Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Gustavo Dudamel: 2019 Residency 18–20 Nov 2019
Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel conductor Yuja Wang piano Herbie Hancock piano/keys Ryan Hunter Ryan
Part of Barbican Presents 2019–20
Please do ... Turn off watch alarms and phones during the performance. Please don’t ... Take photos or make recordings during the performance. Use a hearing aid? Please use our induction loop – just switch your The City of London hearing aid to T setting on entering the hall. Corporation is the founder and principal funder of Programme produced by Harriet Smith; the Barbican Centre advertising by Cabbell (tel 020 3603 7930) 2 James Genus Herbie Hancock Gustavo Dudamel Philharmonic Los Angeles with orchestra andafullbandset Herbie Hancock interval (European premiere) Gabriela Ortiz premiere) Paul Desenne 7.30pm, BarbicanHall Herbie Hancock withLA Phil/Dudamel Tue 19Nov Yuja Wang Philharmonic Los Angeles Stravinsky interval London premiere) Tunes? John Adams Ginastera 7.30pm, BarbicanHall Mon 18Nov Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. (Youth Orchestra LosAngeles)and TheNational in rehearsal withfellow musiciansfrom YOLA most passionate young musicians willbeguided Led by Gustavo Dudamel,over 100 of theUK’s 11am, BarbicanHall with Gustavo Dudamel Tuning into ChangeOrchestra Wed 20 Nov Justin Tyson Lionel Loueke Gustavo Dudamel Residency 2019 Philharmonic LA (Los Angeles Philharmonic commission; (Los AngelesPhilharmoniccommission; 20minutes 20minutes Variaciones concertantes piano The Rite of Spring drums drums Must theDevil Have AlltheGood bass guitar Guasamacabra (European Téenek–Invenciones deTerritorio piano/keys a selectionof hisown material conductor conductor
7.30pm, BarbicanHall & Drama Lecture Recital Room, GuildhallSchoolof Music 10am Milton CourtConcertHall Mon 18Nov 6pm 2pm 10am & Drama Lecture Recital Room, GuildhallSchoolof Music Sun 17Nov The LA Philmasterclasses Gustavo Dudamel Philharmonic Los Angeles Bruckner interval Andrew Norman 2pm 10am & Drama Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall Schoolof Music 10am Silk Street MusicHall Wed 20 Nov 10am Silk Street MusicHall 10am Sarah Jackson, piccolo David Rejano Cantero, trombone Ben Hong,cello Matthew Howard, percussion Thomas Hooten, trumpet Burt Hara,Burt clarinet Andrew Bain,horn Chalifour,Martin violin Whitney Crockett, bassoon 20minutes Symphony No 4,‘Romantic’ Sustain (European premiere) conductor
of the20thcentury:Stravinsky’s orchestra ended withoneof thegreatest works concerts sheisgivinghere attheBarbican.The this seasonandmarked thefirst of several Angeles. Sheisthefocus of anArtistSpotlight who premiered thework inthespringLos soloist was thesuperstar pianistYujaWang, the Devil Have AlltheGoodTunes? a questioninhisthird pianoconcerto: Variaciones concertantes the captivating rhythms of Ginastera inhis We begantheresidency inArgentina with Creative Chairfor Jazz,HerbieHancock. well asacollaboration withthePhilharmonic’s centenary, whichincludesfour premieres as host thisresidency celebrating theorchestra’s as itsInternational Orchestra Partner and to Barbican isproud to present theLAPhilharmonic mainly withitsown pastachievements’. The American orchestras thatitisincompetition the LAPhilharmonicas‘sofar ahead of other writing in as oneof theworld’s pre-eminent ensembles; of thenext 100 years established areputation concert on24 October 1919 andover thecourse Dudamel. TheLAPhilharmonicgave itsvery first its inimitable Music&ArtisticDirector Gustavo residency attheBarbicanunderdirection of Welcome to theLosAngelesPhilharmonic’s2019 Welcome The New Yorker . JohnAdams poses , Alex Ross describes Rite of Spring Last night’s Lastnight’s Must Must . I