Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/16/2022
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Alex Theatre
Category(ies)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (Photo – laco.org)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) launches its 2022-23 with Music Director Jaime Martín conducting the West Coast premiere of Shelley Washington’s Both, a LACO Sound Investment commission.
The program also includes one of the world’s most beloved masterworks, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, “Choral,” which features a chorus comprised of singers from a constellation of Southland choirs joining together as one communal voice to sing the final movement’s uplifting anthem of hope and humanity, “Ode to Joy.”
Washington’s profoundly-felt music, “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post), interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation and social justice. She was LACO’s 2021-22 Sound Investment Composer. Sound Investment is a groundbreaking program LACO established in 2001 that engages audience members in developing new classical works. Joining Sound Investment members in sponsoring Washington’s commission is New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices, a new program that fosters collaboration and collective action toward equitable representation of composers in classical music. There are a total of five partnering orchestras involved in this commission, including LACO, the Aspen Music Festival and School, which premiered Both in July 2022, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony, each of which will subsequently present regional premieres of the work.
For tickets ($29-$133) and information, please visit www.laco.org or call (213)-622-7001 x1.
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