For the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, a Wednesday announcement represents a hopeful new chapter after a year of drama: Ernest H. Harrison has been appointed the new music director and conductor of GMCLA, one of L.A. County’s longest-running LGBTQ arts organizations.
Harrison, who is a doctoral candidate in choral conducting at USC, was selected in a nationwide search, GMCLA Executive Director Lou Spisto said. Harrison is an associate conductor for the National Children’s Chorus, conductor for the Pasadena Conservatory of Music’s Cantare Chamber Choir and assistant conductor at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church.
He will be the first permanent music director and conductor since Joe Nadeau left as the chorus’ music director in December. Gavin Thrasher, who served as interim music director, departed in August to lead the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. The appointment comes at the end of a difficult year for GMCLA. In February, news of a budget shortfall and
having a chorus that discriminates solely on the basis of sexual orientation is fairly discriminitory in 2019.
The Moral Human Core of the US is in an Existential crisis. The DC Hearings are key to the Survival of the MORAL CORE of HUMANITY.... The good people of the US Midwest, South & the Heartland are SEDUCED because of their TERROR of the RAPIDLY Changing World.
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