LOS ANGELES CHILDRENS CHORUS
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Mission Statement
MISSION STATEMENT: Los Angeles Children’s Chorus provides choral music education of the highest quality to young people who represent richly diverse racial, economic, and cultural backgrounds. The program ignites a love of singing and nurtures the full expression of each individual’s potential for artistic and personal excellence through the collaborative experience of choral music performance. Through the beauty of inspired and joyful singing, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus brings the transformative power of music to communities throughout Southern California, the nation and the world.
About This Cause
CORE PROGRAM LACC’s main activities are the rehearsal and performance of fine, wide-ranging choral music, as well as musicianship and theory training. LACC’s comprehensive program addresses all learning styles and levels of experience through a sequential Music Literacy curriculum and rehearsal schedule. Each season, young people aged 8-18 are assigned to one of six choral ensembles based on their musical skill level or vocal range. These ensembles—Preparatory, Apprentice, Intermediate, and Concert Choirs, Chamber Singers, and Young Men’s Ensemble—meet once or twice weekly. Through LACC’s core education program, choristers: • Learn healthy vocal technique; master challenging, wide-ranging, multilingual repertoire of fine choral music in the bel canto style; and are instructed in performance protocol in weekly rehearsals; • Develop their music literacy in separate musicianship classes via a seven-level, Kodály-based curriculum; • Acquire a solid education in music theory; • Explore text and music interpretation; • Receive exposure to foreign cultures and languages through repertoire study and touring; • Receive individual vocal coaching. LACC’s professional staff of conductors and vocal coaches specialize in working with children’s voices. Based on mid-season and end-of-season written and vocal evaluations, choristers are promoted through the musicianship program and to more advance ensembles during their years with the Chorus. LACC also offers a three-level program of First Experiences in Singing (FES) classes (LACC- and school-based) that introduce 6-7-year-old boys and girls to the foundational elements and joy of music making. A First Experiences in Choral Singing Ensemble serves FES graduates and auditioning children at the pre-Preparatory level. LACC introduces children to a wide spectrum of musical language. Its music library contains more than 900 folk songs and spirituals, gospel and jazz works, art songs and operas, classical masterworks, Western Music canon (sacred and secular), and new commissions. Repertoire is sung in such languages as Afrikaans, Armenian, Czech, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Xhosa, and Zulu. In addition to its core choral music training program, LACC performs in choral exchanges with visiting adult, college, and children's choirs; commissions new works for children’s voices; tours regionally, nationally, and internationally; and offers professional development for music educators and after-school programs for elementary school children. Each season LACC delivers an average of 350 rehearsals, 420 individual vocal coaching sessions, 23 musicianship classes (lasting 24 weeks each), retreats for all six choirs, three to four tours, one day trip, five choral exchanges, 106 FES classes Levels I-III, and 125 auditions. Approximately 100 pieces of repertoire are learned and performed in approximately 12 languages. PERFORMANCES As performance represents the culmination of LACC’s choristers’ training, choristers and audiences alike benefit from a full season of concerts. LACC produces approximately 30 live performances each season (professional-level ticketed concerts, free community connections concerts, contracted engagements, choral exchanges, etc.) and 12-15 concerts for national and international audiences on tours. LACC is also presented each season by world class arts presenters like LA Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Jacaranda Music Series, Pasadena Symphony, Calder Quartet, Angeles Chorale, and MUSE/IQUE. It is common for LACC to collaborate on approximately 10 productions (25 live performances) each season. RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AWARDS: LACC received Chorus America’s 2014 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the nation’s top award for choral music. RECORDINGS: LACC appears on Amore Infinito (“Infinite Love”), a Deutsche Grammophon release of songs based on poems by the late Pope John Paul II and performed by Plácido Domingo (released worldwide in March 2009) and A Good Understanding, the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2010 recording of Nico Muhly on Decca. In 2010, LACC released its most recent self-produced compilation CD, “Holiday.” LACC’s full discography comprises 10 CDs released between 1997 and 2010. LACC has also appeared on feature film soundtracks. DOCUMENTARIES: LACC is featured in the 2002 Academy Award-nominated documentary Sing! and sequel documentaries Sing Opera! (2008) and Sing China! (2009) by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Mock. Sing! chronicles a year in the life of the Chorus and airs periodically on public television in Los Angeles. BROADCAST APPEARANCES: LACC has appeared on television (e.g. “The Tonight Show”, L.A. County’s Annual Holiday Celebration) and NPR’s nationally syndicated program “From the Top.”