Music of the spheres at Disney Hall
Starlight, star bright To the heavens with the Los Angeles Master Chorale by Bondo Wyszpolski Well, with one thing and another, I’ve missed attending performances by the L.A. Master Chorale, but I’m grateful to have attended “Choose Something Like a Star” this past Sunday at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Matthew Brown received a standing ovation after the performance of his world premiere work, “Voyager,” presented on Sunday, Feb.12, in the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Photo by Jamie PhamThe program, conducted by Grant Gershon, a man who clearly loves his work, consisted of 14 compositions dating from 1849 to the present: there were two world premieres plus one piece that premiered last season. The good thing here is that one gets exposure to a wide variety of work. The “bad” thing, however, is that one gets exposed to a wide variety of work. And what I mean by that is by the time one returns home it’s likely that one remembers the total effect and not the singular impressions. With exceptions, of course, which I’ll point out. The program began with “O Beautiful Night,” set to music in 1877 by Johannes Brahms from a poem by Geog Friedrich Daumer. It was a short and pretty…
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