L.A. Chamber Orchestra Launches 2022-23 Season

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/16/2022
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Alex Theatre

Category(ies)

• Music

LACO- Music Director Jaime Martín (Photo – Jamie_Pham)

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra launches its 2022-23 with Music Director Jaime Martín conducting the West Coast premiere of Shelley Washington’s Both, a LACO Sound Investment commission.

With back-to-back programs on Saturday, October 15, 8:00 pm, at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Sunday, October 16, 2022, 7:00 pm, at Glendale’s Alex Theatre.

Describing her new work, Shelley says, “It is inspired by the many dualities I have and carry in my life, the ones I see, and the ones I hope to someday achieve. As someone who often lives between both coasts, is attracted to both men and women, is a contributor in both classical music and D.I.Y. post-rock, is both black and white, experiences both extreme mental highs and extreme mental lows, is both a composer and performer, is both a student and a teacher…  We both can be and possess so many seemingly opposing qualities at the same time, which does not diminish any aspect of who we are, but, instead, adds to our cumulative.”

The opening concert concludes with one of the world’s most beloved masterworks, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, “Choral,” which will feature soloists Tiffany Townsend, soprano; Sarah Saturnino, mezzo-soprano; Anthony León, tenor; and Ryan Wolfe, bass baritone, who appear courtesy of the Los Angeles Opera’s Colburn-Stein Young Artist program.

The final movement’s uplifting anthem of hope and humanity, “Ode to Joy”, will be sung by a constellation of voices representing many facets of our city’s rich chorale scene: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gay Man’s Chorus, USC Chamber Singers, Vox Femina, Angel City Chorale, and the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, among others.

Tickets start at $29 and may be purchased online at laco.org or by calling LACO at 213 622 7001 x1. Discounted tickets are also available by phone for seniors 65 years of age and older and for students.