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FAURE'S REQUIEM: REMEMBRANCE AND REBIRTH
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03/21/2010
(Sunday)
6817 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA. 90028
323.960.4349
Cost: $10
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A requiem, defined as a mass for the dead, is not something most would generally expect to be a cheery undertaking. But when the 19th century composer and organist Gabriel Fauré was asked what motivated him to write his Requiem, his best known large work, Fauré replied, “My Requiem was composed for nothing…for fun, if I may be permitted to say so!”
On Sunday, March 21, audiences will have an opportunity to decide for themselves whether Fauré, the foremost French composer of his generation, succeeded in his goal to “escape from what is thought right and proper…” when the Hollywood Master Chorale presents Fauré’s Requiem: Remembrance and Rebirth at 7 p.m. at the Hollywood United Methodist Church in Hollywood.
“The Requiem is a deeply compelling and transformative work,” says Artistic Director and conductor Jeffrey Bernstein. “Its sheer beauty is irresistible, and in it Fauré explores a great range of emotion – from sorrow and lament to comfort and peace. At the end, Fauré presents a shockingly vivid depiction of Heaven itself and how grief is left behind there. This emotional journey is one reason Fauré's Requiem is a perennial favorite among lovers of choral music.”
“This Mass has been described as a ‘lullaby’ of death,” adds Board President Lyndia Lowy. “Fauré himself saw death as a happy deliverance rather than as something painful and sad. The Requiem seemed the perfect work for us to perform as a celebration of the re-birth of Spring, after a long Winter.”
Soloists joining the Hollywood Master Chorale include soprano Lauren Buckley and baritone Scott Graff. Organist Edward Murray will perform as well.
Preceding the Fauré Requiem are several short works that also explore the themes of death and transcendence, including Words to Be Spoken – a poem by Archibald MacLeish that was set to music by Ross Lee Finney in 1946.
“These a cappella pieces each treat the subject of mourning in its own way, preparing the audience for Fauré's redemption,” Bernstein explains.
For this performance, the Chorale has made a deliberate decision to slash ticket prices by 50%, from $20 to $10. “This reflects our heightened commitment to reaching out to the community and offering exceptional music at a very affordable cost,” says Lowy. “Times are tough for so many people right now. We didn’t want them to feel like they had to pass up an opportunity to hear a live performance of a magnificent work like Fauré’s Requiem because they couldn’t afford it.”
To purchase tickets, visit www.tix.com or the Hollywood Master Chorale’s website, www.hollywoodmasterchorale.org. The Hollywood United Methodist Church is located at 6817 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, California. For more information, visit the Chorale’s website, email hollywoodmasterchorale@gmail.com or call 323.960.4349.
ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD MASTER CHORALE
The Hollywood Master Chorale (HMC) currently celebrates its 15th season of outstanding music. Founded in 1995, the Hollywood Master Chorale is a non-profit vocal organization comprised of men and women who share a passion for the art of choral music and a dedication to service in their community. The volunteer Chorale is known for its ability to perform a diverse repertoire, including Baroque, Classical and contemporary music.
The HMC has also been featured at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Torrance Invitational Song Festival, various summer concert series and mayoral installations.
The Chorale enjoys performing with guest musicians such as the Calabasas Baroque Orchestra, the California State University Long Beach Brass and Percussion Ensemble, the Mark Twain Ringers, the Ebell Chorale and the Hollywood Master Chorale Orchestra. Guests including Julia Migenes and soloists from the Los Angeles and San Francisco Opera Companies have also contributed to captivating Hollywood Master Chorale performances.
Of the HMC, David R. Sears of the Grammy Foundation wrote, “[The ensemble] is comfortable in multiple genres…They always provide their audience with an enjoyable experience. Their sheer joy of singing is a joy to behold.”
Community outreach is one of the cornerstones of the Hollywood Master Chorale. The HMC focuses on three areas of service: the disabled community, youth and arts education and cultural diversity.
ABOUT THE SOLOISTS
Lauren Buckley, soprano
Lauren Buckley, a native of New Orleans, LA, has been singing professionally in the Los Angeles area for 4 years. She is pursuing her DMA in Choral Conducting from USC and has a special emphasis in Early Music Vocal Performance. She sings regularly with the USC Chamber Singers, the USC Collegium and the De Angelis Vocal Ensemble and has been a featured soloist with the USC Chamber Singers, the USC Thornton Orchestra and the Choral Society of Southern California. She has also premiered solo works for composers Frank Ticheli and Nick Strimple. She teaches piano and voice at Cornerstone Music Conservatory and also maintains a private voice studio. In addition to her vocal engagements, Lauren acts as assistant conductor of the Pasadena Master Chorale and teaches Choral Conducting at USC.
