Los Angeles Master Chorale

Following their acclaimed collaboration on Lagrime di San Pietro, director Peter Sellars reunites with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, one of America's most celebrated professional choruses, for a deeply personal meditation on saying goodbye in times of struggle. Inspired by the luminous music of Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz, Music to Accompany a Departure is presented as a ritual of leave-taking for our time. Solo voices interact with a constantly shifting choral ensemble, creating a ceremony of remembrance and devotion. The result is a stirring work that reminds us that grief and transformation are eternally linked, and that saying farewell can be a source of inspiration and strength.

Transcendent … incomparably moving.
— Los Angeles Times

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