Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), ranked among the world’s top musical ensembles, invites teachers, parents and kids to view a free, engaging, educational chamber music concert available on demand beginning April 27, 2020, via the Orchestra's LACO at Home, which offers expanded and enhanced web content during the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by composer/LACO Artist Educator Derrick Spiva Jr, and geared to students in grades four through six, this performance features seven LACO artists performing a range of timeless and contemporary chamber works. It was recorded in 2019 as part of MEET THE MUSIC, LACO's highly regarded music education program developed for Los Angeles County elementary schools. This free program can be streamed on demand at laco.org/on-demand.
The concert, recorded in November with an audience of school children at Santa Monica's Moss Theater, spotlights Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt; Saint-Georges’ String Quartet No. 3 in F minor, 2nd movement; Piazzolla’s Four for Tango; Spiva’s Grace Unbound; Nicholas Bentz’s Hence I speak to You Now; Gabrielle Rosse Owens Shadows and Songs; and Gillian Rae Perry’s Weightless. Featured LACO artists are violinists Sarah Thronblade and Jacqueline Brand; Erick Rynearson, viola; Andrew Shulman, cello; Joachim Becerra Thomsen, flute; Mark Robson, piano; and Kenneth McGrath, percussion.
The free LACO at Home Meet the Music program is available on demand at laco.org/on-demand. To make a donation, visit LACO.org/donate or call (213) 622-7001, EXT. 4.