Los Angeles Children's Chorus Winter Concert To Feature Classical Works

Los AngeLes Children's Chorus (LACC) - acclaimed for its agile and angelic Bel Canto sound - presents its popular Winter Concert, featuring sublime classical and holiday music, on two consecutive Sundays, December 4 and 11, 2016, 7 pm, at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. The eclectic program illuminates works by Vivaldi, Holst, Britten and Bach, composers who greatly impacted and expanded children's choral repertoire and taught and conducted children themselves.

The chorus performs Bach's Schaffe koennen (Sheep May Safely Graze); Et exultavit from Vivaldi's Magnificat; Deo Gracias from Britten's beloved Ceremony of Carols; and Hymn to the Waters and Hymn to the Dawn from Holst's Rig Veda, a collection of hymns inspired by the composer's interest in Sanskrit and Hindu religion and poetry.

Also featured are Ko Matsushito's Dona Nobis Pacem, which LACC performed on its tour to Japan last summer; Handel's Then Will I Jehovah's Praise and Art Thou Troubled; the Bolivian Lullaby Duermete, Mi Corzason; Canto de Pilon, a traditional Venezuelan song arranged by Cristian Grases; Brahms' Der Gang zum Liebchen; Mendelssohn's Abendlied; and the African folksong Thula Klizeo. Adding holiday cheer to the program are the traditional French carol Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella; Edmund Walters' The Cuckoo Carol; S'vivon, a traditional Chanukah song; the English carol Masters in this Hall; and This Christmastide by British Academy Award-winning composer Donald Fraser.

LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson conducts the chorus's Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Associate Artistic Director Mandy Brigham leads the Intermediate Choir, Diana Landis leads the Apprentice Choir, and Dr. Steven Kronauer conducts the Young Men's Ensemble. The choirs perform separately and combined.

LACC serves more than 400 children ages 6 to 18 from 50 communities across Los Angeles. In demand for its artistic excellence, LACC performs with such leading organizations as LA Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and POPS, Calder Quartet and Jacaranda. LACC, recipient of Chorus America's 2014 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the nation's highest choral honor, shares its artistry around the globe, touring to North and South America, Africa, China, Cuba, Australia, Japan and Europe. The chorus is also the subject of a trilogy of documentaries by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Freida Mock, has performed with John Mayer on NBC's "The Tonight Show," and was featured on PBS's "Great Performances," BBC Radio and Public Radio International, among other credits.

Tickets to LACC's Winter Concert $26, $38 and $44; children 17 and under are half price. For tickets and information, visit www.lachildrenschorus.org or call (626) 793-4231. Pasadena Presbyterian Church is located at 585 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101.

Tickets/Info:
$26, $38, $44; (half-price for students 17 and under)
(626) 793-4231
www.lachildrenschorus.org

(Photo Credit: LACC)

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