Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Orchestral Series concludes with particular poignancy when Music Director Jeffrey Kahane conducts a program featuring high highly acclaimed composer,vocalist,pianist,guitarist son Gabriel Kahane on Saturday, April 21, 8:00pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, April 22, 2012, 7:00pm, at UCLA’s Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive in Westwood.
The concert, which marks their first Southern California father-son mainstage performance, spotlights the younger Kahane on piano, guitar and vocals with the senior Kahane conducting the West Coast premiere of Gabriel’s “Crane Palimpsest”[a parchment that has been reused, or an object with multiple layers that lies beneath the surface], a LACO co-commission with American Composers Orchestra, which premiered at Carnegie Hall last month.
The final concert set of LACO’s 2011-12 Orchestral Series, “Kahane²†and is made possible, in part, by a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Gabriel Kahane’s appearance at the Alex Theatre is sponsored by Bill Cooney and at Royce Hall by J. Robert & Barbara Bragonier.
Concertgoers are invited to celebrate the new work with LACO musicians in the lobby after the concert. Complimentary refreshments are provided for all ticket holders.
For tickets ($24 – $105) and information: www.laco.org
