The Cali School of Music welcomes the acclaimed American composer Morten Lauridsen for a week’s residency from November 19-23, 2013. We invite you to a film, open rehearsals, discussions and concerts. The schedule is below.<\/p>\n
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The music of Morten Lauridsen occupies a permanent place in the standard vocal repertoire of the twenty-first century. His eight vocal cycles (Lux Aeterna<\/em>, Les Chansons des Roses<\/em>, Madrigali: Six \u2018FireSongs\u2019 on Italian Renaissance Poems<\/em>, A Winter Come<\/em>, Cuatro Canciones<\/em>, A Backyard Universe<\/em>, Nocturnes<\/em> and Mid-Winter Songs on Poems by Robert Graves<\/em>), instrumental works, art songs and series of motets (including O Magnum Mysterium<\/em>) are performed throughout the world and have been recorded on over two hundred CDs, including several that received Grammy nominations.<\/p>\n Mr. Lauridsen (b. 1943) served as Composer-in-Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1995-2001 and is currently Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. An award-winning documentary by Michael Stillwater, Shining Night \u2013 A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen<\/em>, was released in 2012 (songwithoutborders.net).<\/p>\n In 2006, Morten Lauridsen was named an \u201cAmerican Choral Master\u201d by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, by the President in a White House ceremony \u201cfor his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.\u201d <\/p>\n Open Rehearsals, Discussions and Concerts<\/strong> Tuesday, November 19<\/strong> Wednesday, November 20<\/strong> Thursday, November 21<\/strong> Friday, November 22<\/strong> Saturday, November 23<\/strong> The Cali School of Music welcomes the acclaimed American composer Morten Lauridsen for a week’s residency from November 19-23, 2013. We invite you to a film, open rehearsals, discussions and concerts. The schedule is below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":111956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
(Free and open to the public unless otherwise noted)<\/p>\n
1-2:15 pm – Chorale rehearsal Lux Aeterna<\/em> (Kasser Theater)
2:30-3:45 pm – MSU Singers rehearsal Nocturnes <\/em> (Kasser)
4:30-5 or 5:15 pm – Wind Symphony rehearsal O Magnum Mysterium<\/em> (Kasser)
8 pm – Shining Night<\/em> viewing \u2013 sponsored by ACDA Student Chapter (Leshowitz Recital Hall-doors open at 7:30 pm)<\/p>\n
1-1:50 pm – Wednesday @ 1 Concert \u2013 Lauridsen Solo & Chamber Music (Leshowitz Recital Hall)
2:30-4 pm – Conversations with the Composer \u2013 Dr. Laura Dolp, moderator (Chapin G55)<\/p>\n
1-2:15 pm – Chorale Dress Rehearsal Lux Aeterna<\/em> (Kasser)
4-4:30 pm – Wind Symphony Dress Rehearsal O Magnum Mysterium<\/em> (Kasser)<\/p>\n
7:30-9:30 pm – MSU Bands Concert (Kasser Theater – tickets required – Contact the box office – 973-655-5112; peakperfs.org)<\/p>\n
7-7:30 pm – Pre-concert talk with Morten Lauridsen (Leshowitz Recital Hall)
8-10 pm – MSU Choral Concert (Kasser Theater – tickets required – Contact the box office – 973-655-5112; peakperfs.org) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"