Entertainment & Arts
A public sing-along memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. today in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in honor of the late Roger Wagner, founder of the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Oct. 24, 1992
Roger Wagner, the mercurial conductor who became a preeminent choral music figure nationally and locally in the course of a career that spanned nearly five decades, died Thursday in France, his native country.
Sept. 18, 1992
Roger Wagner, founder and music director laureate of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, collapsed on stage during a Saturday evening performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Feb. 1, 1987
Pepperdine University has named Roger Wagner, founder of the Roger Wagner Chorale, a distinguished professor of choral music.
July 13, 1986
The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s celebratory performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Sunday was all about history-in-the-making, or, more to the point, history-already-made.
Jan. 26, 1999
The Grammy-winning Roger Wagner Chorale will sing holiday carols Saturday night at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Glendale.
Dec. 19, 1991
Choral director Roger Wagner went home from the hospital a week after he collapsed with a brain hemorrhage during a concert at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Feb. 9, 1987
Something of an identity problem plagued Saturday evening’s concert at Pepperdine University.
Jan. 6, 1986
Less than a year ago, Roger Wagner seemed to many to be at the end of his career.
Dec. 9, 1987
Exit Roger Wagner, grumbling--with Saturday’s Los Angeles Master Chorale performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.”
April 18, 1986