Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents Traditions: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

WHAT ENDURES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE? Join us for a series of timeless works that spotlight singular voices within the collective music-making experience. Revisit memories and create new ones together with LACO and guest artists John Holiday and Amanda Forsythe.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jaime Martín conducts three enduring works on this timeless Easter weekend Orchestral program, which commemorates the centenary of Sir Neville Marriner, who served as LACO’s first music director from 1969 to 1978. Paired on Stabat Mater, Pergolesi’s transcendent meditation on redemption, are guest artists soprano Amanda Forsythe, who possesses “a springwater-pure voice” (Classical Voice North America), and genre-defying countertenor John Holiday, a finalist on Season 19 of NBC’s?The Voice. The Suite from Bach’s unparalleled Easter Oratorio opens the concert, which closes with Mozart’s iconic Symphony No. 40 in G minor. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is made possible, in part, with the generous support from Cheryl K. Petersen Roger H. Lustberg.

• March 30, 2024, 8 pm, Alex Theatre, 216 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA 91203
• March 31, 2024, 7 pm, Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (LACO) ranks among the world’s top musical ensembles. Beloved by audiences and praised by critics, the Orchestra is a preeminent interpreter of historical masterworks and, with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, a champion of contemporary composers. Headquartered in the heart of the country's cultural capital, LACO has been proclaimed “America’s finest chamber orchestra” (Public Radio International), “LA’s most unintimidating chamber music experience” (Los Angeles magazine), “resplendent” (Los Angeles Times), and “one of the world's great chamber orchestras"(KUSC Classical FM). Performing throughout greater Los Angeles, the Orchestra has made 32 recordings, including, most recently, a 2019 BIS Records release of works for violin and chamber orchestra that features Concertmaster Margaret Batjer and the world premiere recording of Pierre Jalbert’s Violin Concerto (a LACO co-commission). LACO, with offices located in downtown Los Angeles, has toured Europe, South America and Japan, and performed across North America. www.laco.org.