MUSIC

Off to Europe: One hundred singers of the 175-member Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, led by conductor and artistic director Jon Bailey, leave today for a two-week, six-city tour of Europe. In addition to concert and informal performances in Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam, the chorus will appear at AIDS hospices in Berlin and Vienna and place a plaque at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin where many gays died during the Holocaust. The concert program consists largely of music by American composers, including a new work commissioned for the chorus from Brown University composer Ron Nelson and made possible by a grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. The tour is supported by the chorus members, who are paying $2,500 each to make the trip.