Los Angeles Children’s Chorus – Annual Spring Concert
Alice Through a Looking Glass
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101; (626) 793-4231
Sunday, May 10, 2009, 7 PM with pre-concert lecture at 6 PM
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Saturday, May 16, 2009, 4 PM
Ages: All
Cost: 24, $36 and $42; 1/2 price for students
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Anne Tomlinson, Conductor, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
Mandy Brigham, Conductor, Intermediate Choir
Amy Brehm, Conductor, Apprentice Choir

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) caps its 23rd Season by reprising Los Angeles composer Paul Gibson’s charmingly whimsical Suite: Alice Through a Looking-Glass for its annual Spring Concert on Sunday, May 10, 2009, 7 P.M., and Saturday, May 16, 2009, 4 P.M., at Pasadena Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, CA. Set to and inspired by the classic poetry of Lewis Carroll, the delightful but sophisticated piece, Gibson’s first for children’s choir, was initially commissioned by LACC for its 15th Anniversary and featured on its subsequent tour of Great Britain. Performances of Gibson’s suite are among the very first since the work’s acclaimed premiere.

The choir also honors Mendelssohn’s 250th anniversary by performing an excerpt from his motet Surrexit Pastor Bonus, written for antiphonal ensembles. Other featured works include the French Canadian folksong, Ah si mon moine, which tells the story of a cheerful monk dancing up a storm; Lana Walter’s setting of William Browne’s (1588-1643) poetry A Welcome, which speaks of the joy of love and spring; Away from the Roll of the Sea, a folksong from the Maritime provinces of Canada; and Stephen Hatfield’s Las Amaryllis, inspired by the southern Mexican style of huapango.

Additionally, the choir performs Couperin’s Now with Joyful Exaltation; Haydn’s Liebe; Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his Lute; the Japanese folk song Shojojee, arranged by Bisbee; and the spirituals Every Time I Feel the Spirit arranged by Reginald Unterseher.

PROGRAM:
PAUL GIBSON Suite: Alice Through a Looking-Glass
MENDELSSOHN Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Anonymous Ah si mon moine
LANA WALTER A Welcome
Anonymous Away from the Roll of the Sea
STEPHEN HATFIELD Las Amaryllis
COUPERIN Now with Joyful Exaltation
HAYDN Liebe
VAUGHN WILLIAMS Orpheus with his Lute
Anonymous Shojojee, arranged by Bisbes
Anonymous Every Time I Feel the Spirit arr. Reginald Unterseher