KUSC and LA Master Chorale Announce Two-Year Broadcast Partnership Extension

The Los Angeles Master Chorale – the renowned resident choir of Walt Disney Concert Hall led by Artistic Director Grant Gershon – and KUSC (91.5 FM) – the largest and most listened to classical public radio station in the country – have announced they are extending their broadcast partnership for two seasons, with 14 of the acclaimed choir’s Disney Hall concerts from the 2012|13, 2013|14 and 2014|15 seasons airing in two seven-week series, entitled "KUSC's SoCal Sunday Night: The LA Master Chorale in Concert.” The first series of seven Sunday evening broadcasts, hosted by KUSC’s Alan Chapman, launches December 21, 2014, and runs through February 1, 2015. The second series runs December 2015 – January 2016. The two-hour weekly radio program, which runs from 7-9 PM, showcases the choir’s versatility and wide-ranging repertoire. KUSC broadcasts of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

Gershon, who personally selected the slate of concerts to be featured on the broadcast, states, “We greatly value our relationship with KUSC, the country’s leading classical music radio station, which reaches more than 800,000 listeners. Taking our music outside our concert hall and onto KUSC’s airwaves is a key component of the Chorale’s ongoing ‘on the stage, online and on the air’ initiative to expand its reach in the community and beyond.”

The first series opens December 21, 2014, 7 pm, with a broadcast of the Chorale’s holiday concert from last season, with Gershon conducting four seasonal classics – Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Stephen Paulus’s Christmas Dances, and selections from Nine Carols for Men’s Voices arranged by Vaughan Williams. (A full list of concerts to be broadcast this season is included below.)

For information on the Los Angeles Master Chorale broadcast series on KUSC, please visit www.KUSC.org, or www.LAMC.org.



KUSC’S SOCAL SUNDAY NIGHT: THE LA MASTER CHORALE IN CONCERT 2014-15 BROADCAST SCHEDULE

Sunday, December 21, 2014, 7 pm ARR. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS selections from Nine Carols For Male Voices OTTORINO RESPIGHI Lauda per la Natività del Signore (Laud to the Nativity) BENJAMIN BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols STEPHEN PAULUS Christmas Dances (Performed December 8, 2013)

Sunday, December 28, 2014, 7 pm GERALD FINZI God Is Gone Up NICO MUHLY Bright Mass with Canons ARVO PÄRT The Beatitudes PAUL MEALOR Ubi caritas HUBERT PARRY I Was Glad conducted by LAMC Associate Conductor Lesley Leighton NICO MUHLY A Good Understanding [WEST COAST PREMIERE] with special guest Los Angeles Children’s Chorus DAVID WILLCOCKS Psalm 150 performed by Los Angeles Children’s Chorus conducted by LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson TARIK O’REGAN Dorchester Canticles KURT WEILL Kiddush JUDITH WEIR Ascending Into Heaven [WEST COAST PREMIERE] (Performed October 21, 2012) Sunday, January 4, 2015, 7 pm GIUSEPPE VERDI Te Deum CARL ORFF Carmina Burana with special guest Los Angeles Children’s Chorus

(Performed November 3, 2013)