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Preview the LA Master Chorale’s Upcoming Season

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Grant Gershon, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale | Photo by Marle Noorbergen/Tao Ruspoli

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Preview the LA Master Chorale’s Upcoming Season
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The LA Master Chorale’s new season kicks off next weekend with a performance of Mozart’s Requiem paired with music by Los Angeles composer Shawn Kirchner: his “Songs of Ascent.” LA Master Chorale music director Grant Gershon spoke with KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen about the upcoming season and said this season is about the old, the new, and the local.

For more information on the LA Master Chorale, visit lamasterchorale.org.

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Brian is the KUSC host who gets listeners home in LA traffic each afternoon. He also created the At Home series during the earliest stages of the pandemic, and hosts the LA Phil radio broadcasts and A Joyful Noise Sunday mornings on KUSC and KDFC. Brian is a popular pre-concert lecturer in Southern California — between the LA Phil, LA Opera, The Wallis, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, and beyond. He has received multiple LA Press Club awards for arts journalism, and is a passionate advocate for underrepresented & marginalized groups and individuals within classical music.
Brian Lauritzen
Published on 09.14.2018

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