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SEASON HIGHLIGHTS 6 WELCOME TO THE ’S SEASON SUPERSTARS 7 2016/17 SEASON AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA PHIL ORCHESTRAL SERIES Thursday Evenings (TH1, TH2) 8-10 You’ll recognize our trademark mix of innovation and tradition in such projects Friday Evenings (FR1) 11 as the unique cycle Schubert Symphonies / Mahler Songs conducted by (FR2, FR3) 12-13 Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. We celebrate Creative Chair Casual Fridays (FRC1) 14 ’ 70th birthday with several major presentations and end the Inside the Music (FRC2) 14 Friday Midday (FRM) 15 season with the cycle of Bartók’s concertos featuring Yuja Wang. Saturday Evenings (SA1, SA2, SA3) 16-18 Join us this season for extraordinary music in brilliant performances. Saturday Matinees (SAM) 19 Sunday Matinees (SU1, SU2, SU3) 20-22 Toyota Symphonies for Youth (SY1, SY2) 23 LA PHIL. Moving music forward.

CLASSICAL PRESENTATIONS Baroque Variations (BV1) 24 Colburn Celebrity Series (CE1, CE2) 25 (CH1, CH2) 26 Organ Recitals (OR1) 26 Green Umbrella (GU1) 27

WORLD MUSIC / / SONGBOOK (WM1, JZ1, SB1) 28-29

ADDITIONAL CONCERTS Visiting Orchestras 30 Deck the Hall 31 Sounds About Town 31 Halloween Organ & Film 31

PRICING / SEATING CHART 32-34 Best Value →→ Guaranteed lowest price for the best seats EDUCATION & COMMUNITY 35 →→ No price increases for additional ticket SUBSCRIBER purchases or exchanges →→ All subscriptions in Terrace, Terrace BENEFITS East/West and Balcony discounted 20% →→ Discounts on select concerts and at the LA Phil Store We thank you for your commitment by providing the following valuable VIP Access benefits with your subscription. →→ Best seats reserved for subscribers →→ Subscriber-only events with the musicians Renew Today! →→ Priority access to tickets 2016/17 Season Calendar Premium Handling Use the chronological guide inside to help →→ First opportunity for seat upgrades you navigate through the season and discover →→ Free and easy ticket exchange concerts beyond your subscription. →→ Need help? Call our subscriber line at 323.850.2025. See insert. MAJOR EVENTS BARTÓK CYCLE WITH DUDAMEL SCHUBERT AND YUJA WANG SYMPHONIES / Bartók’s three piano concertos are a priceless treasure of the 20th-century. Each distinct, they give us three perspectives of the mature composer’s persistent creative MAHLER SONGS growth: from the fearless modernist to the monster virtuoso to the folk-inflected poet. Yuja Wang’s astonishing Dudamel Leads an Extraordinary Cycle gifts are suited for the awesome challenges Bartók sets before her. Hear the concertos in chronological order as In a number of highly acclaimed symphonic cycles, Gustavo Dudamel has displayed his passion for part of these exhilarating programs that feature music by some of the most important composers in his musical life. This season, he offers us something a his contemporaries Stravinsky and Janácˇek. little different, a cycle that you’ve never witnessed before: the symphonies of Franz Schubert together with orchestral songs by . This inspired juxtaposition – symphonies by an MAY 26-JUN 4 incomparable songsmith, songs by a consummate symphonist – looks deeply into the outpouring of SERIES → TH1, FR1, FRM, SA3, SAM, SU1, SU3 two great Viennese masters, one from the outset of the Romantic era, the other at the very end. Each composer found ways to express the ineffable bittersweetness between pathos and elation with unmatched depth and perspective. Hearing this glorious music in parallel will make you wonder why such a pairing hasn’t happened before.

MAY 1–21 SERIES → TH1, TH2, FRC2, FR2, FR3, SA1, SA2, SA3, SU2

ADAMS @ 70 "One of our most important contemporary voices, American Master. Unstoppable Force. [Adams’] music is both more radical and more John Adams is one of our greatest living composers, continually conservative than his minimalist forebears." refreshing his art and ever pushing himself toward more ambitious goals. The LA Phil has enjoyed a long and close relationship with Adams, particularly since 2009 when he became our Creative Chair. We are proud and thrilled to mark his personal milestone with several of his landmark works, including the moving nativity oratorio El Niño and his breakthrough Nixon in China, semi-staged and conducted by Adams himself. El Niño He will also conduct the Green Umbrella “Four World Premieres” concert on October 1. Join us as we open our subscription season with Absolute Jest, Adams’ recent transmogrification of iconic Beethoven motives.

SEP 29-30; OCT 1- 2; DEC 16, 18; MAR 3, 5 SERIES → TH2, FR1, FR2, SU1, SU2, GU1

4 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON SUPERSTARS

John Adams Emerson Quartet Zubin Mehta Esa-Pekka Salonen Thomas Adès Renée Fleming Garrick Ohlsson Jean-Yves Thibaudet Emanuel Ax Hélène Grimaud Itzhak Perlman Yuja Wang Joan Baez Hilary Hahn Omara Portuondo SPIRITUAL MASTERWORKS Joshua Bell Herbie Hancock Sir Simon Rattle Berliner Philharmoniker Lang Lang In the weeks leading up to Christmas, you have the rare Ian Bostridge Yo-Yo Ma opportunity to experience three magnificent choral works Yefim Bronfman from three different eras: Haydn’s The Creation, Handel’s , and Adams’ El Niño. Whether through intense drama, charm and humor, or purest beauty, each in its unique way possesses the power to elevate our minds, enter deep into our hearts and touch upon the core of the holiday season.

DEC 8-11, 15-18 SERIES → TH1, TH2, FR1, FR2, SA2, SAM, SU1, SU2 Director Alberto Arvelo’s concept for Haydn’s The Creation Joan Baez Herbie Hancock REYKJAVÍK FESTIVAL Esa-Pekka Salonen

Iceland's Music Explosion In Reykjavík’s close-knit artistic community, the contemporary music scene is indistinguishable from the rock, pop, and scenes. A hallmark of our season will be the Reykjavík Festival, curated by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Daníel Bjarnason, which will highlight the creativity thriving in Iceland’s capital. Passing seamlessly across a wide spectrum of music, the festival will encompass Green Umbrella, World Music, and Toyota Symphonies for Youth programs, as well as an extensive number of non-subscription events to be announced at a later Sir Simon Rattle Renée date: orchestral concerts with Salonen, popular music and interdisciplinary Lang Lang Fleming partnerships, visual and installation art, chamber music, lectures and film. Available now for subscribers: APR 1, 8, 11, 17 SERIES → SY1, SY2, GU1, WM1 Additional concerts and artists to be announced YUVAL SHARON

Artist-Collaborator

in/SIGHT The musical blogosphere buzzed into overdrive about Hopscotch, the revolutionary opera Look for this symbol. performed in 24 moving cars. The mastermind behind it was Yuval Sharon, a rare creative force who’s redefining the audience experience. As the LA Phil’s new Artist-Collaborator, s Heighten your concert experience with multi-sensory he will apply his fertile imagination to all kinds of projects. Says Sharon, “the individual presentations, such as staged performances, video explorations we undertake [will] add up to a complete disruption of a conventional projections and other creative visual elements. Look trajectory for an organization and a director.” for the symbol above to identify these refreshingly innovative programs. OCT 1, MAR 21, JUN 13 SERIES → GU1, CE2

