LMU COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND FINE ARTS | This year’s edition of the renowned Spring Chorale Concert will also be Mary Breden’s last performance at Loyola Marymount University. The combined LMU Choruses, joined in Sacred Heart Chapel on Friday, May 3, 2019, by a professional orchestra, will present Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Toward the Unknown Region,” in a preview of their summer 2019 concert tour of London and Paris.
“Mary Breden’s legacy as LMU’s choral director for the last 27 years has had, and will continue to have, a profound and lasting impact, not just on the choruses, but on the university at large,” said Bryant Keith Alexander, dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts. “This impact will continue to resonate in Sacred Heart Chapel, which has been the location of so many wonderful choral performances, and will reverberate in the hearts and bodies of the hundreds of chorus members who have sung with Mary over the years.”
Breden earned her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in choral music from Arizona State University, where she studied conducting with Douglas McEwen. She joined the LMU Department of Music in the fall of 1992 as a faculty member and director of choral activities. In her time at LMU, Breden focused on building on a great choral tradition and introducing a broad cross section of the university and community populations to the extraordinary beauty of choral music. In addition to the concerts performed in Sacred Heart Chapel, the choruses have performed under Breden’s leadership at Carnegie Hall, Disney Concert Hall, Dodger Stadium, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, the American Cemetery in Normandy, France — all representing the stewardship of the choruses as great ambassadors of the arts and for the university.
“As we bid Mary farewell following the European choral tour this summer, we thank her for her outstanding work in making LMU Choruses the internationally renowned force that they are today,” said Alexander.
Tickets for the Spring Chorale Concert are available at cfa.lmu.edu/tickets: General public $20 (front nave) and $15 (rear nave); faculty, students, senior citizens $18 and $12; LMU students with ID $5. Reserved seating.