hopeyou enjoy theresidency. It promises to beathrillingfew days. work withprincipalsfrom theLAPhil. from theGuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama as are themasterclasses inwhichstudents This isalways aneagerly awaited event, Britain andYouth Orchestra LosAngeles. from TheNationalYouth Orchestra of Great morning andbringingtogether young musicians rehearsal, given by Gustavo Dudameltomorrow As well asconcerts,there willbeanopen concert audience100 years inthefuture. Norman’s by another European premiere –Andrew richly lyricalFourth Symphony, prefaced The residency endstomorrow withBruckner’s ends theevening withasethisband. the LAPhilharmonic,before thejazzlegend the stage to perform someof hisclassichitswith Dudamel thenwelcomes HerbieHancockto the Mexican composerGabrielaOrtiz.Gustavo Desenne and Guasamacabra programme, withtheEuropean premieres of Today we have atypicallywide-ranging Head of Music Huw Humphreys Sustain Téenek–Invenciones deTerritorio by Dudamel’scompatriot Paul , inwhichheimagines a by by
3 Welcome 4 humour. often withelegantsimplicity, inaTaoist twistof events, huge ortrivial,dresses themasnonsense, cultural context inwhichthejocularnarration of This oddfive-beat frame andform ispartof a musical Pulcinella. its syncopated hunchedback. Inaway it’sour The humorous into oneunmistakably stressed final jolt. bar beencompressed, meltingitstwo lastnotes ‘bump’ onthelastbeat,asifasix-beatmeasure the five-beat bardisplays aspicysyncopation, a and getsitsspecialquirkinessfrom thelatter. So, time signatures (unlike theDominican popular The Venezuelan guasa to very simplemusic.Yet thequirkycharmof the infantile rhymes ornonsensepoetrymostlyset the nameof anoldmusicalgenre: funny, even ironic raillery. InVenezuela theword isalso mood, amomentof banter, of playful oreven ‘Guasa’, ingoodSpanish,defines ajoking a great variety of playful rhythmic designs. moderate pace of On apurely instrumental level, therelatively Dr Seuss, orby Dadaists inaboisterous café. global events are treated asifthey were sungby In thisvein, allsortsof personal adventures or Kaiser wants, whathereally wants isto carouse.) war /TheKaiser doesn’twant peace /Whatthe Kaiser esparrandear.’ (TheKaiser doesn’twant paz /ElKaiser loquequiere, loquequiere el ‘El Kaiser noquiere guerra /ElKaiser noquiere Consider this Guasamacabra Desenne Paul Tuesday 19November comesfrom itsoddrhythmic structures. merengue guasa guasa guasa guasa which includes 6/8 and 5/8 whichincludes6/8and5/8 , from about1913: limpsfrom barto bar, with isaclosecousinof the grooves supports merengue (born 1959) (born (2018) ) European premiere fresh, innocenttunequicklyevolving into amuch a big this piece,Icouldonlythinkof writinga Venezuela thispastyear, asIwas composing Witnessing theunbelievable final collapseof of nonchalantnostalgia. In away, even ahappy dance to thisuncertainty. is regular, nothing ispredictable. Letourmusic us make funof itall;nothing issquare, nothing interpretation of theworld: we are powerless, let guasa This isboth amusicalandcultural assertion; surprises, uncertainty andunpredictability. metric subdivisions,thisoddoneseemsto enjoy ‘spoken’ instrumental figures. Unlike theeven virtues of theSpanishlanguage translated into a poke there, reveling intheonomatopoeic choose theunexpected syncopation; ajabhere, Melodies andbasslinesinthe perhaps even despair. soundscapes, developments of melancholy, melodic rhymes inthefirst violinsledto unsettling decided to quote here. Also,thesimplest transparent cradle songI’dimagined and was once, inother timesandother works, a I saw unfamiliar thingshappento what meanings. or anurseryrhyme insinuatingominous,hidden be more unnerving than a slightly altered lullaby, musical quicksand allof asudden.Nothing can a mysterious coif,walking usonto unsettling that itcaneasilyseeitschildishbonnetflip into lighthearted innocenceorinfantile derisionis advantage of amusicalform thatuseselegant, took mefar beyond whatIhad imagined. The more complicated andeven dramatic affair. This Guasamacabra expresses, initsown specialway, adeep thatwould start witha guasa carries an element carriesanelement guasa
