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May 8, 2012 (El Cajon)--The Grossmont College Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale will present two performances of “Resonantes Musica,” featuring the works of choral music composer Morten Lauridsen, at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 11, at All Saints Episcopal Church, 625 Pennsylvania Ave., San Diego, and at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, 7710 El Cajon Blvd., La Mesa.
Among the Lauridsen works to be performed: “O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord,” “Lux Aeterna,” Four Madrigals on Renaissance Texts” and “Dirait-on,” a vocal duet with guitar.
Lauridsen, 68, with a worldwide following of choral music enthusiasts, is a National Medal of Arts recipient and served as the composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001. His music is believed to the most widely performed of any contemporary choral composer. He currently divides his time between Los Angeles, where he has taught composition at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California for more than 30 years, and Waldron Island, a secluded, forested haven off the coast of Washington, where he lives in a renovated general store that overlooks Puget Sound.
Admission is free, however a freewill offering will be held. For more event information, phone the Grossmont College Music Department at (619) 644-7254, or visit www.grossmontsymphony.org.
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