12/3: Chamber Singers Kick Off Holiday Season at Vibiana

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, at 11:26AM

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The Chamber Singers' announcement calls the acoustics inside Vibiana "remarkable."

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Next Wednesday, the Los Angeles Chamber Singers and Capella bring their Grammy-winning voices to Vibiana for an evening of Christmas carols from around the world. The group, directed by Peter Rutenberg, played at the former Cathedral in June of 2007 as part of Chorus America's national conference and now returns for a public concert.

From the group's announcement:

Welcome to the sonic splendor of our 2008-2009 Season as we inaugurate a new concert home in Historic Downtown Los Angeles — VIBIANA (formerly St. Vibiana's Cathedral) — augmenting presentations in Brentwood and South Pasadena! The acoustics of Vibiana are remarkable indeed, and we have selected a series of programs that take full advantage of them. Bold colors and textures from the tapestry of choral music's Golden Age — the 16th and early 17th centuries — mark the opening program, enriched by a unique and tempting assemblage of holiday carols. Come bask in glorious music and spine-tingling reverberations, and reawaken the joy of this special season!

Tickets are $25 ($15 for students), and are available by mail, phone or at the door.

"ECHOES OF CHRISTMAS OLD AND NEW" / Los Angeles Chamber Singers and Capella / Wednesday, December 3, 7:30pm / Vibiana, 210 S. Main

Comments

Juanito writes:

Too bad they couldn't have kept the old organ up in the choir loft. When that thing would blast away, the whole building would shake, including Vibiana (before they moved her down into the crypt in '69). Only time I went in there was for some high mass in the early Sixties. My dad was being inducted by McIntryre into some holy-moly order of papists. I thought the ceiling was gonna come crashing down on us and I ran the hell out of there.

The present cardinal still doesn't want us to know about the sordid Pfeister Affair during mass one Sunday in 1885. Talk about a (prototypical) comic opera! Lots of yelling, screaming and running around bug-eyed and you gotta wish that the Marx Brothers had been there. He never said so, but I think that's why Rog tried to tear the place down. Fat chance; berzerko Pfeister went totally lurid in the era of pre-Babylon Beach Blanket, right in front of the altar!

GOOD LORD!

# on Nov.29.2008 AT 12:02 AM

Juanito writes:

Heavens to mergatroid, whatever happened to Alexander Zins' ceiling fresco?

# on Dec.01.2008 AT 03:33 AM