Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, present a third installment of their multi-Grammy Award-winning Latin series with an album centering Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. Inspired by a 16th century African prince who was enslaved in Mexico, Yanga is composed for choir, percussion quartet, and orchestra. Yanga uses African instruments that arrived in Latin America including …

Beloved

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers presents the world premiere recording of Billy Childs’s In the Arms of the Beloved featuring the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Grant Gershon. In the Arms of the Beloved is a requiem for Childs’s mother, Mable Brown Childs. It conveys a profound message of hope, love and resilience that is especially poignant in the wake …