usually usually guasa ; Programme note ©Paul Desenne struggling today. children andyouth thatare suffering and Guasamacabra And then… Guasamacabra! the final, real, definitive, beastly, cathartic … guitar), themonstrous strummingof whichrocks (our littleVenezuelan strummedfour-string of theorchestra morphsinto ahyper-cuatro Spoiler alert:inthefinal act, thestringsection Afro-Venezuelan dancesunderarain of frogs? moments of the BelleÉpoqueinCaracas, 1913, thedarker win out?Thenostalgic, melancholiceleganceof variations. Whichof theelementswould finally of the cracks inthemuchquieter five-beat universe subdivisions, infiery dances,comingoutof the between two states of matter: ternary A classicaldialoguewas thenestablished antiphonal responses, accelerations … poised beatsof the fleeting world, somehow, spilledout of the and beatsof the energies, spinninghigh,contained inthefolds musical kaleidoscope, somewhere …hidden Andean heights…coloursandshapesfrom the dances …orapassing drums; agent to pullmeoutof thespleen:frogs, crickets, gloom anddoom,there had to beapropelling But Iwas determined not to remain inastate of guasa quitiplás guasa and its elegant, spicy or dark anditselegant,spicyordark isatribute to allVenezuelan , theAfro-Venezuelan bamboo guasa macabra desolation, or the upbeat desolation,ortheupbeat guasa bambuco : dancers,coquifrogs, from the . Sothisother
5 Tue 19 Nov 6 of his ownof his material selections performs Hancock Herbie (Territorial Inventions) Téenek–Invenciones de Territorio Ortiz Gabriela traditional musicandrigorous electronic formulas, interaction of street andacademy, of improvised a doctorate from London’sCityUniversity. The most esteemed musicschools,ultimately obtaining also trained atsomeof Mexico’s andEurope’s the soundsof Mexican vernacular music.Yet she Folkloristas, GabrielaOrtizgrew upimmersedin As thedaughter of two founders of thegroup Los remains. remains. being such conditionsandcircumstances by simply centuries. Intheend,humanbeingstranscend disappear, ifnot indecades, over thecourseof borders, andpossessionswilleventually are allmortals, justasourdomains,differences, borders, orsocio-economicconditionmay be.We matter whattheirrace, skincolour, political their relationship withtheirsurroundings, no of way human beingsfrom any given era determine a their territories. Indeed,inany region of theworld, determines theirdestinationsintimeandspace: who belongto aplace whosemere existence man’ –areference to allthemenandwomen and Querétaro inMexico. Itsnamemeans‘local Tamaulipas, SanLuisPotosí, Hidalgo,Puebla, region, whichencompassesthestates of Veracruz, Téenek isthelanguage spoken intheHuasteca Téenek –Invenciones deTerritorio commissioned andgave theworld premiere of has beencrucialinmuchof herwork. TheLAPhil , by culturally existing, by everything that being thattranscends timeanddefines in2017. (born 1964)(born in theirdifferences, enrichment,andmusical dissimilar inventions whichfind theirstrength is composedof aseriesof apparently It isprecisely becauseof thisthat identities through fragmentation. Téenek of not dividingbut,rather, recognising otherness, Through theplainandsimpleideaof fitting in, belonging, andof roots thatidentifyusculturally. vital rhythm thatlendsmeaningto thesenseof the world by imagining soundsandsenses,of that new symbols, of ways to