LOS ANGELES CHAMBER SINGERS & CAPPELLA PETER RUTENBERG • MUSIC DIRECTOR
Twentieth Anniversary Season
"Radiantly beautiful...warm and expressive." -Southern California Early Music News "A precision instrument...with big-voiced power, rhythmic security, and tonal beauty... A top-notch ensemble." - Early Music America "Precise singing, well-rounded sound and clear diction." -Pasadena Independent "An exhilarating evening of choral music" with "a radiant, electrifying sound." -Beverly Hills Outlook "A spirited and sensitive ensemble" with "cohesive... intelligent programming." -Los Angeles Times "Your performance of my Madrigali was a triumph - a tour de force of artistry at the highest level!" -Morten Lauridsen
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2009 - 2010
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER SINGERS, INC., IN ASSOCIATION WITH VIBIANA, ST. CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND ONEONTA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, PRESENTS
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER SINGERS' CAPPELLA Peter Rutenberg • Conductor
LAUREN AZELTINE • NICOLE BAKER • ANDREW BROWN • KAREN HOGLE BROWN MATTHEW BROWN • COREY CARLETON • PABLO CORÁ • CLAIRE FEDORUK AYANA HAVIV • SUSAN JUDY • ELIZABETH LADIZINSKY • EDWARD LEVY TIMOTHY MORTON • ALICE KIRWAN MURRAY • AGNIESZKA LEJMAN NORRIS ROBERT SHACKLETT • FLETCHER SHERIDAN • MARK SUMNER
THE 20th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Join us for the spectacular season finale — a polychoral extravaganza celebrating the ensemble's first two decades. Lassus's brilliant Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera (a parody mass on a now-lost model) is the centerpiece, with three motets on the theme of Pentecost by Lassus, Tallis and Gabrieli. In a brief trip down memory lane, we recall a selection of madrigals originally sung on our Debut Concert, which took place on 20 May 1990. Lassus wrote over 100 settings of the Magnificat during his life, and one of our favorites is the exquisitely-structured Magnificat Octavi Toni first performed on Cappella's Debut Concert in April 1993. We proudly spotlight our abundance of sensational singers in several solo ensembles throughout the program as well.
ORLANDUS LASSUS | MISSA BELL' AMFITRIT' ALTERA a 8; MAGNIFICAT OCTAVI TONI a 6; HODIE COMPLETI SUNT a 6 GIOVANNI GABRIELI | HODIE COMPLETI SUNT a 8 THOMAS TALLIS | LOQUEBANTUR VARIIS LINGUIS a 7 ORLANDO GIBBONS | O CLAP YOUR HANDS a 8 Plus, an electrifying assemblage of Elizabethan Madrigals and a special grand finale! MORLEY: Fire, fire my heart | VAUTOR: Sweet Suffolk Owl | WEELKES: Hark, all ye lovely saints above & We shepherds sing | RUTENBERG: We shepherds sing (after Weelkes)
WEDNESDAY | 19 MAY 2010 | 7:30 PM VIBIANA 210 SOUTH MAIN STREET | HISTORIC DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
FRIDAY | 21 MAY 2010 | 8:00 PM ST. CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1818 MONTEREY BOULEVARD | HERMOSA BEACH
SATURDAY | 22 MAY 2010 | 8:00 PM ONEONTA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 1515 GARFIELD AVENUE | SOUTH PASADENA
The 2009-2010 Season of Los Angeles Chamber Singers is made possible in part with funding from the California Arts Council, a state agency, the National Endowment for the arts, a federal agency, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Gilmore Associates and Weintraub Financial Services, Inc., City National Bank, and, LACS Associates.
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CAPPELLA WINS GRAMMY®
Los Angeles Chamber Singers' Cappella Peter Rutenberg • Conductor won the 2006 Grammy® Award in Best Small Ensemble Performance for PADILLA • SUN OF JUSTICE (RCM 12006)
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All sections are fully staffed for the current season and no auditions are being conducted at this time. Please check back from time to time to see if audition dates have been announced. It is not necessary to inquire individually and there is no waiting list. We are an equal-opportunity employer and contractor, and welcome auditions by highly qualified and experienced professional singers.
USUAL AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants for CHAMBER SINGERS (24-voice mixed chorus): Two art songs from any period, one in English and one in a foreign language; range test; graded sight-singing test; soloist capability; music resume; interview. Applicants for CAPPELLA (12 to 18-voice early music ensemble) must also demonstrate knowledge of early music and period vocal style and will be asked to sing a third art song from the Renaissance or Baroque Eras, as well as to sightread a choral selection from those periods. Competition for openings, when available, is extremely high. Openings are very limited. Only the most qualified should consider applying. All applicants will be subject to an initial phone interview; only qualified applicants will be advanced to a sung audition.
MANY THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS FUNDERS PAST AND PRESENT!
National Endowment for the Arts California Arts Council
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles County Arts Commission The Aaron Copland Fund for Music City National Bank
Arques Charitable Trust Simcha Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund LACS Associates
We are proud to acknowledge ten years of previous support from the California Arts Council and hope that all Californians will join us in working for the reinstatement of full funding to this agency.
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