Look for this symbol. PROJECTYS 6 RENEW TODAY — LAPHIL.COM 7 LOS ANGELES THURSDAY EVENINGS SERIES 8 CONCERTS JAN 5 MAY 11 TH1 8PM Tovey & Tchaikovsky SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / PHILHARMONIC Bramwell Tovey, conductor MAHLER SONGS OCT 13 Ray Chen, violin 3 & 4 • Kindertotenlieder Dudamel & Joshua Bell WALTON Façade Suite No. 2 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor SIBELIUS Matthias Goerne, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor SERIES TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty, Act 2 Joshua Bell, violin SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 The ever-charming Bramwell Tovey frames MAHLER Kindertotenlieder Matthias PINTSCHER towards Osiris this program with Walton’s Jazz Age sass SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4, “Tragic” (West Coast premiere) and the romantic passion of Tchaikovsky’s BRAHMS Violin Concerto Dudamel’s fascinating and inspired survey fairy tale lovers. STRAUSS Don Juan of Schubert symphonies combined with STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks orchestral songs by Mahler reaches JAN 26 its second installment. Mahler’s utterly Brahms’ majestic concerto is followed by Dudamel & Emanuel Ax heartbreaking songs on the death of some of Strauss’ most vivid orchestral Gustavo Dudamel, conductor children precede the symphony that characterizations, including the bold seducer Emanuel Ax, piano Schubert himself called “Tragic.” Don Juan and the defiant joker Till Eulenspiegel. SCHOENBERG Accompaniment NOV 17 to a Film Scene JUN 1 Rebel Without a Cause MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449 BARTÓK CYCLE with SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG Scott Dunn, conductor MOZART Symphony No. 31, K. 297, “Paris” Piano Concerto No. 2 ROSENMAN Rebel Without a Cause (world premiere, live score with Even as he pioneered , Schoenberg Gustavo Dudamel, conductor complete film) remained ever devoted to pure classical Yuja Wang, piano forms as idealized in the music of Mozart. STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind When most scores were influenced by Encounter two sorts of genius in works by Instruments 19th-century composers, Leonard Rosenman a pair of Viennese giants. revolutionized film music, taking it into the BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2 ˇ 20th-century with a potent mix of , APR 20 JANÁCEK Sinfonietta jazz and the of Bartók and From the New World Hear Bartók’s brilliantly blistering Stravinsky. David Robertson, conductor Second Piano Concerto between bright Paul Jacobs, organ and powerful music by Stravinsky and DEC 8 Janácˇek. Dudamel Conducts IVES Three Places in New England Haydn’s Creation Christopher ROUSE Organ Concerto (West Coast premiere, LA Phil Gustavo Dudamel, conductor co-commission) Alberto Arvelo, video artist/director DVORˇ ÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the Rachele Gilmore, soprano New World” Joshua Guerrero, tenor Johannes Kammler, baritone St. Louis Symphony conductor David Los Angeles Master Chorale Robertson explores multiple perspectives , artistic director in this U.S.-focused program, from New England’s self-made man to a Pulitzer HAYDN The Creation winner from our time, all topped off by (with video installation) Dvorˇák’s musical interpretation of his With texts drawn from the Bible and time visiting the states. John Milton’s poetry, Haydn’s timeless masterpiece is a monumental yet delightful Joshua Bell vision of God creating the world, bursting with imagination, wit and beauty. Leading Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo collaborates in this joyous production.

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SERIES 8 CONCERTS DEC 15 APR 6 SERIES 4 CONCERTS DEC 16 MAY 26 TH2 8PM Handel’s Messiah Salonen & Sibelius FR1 8PM ADAMS @ 70 BARTÓK CYCLE with Bernard Labadie, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor El Niño DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG Karina Gauvin, soprano Martin Chalifour, violin Please note that this series has Grant Gershon, conductor Piano Concerto No. 1 SEP 29 Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano SIBELIUS Finlandia changed. in/SIGHT concerts now Julia Bullock, soprano Gustavo Dudamel, conductor ADAMS @ 70 Allan Clayton, tenor Symphony No. 6 appear on multiple series. This Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano Yuja Wang, piano Dudamel & Yefim Bronfman Matthew Brook, bass-baritone Humoresques season, your series will feature Davone Tines, bass Angela Meade, soprano La Chapelle de Québec, chorus Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Symphony No. 7 two in/SIGHT events. Dan Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano Yefim Bronfman, piano HANDEL Messiah Nathan Medley, countertenors Our Conductor Laureate will delineate Ladislav Elgr, tenor St. Lawrence Los Angeles Master Chorale From the gentle simplicity of the Pastorale the struggle and triumph of Sibelius’ NOV 18 Stefan Kocan, bass Grant Gershon, artistic director BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture to the colossal final choruses, Handel’s late symphonies as only he can, and our On the Waterfront Iveta Apkalna, organ John ADAMS Absolute Jest universally beloved musical epic on the life Principal Concertmaster treats us to Film with Live Orchestra John ADAMS El Niño Los Angeles Master Chorale BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 and mission of Jesus Christ will permeate the composer’s Humoresques for violin (with film by ) Grant Gershon, artistic director your heart and soul. Making it even more David Newman, conductor John Adams’ recent work for string quartet and orchestra. Having set himself the extraordinarily STRAVINSKY Requiem Canticles special is the unanimity, purity, and stylish BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront and orchestra interweaves fragments of ambitious goal of composing a nativity BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 1 perfection of the sound from the chorus that (live score with complete film) Beethoven’s late quartets, bits of the 8th was founded by Baroque expert Labadie. MAY 18 oratorio for our time, John Adams JANÁCˇEK Glagolitic SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / Experience a thrilling new presentation of and 9th symphonies, the “Hammerklavier” succeeded spectacularly. With multilingual Dudamel’s partnership with the the iconic winner of eight Oscars®: the LA Sonata, and other archetypal Beethoven JAN 19 MAHLER SONGS texts drawn from Scripture, medieval astonishing Yuja Wang for Bartok’s three Phil plays ’s score live motives. By hearing Adams’ personal Gil Shaham Plays Prokofiev 5 & 6 • Rückert tracts and contemporary poetry, the work piano concertos begins with a powerhouse transformations next to Beethoven’s with the re-mastered film (directed by Lionel Bringuier, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor is powerful, provocative and, ultimately, program, climaxing with Janácˇek’s bristling own music, our understanding of both Elia Kazan, screenplay by Budd Schulberg, Gil Shaham, violin Eli¯na Garancˇa, mezzo-soprano deeply touching. and utterly original vision of a Mass in a featuring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. composers is enhanced. nature-enveloped forest cathedral. MUSSORGSKY (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 Cobb and Eva Marie Saint), shown in hi-def FEB 3 Night on Bald Mountain OCT 20 MAHLER Rückert Lieder with original dialog intact. Romeo and Juliet with Dudamel PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6, Dudamel Conducts Mahler’s Ninth Gustavo Dudamel, conductor STRAVINSKY Petrushka “Little C-major” On The Waterfront © 1954, renewed 1982 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Lisa Batiashvili, violin Prokofiev wrote this bittersweet, soaring Part three of Dudamel’s fascinating and All rights reserved.© A.M.P.A.S. MAHLER Symphony No. 9 SCHNITTKE (K)ein Sommernachtstraum concerto in 1935, as he was returning to inspired survey of Schubert symphonies TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto It’s hard to imagine a more suitable musical Russia after decades in the West. Hear this combined with orchestral songs by Mahler PROKOFIEV Selections from match than the powerful and profound pairing classic played by a contemporary master. features the Mozart-enraptured Fifth and Romeo and Juliet of Gustavo Dudamel and Gustav Mahler. the “Little C-major,” sharing the program FEB 2 with Mahler’s uniquely moving settings Lisa Batiashvili’s passionate and poetic DEC 1 Romeo and Juliet with Dudamel of poetry by one of his favorite writers, approach is ideally suited to Tchaikovsky’s Dudamel & Russian Masters Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Friedrich Rückert. thrilling Romantic concerto. With its Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin wonderfully dancing tunefulness and vivid orchestration, Prokofiev’s Romeo Daniil Trifonov, piano SCHNITTKE (K)ein Sommernachtstraum and Juliet score follows in the footsteps of RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet music. PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite PROKOFIEV Selections from SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy Romeo and Juliet Dudamel leads a sweeping Russian Lisa Batiashvili’s passionate and poetic program that begins at an intense level approach is ideally suited to Tchaikovsky’s in/SIGHT of post-Romantic passion and concludes thrilling Romantic concerto. With its with the dazzling mysticism of Scriabin’s wonderfully dancing tunefulness and visions of rapture. vivid orchestration, Prokofiev’s Romeo Gustavo and Juliet score follows in the footsteps of Dudamel Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet music.

