“The Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles is launching a new Recovered Voices series with conductor James Conlon that will present performances, seminars and other events focused on composers whose careers were cut short during the Holocaust,” writes David Ng in Tuesday’s (12/10) Los Angeles Times (subscription required). “Conlon launched Recovered Voices in 2006 at Los Angeles Opera, but the company put the series on indefinite hiatus in 2010 because of budgetary reasons. The new Recovered Voices at the Colburn is being funded by a $1-million grant from Marilyn Ziering, the philanthropist and L.A. Opera board member. She provided the initial funding of $3.3 million for Recovered Voices at the opera company. Conlon is the music director of L.A. Opera and has led Recovered Voices performances of operas by such composers as Alexander Zemlinsky, Viktor Ullmann and Franz Schreker at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion…. The new series will be called the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices” with weekly free seminars scheduled to begin on January 13 and continue through April 28. “Other planned events include an academic conference and national chamber music competitions for young musicians.… Future performances … will be announced later.”
Posted December 13, 2013
