Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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Gavin Bryars Jesus‘ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
About
For Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet Wild Up musicians and members of the public gather to learn and perform Gavin Bryars’ haunting masterwork side by side. The work unfolds from a fragile recording of an unhoused man’s song, with his voice serving as conductor, guide, and beacon. The audience is invited to bring their own instruments and learn directly from Wild Up teaching artists before the performance, and together, they create a shared act of listening, learning, and making music. All proceeds from the concert go to benefit the LA Foodbank.
Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza. Rich harmonies, comprising string and brass, are gradually overlaid over the stanza. The piece was first recorded for use in a documentary which chronicles street life in and around Elephant and Castle and Waterloo, in London.
About Endless Season
Art in LA has long been about freedom and a rich rejection of history. With intersecting methods and intentions, it is humble yet aspirational, creating a city that appeals to the aesthete and mystic in all its citizens. Here, famous artists also double as street-side sign painters, our finest restaurants are located in strip malls, and our landmarks are more geographical than architectural or fleetingly experiential rather than permanent monuments to their lineages. Here, our religious and secular musics sound the same.
Endless Season revolves around these distinct West Coast traits. These programs mark a new chapter, focusing on sustainability and place, and investing in the artists and audiences who make our city vibrant. Together, we encourage, question, reinterpret, and challenge the past, modality, and genre. We hold a space for intersectionality and dialogue surrounding every aspect of our work.
About The Collective Orchestra
For years, we’ve dreamed of inviting the audience onto our side of the music stand. With The Collective Orchestra, we’re moving closer to that vision, opening our practice to the public as collaborators. One unified field of people creating together, dissolving the distinction between orchestra and audience, where learning itself becomes a creative act.
Join us and participate in performances, rehearsals, workshops, and an ongoing dialogue about music. We’ll bring historical repertoire, new commissions, and community-centered actions into unexpected venues across Los Angeles.
Endless Season 2025 - 2026
This season, our programming spans centuries and scenes, bridging devotional traditions with avant-garde experimentation, ancient mysticism with radical contemporary thought. We gather music from the margins, from outsiders, visionaries, and mystics to imagine new futures. Alongside these histories, we celebrate today’s artists who are building something shared, creating music that reckons with the past and fosters new forms of presence and connection.
Our work includes a new concert series at The Nimoy exploring the textures of ecstatic freedom, from improvisation to minimalism and beyond. We return to Sierra Madre Playhouse for our LA Composer series, and REDCAT for baroque new music and a concert of spiritual activism centering the work of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou with a new commission by M.A. Tiesinga. This year, we launch a new endeavor, The Collective Orchestra, with participatory and unexpected projects that transform the concept of orchestra into a communal social space of learning. This Spring marks our first-ever appearance at the legendary Big Ears Festival.
Join us for a year of exploring music as a spiritual inquiry and a burgeoning of collective imagination, shaping new rituals and ways of gathering together.