Yuja Wang

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SERIES 6 CONCERTS NOV 11 MAR 3 SERIES 4 CONCERTS MAR 24 FR2 8PM Dvorˇák & Sibelius ADAMS @ 70 FR3 8PM Tetzlaff Plays Dvorˇák Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Nixon in China Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Johannes Moser, cello SEP 30 John Adams, conductor OCT 28 Christian Tetzlaff, violin ˇ ADAMS @ 70 MOSOLOV The Iron Foundry Elkhanah Pulitzer, director Dudamel Conducts Tchaikovsky DVORÁK Carnival Overture DVORˇ ÁK Cello Concerto Paulo Szot, Nixon DVORˇ ÁK Violin Concerto Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Dudamel & Yefim Bronfman SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1 Russell Thomas, Mao BRAHMS (orch. Schoenberg) Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Joélle Harvey, Pat Nixon Andrew NORMAN Play Much-lauded cellist Johannes Moser Piano Quartet in G minor Yefim Bronfman, piano Kathleen Kim, Madame Mao TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 performs Dvorˇák’s poignant and gripping The brilliant Christian Tetzlaff plays St. Lawrence String Quartet Peter Coleman-Wright, Kissinger masterwork. Former Dudamel Conducting Chosen as one of the recordings of Dvorˇák’s lyrical Violin Concerto. Lacey Jo Benter, Renée Rapier, secretaries BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture Fellow Santtu-Matias Rouvali returns to the year by The New Yorker, Andrew Eschenbach matches it with Schoenberg’s Los Angeles Master Chorale John ADAMS Absolute Jest lead his famous countryman’s majestically Norman’s Play mixes the highly energetic dazzling orchestration of Brahms’ G-minor Grant Gershon, artistic director BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 surging First Symphony. and the unexpectedly fanciful. It makes Piano Quartet, which sounds like a new John Adams’ recent work for string quartet John ADAMS Nixon in China a captivating program partner with Brahms symphony, in vivid, expanded Tchaikovsky’s passionate Fourth and orchestra interweaves fragments of JAN 20 John Adams’ audacious first opera turned the colors. Symphony. Beethoven’s late quartets, bits of the 8th Gil Shaham Plays Prokofiev music world on its head, creating a whole and 9th symphonies, the “Hammerklavier” MAY 19 Lionel Bringuier, conductor new kind of opera. Unlike most written since, JAN 13 Sonata, and other archetypal Beethoven Gil Shaham, violin Nixon has entered the rarefied pantheon of SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / motives. By hearing Adams’ personal Mehta & Shankar MUSSORGSKY (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) the international repertoire. With Adams MAHLER SONGS transformations next to Beethoven’s Zubin Mehta, conductor Night on Bald Mountain himself conducting and the acclaimed 5 & 6 • Rückert own music, our understanding of both Elkhanah Pulitzer directing, this innovative Anoushka Shankar, sitar PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor composers is enhanced. production promises to be historic in its STRAVINSKY Petrushka Sitar Concerto No. 2, Eli¯na Garancˇa, mezzo-soprano own right. “Raga mala” (West Coast premiere) OCT 21 Prokofiev wrote this bittersweet, soaring STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5 Dudamel Conducts concerto in 1935, as he was returning to MAY 12 MAHLER Rückert Lieder When the late Ravi Shankar released his Mahler’s Ninth Russia after decades in the West. Hear this SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6, classic played by a contemporary master. Second Sitar Concerto in 1981, it was “Little C-major” Gustavo Dudamel, conductor MAHLER SONGS conducted by none other than Zubin Mehta. Part three of Dudamel’s fascinating and MAHLER Symphony No. 9 3 & 4 • Kindertotenlieder Hear this rarely performed work now in inspired survey of Schubert symphonies Gustavo Dudamel, conductor the loving hands of Shankar’s gifted daughter It’s hard to imagine a more suitable combined with orchestral songs by Mahler Matthias Goerne, baritone with its original conductor at the helm. musical match than the powerful and features the Mozart-enraptured Fifth and profound pairing of Gustavo Dudamel SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 the “Little C-major,” sharing the program and Gustav Mahler. MAHLER Kindertotenlieder with Mahler’s uniquely moving settings of SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4, “Tragic” poetry by one of his favorite writers, Dudamel’s fascinating and inspired survey Friedrich Rückert. of all Schubert’s symphonies combined with orchestral songs by Mahler reaches its second installment. Mahler’s utterly heartbreaking songs on the death of in/SIGHT children precede the symphony that Schubert himself called “Tragic.”

Eli¯na Garancˇa

Gil Shaham

12 LA Phil Orchestral Series Christian Tetzlaff John Adams Russell Thomas OCT 7 JAN 27 FRIDAY Ravel & Stravinsky Dudamel & Emanuel Ax FRIDAY MIDDAY Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor EVENINGS Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Emanuel Ax, piano RAVEL Concerto in G SCHOENBERG Accompaniment to a SERIES 6 CONCERTS FEB 24 APR 28 STRAVINSKY The Firebird Film Scene CASUAL Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms Wagner’s Ring MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449 11AM From Ravel’s jazzy piano concerto to FRM MOZART Symphony No. 31, K. 297, “Paris” James Gaffigan, conductor Philippe Jordan, conductor FRIDAYS Stravinsky’s exotic ballet, this program Hélène Grimaud, piano Iréne Theorin, soprano paints a remarkable picture of the unique Even as he pioneered atonality, Schoenberg OCT 14 BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 WAGNER Das Rheingold: creative scene that was early 20th-century remained ever devoted to pure classical Enjoy a magnificent concert, Dudamel & Joshua Bell James MATHESON new work Prelude, orchestral interludes, Paris. forms as idealized in the music of Mozart. usually shorter and without for orchestra (world premiere, and Entrance of the Gods Encounter two sorts of genius in works by Gustavo Dudamel, conductor LA Phil commission) Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries intermission, preceded by an NOV 25 a pair of Viennese giants. Joshua Bell, violin introduction from an LA Phil Mozart & Brahms Matthias PINTSCHER towards Osiris RAVEL Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2 Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music Siegfried: Forest Murmurs musician. Then, stay for TalkBack MAR 31 (West Coast premiere) The towering Brahms Second Concerto Krzysztof Urban´ski, conductor Götterdämmerung: Mirga Conducts Mozart & Haydn BRAHMS Violin Concerto is among the masterworks on which the (Q&A) with the artists or mingle Augustin Hadelich, violin Siegfried’s Rhine Journey STRAUSS Don Juan gifted Hélène Grimaud’s international with orchestra members and MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, conductor Götterdämmerung: STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks reputation rests. fellow concertgoers. BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Stephen Kovacevich, piano Siegfried’s Funeral March Brahms’ majestic concerto is followed by From the pristine pleasures of Mozart to MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 Götterdämmerung: some of Strauss’ most vivid orchestral MAR 10 the bittersweet Romanticism of Brahms, HAYDN Symphony No. 31 in D, “Horn Signal” “Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort” SERIES 4 CONCERTS characterizations, including the bold Beethoven & Shostakovich dive deep into the heart of the A keyboard legend applies a lifetime of seducer Don Juan and the defiant joker , conductor The Music Director of the Paris Opéra FRC1 8PM orchestral repertoire. experience to Mozart’s extraordinary presides over this extravagant celebration Till Eulenspiegel. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 concerto. Our dynamic Associate of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The requisite vocal SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Conductor brings out all the color and DEC 2 punch is provided by Swedish soprano humor of Haydn’s “Horn Signal” Symphony. Dudamel & Russian Masters From the 19th and 20th centuries come Iréne Theorin, one of the world’s greatest two fifth symphonies perfectly suited Wagnerians. Gustavos Dudamel, conductor to display orchestral muscle at its most Daniil Trifonov, piano powerful and drama at its most compelling. JUN 2 DEC 9 MAR 17 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 BARTÓK CYCLE with FRIDAY Dudamel Conducts Haydn’s Creation Denève & Thibaudet PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Stéphane Denève, conductor Piano Concerto No. 2 Alberto Arvelo, video artist/director Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Dudamel leads a sweeping Russian EVENINGS Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Rachele Gilmore, Joshua Guerrero, Johannes BRITTEN Passacaglia program that begins at an intense level Kammler, singers; Los Angeles Master Yuja Wang, piano INSIDE James MacMILLAN Piano Concerto No. 3 of post-Romantic passion and concludes Chorale, Grant Gershon, artistic director FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande with the dazzling mysticism of Scriabin’s STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind Instruments HAYDN The Creation (with video installation) DEBUSSY La mer visions of rapture. THE MUSIC BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2 With texts drawn from the Bible and John The prolific Scot who writes complex yet JANÁCˇEK Sinfonietta WITH BRIAN LAURITZEN Milton’s poetry, Haydn’s timeless masterpiece approachable, spiritually informed music, is a monumental yet delightful vision of has built a concerto/tone poem on the Hear Bartók’s brilliantly blistering Second With Inside the Music, you get an God creating the world. Leading Catholic ritual practice of the Rosary. He Piano Concerto between bright and array of enhancements to help Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo composed it specifically for Thibaudet, powerful music by Stravinsky and Janácˇek. you get more out of your musical collaborates in this joyous production. who plays it here. encounter: beautifully produced FEB 10 MAY 5 behind-the-scenes videos, Dances of Death SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / pre-concert presentations, and Thomas Adès, conductor MAHLER SONGS insight from the musicians. Steven Isserlis, cello 1 & 2 • Wayfarer Simon Keenlyside, baritone Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano SERIES 4 CONCERTS Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte SCHUBERT Symphony No. 1 Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla FRC2 8PM SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer Thomas ADÈS Lieux retrouvés SCHUBERT Symphony No. 2 (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission) Thomas ADÈS Totentanz Dudamel launches an utterly fascinating (West Coast premiere) and inspired survey combining all of Emanuel Ax Schubert’s symphonies with orchestral Adès crowns a provocative program with songs by Mahler, emphasizing the deep his macabre “dance of death” for two connection between these Viennese singers and orchestra, “his longest, most masters who bookend the Romantic era. ambitious and most astounding orchestral composition yet.” () 14 LA Phil Orchestral Series Brian Lauritzen RENEW TODAY — LAPHIL.COM 15 SATURDAY EVENINGS SATURDAY EVENINGS