Scott Graff, Baritone
Scott Graff, bass/baritone, has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and with numerous ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Musica Angelica, Catacoustic Consort, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. Mr. Graff has appeared with Long Beach Opera in a number of productions: Semele by Georg Frediric Handel, Seven Small Operas (performed in a staged version of Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigal Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amatai) , Il Turco in Italia and Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini, Volo di Notte by Luigi Dallapiccola, and From the House of the Dead, by Leoš Janáček. He originated the roles of Lewis and Father Tree in a new opera entitled Hell, written by Los Angeles composer Michael Webster with libretto by Eileen Myles. Hell was performed in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tijuana.
Mr. Graff is also an active choral singer in the greater Los Angeles area— he is in his ninth season with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and he sings regularly with the Los Angeles Chamber Singers, whose recording Padilla: Sun of Justice was awarded the 2007 Grammy for Best Small Ensemble recording. He sings regularly with Millennium Consort, under the direction of Martin Neary, which most recently performed a concert of American and English choral music at Pomona College. He is also a member of The Concord Ensemble, a versatile consort of mixed and equal voices based in Los Angeles performing early and new music (www.concordensemble.com). The Concord Ensemble had the opportunity to perform with Sting, backing him up on his recent Los Angeles performances of music from his album of John Dowland lute songs, Songs from the Labrynth. Concord headlined the Berkeley Early Music Festival in June 2008, capping off a season which saw the mixed configuration of the ensemble perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung as part of the Jacaranda concert series in Santa Monica, which critic Alan Rich characterized as a “delightful hippie picnic.”
When not driving between engagements, Mr. Graff resides in Long Beach, California with his wife Alison, a conductor and soprano.
ABOUT EDWARD MURRAY
Edward Murray is Director of Music and Organist at historic Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. He holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Southern Methodist University and has done advanced work at the University of Southern California. He has been a prize-winner in numerous important competitions, notably the American Guild of Organist National Organ Playing Competition, the Concours Suisse de l’orgue and the international competition in Geneva. Well-known in the Southland as a harpsichordist, he played more than ten seasons with the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra and has performed with Musica Angelica, American Bach Soloists, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, and others. He has also championed new music for organ, giving local and regional premieres of works by Petr Eben, Daniel Pinkham, Libby Larsen, George Crumb, David Diamond and others, including Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Livre du Saint Sacrement. He gave the southern California premiere of Stephen Paulus’s first Organ Concerto before a capacity crowd in San Diego’s Balboa Park. He has served on the adjunct faculties of California State University at Los Angeles, Occidental College and U.S.C. Mr. Murray was the accompanist of the West Hollywood Chorale for a few seasons in the 90s and is pleased to work again with Jeffrey Bernstein with whom he worked for several seasons at Occidental College and with the Foothill Master Chorale.
ABOUT JEFFREY BERNSTEIN
The Hollywood Master Chorale is proud to introduce JEFFREY BERNSTEIN as its new Artistic Director! Mr. Bernstein also serves as Artistic Director of the Pasadena Master Chorale and Assistant Conductor of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. For eleven years (1997-2008) Bernstein was director of choral music at Occidental College, where he conducted the acclaimed Occidental Glee Club. During his tenure the Glee Club celebrated its centennial, undertook three international and eleven domestic tours, and gave an invitational performance at the 2006 Western Division convention of the American Choral Directors Association. Prior to his work at Occidental, Bernstein was Associate Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University where he conducted the 200-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and the world-famous Harvard Glee Club.
Bernstein has appeared as a frequent guest conductor in Romania, with the Transylvanian State Philharmonic Chorus in Cluj-Napoca, and with the State Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in Arad. In addition he has conducted the Naples Philharmonic in Florida and over a dozen concerts on the Harvard Business School’s endowed concert series, including a 2007 performance of Bach’s St. John Passion featuring baritone Sanford Sylvan. Bernstein’s vocal arrangements were featured in the 2002 film “Slackers”, and his concert compositions have been premiered in Italy, Romania, and throughout the United States. Also active as a singer, Bernstein has sung with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and is a founding member of The Martini Project, a quartet of men’s voices specializing in music of the 15th, 16th and 21st centuries.
Bernstein grew up in New England and holds music degrees from Harvard, Yale and UCLA. He has studied composition with Peter Lieberson, Jacob Druckman, Martin Bresnick, David Lefkowitz and Roger Bourland and conducting with Jorge Mester, Jameson Marvin and Marguerite Brooks. A recent review in Naples, Florida called Bernstein “a rising star in this country” and prognosticated “if this group is any indication of Bernstein’s ability to mold a group into a unified whole, the future bodes well for him.”
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