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Backgrounder Presenting the Best: World-Class Programming at The Music Center Over the past 50 years, The Music Center has become one of the largest and most highly regarded performing arts centers in the country. A place to experience the most innovative and critically-acclaimed performing arts in the nation, The Music Center is a cultural hub that is central to L.A.’s status as the “creative capital” of the world. With four world-class resident companies and its renowned dance programming, The Music Center welcomes more than two million people each year to enjoy live performances as well as free arts events at its campus and at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. The Music Center Presents Led by Music Center Vice President of Programming Renae Williams Niles, The Music Center Presents provides audiences with compelling arts encounters, through a wide range of dynamic, engaging and interactive programs. Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center (Dance at The Music Center) is a national leader in presenting significant works by prestigious ballet and contemporary dance artists from around the world. Dance at The Music Center continues to be a powerful commissioning force, supporting new works and artists-in-residence projects by today’s most influential companies and choreographers. Active Arts™ is a national model for experiences in which people participate directly, offering recreational artists of all skill levels the opportunity for creative expression through music-making, dance, song and more at a variety of settings at The Music Center and in Grand Park. These programs connect people to the arts, bringing together the diverse communities of Los Angeles by engaging them in interactive activities. From dance and music to puppetry and spoken word, World City® gives people the chance to learn more about the cultures that comprise the “world city” of Los Angeles through captivating performances and art-making workshops. A dynamic intersection of art and culture, World City introduces audiences to performers from across the globe and their traditions through eclectic, admission-free performances for all ages. To date, it has celebrated 77 different cultures and featured more than 140 extraordinary companies of musicians, dancers, and theatre artists. For more information, visit http://www.musiccenter.org/ The Music Center’s Resident Companies Four of the world’s finest performing arts companies – Center Theatre Group, LA Opera, the LA Phil and the Los Angeles Master Chorale – call Los Angeles, and The Music Center, home. Center Theatre Group One of the nation’s preeminent non-profit theatre companies, Center Theatre Group (CTG) is recognized for its high-quality productions, diverse programming and critically acclaimed performances that cover the broadest range of theatre. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, CTG presents performances at The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theater and the Mark Taper Forum. With a focus on theatre as a medium and its ability to connect artists and audiences in a singularly powerful experience, CTG produces some of the most engaging and compelling theatre anywhere in the world. Performances include ground-breaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals. – more – The Music Center/World-Class Programming Page 2 In 1967, then CTG Artistic Director Gordon Davidson began creating new work at the Taper, opening the theatre with the controversial play, The Devils. Since that time, the Taper has developed an impressive number of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays including Mark Medoff’s Children of a Lesser God, Michael Cristofer’s The Shadow Box, and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part One. The Taper has also earned a number of distinguished honors including a Tony Award for Theatrical Excellence. Since its inception, CTG has presented a wide variety of dramas, musicals, comedies and classic revivals at The Ahmanson Theater. A co-producer of award-winning productions on Broadway including Smokey Joe’s Café, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Two Trains Running, and Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella, CTG also presents Broadway hits such as the exclusive Los Angeles engagements of the Tony Award-winning productions of Doubt, Jersey Boys and My Fair Lady. CTG has been honored with more than 50 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for excellence in all phases of production. For more information, visit http://www.centertheatregroup.org/ LA Opera One of America’s most exciting and ambitious opera companies, LA Opera brings together worldrenowned singers, designers, directors and conductors for performances that attract the attention of international audiences and critics. Now the nation’s fourth largest opera company, LA Opera is a renowned producer of works from classical and contemporary repertoires. Its mission is to serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form, while embodying the diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility that is unique to Los Angeles. Essential to LA Opera’s achievement of this mission are the vision and energy of its general director, superstar tenor Plácido Domingo, and its music director, James Conlon. The opera performs at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. LA Opera’s recent seasons have included the 2010 world premiere of Daniel Catán’s Il Postino, the Los Angeles premiere of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, LA Opera’s first complete performance of Richard Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, along with the first major U.S. production in four decades of Verdi’s The Two Foscari. In 2007, LA Opera became the only major opera company in the world to regularly program works of composers affected by the Holocaust through the series Recovered Voices. For more information, visit http://www.laopera.org/ LA Phil One of The Music Center’s founding resident companies, the LA Phil is acknowledged around the globe as one of the world’s finest orchestras. Under the leadership of Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Phil makes its home base at The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. The orchestra is leading the way in innovative programming and re-defining the musical experience, both at home and abroad. Performing or presenting nearly 300 concerts throughout the year, the LA Phil demonstrates a breadth and depth of programming unrivaled by other orchestras and cultural institutions. Focusing on programming that remains faithful to tradition, the orchestra also seeks new ground, new audiences and new ways to enhance the symphonic music experience. During its winter season, the LA Phil creates festivals and produces concerts featuring distinguished artists in recital, jazz, world music, songbook, and visiting orchestra performances, in addition to special holiday concerts and a series of chamber music, organ recitals and Baroque music. – more – The Music Center/World-Class Programming Page 3 The LA Phil garnered a 2012 Emmy nomination for the telecast of its Rhapsody in Blue: Opening Night Concert and Gala as part of the PBS performing arts series Great Performances. In 2011, the orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel won a Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance for its recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 4. In addition, the orchestra, under the baton of Zubin Mehta, won an Academy Award in 1974 for The Bolero, a 30-minute short subject featuring Maurice Ravel’s famous orchestral work. Past seasons included performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the second installment of the three-year Mozart opera project; an international tour of Creative Chair John Adams’ oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary; and Oliver Knussen’s one-act opera Where the Wild Things Are. Looking ahead, the LA Phil looks to combine traditional presentations with a rich array of collaborations and initiative designed for an evolving audience. For more information, visit http://www.laphil.com/ Los Angeles Master Chorale The Los Angeles Master Chorale (Chorale) is recognized as one of the city’s cultural treasures and one of the world’s premier choruses. Currently celebrating its 50th season as a Music Center resident company, and its 11th season in The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Chorale is led by Music Director Grant Gershon. Considered a national leader for its innovative and dynamic programming and its commitment to commissioning new works, the Chorale has played a leading role in the ongoing resurgence in interest in choral music. Presenting its own concert series each season, the Chorale performs choral music from the earliest writings to the most recent contemporary compositions. To date, the choir has commissioned 42 and premiered 88 new works, of which 57 were world premieres. Its discography includes five CDs under Gershon’s baton. The latest, released in 2012 on Decca, features three works by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. The Chorale previously released three CDs under Music Director Emeritus Paul Salamunovich on RCM, including the Grammy-nominated Lauridsen-Lux Aeterna. The Chorale is also featured with Gershon on the soundtracks of such major motion pictures as Lady in the Water and License to Wed. The Grammy-nominated Chorale has been awarded the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming three times as well as Chorus America’s prestigious 2012 Margaret Hills Award for Choral Excellence, the nation’s highest choral music award. The Chorale celebrates the fact that it has built an ensemble and an audience that thrives on the full panorama of great music for voices. For more information, visit http://www.lamc.org/ # # # Contact: Bonnie Goodman For The Music Center 213-308-9539 [email protected]