SERIES 8 CONCERTS JAN 21 APR 22 SERIES 8 CONCERTS FEB 4 APR 29 SA1 8PM Gil Shaham Plays Prokofiev From the New World SA2 8PM Romeo and Juliet with Dudamel Wagner’s Ring Lionel Bringuier, conductor David Robertson, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Philippe Jordan, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin Iréne Theorin, soprano OCT 22 Gil Shaham, violin Paul Jacobs, organ OCT 15 Dudamel Conducts MUSSORGSKY (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) IVES Three Places in New England Dudamel & Joshua Bell SCHNITTKE (K)ein Sommernachtstraum WAGNER Das Rheingold: Night on Bald Mountain Christopher ROUSE Organ Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto Prelude, orchestral interludes, Mahler’s Ninth Gustavo Dudamel, conductor PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 (West Coast premiere, LA Phil co- PROKOFIEV Selections from and Entrance of the Gods Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Joshua Bell, violin STRAVINSKY Petrushka commission) Romeo and Juliet Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries MAHLER Symphony No. 9 DVORˇ ÁK Symphony No. 9, Matthias PINTSCHER towards Osiris Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music Prokofiev wrote this bittersweet, soaring Lisa Batiashvili’s passionate and poetic “From the New World” (West Coast premiere) Siegfried: Forest Murmurs It’s hard to imagine a more suitable musical concerto in 1935, as he was returning to approach is ideally suited to Tchaikovsky’s BRAHMS Violin Concerto Götterdämmerung: match than the powerful and profound Russia after decades in the West. Hear this St. Louis Symphony conductor David thrilling Romantic concerto. With its STRAUSS Don Juan Siegfried’s Rhine Journey pairing of Gustavo Dudamel and Gustav classic played by a contemporary master. Robertson explores multiple perspectives wonderfully dancing tunefulness and STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Götterdämmerung: Mahler. in this U.S.-focused program, from New vivid orchestration, Prokofiev’s Romeo Siegfried’s Funeral March England’s self-made man to a Pulitzer Brahms’ majestic concerto is followed and Juliet score follows in the footsteps of FEB 25 Götterdämmerung: NOV 26 Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms winner from our time, all topped off by by some of Strauss’ most vivid orchestral Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet music. characterizations, including the bold seducer “Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort” Mozart & Brahms James Gaffigan, conductor Dvorˇák’s musical interpretation of his Don Juan and the defiant joker Till Eulenspiegel. MAR 11 The Music Director of the Paris Opéra Krzysztof Urban´ski, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano time visiting the states. Augustin Hadelich, violin Beethoven & Shostakovich presides over this extravagant celebration BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 MAY 20 DEC 17 Jaap van Zweden, conductor of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The requisite vocal BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 James MATHESON new work for orchestra SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / Handel’s Messiah punch is provided by Swedish soprano MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” (world premiere, LA Phil commission) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 Bernard Labadie, conductor Iréne Theorin, one of the world’s greatest BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 MAHLER SONGS SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 RAVEL Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2 Wagnerians. 8 & 9 • Wunderhorn Karina Gauvin, soprano From the pristine pleasures of Mozart to The towering Brahms Second Concerto Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano From the 19th and 20th centuries come the bittersweet Romanticism of Brahms, is among the masterworks on which the Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Allan Clayton, tenor two fifth symphonies perfectly suited to MAY 13 dive deep into the heart of the orchestral gifted Hélène Grimaud’s international Eli¯na Garancˇa, mezzo-soprano Matthew Brook, bass-baritone display orchestral muscle at its most SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / repertoire. reputation rests. SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished” La Chapelle de Québec, chorus powerful and drama at its most compelling. MAHLER SONGS MAHLER Songs from Des Knaben HANDEL Messiah 3 & 4 • Kindertotenlieder JAN 7 MAR 18 Wunderhorn APR 1 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Tovey & Tchaikovsky Denéve & Thibaudet SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, From the gentle simplicity of the Pastorale to Mirga Conducts Mozart & Haydn the colossal final choruses, Handel’s universally Matthias Goerne, baritone Bramwell Tovey, conductor Stéphane Denève, conductor “Great C-major” Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, conductor beloved musical epic on the life and mission SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 Ray Chen, violin Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Dudamel’s fascinating and inspired survey of Jesus Christ will permeate your heart and Stephen Kovacevich, piano MAHLER Kindertotenlieder WALTON Façade Suite No. 2 of Schubert symphonies combined with soul. Making it even more special is the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet BRITTEN Passacaglia SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4, “Tragic” unanimity, purity, and stylish perfection of SIBELIUS Violin Concerto James MacMILLAN Piano Concerto No. 3 orchestral songs by Mahler reaches its MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 the sound from the chorus that was founded Dudamel’s fascinating and inspired survey TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty, Act 2 FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande apex with the sublime joys of Schubert’s Georg Friedrich HAAS Concerto Grosso final symphonies, combined with gorgeous by Baroque expert Labadie. No. 1 for Alpine Horns and Orchestra of Schubert symphonies combined with The ever-charming Bramwell Tovey frames DEBUSSY La mer examples of Mahler’s settings of folk poetry (U.S. premiere, LA Phil co-commission) orchestral songs by Mahler reaches this program with Walton’s Jazz Age sass The prolific Scot who writes complex yet from The Youth’s Magic Horn. JAN 14 HAYDN Symphony No. 31 in D, “Horn its second installment. Mahler’s utterly and the romantic passion of Tchaikovsky’s approachable, spiritually informed music, Mehta & Shankar Signal” heartbreaking songs on the death of fairy tale lovers. has built a concerto/tone poem on the Zubin Mehta, conductor children precede the symphony that A keyboard legend applies a lifetime of Catholic ritual practice of the Rosary. He Anoushka Shankar, sitar Schubert himself called “Tragic.” composed it specifically for Thibaudet, experience to Mozart’s extraordinary Ravi SHANKAR Sitar Concerto No. 2, who plays it here. concerto. Our dynamic Associate “Raga mala” (West Coast premiere) Conductor brings out all the color of two STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben very different Austrian works featuring When the late Ravi Shankar released his horns. Second Sitar Concerto in 1981, it was conducted by none other than Zubin Mehta. Hear this rarely performed work now in the loving hands of Shankar’s gifted daughter with its original conductor at the helm.