resist andcomprehend matches andmismatches, of ancientcultures and Music thusbearswitnessto agradual history of uplifting us. development whileatthesametimeenrichingand differences between usthatpropitiate our a recognition of theactual particularitiesand future where there are noborders, butrather, transcendence, astrength thatalludesto a Téenek interval Programme note ©Alejandro Escuer potential future liesinrecognising ourdifferences. be diluted inpursuitof thepowerful ideathatour demonstrates how theexistence of borders may transformed over timeinadiscoursethat development: theseare interwoven and (2017) (2017) reflects ontheimportance of reaffirming isasonorous metaphor for our 20minutes European premiere Téenek
Smallz and Raskind period’. Other highlights of the season America – period’.Otherhighlightsof theseason the LAPhilas‘themostimportant orchestra in expansive vision led Philharmonic, where hisboldprogramming and the Music&ArtisticDirector of theLosAngeles This seasonseeshimenter hisseconddecade as countless peopleinunderserved communities. has helpedto provide access to theartsfor music to new audiencesaround theworld and for artseducation,hehasintroduced classical presence onthepodiumandhistireless advocacy and to changetheworld. Through hisdynamic music hasthepower to transform lives, to inspire, Gustavo Dudamelisdriven by thebeliefthat Gustavo Dudamel About the performers Gustavo Dudamel The New York Times conductor
to hail Inglewood, designedby architect Frank Gehry. its own permanent,purpose-builtfacility at leadership training. Next year YOLA willhave music instruction,academic supportand young peoplewithfree instruments,intensive serves more than1,200 musiciansproviding (Youth Orchestra LosAngeles),whichnow and itscommunitypartnersfounded YOLA Inspired by ElSistema, in2007he,theLAPhil initiated in1975 by Maestro JoséAntonio Abreu. extraordinary programme andphilosophy his childhoodexperience withElSistema, the through art,having himselfbeenshapedby music educationandsocialdevelopment Gustavo Dudamelisanardent advocate for and dudamelfoundation.org For more information visitgustavodudamel.com Spielberg’s new adaptation of also conductBernstein’s iconicscore for Steven Accademia NazionalediSanta Cecilia.Hewill Blancas choir, andanItalian tour withthe Chamber Orchestra andtheVenezuelan Manos Fidelio touring aconcertversion of Beethoven’s opera for atwo-week residency atLincolnCenter, Tokyo, conductingtheNew York Philharmonic concerts for the2020Olympicscelebrations in include leading theBerlinPhilharmonicinfour throughout Europe withtheMahler West SideStory .
7 About the performers 8 Douglas Kirkland work inanacoustic settingwiththealbum during thesameperiod,healsocontinuedto Hancock’s foray into electronic dancesounds; music. ‘Rockit’ and style thatcontinuesto influence contemporary electric jazzwithfunkandrock inaninnovative albums suchas by hiswork inthe1970s –withrecord-breaking new approaches onhisown recordings, followed groundbreaking soundinjazz,healsodeveloped of theMilesDavis Quintet thatpioneered a music movement sincethe1960s. Amember has beenanintegral partof every popular pianist andcomposer, HerbieHancock In addition to beingrecognised asalegendary world culture, technology, businessandmusic. Herbie Hancockremains attheforefront of Now inthesixthdecade of hisprofessional life, Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock Head Hunters piano/keys Future Shock – that combined –thatcombined marked VSOP , and iscurrently working onanew album. of theAmericanAcademy of ArtsandSciences Lifetime Achievement Award. Heisamember 2014, andinFebruary 2016, hegainedaGrammy Herbie Hancock:Possibilities the CharlesEliot Norton Lectures. Hismemoir, lectures series,‘TheEthicsof