KUSC and LA Master Chorale Announce Two-Year Broadcast Partnership Extension

The Los Angeles Master Chorale – the renowned resident choir of Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Artistic Director Grant Gershon – and KUSC (91.5 FM) – the largest and most listened to classical public radio station in the country – have announced they are extending their broadcast partnership for two seasons, with 14 of the acclaimed choir’s Disney Hall concerts from the 2012|13, 2013|14 and 2014|15 seasons airing in two seven-week series, entitled “KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night: The LA Master Chorale in Concert.”  The first series of seven Sunday evening broadcasts, hosted by KUSC’s Alan Chapman, launches December 21, 2014, and runs through February 1, 2015.  The second series runs December 2015 – January 2016.  The two-hour weekly radio program, which runs from 7-9 PM, showcases the choir’s versatility and wide-ranging repertoire.  KUSC broadcasts of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

 

Gershon, who personally selected the slate of concerts to be featured on the broadcast, states, “We greatly value our relationship with KUSC, the country’s leading classical music radio station, which reaches more than 800,000 listeners.  Taking our music outside our concert hall and onto KUSC’s airwaves is a key component of the Chorale’s ongoing ‘on the stage, online and on the air’ initiative to expand its reach in the community and beyond.”

 

The first series opens December 21, 2014, 7 pm, with a broadcast of the Chorale’s holiday concert from last season, with Gershon conducting four seasonal classics – Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Stephen Paulus’s Christmas Dances, and selections from Nine Carols for Men’s Voices arranged by Vaughan Williams.  (A full list of concerts to be broadcast this season is included below.)

 

For information on the Los Angeles Master Chorale broadcast series on KUSC, please visit www.KUSC.org, or www.LAMC.org.

                                                                       

 

 

 

 

ARR. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                  selections from Nine Carols For Male Voices

OTTORINO RESPIGHI                                     Lauda per la Natività del Signore (Laud to the Nativity)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN                                       A Ceremony of Carols

STEPHEN PAULUS                                          Christmas Dances

 

 

GERALD FINZI                                                 God Is Gone Up
NICO MUHLY                                                   Bright Mass with Canons
ARVO PÄRT                                                     The Beatitudes

PAUL MEALOR                                                Ubi caritas
HUBERT PARRY                                              I Was Glad

NICO MUHLY                                                   A Good Understanding [WEST COAST PREMIERE]
                                                                                    with special guest Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
DAVID WILLCOCKS                                         Psalm 150
                                                                                     performed by Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
                                                                                    conducted by LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson
TARIK O’REGAN                                              Dorchester Canticles

KURT WEILL                                                    Kiddush

JUDITH WEIR                                                  Ascending Into Heaven [WEST COAST PREMIERE]     

 

GI– USEPPE VERDI                                            Te Deum

CARL ORFF                                                     Carmina Burana

                                                                                    with special guest Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
 

TRIBUTE TO MORTEN LAURIDSEN                                       
                                                                        Mid-Winter Songs
                                                                        Ave Dulcissima Maria
                                                                        Canticle/O Vos Omnes
                                                                        Nocturnes
                                                                                    accompanied by Morten Lauridsen
                                                                        Madrigali: Six ‘Fire Songs’ on Italian Renaissance Poems
                                                                        Les Chansons des Roses
                                                                                    accompanied by Morten Lauridsen
                                                                        O Magnum Mysterium
                                                                        ENCORE: Prayer set to poetry by Dana Gioia

 

 

PETER LIEBERSON                                         The World in Flower (West Coast Premiere)
JOHANNES BRAHMS                                       Ein Deutsches Requiem

 

 

J.S. BACH                                                        Mass in B minor, BWV 232

 

 

SAMUEL BARBER                                            Sure on this Shining Night

ABBIE BETINIS                                                Songs of Smaller Creatures

CHARLES IVES                                                General William Booth Enters Into Heaven

SHAWN KIRCHNER                                         Plath Songs (World Premiere)

ELLIOTT CARTER                                           Tarantella

SAMUEL BARBER                                            Agnus Dei

                                                                                    Lesley Leighton, conductor

ERIC WHITACRE                                             Three Songs of Faith

WILLIAM DAWSON                                          Ain’-a That Good News

ARR. JESTER HAIRSTON                                Hold On!

ARR. ANDRÉ THOMAS                                                Keep Your Lamps!

ARR. MOSES HOGAN                                      The Battle of Jericho