The Score | Lift Every Voice

For his 20th and final season as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane conceived “Lift Every Voice,” a multi-faceted series of concerts and events addressing social and moral issues—Kahane has called it “the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream.” Among the January 14-29 festival’s highlights: a joint Martin Luther King Day concert with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles; LACO performances featuring violin soloist Daniel Hope in Kurt Weill’s Song-Suite for Violin and Orchestra and Bruce Adolphe’s “I Will Not Remain Silent” (a concerto dedicated to Dr. King and his civil-rights ally Rabbi Joachim Prinz); Weill’s musical morality plays Lost in the Stars (set in apartheid-era South Africa) and The Seven Deadly Sins; plus a variety of symposia, chamber-music offerings, and film screenings at multiple sites.