Jazz’,aspartof at Harvard University, completinghissix-week he was namedtheNorton Professor of Poetry recipient of theKennedy Center Honors.In2014, Irina Bokova andinDecember2013 was a Ambassador by UNESCO Director-General 2011 hewas namedaUNESCO Goodwill by French PrimeMinister François Fillon.In named aCommandeurdesArtsetLettres Committee of Artistsfor Peace (ICAP)andwas of Jazz.Heisafounder of theInternational Chairman of theTheloniousMonkInstitute Philharmonic Associationandserves asInstitute Creative Chairfor Jazzfor theLosAngeles He istheWilliamPowers &Carolyn Powers and ‘Chameleon’,are modernstandards. Island’, ‘MaidenVoyage’, ‘Watermelon Man’ of hiscompositions,including‘Canteloupe collaborative CD, 2011, two Grammy Awards for theglobally the Year for 14 Grammy Awards, includingAlbumof Round Midnight He received anAcademy Award for his Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter andTony Williams. which featured ex-Miles Davis bandmates River: TheJoniLetters film score andhaswon The Imagine Project , was published in , was publishedin and, in and,in . Many . Many genres of music. Hollywood Bowl, hostto thefinest artistsinall music. Since1922 itssummerhomehasbeenthe enhance theaudience’sexperience of orchestral and other thematicprogrammes designedto 165 performances, theLAPhilcreates festivals Walt Disney ConcertHall,withapproximately Hollywood Bowl. Duringitswinter seasonat iconic venues: Walt Disney ConcertHalland the more than250concertsannuallyatitstwo leadership theLAPhilperforms orpresents Director since2009,andunderhischarismatic Gustavo DudamelhasbeenMusic&Artistic on stage andinthecommunity. programming, demonstrating itsartistryandvision leads theway ingroundbreaking anddiverse outstanding orchestras athomeandabroad and explorations. Itisrecognised asoneof theworld’s commitment to core repertoire andadventurous presents aninspiringarray of musicthrough a can be.Now inits101st season,theLAPhil Philharmonic hasredefined whatanorchestra Over thecourseof 100 seasons,theLosAngeles Los AngelesPhilharmonic became itsfirst MusicDirector, servinguntil1927; and amateur musician.Walter HenryRothwell 1919 by WilliamAndrews Clark,Jr, amillionaire The LosAngelesPhilharmonicwas founded in neighbourhoods. to nearly1,200 studentsfrom underserved intensive musicinstruction,andleadership training community partnersprovide free instruments, El Sistema. Through YOLA, theLAPhilandits Angeles ),inspired by Venezuela’s revolutionary learning initiatives isYOLA (Youth Orchestra Los community. Amongitsinfluential andmultifaceted and neighbourhoodcentres of avastly diverse ranging performances intheschools,churches extends beyond theconcerthall,withwide- The orchestra’s involvement withLosAngeles Gustavo Dudamel(2009–present). (1985–9); Esa-Pekka Salonen(1992–2009); and Carlo MariaGiulini(1978–84); André Previn van Beinum(1956–9); ZubinMehta (1962–78); (1933–9); Alfred Wallenstein (1943–56); Eduard ´nskiArtur Rodzi (1929–33); Otto Klemperer in thatcapacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927–29); since then,10 renowned conductors have served
9 About the performers 10 Wilson Chair Wilson Connell Marjorie Concertmaster Principal Martin Chalifour Violin 1 John Adams Creative Chair Williams Samantha John and Paolo Bortolameolli Conductor Associate Chair Ronus Ann Susanna Mälkki Conductor Principal Guest Esa-Pekka Salonen Laureate Conductor Zubin Mehta Emeritus Conductor Chair Disney Lilly and Walt Gustavo Dudamel Director Music &Artistic Rochelle Abramson Michele Bovyer Affiliates Chair Philharmonic Concertmaster Assistant Akiko Tarumoto Rasulo Chair Barbara andJay Concertmaster Associate WangBing Ernest FleischmannChair Concertmaster Associate First Cole Nathan Los Angeles Philharmonic Angeles Los
