213-972-3122.
“Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry’s gift to surround-sound buffs, usually sits waiting for someone to take advantage of its spatial layout. Few have. Grant Gershon is among the exceptions. The piece that struck gold was Thomas Tallis’ remarkable ‘Spem in Alium.’ If the recording industry wants to jump-start its flagging multichannel formats, how about recording the Master Chorale’s Tallis right here in Disney Hall, in 5.1 surround, and marketing it as the ultimate surround demo single?” — Los Angeles Times
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