Hélène Bramwell Anoushka Augustin Grimaud Tovey Shankar Hadelich

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SERIES 6 CONCERTS FEB 11 MAY 6 SERIES 5 CONCERTS SA3 8PM Dances of Death SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / SAM 2PM Thomas Adès, conductor MAHLER SONGS NOV 12 Steven Isserlis, cello 1 & 2 • Wayfarer OCT 8 JAN 28 MAY 27 Simon Keenlyside, baritone Dvorˇák & Sibelius Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Ravel & Stravinsky Dudamel & Emanuel Ax BARTÓK CYCLE with Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte Johannes Moser, cello SCHUBERT Symphony No. 1 Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Emanuel Ax, piano Piano Concerto No. 1 SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer MOSOLOV The Iron Foundry Thomas ADÈS Lieux retrouvés RAVEL Alborada del gracioso SCHOENBERG Accompaniment to a Gustavo Dudamel, conductor ˇ SCHUBERT Symphony No. 2 DVORÁK Cello Concerto (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission) RAVEL Concerto in G Film Scene Yuja Wang, piano SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1 Thomas ADÈS Totentanz Dudamel launches an utterly fascinating and STRAVINSKY The Firebird MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449 Angela Meade, soprano SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto Much-lauded cellist Johannes Moser (West Coast premiere) inspired survey combining all of Schubert’s From Ravel’s jazzy piano concerto and his Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano symphonies with orchestral songs by MOZART Symphony No. 31, K. 297, “Paris” Ladislav Elgr, tenor performs Dvorˇák’s poignant and gripping Composer/pianist/conductor Thomas Adès Spanish-themed morning music of a jester Mahler, emphasizing the deep connection Stefan Kocan, bass masterwork. Former Dudamel Conducting crowns a provocative program with his to Stravinsky’s exotic ballet, this program Even as he pioneered atonality, Schoenberg between these Viennese masters who Iveta Apkalna, organ Fellow Santtu-Matias Rouvali returns to macabre “dance of death” for two singers paints a remarkable picture of the unique remained ever devoted to pure classical bookend the Romantic era. Los Angeles Master Chorale lead his famous countryman’s majestically and orchestra, “his longest, most ambitious creative scene that was early 20th-century forms as idealized in the music of Mozart. surging First Symphony. Paris. Encounter two sorts of genius in works by Grant Gershon, artistic director and most astounding orchestral composition JUN 3 yet.” (The New York Times) a pair of Viennese giants. STRAVINSKY Requiem Canticles DEC 3 BARTÓK CYCLE with DEC 10 BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 1 Dudamel & Russian Masters MAR 25 DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG Dudamel Conducts APR 8 JANÁCˇEK Glagolitic Mass Salonen & Sibelius Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Tetzlaff Plays Dvorˇák Piano Concerto No. 3 Haydn’s Creation Dudamel’s partnership with the astonishing Daniil Trifonov, piano Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Yuja Wang for Bartok’s three piano concertos RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 Christian Tetzlaff, violin Yuja Wang, piano Alberto Arvelo, video artist/director Martin Chalifour, violin begins with a powerhouse program, Rachele Gilmore, soprano PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite DVORˇ ÁK Carnival Overture STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind SIBELIUS Finlandia climaxing with Janácˇek’s bristling and Joshua Guerrero, tenor SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy DVORˇ ÁK Violin Concerto Instruments Symphony No. 6 utterly original vision of a Mass in a BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3 Johannes Kammler, baritone Humoresques nature-enveloped forest cathedral. Dudamel leads a sweeping Russian BRAHMS (orch. Schoenberg) JANÁCˇEK Sinfonietta Los Angeles Master Chorale Symphony No. 7 program that begins at an intense level Piano Quartet in G minor Grant Gershon, artistic director of post-Romantic passion and concludes The brilliant Christian Tetzlaff plays Dvorˇák’s A loving gift to his loving wife, Bartók’s Our Conductor Laureate will delineate HAYDN The Creation with the dazzling mysticism of Scriabin’s lyrical Violin Concerto. Eschenbach matches deeply felt Third Piano Concerto completes the struggle and triumph of Sibelius’ (with video installation) visions of rapture. it with Schoenberg’s dazzling orchestration the cycle and is followed by Janácˇek’s late symphonies as only he can, and our of Brahms’ G-minor Piano Quartet, which vividly scored Sinfonietta, with its rousing With texts drawn from the Bible and Principal Concertmaster treats us to sounds like a new Brahms symphony, in extra brass choir. John Milton’s poetry, Haydn’s timeless the composer’s Humoresques for violin vivid, expanded colors. masterpiece is a monumental yet delightful and orchestra. vision of God creating the world, bursting with imagination, wit and beauty. Leading Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo collaborates in this joyous production.

in/SIGHT

Thomas Adès

Pablo Christoph Heras-Casado Eschenbach Johannes Daniil Moser Trifonov

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SERIES 8 CONCERTS JAN 15 MAR 26 SERIES 8 CONCERTS DEC 4 MAR 12 SU1 2PM Mehta & Shankar Tetzlaff Plays Dvorˇák SU2 2PM Dudamel & Russian Masters Beethoven & Shostakovich Zubin Mehta, conductor Christoph Eschenbach, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Jaap van Zweden, conductor OCT 16 Anoushka Shankar, sitar Christian Tetzlaff, violin OCT 2 Daniil Trifonov, piano BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 Dudamel & Joshua Bell Ravi SHANKAR Sitar Concerto No. 2, DVORˇ ÁK Carnival Overture ADAMS @ 70 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 “Raga mala” (West Coast premiere) DVORˇ ÁK Violin Concerto PROKOFIEV Scythian Suite Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Dudamel & Yefim Bronfman From the 19th and 20th centuries come STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben BRAHMS (orch. Schoenberg) SCRIABIN Poem of Ecstasy Joshua Bell, violin two fifth symphonies perfectly suited Piano Quartet in G minor Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Matthias PINTSCHER towards Osiris When the late Ravi Shankar released his Yefim Bronfman, piano Dudamel leads a sweeping Russian to display orchestral muscle at its most (West Coast premiere) Second Sitar Concerto in 1981, it was The brilliant Christian Tetzlaff plays Dvorˇák’s St. Lawrence String Quartet program that begins at an intense level powerful and drama at its most compelling. conducted by none other than Zubin Mehta. lyrical Violin Concerto. Eschenbach matches of post-Romantic passion and concludes BRAHMS Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture Hear this rarely performed work now in it with Schoenberg’s dazzling orchestration with the dazzling mysticism of Scriabin’s APR 9 STRAUSS Don Juan John ADAMS Absolute Jest the loving hands of Shankar’s gifted daughter of Brahms’ G-minor Piano Quartet, which visions of rapture. Salonen & Sibelius STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 with its original conductor at the helm. sounds like a new Brahms symphony, in Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Brahms’ majestic concerto is surrounded vivid, expanded colors. John Adams’ recent work for string quartet DEC 18 Martin Chalifour, violin by some of Strauss’ most vivid orchestral MAR 5 and orchestra interweaves fragments of ADAMS @ 70 SIBELIUS Finlandia characterizations, including the bold ADAMS @ 70 APR 23 Beethoven’s late quartets, bits of the 8th El Niño Symphony No. 6 seducer Don Juan and the defiant joker From the New World and 9th symphonies, the “Hammerklavier” Nixon in China Grant Gershon, conductor Humoresques Till Eulenspiegel. Sonata, and other archetypal Beethoven John Adams, conductor David Robertson, conductor Julia Bullock, soprano Symphony No. 7 motives. By hearing Adams’ personal Elkhanah Pulitzer, director Paul Jacobs, organ Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano NOV 20 transformations next to Beethoven’s own Our Conductor Laureate will delineate Paulo Szot, Nixon IVES Three Places in New England Davone Tines, bass Casablanca music, our understanding of both the struggle and triumph of Sibelius’ Russell Thomas, Mao Christopher ROUSE Organ Concerto Dan Bubeck, Brian Cummings, David Newman, conductor composers is enhanced. late symphonies as only he can, and our Joélle Harvey, Pat Nixon (West Coast premiere, LA Phil Nathan Medley, countertenors Principal Concertmaster treats us to STEINER Casablanca Kathleen Kim, Madame Mao co-commission) Los Angeles Master Chorale NOV 13 Sibelius’ Humoresques for violin and (live score with complete film) Peter Coleman-Wright, Kissinger DVORˇ ÁK Symphony No. 9, Grant Gershon, artistic director orchestra. Lacey Jo Benter, Renée Rapier, secretaries Dvorˇák & Sibelius After he moved to Hollywood in 1929, Max “From the New World” John ADAMS El Niño Los Angeles Master Chorale Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Steiner became one of the first to compose St. Louis Symphony conductor David MAY 21 for the movies, going on to score more Grant Gershon, artistic director Johannes Moser, cello Having set himself the extraordinarily Robertson explores multiple perspectives ambitious goal of composing a nativity SCHUBERT SYMPHONIES / than 300 films. “The father of film music” John ADAMS Nixon in China in this U.S.-focused program, from New MOSOLOV The Iron Foundry is now considered one of the greatest film DVORˇ ÁK Cello Concerto oratorio for our time, John Adams MAHLER SONGS John Adams’ audacious first opera turned England’s self-made man to a Pulitzer composers in the history of cinema. The SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1 succeeded spectacularly. With multilingual 8 & 9 • Wunderhorn the music world on its head, creating a winner from our time, all topped off by beloved Casablanca earned Steiner one of texts drawn from Scripture, medieval Gustavo Dudamel, conductor whole new kind of opera. Unlike most Dvorˇák’s musical interpretation of his Much-lauded cellist Johannes Moser his 24 Oscar® nominations. tracts and contemporary poetry, the work Eli¯na Garancˇa, mezzo-soprano written since, Nixon has entered the rarefied time visiting the states. performs Dvorˇák’s poignant and gripping is powerful, provocative and, ultimately, masterwork. Former Dudamel Conducting SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished” DEC 11 pantheon of the international repertoire. deeply touching. With Adams himself conducting and the JUN 4 Fellow Santtu-Matias Rouvali returns to MAHLER Songs from Des Knaben Dudamel Conducts acclaimed Elkhanah Pulitzer directing, this BARTÓK CYCLE with lead his famous countryman’s majestically FEB 26 Wunderhorn Haydn’s Creation innovative production promises to be DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG surging First Symphony. Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, “Great C-major” Gustavo Dudamel, conductor historic in its own right. Piano Concerto No. 3 James Gaffigan, conductor Dudamel’s fascinating and inspired survey Rachele Gilmore, soprano Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano of Schubert symphonies combined with Joshua Guerrero, tenor orchestral songs by Mahler reaches its Yuja Wang, piano BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 Johannes Kammler, baritone apex with the sublime joys of Schubert’s STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind James MATHESON new work for orchestra Los Angeles Master Chorale final symphonies, combined with gorgeous Instruments (world premiere, LA Phil commission) Grant Gershon, artistic director examples of Mahler’s settings of folk poetry BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3 RAVEL Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2 HAYDN The Creation from The Youth’s Magic Horn. JANÁCˇEK Sinfonietta The towering Brahms Second Concerto With texts drawn from the Bible and A gift to his wife, Bartók’s deeply felt Third is among the masterworks on which the John Milton’s poetry, Haydn’s timeless in/SIGHT Piano Concerto completes the cycle and gifted Hélène Grimaud’s international masterpiece is a monumental yet delightful is followed by Janácˇek’s vividly scored reputation rests. vision of God creating the world, bursting Sinfonietta, with its rousing extra brass choir. with imagination, wit and beauty.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

