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Where there is darkness, we seek to illuminate the spirit with eternal light. In Lux Aeterna, (Eternal Light), the spellbindingly rapturous work premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1997, Lauridsen created a rich and intensely moving work that sparked a renaissance of choral music throughout the world. Paired with this masterpiece will be a world premiere by Billy Childs – one of the world’s most celebrated jazz pianists and composers – reuniting the Chorale and brilliant violin virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers along with the Billy Childs Jazz/Chamber Ensemble and The Lyris Quartet

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Lux: The Music Of Morten Lauridsen & Billy Childs

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Jacaranda opens its final season Planet Schoenberg on September 23 with Hanging Gardens. Schoenberg’s lush Book of the Hanging Gardens is a Late Romantic setting of bittersweet love poems by Stefan George. Its 1910 premiere received a lukewarm reception, but the tides turned in 1920 Paris when critics heard Schoenberg’s genius. Together pianist Steven Vanhauwaert and mezzo soprano Katarzyna Sadej take this forbidden journey into hanging gardens.  Under the direction of Jacaranda's music director Mark Alan Hilt, soprano Julia Metzler and the Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble will perform the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s beloved Fourth Symphony—composed in 1900 and arranged by Schoenberg disciple Erwin Stein in 1920. The always pragmatic Arnold Schoenberg believed such arrangements offered clarity and an affordable way to hear unknown symphonic music, especially by his friend Mahler.

Hanging Gardens

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

The B-minor Mass is a monumental testament to Bach’s artistry; its sheer power astounds us, and its beauty brings us to tears. Bach spent his final years composing and compiling a lifetime’s worth of his most powerful music into this single work which Robert Shaw called “the most remarkable musical allegory of human existence–its pain, aspiration and promises.”

Julia Metzler

Mezzo-soprano

Events

18 - 19 Nov, 2023

Lux: The Music Of Morten Lauridsen & Billy Childs · Los Angeles Master Chorale

Sep 23, 2023

Hanging Gardens · Jacaranda Music

25 - 26 Jun, 2022

Bach's B-minor Mass · Los Angeles Master Chorale

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