The Wallis, ASCAP & DreamWorks Animation Award Scholarships to Six Student Songwriters
The three-day 2016 ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshop in Partnership with DreamWorks Animation and The Wallis concluded tonight with a special scholarship presentation by ASCAP Workshop Artistic Director and Tony, Oscar and Grammy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz. Six recipients - Mina Bloom, Rachel Gilbert, Tristan McIntyre, Dylan Schifrin, Bailey Share-Aizic and Juan Solis - were invited onto the stage of the Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis to receive a combined $5,000 in scholarship funds to be applied to furthering their studies in musical theater and songwriting.
'THE WOMAN AT THE WINDOW' Oratorio, About Triangle Factory Fire, Premieres in LA
The Woman at the Window: The Triangle Factory Fire - a powerful original oratorio with music and lyrics by 85 high school choir students from downtown Los Angeles' Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts based on the horrific 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City in which 146 garment workers, mostly young girls from immigrant families, perished in the worst workplace tragedy in American history until the Twin Towers fell on 9/11 - is being premiered by the students in conjunction with the Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Singers in free performances today, February 4, at noon, and Friday, February 5, 2016, at 7 pm, at the high school's main auditorium.
'THE WOMAN AT THE WINDOW' Oratorio, About Triangle Factory Fire, to Premiere in LA
The Woman at the Window: The Triangle Factory Fire - a powerful original oratorio with music and lyrics by 85 high school choir students from downtown Los Angeles' Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts based on the horrific 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City in which 146 garment workers, mostly young girls from immigrant families, perished in the worst workplace tragedy in American history until the Twin Towers fell on 9/11 - is being premiered by the students in conjunction with the Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Singers in free performances on Thursday, February 4, at noon, and Friday, February 5, 2016, at 7 pm, at the high school's main auditorium.
Anne Frank Oratorio to Debut Through LA Master Chorale this Month
The Passion of Anne Frank, a haunting, major, new oratorio based on the Diary of Anne Frank, with music and lyrics composed by 125 high school students from downtown Los Angeles' Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, is being premiered by the students in conjunction with the Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Singers, professional instrumentalists, and student soloists in free matinee and evening performances on Thursday, January 22, at noon, and Friday, January 23, at 7 pm, at the high school's main auditorium.
Major Oratorio Composed by High School Students to Premiere 2/20-21 in LA
Frankenstein: Of Monsters and Men, a major new oratorio with powerful themes of rejection, misunderstanding and regret composed by 100 high school students from downtown Los Angeles' Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts and based on Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel, is being premiere by the students in conjunction with the Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Singers, instrumentalists and soloists in free matinee and evening performances on Thursday, February 20, 2014, at noon, and Friday, February 21, and 7 pm, at the high school's main auditorium. (Ample free on-site parking is available.) Compelling arias and rousing choruses tell the dark gothic tale of the eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque monster during a laboratory experiment, and then, horrified by the result, regrets giving life to the creature he just made. The students composed the melodies and lyrics for the oratorio, which is told in several musical movements. The performances are the culmination of the Los Angeles Master Chorale's award-winning 'Voices Within' artists-in-residence program, designed to foster collaboration among students to create and perform their own original choral works.