David Julia Bullock Robertson

20 LA Phil Orchestral Series RENEWRENEW TODAY TODAY — —LAPHIL.COM LAPHIL.COM 2121 Nixon in China SUNDAY MATINEES TOYOTA SYMPHONIES FOR YOUTH

The Los Angeles Philharmonic offers the indescribable experience of a live orchestra combined with the fantasy of theater to introduce kids to the joys of . Each concert is preceded by a choice of art workshops. SERIES 8 CONCERTS JAN 8 APR 30 Designed for children 5-11. SU3 2PM Tovey & Tchaikovsky Wagner’s Ring Bramwell Tovey, conductor Philippe Jordan, conductor OCT 9 Ray Chen, violin Iréne Theorin, soprano Ravel & Stravinsky WALTON Façade Suite No. 2 WAGNER Das Rheingold: SERIES 4 SATURDAY CONCERTS SIBELIUS Violin Concerto Prelude, orchestral interludes, Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty, Act 2 and Entrance of the Gods 10AM ART WORKSHOPS Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano SY1 Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries The ever-charming Bramwell Tovey frames 11AM CONCERTS RAVEL Alborada del gracioso Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music SY2 this program with Walton’s Jazz Age sass RAVEL Concerto in G Siegfried: Forest Murmurs and the romantic passion of Tchaikovsky’s STRAVINSKY The Firebird Götterdämmerung: NOV 26 & DEC 3 FEB 18 & 25 APR 1 & 8 fairy tale lovers. From Ravel’s jazzy piano concerto and his Siegfried’s Rhine Journey Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker The Art of the Piano REYKJAVÍK FESTIVAL Götterdämmerung: Spanish-themed morning music of a jester FEB 5 The holidays wouldn’t be complete without Join us for this in-depth exploration of the Maximus Musicus Siegfried’s Funeral March to Stravinsky’s exotic ballet, this program Romeo and Juliet with Dudamel one of the most popular ballets of the sea- piano, from the artisan who builds it to the Visits Los Angeles paints a remarkable picture of the unique Götterdämmerung: Gustavo Dudamel, conductor son. Sugarplum fairies will dazzle audiences virtuoso who plays it, featuring music by Daníel Bjarnason, conductor creative scene that was early 20th-century “Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort” Lisa Batiashvili, violin as Tchaikovsky’s timeless score is played by Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Maximus Musicus, the lively Icelandic Paris. The Music Director of the Paris Opéra our wonderful orchestra. SCHNITTKE (K)ein Sommernachtstraum mouse, has left the land of geysers and presides over this extravagant celebration TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto glaciers for the sunny shores of Southern OCT 23 of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The requisite vocal PROKOFIEV Selections from California. Come along as he explores this Dudamel Conducts punch is provided by Swedish soprano Romeo and Juliet new place and all the sights and sounds Mahler’s Ninth Iréne Theorin, one of the world’s greatest JAN 14 & 21 that come with it. Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Lisa Batiashvili’s passionate and poetic Wagnerians. Young Musicians Showcase approach is ideally suited to Tchaikovsky’s MAHLER Symphony No. 9 Thrill to hear some of the best young thrilling Romantic concerto. With its MAY 28 musicians of their generation performing It’s hard to imagine a more suitable musical wonderfully dancing tunefulness and BARTÓK CYCLE with with the LA Phil. Go behind the scenes and match than the powerful and profound vivid orchestration, Prokofiev’s Romeo DUDAMEL & YUJA WANG hear about the determination, endurance, pairing of Gustavo Dudamel and Gustav and Juliet score follows in the footsteps of Piano Concerto No. 1 and courage it takes to become a brilliant Mahler. Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet music. Gustavo Dudamel, conductor musician. NOV 27 APR 2 Yuja Wang, piano Mozart & Brahms Mirga Conducts Mozart & Haydn Angela Meade, soprano Justina Gringyte, mezzo-soprano Krzysztof Urban´ski, conductor Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, conductor Ladislav Elgr, tenor Augustin Hadelich, violin Stephen Kovacevich, piano Stefan Kocan, bass BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet Iveta Apkalna, organ MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 Los Angeles Master Chorale BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Georg Friedrich HAAS Concerto Grosso Grant Gershon, artistic director No. 1 for Alpine Horns and Orchestra From the pristine pleasures of Mozart to STRAVINSKY Requiem Canticles (U.S. premiere, LA Phil co-commission) the bittersweet Romanticism of Brahms, BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 1 HAYDN Symphony No. 31 in D, dive deep into the heart of the orchestral JANÁCˇEK Glagolitic Mass repertoire. “Horn Signal” Dudamel’s partnership with the A keyboard legend applies a lifetime of astonishing Yuja Wang for Bartok’s three experience to Mozart’s extraordinary piano concertos begins with a powerhouse concerto. Our dynamic Associate program, climaxing with Janácˇek’s bristling Conductor brings out all the color of two and utterly original vision of a Mass in a very different Austrian works featuring nature-enveloped forest cathedral. horns.

