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The Los Angeles Master Chorale captures the shared human experience with a pairing of Brahms’ sublime
Ein Deutsches Requiem and the West Coast premiere of The World in Flower , Peter Lieberson’s lyrical and moving message of tolerance written in memory of his wife and muse, famed mezzo-soprano Lorraine
Hunt Lieberson, with whom the Chorale performed Adam’s El Niño
in Los Angeles and New York. This compelling and heartfelt program, conducted by Music Director Grant Gershon, is presented in a special matinee performance on Saturday, January 26, 2013, 2 pm, repeating on Sunday, January 27, 2013, 7 pm.
Gershon and KUSC’s Alan Chapman participate in ListenUp!
, the pre-concert talk two hours prior to each performan ce. The soloists for the Lieberson piece are Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano, and Brian
Mulligan, baritone. Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem features soloists Hayden Eberhart, soprano, and
Mulligan.
“Both works are truly universal, embracing and reflecting humanity in profound ways,” notes Gershon.
Brahms’ magnum opus, Ein Deutsches Requiem , has been called “a requiem for the living,” giving hope to those in mourning and compassion and comfort for all of mankind. The Chorale’s last presentation of the transcendent work was in 2006, which the Los Angeles Times proclaimed, “a finely realized performance… that filled the soldout hall with cathedral sounds and crescendos that could be felt as well as heard.”
Lieberson’s
The World in Flower , praised by the New York Times as “serene, sincere (and) radiant” was written for his ailing wife who ultimately succumbed to breast cancer. It is set to the text of 11 different sources, each with a unique frame of reference, among them a traditional Navajo poem, a poem from an
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Inuit Shaman, the Bible, and works by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet
Pablo Neruda and American poet Walt Whitman. Lieberson, a Buddhist who completed the piece in the hospital while fighting lymphoma (he later succumbed to his cancer in 2011), draws from the similarities between these disparate texts, highlighting the common human experience and embracing the world as a sacred place. The cantata, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, is written for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra.
Tickets range from $29 - $134. Group rates are available. For tickets and information, please call (213)
972-7282, or visit www.lamc.org. (Tickets cannot be purchased at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office except on concert days starting 2 hours prior to the performance.) The Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 South Grand Avenue at First Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Soprano HAYDEN EBERHART is from Dallas, Texas, and studies with Elizabeth Hynes. She received a Graduate
Certificate in 2011 and a Masters in Music in 2009 at the University of Southern California, where she studied with
Shigemi Matsumoto. She received her BA in music in 2007 from Pomona College, where she studied with Gwendolyn
Lytle. Th is is Eberhart’s fourth year as a member of the LA Master Chorale. Previous LAMC solos include the world premiere of The Singing Mountaineers by Gabriela Lena Frank, and short solos in Bach's St. John Passion and
Rutter's Gloria. She has also appeared as a guest artist with Pasadena Master Chorale, LA Daiku and the Pomona
College Choir and Orchestra. Eberhart’s operatic roles include Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment and Olympia in The Tales of Hoffman with outreach organization Orange County Opera, and Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera , Emmie in Albert Herring , and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with USC Opera. She is also a member of the LA
Master Chorale Chamber Singers.
American baritone BRIAN MULLIGAN performs regularly with the leading opera houses and orchestras of the United
States, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los
Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera. Abroad, he has been heard in London, Vienna, Dublin, Auckland and at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. Roles in his repertoire include Valentin, Enrico, Zurga, Marcello, Rodrigo,
Wolfram and Tarquinius, as well as the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Nixon in China. On the concert stage
Mulligan has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston
Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, in works of Brahms, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams. In Chicago, he recently sang the world premiere of Songs for Adam, a cycle of six songs for orchestra and solo baritone. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Mulligan also studied at Yale University, the Aspen
Opera Theater Center and the Steans Institute at Ravinia. He is the winner of a Richard Tucker Career Grant, the
George London Prize and first prize at the Belvedere International Vocal Competition in Vienna. Mulligan was recently named one of the top Irish Americans in Irish America Magazine.
He holds dual citizenship with the United States and
Ireland.
Possessing a voice of uncommon allure, musical sophistication far beyond her years, and intuitive and innate dramatic artistry, the Grammy® Award-winning mezzo-soprano KELLEY O'CONNOR has emerged as one of the most compelling performers of her generation. During the 2011-12 season, the California native's impressive calendar included the world premiere of a new oratorio by John Adams, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudam el. O'Connor also brought “her smoky sound and riveting stage presence” ( The New York Times ) to performances as Ursule in Berlioz's Béatrice et
Bénédict with Opera Boston, and to her signature role as Federico García Lorca in a Peter Sellars staging of Golijov's
Ainadamar at Teatro Real in Madrid. Other highlights included performances with the Chamber Music Society of

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Lincoln Center, the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Atlanta
Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony , Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center,
Peter Oundjian and the Toronto Symphony, and Iván Fischer and the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall. In
June 2011 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra released a recording of Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs , featuring Ms.
O'Connor. Neruda Songs has highlighted her prominence as one of the world's leading concert artists in two significant European debuts: performances with David Zinman and the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as with the
TonhalleOrchester Zürich. Additionally, the work served her Carnegie Hall debut in a performance with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. She has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Alan Gilbert, the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Rory Macdonald, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra,
Franz WelserMöst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Kurt Masur and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Stéphane
Denève and the Seattle Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee
Symphony, among others.
CALENDAR LISTING
EVENT:
Los Angeles Master Chorale
“Brahms Requiem”
Grant Gershon, conductor
Hayden Eberhart, soprano
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Brian Mulligan, baritone
WHEN:
Saturday, January 26, 2013, 2 pm (matinee)
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 7 pm
( ListenUp!, pre-concert talk, 2 hours prior to each performance)
PROGRAM:
LIEBERSON The World in Flower (West Coast Premiere)
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Brian Mulligan, baritone
BRAHMS
VENUE:
Ein Deutsches Requiem
Hayden Eberhart, soprano
Brian Mulligan, baritone
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
TICKET PRICES:
Concert Tickets: $29 - $134;
Student Rush seats available at box office two hours before the performance;
TICKETS/INFORMATION:
213-972-7282 www.lamc.org
(Tickets cannot be purchased at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office except on concert days starting 2 hours prior to the performance.)
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Artists, program and ticket prices subject to change.
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