Los Angeles Master Chorale to Present Christmas Choral Concerts
The Los Angeles Master Chorale will perform five festive Christmas concerts in Walt Disney Concert Hall in December. The choral programs are a much-loved Los Angeles holiday tradition and these concerts frequently sell out.
A blend of favorite Christmas carols, songs, and popular classical compositions, the series of concerts also includes a Messiah Sing-Along concert which allows the audience to sing as the choir. Tickets to all concerts start at $29 and are available now online from lamasterchorale.org, by calling the Box Office at 213-972-7282, or in person from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion box office, Monday -Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.
FESTIVAL OF CAROLS WITH Eric Whitacre
Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 2 pm
Saturday, December 9, 2017 - 2 pm
Los Angeles Master Chorale's Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Eric Whitacre will conduct this year's perennially popular Festival of Carols concerts that feature traditional favorites alongside new arrangements of popular carols and songs. This year's concerts will include the premiere of a new 20-minute Christmas-themed work composed by Whitacre, The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Clausbased on the Ogden Nash poem. Three other Whitacre works - Glow, Lux Aurumque and little tree - feature in the concerts, as do arrangements by LA Master Chorale tenor and former Composer-in-Residence, Shawn Kirchner, that have become firm audience favorites. The 100 members of the Master Chorale will be joined by special guests from the National Children's Choir for these performances.
PROGRAM:
Caroling, Caroling
Carol of the Bells
Mykola Leontovych (arr. Peter J. Wilhousky)
Glow
Joy to the World
Lowell Mason (arr. Roger Wagner)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Sing-Along)
John Frederick Coots & Haven Gillespie
Christmas Time is Here
Lee Mendelson & Vince Gauraldi
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
INTERMISSION
We Need a Little Christmas
Jerry Herman (arr. Jerry Rubino)
Lux Aurumque
O Christmas Tree
arr. Ken Malucelli & Deke Sharon
little tree
Silent Night
Franz Gruber (arr. Shawn Kirchner)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Sing-Along)
Johnny Marks
Brightest and Best
Southern Harmony (arr. Shawn Kirchner)
O Holy Night
Adolphe Adam (arr. John Rutter)
Wonderful Counselor
Eric Whitacre, conductor
100 singers
National Children's Choir; Luke McEndarfer, Artistic Director
Lisa Edwards, piano
John West, organ
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