Ray Chen Los Angeles Master Chorale Lisa Batiashvili

22 Beethoven’s in the House (TSFY concert 2015) 22 LA Phil Orchestral Series RENEW TODAY — LAPHIL.COM 23 TUE OCT 18 8PM TUE JAN 24 8PM COLBURN Emerson String Quartet: Itzhak Perlman, violin CLASSICAL Celebrating 40 Years Rohan de Silva, piano CELEBRITY Renée Fleming, soprano program to be announced BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor, The leading violinist of a generation, this RECITALS Op. 51, No. 2 unstoppable force has won the undying PRESENTATIONS loyalty of audiences with his robust tone, WELLESZ Five Sonnets for Soprano Share in the intimate experiences and String Quartet dazzling technique, personal warmth and that world-renowned musical BERG Lyric Suite instinctive musicality. celebrities offer in the time- The Emerson Quartet, one of the world’s SAT APR 8 8PM honored tradition of the recital. elite chamber ensembles, marks a mile- stone anniversary with great music and Martha Argerich, piano superstar guest artist Renée Fleming. Stephen Kovacevich, piano SERIES 4 CONCERTS MOZART Andante and Variations in G, SUN NOV 13 7:30PM K. 501 BAROQUE VARIATIONS CE1 Garrick Ohlsson, piano DEBUSSY En blanc et noir RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Baroque Variations are just that – imaginative, interpretive and stylistic BEETHOVEN Sonata, Op. 13, “Pathétique” BEETHOVEN Sonata, Op. 57, “Appassionata” Op. 45 variations on music from or inspired by the Baroque era. This season BEETHOVEN Sonata, Op. 53, “Waldstein” Two of the greatest pianists of our time, BEETHOVEN Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight” we range from the early English “In Nomine” tradition (with a couple of whose connection goes back decades, contemporary updates), through Vivaldi’s evergreen Four Seasons and Combining intelligence and insight with make a rare joint appearance here, Bach’s monumental B-minor Mass, to vividly performed versions of bravura technical command, the award- performing music by composers with Monteverdi love songs. winning pianist has won audiences the which they are closely associated. world over with his unforgettable performances. SERIES 4 CONCERTS WED MAR 15 8PM TUE APR 18 8PM Fretwork Internationale Bachakademie BV1 In Nomine Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei TAVERNER In Nomine, for 4 parts SERIES 4 CONCERTS WED FEB 1 WED MAY 3 TUE NOV 9 8PM Bach-Collegium Stuttgart L’Arpeggiata TYE In Nomine a 5 “Crye” Lang Lang, piano Yo-Yo Ma, cello TYE In Nomine a 5 “Trust” Bach Mass CE2 8PM Teatro d’Amore program to be announced Chris Thile, PARSONS In Nomine for 5 viols Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor Edgar Meyer, bass Christina Pluhar’s dynamic ensemble PARSONS Ut re mi Fa Sol for 4 viols WED OCT 26 Among the new generation of celebrated BACH Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Bach Trios returns with its lively, cross-cultural take PARSONS De la Court Hilary Hahn, violin international performing artists, Lang Lang on love songs and madrigals by Claudio BYRD Browning One of the spiritual and dramatic summits program to be announced rides high on the list of those who can bring Three dazzling virtuosos pool their talents Monteverdi – theater of love, indeed! BYRD In Nomine a 4 of , Bach’s setting of the together incredible artistry and dazzling for a fresh, new perspective on brilliantly PICFORTH In Nomine Latin Mass – performed here by specialists The intensity of her musical passion has pianistic prowess. conceived music by the titan of the SUN FEB 26 7:30PM GIBBONS Two In Nomines in 5 parts acclaimed internationally for their made Hilary Hahn one of the best-loved German Baroque. and most respected performers of our Venice Baroque Orchestra Slow (In Nomine in 5 parts) devotion and expertise – is quite simply TUE MAR 21 PROJECTYS time. Illuminating standard repertoire and The Four Seasons LAWES Consort set in G minor (Fantazy, one of the supreme achievements in the Night of Dreams: On the plainsong, Aire) history of music. expanding our horizons with discoveries, Andrea Marcon, harpsichord and A Schubert and Beckett Recital In Nomine (after Purcell) she brings vitality and virtuosity to conductor Ian Bostridge, tenor PURCELL Two Fantazias in four parts whatever she plays. Nicola Benedetti, violin Yuval Sharon, director PURCELL Fantasia upon one note program to include: Schubert songs will be performed alongside In Nomines form a rich repertory of VIVALDI The Four Seasons plays by Samuel Beckett, as acclaimed late Renaissance/early Baroque English tenor Ian Bostridge joins forces with new The Venice Baroque Orchestra, one of instrumental music, all based on the same LA Phil Artist-Collaborator Yuval Sharon Europe’s finest period instrument ensembles, popular tune heard in the Taverner setting for a unique and provocative evening that returns with a program featuring Vivaldi’s that opens the program. Fretwork’s album pushes way past traditional performance vividly programmatic Four Seasons of Henry Purcell’s complete fantasias – boundaries. concertos, with the zesty, challenging which include two In Nomines – won a solos played by rising Scottish star Nicola Gramophone Award in 2009. Presented by special arrangement with Benedetti. Samuel French, Inc.

Fretwork Itzhak Perlman

Lang Lang Fretwork Yo-Yo Ma Lang Lang Itzhak Perlman 24 RENEW TODAY — LAPHIL.COM 25 CHAMBER SERIES 4 CONCERTS SERIES 4 CONCERTS GREEN UMBRELLA CH1 TUE 8PM CH2 TUE 8PM MUSIC Add the intense rush of exploration and the thrill of discovery to OCT 4 NOV 15 stunning concert experiences and you get Green Umbrella, the Enjoy the artistry of Los Angeles All-Beethoven program to be announced Los Angeles Philharmonic at its most daring. This season, the Philharmonic musicians and acclaimed new music series begins with a daylong extravaganza, JAN 10 JAN 31 special guests in the intimate celebrates , visits Iceland, and presents two . program to be announced All-Mozart forum of chamber music. Come early for the complimentary wine FEB 21 MAR 28 SERIES 5 CONCERTS TUE NOV 22 TUE APR 11 reception before each program. All-French program to be announced GU1 8PM Alice’s Adventures REYKJAVÍK FESTIVAL APR 25 MAY 9 LA Phil New Music Group Contemporary Iceland All-American All-Schubert SAT OCT 1 Thomas Adès, conductor LA Phil New Music Group Four World Premieres Barbara Hannigan, soprano (Alice) Daníel Bjarnason, conductor LA Phil New Music Group Hilary Summers, contralto (White Queen) Schola Cantorum Reykjavík John Adams, conductor Allison Cook, mezzo-soprano (Red Queen) Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello Timo Andres, piano TBA, tenor (Tweedledee) Askell MÁSSON Frum Kate Soper, soprano Allan Clayton, tenor (Tweedledum) Daníel BJARNASON Ek ken die nag Mark Stone, baritone (White Knight) Andrew MOSES new work for Thurídur JÓNSDÓTTIR new work for Joshua Bloom, bass (Red Knight) chamber orchestra (world premiere, chamber orchestra and chorus SERIES 4 CONCERTS SUN FEB 5 LA Phil commission) Gerald BARRY Alice’s Adventures (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission) Under Ground ORGAN 7:30PM James McVinnie, organ Kate SOPER new work for soprano and Atli INGÓLFSSON Object of Terror OR1 chamber orchestra (world premiere, (world premiere, LA Phil co-commission) Páll Ragnar PÁLSSON new work for cello Liam Byrne, da gamba (Libretto by Gerald Barry based on the text LA Phil commission) and chamber orchestra (U.S. premiere, Chris Thompson, by Lewis Carroll) RECITALS SUN NOV 27 Mario DIAZ DE LEON new work for LA Phil commission) program to be anounced Barry’s opera The Importance of Being Philippe Lefebvre, organ brass and electronics (world premiere, The LA Phil has presented a number of The extraordinary Walt Disney Earnest was an LA Phil hit in 2012 (as This survey of four centuries of music LA Phil commission) pieces by Daníel Bjarnason, who returns Concert Hall pipe organ draws SUN APR 2 was The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit in associated with Notre-Dame de Paris. new work for piano to conduct an enthralling survey of new Felix Hell, organ 2006). We return to the Irish master of the the world’s most distinguished features works by Marchand, Séjan, Vierne, and chamber orchestra (world Icelandic music, ranging from Askell BACH (arr. Hell) subversive comedy for his take on Lewis artists to its consoles. Dupré, and Duruflé, plus improvisations by premiere, LA Phil commission) Masson’s gripping solo drum work to Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Carroll’s Alice. Lefebvre. It’s composers-as-performers as composer new pieces for large ensembles. John Adams conducts a work by Kate Soper TUE JAN 17 SUN MAY 21 (in which she is the soloist) and Ingram TUE JUN 13 PROJECTYS Iveta Apkalna, organ Marshall composes a piano concerto for All-Reich Young Caesar LA Phil New Music Group program to be anounced pianist/composer Timo Andres. Young LA Phil New Music Group Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor Andrew Moses is in the LA Phil’s Composer Marc Lowenstein, conductor Fellowship Program. Steve REICH Yuval Sharon, director Pulse (West Coast premiere, HARRISON Young Caesar This event is part of: LA Phil commission) From Noon to Midnight Experimental opera producer/director Immerse yourself in a full day of wonder, Yuval Sharon, the LA Phil’s new Artist- The pulse-powered music of Minimalist with a profusion of new music performed Collaborator, directs Lou Harrison’s sublime legend Steve Reich has become a Green by multiple ensembles all around Walt and sinuous, percussion-rich look at Caesar Umbrella and LA Phil specialty, and the Disney Concert Hall. before his rise to power and fame, originally new year brings a premiere, along with a puppet opera premiered at Caltech in 1971 Also, experience the unveiling of the shimmering joy of Tehillim and the PROJECTYS and revised several times since. a new installation by Rand Steiger riffing phases of the Mallet Quartet for and Yuval Sharon, in collaboration with two and two . Felix The Industry. Hell Green Umbrella subscribers may attend the entire event for free with their subscription Iveta Apkalna tickets. Details to come.

