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About This Performance: Dudamel focuses on rousing music from the Americas, including a world premiere – featuring acclaimed Argentine virtuoso Sergio Tiempo – and concluding with the exuberant, infectious rhythms of Copland’s well-loved ballet score.   Program: CHÁVEZ: Symphony No. 2, "Sinfonía India" Esteban BENZECRY: Piano Concerto, “Universos infinitos” (world premiere, LA Phil commission) COP...

KUSC's Alan Chapman is joined by soprano Julia Bullock to discuss the program, which includes masterworks by Gershwin, Copland, Previn, and Barber. About This Performance: Dudamel launches our season with the beauty and bravura of masterworks by beloved American composers.

About This Performance: Meredith Monk’s ATLAS receives a staggeringly ambitious new production by the LA Phil's Artist-Collaborator Yuval Sharon, collaborating with visual artist Es Devlin. This landmark work from one of modern music's most influential composers weaves a tale about a young girl's journey to the four corners of our world and beyond. Sharon's production incorporates visual art, move...

About This Performance: Dudamel is renowned for his Mahler interpretations, but neither he nor anyone else has performed the monumental “Symphony of a Thousand” inside Walt Disney Concert Hall. Just imagine the huge orchestra, pipe organ and massed choirs in the explosive opening movement, “Come, Creator Spirit.” Program: MAHLER : Symphony No. 8 Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel co...

About This Performance: Performed by Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, Beethoven’s timeless Fourth Concerto, with its extraordinarily poetic slow movement, is followed by Beethoven’s noble and majestic final concerto, played for us by Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes. Program: HAYDN : “Lord Nelson” Mass (Missa in Angustiis) in D minor, Hob. XXII/11 Intermission BEETHOVEN : Mass in C major, Op. 86...

About This Performance: Performed by Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, Beethoven’s timeless Fourth Concerto, with its extraordinarily poetic slow movement, is followed by Beethoven’s noble and majestic final concerto, played for us by Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes. Program: BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Intermission BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73...

About This Performance: Performed by Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, Beethoven’s timeless Fourth Concerto, with its extraordinarily poetic slow movement, is followed by Beethoven’s noble and majestic final concerto, played for us by Spanish virtuoso Javier Perianes. This performance was made possible by the Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Great Artists Fund. Program: BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 4 i...

About This Performance: Dudamel leads Haydn’s magnificent final symphony. Superstar Lang Lang joins in for Beethoven’s first-written, but second-published, piano concerto, a delightful, bracing statement to Vienna that the composer/pianist had arrived. Program: BEETHOVEN : Egmont Overture HAYDN : Symphony No. 104 in D major, “London” Intermission BEETHOVEN : Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, O...

About This Performance: Salonen continues to intrigue us with a program combining late Mozart and early Beethoven. Program: MOZART : Piano Concerto No. 22, in E-flat, K. 482 Intermission Louis ANDRIESSEN : The only one (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music) BEETHOVEN : Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-...

About the Performance: This vivid program of orchestral showpieces contrasts the music of masters of instrumental color and shading, climaxing in Respighi’s popular depiction of Roman pine groves. The program also includes a work by Donatoni – one of the conductor’s teachers – that Salonen and the LA Phil premiered in 2001. “I love the kaleidoscopic world of Donatoni, the sudden twists and turns a...

About the Performance: Salonen leads two remarkable myth ballets by Stravinsky:  Orpheus , the quintessential music myth, and the sensual, sumptuous French setting of  Perséphone , goddess of the Underworld. The latter features the surpassing insights and brilliant staging of Peter Sellars. Program: STRAVINSKY :  Orpheus STRAVINSKY :  Perséphone   Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salone...

About the Performance: For this afternoon only, you’ll hear a fascinating range of Stravinsky’s sacred vocal works. Program: STRAVINSKY :  Requiem Canticles; Introitus (TS Eliot in Memoriam); In memoriam Dylan Thomas; Mass; Elegy for JFK; Chorale Variations on “Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her”; Cantata   No Intermission Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen  conductor Andrew Staple...

