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LOS ANGELES CHILRDREN’S CHORUS PRESENTS TWO WORLD PREMIERES AT SPRING CONCERT: ETCH BY LACC ALUMNA CAROLINE PARK AND L’AMOUR DE MOY BY PAUL GIBSON June 7, 2008, 7 P.M., at Ambassador Auditorium Choir Also Performs Carmina Burana with Long Beach Symphony Orchestra April 26 at Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Appears in LA Opera’s Production of Puccini’s Tosca May/June at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Concludes Season with Two-Week Tour to China with Stanford University Symphony Orchestra June/July
(PASADENA, CA) February 19, 2008 – Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) expands its role as an international musical ambassador with a slate of high profile performances in Southern California culminating with a two-week tour to China with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Among its local performance highlights, the choir presents two world premieres at its Spring Concert on Saturday, June 7, 2008, 7 P.M. at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena. The 260-member choir celebrates one of its own with the world premiere of Etch by distinguished LACC alumna Caroline Park. The second piece to be premiered, L’Amour de moy, is an arrangement of a traditional French Folk Song written by noted Los Angeles-based composer Paul Gibson. Also on the program is “The Cataract of Mount Lu” from Chen Yi’s 1999 Chinese Poems for Children’s Choruses. LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson conducts the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Mandy Brigham leads the Intermediate Choir and also co-directs the Apprentice Choir with Amy Brehm, who leads the Preparatory Choir as well. The choirs will perform separately and combined. LACC’s last appearance at Ambassador Auditorium – widely recognized for its superlative acoustics – in 2006 drew a sell-out crowd and garnered considerable critical acclaim. This spring, the chorus also joins the Long Beach Symphony for a performance of Carl Orff’s beloved Carmina Burana, conducted by Enrique Arturo Diemecke, on Saturday, April 26, at 8 P.M., at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center Terrace Theater in Long Beach. Additionally, LACC makes its second appearance this season with LA Opera in ten performances of Puccini’s Tosca, conducted by Plácido Domingo and Sir Richard Armstrong and directed by Ian Judge, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Evening performances are May 17, 29 and 31, and June 4, 11, 14, 21, at 7:30 P.M. Matinees are May 21, at 1 P.M., and May 25 and June 8, at 2 P.M. LACC’s 22nd Season concludes with a flourish when the choir makes its first tour to China. They will be joined by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Beijing native Jindong Cai, for a two-week tour entitled, “A Musical Journey to the Olympics,” June 23 through July 6. With the eyes of the world upon China leading up to the Olympics, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus will give several performances with the orchestra in Shanghai and Beijing, and will appear on its own in Hong Kong. Among the repertoire they will perform are Orff’s Carmina Burana and the final movement from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Joy.” The performances in Beijing are a featured part of the China International Youth Arts Festival. Sponsored by China’s Ministry of Culture and the Beijing Olympic Organization, the festival is one of the most prestigious arts events of the planned Beijing Olympic cultural activities. Some of these will be collaborative events with the orchestras and choirs from China’s leading universities. Los Angeles Children’s Chorus was founded in 1986 and is noted throughout the country for its exceptional artistic quality and technical ability. It frequently performs with such leading musical ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and The Pasadena Symphony. Under the artistic direction of Anne Tomlinson, LACC also assists the Los Angeles Opera by providing and training children for opera productions that require children’s chorus or soloists. LACC currently has 260 choristers from 60 communities across Los Angeles in five choirs: Concert, Chamber Singers, Intermediate, Apprentice and Preparatory. The intensive training program includes weekly or twice weekly rehearsals. All children receive individual voice coaching and take comprehensive musicianship classes. LACC has toured Brazil, Great Britain, Italy, Australia, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland as well as many parts of the United States and Canada. It was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary film, “SING!,” which chronicles a year in the life of the choir and is shown periodically on PBS stations nationwide. Open auditions take place each June.
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