Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton
Arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson
Performed by Pacific Chorale
Robert Istad, Artistic Director
Katie Martini, soprano soloist
Joseph Loi, flutist
Denean R. Dyson
Rebecca Hasquet
Eleen Hsu-Wentlandt
Vocal Trio
Produced by Arts Laureate
Produced by Jeff Dolen Productions
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning is the second installment of Pacific Chorale’s Summer 2021 virtual production, The Wayfaring Project. Centering around Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude, The Wayfaring Project takes us on a journey that acknowledges and honors the profound dislocation and uncertainty most of us have faced during the past year, while looking ahead to the future with hope and assurance that we are at last “going home.” The complete concert will receive its world premiere screening on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza at Segerstrom Center for the Arts August 21, 2021, and will thereafter be available online to audiences worldwide. Reserve your seats now!
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The words of the American presidents carved into the famous monument—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln—provide the basis for this unusual and distinctive cantata, performed by Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony and conducted by Carl St. Clair.
Pacific Chorale portrays the 19th-century mystic himself in Philip Glass’s oratorio, commissioned by Pacific Symphony and premiered at the opening of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, featuring soloists Janice Chandler Eteme, I-Chin Feinblatt, Nicholas Preston, Christòpheren Nomura, and Kevin Deas, conducted by Carl St.Clair.
Light of a Clear Blue Morning Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton Arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson Performed by Pacific Chorale Robert Istad, Artistic Director Katie Martini, soprano soloist Joseph Loi, flutist Denean R. Dyson Rebecca Hasquet Eleen Hsu-Wentlandt Vocal Trio Produced by Arts Laureate Produced by Jeff Dolen Productions Take a
Continue ReadingGustav Mahler’s mighty Eighth Symphony can be heard in a revelatory interpretation from Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, National Children’s Chorus, and a masterful assembly of solo voices, recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a landmark performance that brought the LA Phil’s centennial season
Continue ReadingRobert Istad conducts Pacific Chorale and Salastina in choral music by Tarik O’Regan. This recording traces Tarik’s distinctive development as a composer. We present never-recorded works from twenty years ago alongside new compositions written for this project. Tarik’s ingenuity speaks definitively throughout, and I believe our album serves as a testament to his exceptional voice.
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Championed by pianist Jeffrey Biegel, who performs here with Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony, Bolcom’s Prometheus sets the poetry of Lord Byron for piano, chorus, and orchestra. Carl St.Clair conducts.
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A lonely woman named Nora turns on her radio one evening and discovers something magical in composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s whimsical choral opera, co-commissioned and premiered by Pacific Chorale. The recording also features acclaimed mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Heggie’s settings of texts by Emily Dickinson and Amy Lowell.
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Music by American composers, including Dale Warland, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Norman Dello Joio and John Muehleisen, plus the premiere recordings of three winning selections from Pacific Chorale’s Young Composers Competition.
Continue Reading
Drawing on sacred texts in Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi, Persian American composer Danielpour’s oratorio illustrates a transition through forgiveness from a state of war and destruction into one of peace. Featuring soprano Hila Plitmann, with Carl St. Clair conducting.
Continue Reading
Composer Frank Ticheli has enjoyed a long relationship with both Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony. The Shore (Symphony No. 3), on poetry by David St. John, is his first choral-orchestral work, commissioned by Pacific Chorale and conducted by John Alexander.
Continue Reading
The words of the American presidents carved into the famous monument—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln—provide the basis for this unusual and distinctive cantata, performed by Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony and conducted by Carl St. Clair.
Continue ReadingPacific Chorale portrays the 19th-century mystic himself in Philip Glass’s oratorio, commissioned by Pacific Symphony and premiered at the opening of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, featuring soloists Janice Chandler Eteme, I-Chin Feinblatt, Nicholas Preston, Christòpheren Nomura, and Kevin Deas, conducted by Carl St.Clair.
Continue Reading