Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/21/2021
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
FREE
213-622-7001
In this star-studded episode of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s CLOSE QUARTERS interdisciplinary digital series melding musical and visual arts, guest conductor Grant Gershon leads the LACO-commissioned world premiere of Hyo by 2020-21 Sound Investment Composer Peter S. Shin. Additionally, internationally renowned soprano and native Californian Nicole Cabell makes her LACO debut performing Britten’s Les illuminations, a song cycle set to the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, and Lumee’s Aria from the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera p r i s m by LACO Creative Advisor and Composer in Residence Ellen Reid. Shin’s premiere incorporates animation and drawn portraiture by visual artist Jian Lee as part of a pioneering collaboration in which Shin and Lee are actively working together to conjure up visuals as the piece is written in real time throughout the multi-month artistic process. The Britten and Reid segments, cinematic in nature, spotlight collaborations with stage director George Miller, choreographer Rebecca Steinberg and dancers Layne Paradis Willis and Joe Davis. LACO Creative Director of Digital Content James Darrah provides visual curation. The new episode is available to the public at no cost and can be streamed on demand following its premiere on May 21 on LACO’s YouTube and Facebook live channels.
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