Lara Downes
Lara Downes with Los Angeles Master Chorale: Margaret Bonds Credo
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Apr 6, 2024
2:00 PM PDT
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If Bach says that we should “Sing to the Lord a new song” that’s exactly what the Chorale will do—sing a world premiere work by Zanaida Robles titled, The Song of Significance. Similarly, when Bach suggests "Have no fear, I am with you,” we are asked to have faith, to believe in something that we feel in our hearts, just as Margaret Bonds uses W.E.B. DuBois’ poem Credo to share her beliefs. We are excited to be featuring guest artist, pianist Lara Downes on Credo and also Spiritual Suite, which is Bonds’ magnum opus for piano with each movement based on a traditional Negro spiritual connecting hints of blues, jazz, and gospel with the classical styles of Romanticism and Impressionism. Collectively, the program is an evening filled with music with great strength of purpose in every phrase and note.
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Davis
November 13th 2023
Lara, the Richmond Symphony, the conductors and the choral group orchestrated an incredibly memorable evening - never to be forgotten. Lara and her talent always exceed what are always very high expectations.
Richmond, VA@Dominion Energy Center
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Lara Downes Biography
Honored as 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today, American pianist Lara Downes has been called “a musical ray of hope” by NBC News and “an explorer whose imagination is fired by bringing notice to the underrepresented and forgotten” (The Log Journal). An iconoclast and trailblazer, her dynamic work as a sought-after soloist, a Billboard Chart-topping recording artist, a producer, curator, arts activist and advocate positions her as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene. Ms. Downes’ musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family, and collective memory, excavating the broad landscape of American music to create a series of acclaimed performance and recording projects that serve as gathering spaces for her listeners to find common ground and shared experience.
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