About the Performance: Following Stravinsky’s early memorial for his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov (lost until recently!), Salonen leads two of Stravinsky’s ritualistic ballet scores, concluding with Salonen’s crackling specialty and signature work with the LA Phil,  The Rite of Spring . Program: STRAVINSKY :  Funeral Song STRAVINSKY :  Agon Intermission STRAVINSKY :  The Rite of Spring Artists: Los Ang...

About the Performance: Ever-vibrant conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla covers all the bases with this multifaceted program, beginning with Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, featuring the astonishing Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Mirga also leads the latest by much-lauded South Korean composer Unsuk Chin and Debussy’s masterpiece of orchestral color. This evening’s performance is made possible in part...

About the Performance: “Carpenter is one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument… He is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos. He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed… And, most important of all, the most musical.”  (Los Angeles Times) Program: BACH : Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 BACH / Cameron CARPENTER : French Suite No. 5 i...

About the Performance: For one shining moment, Ravel and Gershwin met each other at a New York party in 1928, where they expressed their deep mutual admiration and passion for jazz. Now, two brilliant French artists (and Philharmonic regulars) keep that connection alive with this latter-day meeting of the minds. Program: GERSHWIN :  Cuban Overture   RAVEL :  Piano Concerto in G   Intermission RAVE...

About the Performance: The astounding Yuja Wang collaborates with Dudamel to give the first-ever performances of John Adams’ newest piano concerto, paired with Mahler’s beloved song-filled symphony, rife with quintessential Mahlerian touches: nature-inspired lyricism, a funeral march, and explosive crescendos. Program: John ADAMS :  Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (world premiere, LA Phil...

About the Performance: This production contains extreme sexually explicit images from the Robert Mapplethorpe collection that may be inappropriate for attendees under 18. Discretion is advised. Thirty years after the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, we still cannot turn away from what his photos reveal. Composer Bryce Dessner, Librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle, and director Kaneza Schaal in collabora...

About the Performance: Although Mahler did begin composing yet another symphony, his Ninth feels like a valedictory piece, filled as it is with sighing gestures and a time-stopping finale of rumination and resignation. It's hard to overstate the emotions it engenders. Program: MAHLER :  Symphony No. 9 Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel  conductor SUN /   MAR 3, 2019 - 2:00PM Upcomin...

About the Performance: Although Mahler did begin composing yet another symphony, his Ninth feels like a valedictory piece, filled as it is with sighing gestures and a time-stopping finale of rumination and resignation. It's hard to overstate the emotions it engenders. Program: MAHLER :  Symphony No. 9 Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel  conductor THU / FEB 28, 2019 - 8:00PM Upcoming...

About the Performance: Back in the 1930s, the LA Phil performed William Grant Still’s music conducted by the composer. Now, Thomas Wilkins leads a program combining jazz and orchestral music, including Still’s Fourth Symphony and a new tribute to Still. Program: ELLINGTON :  Three Black Kings GERSHWIN :  Second Rhapsody Intermission Adolphus HAILSTORK :  Still Holding On (world premiere, LA Phil c...

About the Performance: Following on the stunning success of his  Water Passion after St. Matthew , Tan Dun (composer for  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) has created another evening-length oratorio, this time based on stories inspired by the Dunhuang Cave paintings. Program: Tan DUN :  Buddha Passion (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission*) Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel  conductor...

About the Performance: The first organist to ever receive a Grammy® Award, Paul Jacobs has been a frequent and welcome guest at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Known for playing demanding programs without scores, he has memorized the complete works of Messiaen, Bach, Brahms, and Franck. Program: John WEAVER :  Fantasia for Organ BACH :  Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208 BACH :  Trio Sonata in E minor, BWV...

About the Performance: Britten’s masterful Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings spotlights the brilliance of our own Principal Horn, Australian Andrew Bain, a world-leading horn player. The monumental fanfare that begins Strauss’  Also sprach Zarathustra  was made famous by its role in  2001: A Space Odyssey . Program: BRITTEN :  Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes   BRITTEN :  Serenade for Ten...

About the Performance: Anyone who appreciates the iconic film scores of John Williams will be transported when Gustavo leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in this emblematic sampling of Williams’ unforgettable themes, augmented by a selection of film clips. Program: John WILLIAMS : Olympic Fanfare and Theme John WILLIAMS :  Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind John WILLIAMS : Out to Sea...