Run time: 125 minutes (intermission included)
Sat, Oct 15 at 8 P.M.• Royce Hall
LACO’s 2022/23 season opens with Music Director Jaime Martín triumphantly leading the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven’s transcendent Symphony No. 9. A constellation of Southern California vocalists, featuring soloists courtesy of LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist program, round out this powerful and intimate performance of Beethoven’s rousing masterwork.
Contemporary composer Shelley Washington’s new work, Both, an exploration of life beyond the binary, opens the program.
*Both is the first of three of LACO’s Sound Investment commissions of the season, and is part of New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices program, which fosters collaboration and collective action between US orchestras and composers toward racial and gender equity in classical music. The initiative creates co-commissions and the sharing of existing repertoire by women and BIPOC composers, and currently features 45+ partner orchestras and nine composers across the nation.
About the Chorus:
Members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale will serve as section leaders. The other 48 choristers are made up contingents from smaller groups including:
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Gay Men’s Chorus LA
Trans Chorus LA
Vox Femina
USC Chamber Singers
Donald Brinegar Singers
Choral Arts Initiative
Angel City Chorale
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director at Los Angeles Master Chorale, serves as Choir Master.
Questions about tickets or subscriptions for this season? Our box office can be reached Monday through Friday, 12-5pm at 213-221-3920 or at boxoffice@laco.org.
Event Link: https://www.laco.org/events/beethoven9/