LA Master Chorale Showcases 1,000 Southland Teens at High School Choir Festival Tonight, 5/4

Event sponsors include The City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, the California Arts Council, Edison International, Metropolitan Associates, the Ann Peppers Foundation, the Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts, The Charitable Foundation - Agent Community Outreach of Prudential California Realty, the Lon V. Smith Foundation, and the John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation. The Los Angeles Master Chorale High School Choir Festival was founded in 1989 by the Los Angeles Master Chorale Associates, under the leadership of Phyllis Rothrock.

The Los Angeles Master Chorale's High School Choir Festival is FREE and seating is first come, first served. The Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 South Grand Avenue at First Street in Los Angeles. For information, please call (213) 972-7282 or visit www.lamc.org/HSCF.

PROGRAM:

Festival Chorus (combined high school choirs)
GIUSEPPI VERDI Va, Pensiero
GWYNETH WALKER I Will Be Earth
arr. ANDRÉ THOMAS Ride the Chariot
Randall Thompson Choose Something Like A Star
DAVID L. BRUNNER Yo le Canto Todo el Dia

Festival Honor Choir
THOMAS GREAVES Come away, sweet love
SHAWN KIRCHNER Tu Voz
arr. Aaron Copeland Ching-a-ring-Chaw
Festival Chorus – Finale
Joseph Haydn The Heavens Are Telling

Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012. The concert is free. For more information, call (213) 972-7282 or go online.

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:

Agoura High School Mixed Choir (Agoura)
Arroyo High School Chamber Singers (El Monte) Bellflower High School Vocal Ensemble (Bellflower)
Birmingham Community Charter High School Chamber Singers (Van Nuys)
California High School Chamber Singers (Whittier)
Covina High School Chamber Singers
Covina High School Voices (Covina)
Culver City High School Chamber Singers (Culver City)
El Monte High School A Cappella Choir (El Monte)
Glendale High School Chamber Choir (Glendale)
Grant High School Vocal Ensemble (Valley Glen)
Maranatha High School Mixed Ensemble ( Pasadena)
Mark Keppel High School Aztec Singers (Alhambra)
Mountain View High School (El Monte)
Norwalk High School Singers (Norwalk)
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Varsity Singers (Rolling Hills Estates)
Ramon C. Cortines High School for the Arts Music Academy Choir (Los Angeles)
Rancho Cucamonga High School Chamber Singers (Rancho Cucamonga)
Renaissance High School for the Arts Chamber Singers (Long Beach)
Rosemead High School A Cappella Choir (Rosemead)
San Gabriel High School Matador Choir (San Gabriel)
Sierra Vista High School Harmony Choir (Baldwin Park)
South High School Southland Singers (Torrance)
West Torrance High School Aristocracy (Torrance)
William Howard Taft High School Vocal Ensemble (Woodland Hills)
Wilson Classical High School Chamber Singers (Long Beach)