Featuring Songs and Musical Highlights from Germaine Franco’s film scores, including Coco, Little, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Encanto.
The Artistic Honoree for GALA 2023, composer Germaine Franco, is the Los Angeles Master
Chorale’s first female Artistic Honoree and is one of the most unique award-winning composers
working in Hollywood today. Her oeuvre includes collaborations with film directors, storytellers,
and musicians from the Chorale on studio blockbusters, independent features, television series,
as well as concert and choral music. Her ebullient music from Coco was featured by the Chorale
on its “Opera and Film Choruses” program at Walt Disney Concert Hall in June 2019. Franco is
the first Latina, and only the sixth woman, to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Score
for the 2021 Disney Animation Studios film Encanto. Franco won a 2023 GRAMMY Award for
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for Encanto.
The Philanthropic Honoree for GALA 2023 is the LA Arts Recovery Fund. A collaboration of
local and national philanthropy, and the largest-ever pooled private investment for arts in Los
Angeles County, the LA Arts Recovery Fund distributed $36.1 million to 90 art organizations for
post-pandemic rebuilding. The grant recipients span visual arts, theater, music, dance, literary
arts, and arts education while all demonstrate exceptional regional or local significance in L.A.
County. The Los Angeles Master Chorale was honored to receive a two-year grant of $1.5
million, a philanthropic milestone in the ensemble’s 58-year history.
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