EVENTS
2023
MONTEVERDI VESPERS 1610
Saturday, March 4 at 8 pm
Our Lady Queen of Angel, Newport Beach, California U.S.A.
Monteverdi's masterpiece, the stunningly creative Vespers for the Blessed Virgin of 1610, comes to life under the baton of Dr. Robert Istad, conducting the combined forces of Pacific Chorale and Bach Collegium San Diego.
THE EVERYWHERE OF HER
The Everywhere of Her is an imaginative and musical celebration of three remarkable women who each shaped Los Angeles.
The Ebell Center of Los Angeles
March 7, 13, 15 and 20 at 10 am
Charlotta Bass, owner and publisher of the California Eagle, Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, first Chinese licensed female pilot, and Dolores del Rio, Mexican star of American/Mexican cinema, meet for the first time. They discover that they have far more in common than they would have thought; though history books may try to erase their astonishing accomplishments, individually and together they will change the world.
HAYDN AND PRICE
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
West Coast Premiere
Missa in Angustiis, "Nelson Mass," Hob. XXII/11
Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 5pm
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California U.S.A.
Thanks to the sensational recovery of dozens of her manuscripts from an abandoned house in 2009, the music of groundbreaking composer Florence Price is experiencing a deserved renaissance. Pacific Chorale proudly presents the West Coast premiere of Price’s rediscovered Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, alongside Joseph Haydn’s stirring and majestic Nelson Mass.
GUEST APPEARANCE
LUNAR NEW YEAR
Beethoven's 9th
January 28 at 8 pm
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California U.S.A.
Pacific Symphony's annual festivities honoring the Lunar New Year celebrate the Year of the Tiger, bringing communities together for a colorful presentation of Eastern and Western music and dance.
ALLEGRI: MISERERE MEI, DEUS
R. STRAUSS: DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
JAMES MACMILLAN: FIAT LUX (WORLD PREMIERE)
Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California U.S.A.
Concert Dates and Time:
June 15, 2023, 8:00 pm
June 16, 2023, 8:00 pm
June 17, 2023, 8:00 pm
A program spanning five centuries and celebrating the spirit. The mystical Miserere by the Renaissance composer Gregorio Allegri was so popular the Vatican forbade it to be published (though a teenage Mozart secretly transcribed it, having heard it just twice). Pacific Chorale director Robert Istad conducts the Miserere, then Carl St.Clair leads Richard Strauss’ transcendent tone poem followed by the world premiere of Fiat Lux by Scotland’s Sir James MacMillan, whose moving music draws on his faith and heritage