Associate Principal Principal Associate Silverman Dale Hikawa Chair Connell John Teng Li Viola Peña-Kim ** Gabriela Suli Xue Michelle Tseng Tang * Yun Varty Manouelian Guido Lamell Nickolai Kurganov Chao-Hua Jin Tianyun Jia Jin-Shan Dai Ingrid Chun Dale Breidenthal Johnny Lee Kristine Whitson Violin 2 Justin Woo Stacy Wetzel Rebecca Reale Community for ArtisticServiceto the James Dao-Dalzell Chair Mark Houston Dalzelland Mitchell Newman Edith Markman Mischa Lefkowitz Jordan Koransky Miika Gregg I HAlbert SutnickChair Minyoung Chang L Eberhardt Chair Margaret andJerrold Camille Avellano Associate Principal Associate Mark Kashper Chair Lay Rossel Dorothy Taylor Lyndon Johnston Principal Principal Principal
Goldsmith Chair Goldsmith Elaine and Bram Principal Robert deMaine Cello Minor LWetzel Leticia Oaks Strong Meredith Snow Hui Liu Michael Larco Ingrid Hutman John Hayhurst Richard Elegino Dana Lawson Principal Assistant Ben Ullery David Garrett Jonathan Karoly Principal Assistant Dahae Kim Chair Lee Norman and Sadie Principal Associate Ben Hong Ted Botsford David AllenMoore Principal Assistant Oscar MMeza Principal Christopher Hanulik Double Bass Brent Samuel Serge Oskotsky Tao Ni Chair Brittan Maynard and Linda Gloria Lum Jason Lippmann Barry Gold
Peter Rofé Rofé Peter Brian Johnson Jory Herman Jack Cousin David Howard Andrew Lowy Principal Associate Burt Hara Chair Rauch Dudley and Michele Principal Boris Allakhverdyan Clarinet Carolyn Hove Cor anglais Carolyn Hove Anne MarieGabriele Principal Associate Marion ArthurKuszyk Vacant Oboe Sarah Jackson Piccolo Sarah Jackson Chair Danihel L Mari Elise ShopeHenry Chair Smith Russell H Mrs and Mr Principal Associate Karoly Catherine Ransom Chair Mancini Henry and Virginia Principal Denis Bouriakov Flute Principal BassEmeritus Dennis Trembly Fuller ** Michael Principal
Hellman Chair Bud andBarbara Assistant Ethan Bearman Gothie Chair Reese andDoris Drake * Brian Trust Chair Loring Charitable Amy JoRhine Alan Scott KleeChair Gregory Roosa Principal Associate Jaclyn Rainey Chair Bessell Cecil John Andrew Bain Horn EvanKuhlmann Contrabassoon Evan Kuhlmann Michele Grego Principal Associate Shawn Mouser Principal Whitney Crockett Bassoon David Howard Bass Clarinet Andrew Lowy E flatClarinet
Principal
Norman Pearson Tuba Lofton John Bass Trombone Paul Radke Chair Brown Linda and Abbott Principal Associate James Miller Cantero David Rejano Trombone Jeffrey Strong Chair Sugar Valerie and Ronald Christopher Still Chair Brier de Donald and Nancy Principal Associate James Wilt Chair Paul Diane and David M Principal Thomas Hooten Trumpet ely Sumpter ** Wesley Perry Dreiman James Babor Principal Matthew Howard Percussion Rauch Chair and Dudley Cecilia Principal Pereira Joseph Timpani
Principal
Philharmonic string Philharmonic string The LosAngeles ** Resident Fellows * onsabbatical Anna Rakitina Enluis Montes Olivar Marta Gardolinska Hilo Carriel Conducting Fellows Jeffrey Neville Manager Personnel Stephen Biagini McGregor Kazue Asawa Librarians Lou AnneNeill Harp Chair Hotchkis Bixby Katharine Joanne Pearce Martin Keyboards Local 47, AFM. Professional Musicians are represented by Angeles Philharmonic The musiciansof theLos of length of service. and are listed inorder the positionequally the musiciansshare there are two principals In thosesectionswhere seats periodically. alphabetically change basis. Players listed seating onasystematic section utilisesrevolving
11 About the performers 30 & 31 May Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra The Jungle Capturing the energy of New York City, Wynton Marsalis’s new symphony is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in this European premiere.
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