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in/SIGHT 26 Classical Presentations Barbara Hannigan JAZZ SONGBOOK

WORLD MUSIC, SERIES SERIES 4 CONCERTS FRI MAR 10 8PM 3 CONCERTS JZ1 Aaron Diehl Trio with SB1 Cécile McLorin Salvant “Jelly & George” JAZZ AND SUN NOV 6 7:30PM SAT NOV 5 8PM Kamasi Washington Jason Moran’s Fats Waller An Evening with Joan Baez Dance Party Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Spend an intimate evening with Mama” with Ron McCurdy Celebrate some of the most influential legendary folk singer Joan Baez. A SONGBOOK Quartet jazz musicians of all time with this musical force of nature of incalculable evening of jazz piano. “Jelly & George” is a influence, Baez marched on the front line Celebrated for such projects as his tribute to jazz pioneers Jelly Roll Morton of the civil rights movement with Martin ambitious 172-minute masterpiece and George Gershwin, ­featuring the fresh Luther King, Jr., inspired Václav Havel in The Epic, young L.A. jazz giant Kamasi perspectives of American jazz pianist/ his fight for a Czech Republic, then forty Washington combines influences like composer Aaron Diehl and extraordinary years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for Coltrane along with soul, classical, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. Opening protesting the Iraq war. Her earliest hip-hop and gospel for a decidedly is Jason Moran’s supergroup, Fats Waller recordings fed traditional ballads into the contemporary jazz perspective. Ask Your Dance Party, bringing the legacy of rock vernacular, before she introduced Mama takes you from gospel, blues and singer/pianist Fats Waller into the 21st to the world in 1963. New Orleans to bebop and beyond with century with a mix of funk, hip-hop and a multimedia performance of Langston dance. SUN JAN 29 7:30PM WORLD MUSIC Hughes’ kaleidoscopic 12-part jazz poem about the struggle for freedom in the Sings SUN MAY 7 7:30PM Sappy Songs SERIES TUE FEB 7 8PM FRI APR 28 8PM early ’60s. Jazz & Sondheim, Side by Side 4 CONCERTS This legendary star of stage (Cabaret) and Kodo: Dadan 2017 DakhaBrakha featuring Bill Charlap, SUN FEB 19 7:30PM screen (The Good Wife), described by The WM1 Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Ann Hampton Callaway, Having appeared on five continents and Herbie Hancock, Wayne New York Times as an “irresistible” and and Renee Rosnes WED OCT 5 8PM given over 3,500 performances since Dressed in striking traditional costumes, Shorter, and Terence Blanchard “bawdy countercultural sprite,” delivers an 1981, Kodo is one of Japan’s best-known the multi-instrumental quartet from Scott Dunn, conductor emotional firestorm with a range of songs From the Buena Vista Social Club Los Angeles Philharmonic ensembles. They return with Ukraine DakhaBrakha (“give/take” in Dave Grusin presents: Jazz from from Noël Coward and Rufus Wainwright Omara Portuondo 85 Tour an exciting and vibrant re-working of Ukrainian) mixes Eastern Europe’s Snarky Puppy West Side Story to and Annie Lennox. Special guests Roberto Fonseca, the show Dadan, featuring just the men folklore and rhythms with the urban Sparks will fly when LA Phil Creative Anat Cohen & Regina Carter Jazz & Sondheim, Side by Side is a of the ensemble. Count on an awesome avant-garde. Le Mystère des Voix Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock teams with SUN MAY 14 7:30PM stunning jazz treatment created by In her Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, display of raw athleticism! Bulgares (The Mystery of Bulgarian fellow world-renowned jazz artists pianists/arrangers Bill Charlap and John Pizzarelli Plays McCartney great Cuban diva Omara Portuondo Voices), the celebrated all-female folk and Terence Blanchard to Renee Rosnes, with award-winning and The Beatles celebrates her 85 years in a musical grand MON APR 17 8PM choir, opens the evening with perform with the Los Angeles singer Ann Hampton Callaway, that Based on a suggestion from Sir Paul fiesta. Hear the warm, sultry voice that Jóhann Jóhannsson and arrangements that showcase the Philharmonic, including a new explores the sophistication, wit and McCartney himself, John Pizzarelli uses has regaled fans with passion for over Bedroom Community’s Whale characteristic timbres and rhythms commission by Blanchard based on one genius of one of Broadway’s most his gracefully brilliant vocals and guitar half a century, from elegant cabaret to the of traditional Bulgarian music. of Herbie’s unique improvisations. Watching Tour featuring Valgeir innovative artists, in such songs as “The playing – backed by a string quartet and days with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Innovative, Grammy®-winning and New Sigurosson and Nico Muhly Ladies Who Lunch,” “Send in the Clowns,” horns – to mix McCartney’s singular Club, right up to the present. York-based jazz/funk/world/soul/pop Oscar®-nominated for his film scores The “Comedy Tonight” and many, many more. songs like “My Valentine,” “Maybe I’m collective Snarky Puppy opens the Theory of Everything and Sicario, Iceland’s World-renowned pianist/composer Amazed” and “No More Lonely Nights” evening. Jóhann Jóhannsson celebrates a new Dave Grusin presents his ingenious jazz with classic Beatles songs, all in a album, returning to traditional interpretation of Bernstein’s classic swinging dimension with plenty of instruments with electronics. One of West Side Story to open the evening. colorful touches and a playful wink. contemporary music’s most compelling labels, Reykjavík’s Bedroom Community, marks its 10th year.

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WED DEC 21 8PM FRI DEC 23 8PM DECK Sweet Honey in the Rock White Christmas Sing-Along This Grammy®-winning ensemble returns Gather your family and friends for this ADDITIONAL THE HALL with a special holiday performance that is heartwarming holiday event, a showing guaranteed to spread joy and cheer. The of the beloved 1954 film with lyrics Fill your holidays with music! revered female African-American a embedded on screen. You’ll enjoy singing Order these popular programs cappella ensemble entertains and along with such songs as “The Best Things CONCERTS now for the best seats. empowers its audience and community Happen When You’re Dancing,” “Snow,” through its dynamic and stunning vocal “Sisters” and, of course, the iconic “White These non-subscription concerts can be added to prowess. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Christmas.” © Paramount Pictures your order now, before they become available SAT DEC 17 Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, Sweet Honey in the 11:30AM & 2:30PM Rock will bring you a holiday experience SAT DEC 31 7PM & 10:30PM to the general public. Holiday Sing-Along you will never forget. New Year’s Eve ASL interpretation provided for this concert. with Pink Martini Accompanied by Walt Disney Concert Hall’s huge pipe organ, a choir and a jazz combo, THU DEC 22 8PM Led by pianist Thomas Lauderdale and you’ll enjoy singing numerous popular Swinging Christmas with the featuring superb vocalists China Forbes songs of the season. A jolly good time for and Storm Large, Pink Martini – with its the entire family! Arturo Sandoval Big Band irresistible fusion of Brazilian samba, ’30s Trumpet virtuoso and 10-time Grammy® Cuban dance, and Parisian café music – is TUE DEC 20 8PM honoree Arturo Sandoval leads a Latin- the perfect way to ring in the New Year! SAT NOV 19 8PM MON DEC 5 8PM A Chanticleer Christmas flavored jazz program for the holidays. VISITING Berliner Philharmoniker China Philharmonic Orchestra The 12 men of this “orchestra of voices” Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Long Yu, conductor make a welcome return with their ORCHESTRAS BOULEZ Éclat Julian Rachlin, violin exquisite and eclectic Christmas MAHLER Symphony No. 7 Qigang CHEN Enchantements Oubliés program. We welcome orchestras from MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto With Simon Rattle, the Berliner DVORˇ ÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the around the world to perform in Philharmoniker has achieved the New World” the stunning acoustics of Walt loftiest heights in the musical world, Disney Concert Hall. combining the vigor of progressive Founded in 2000 and led by Artistic musical experimentation with their Director and Chief Conductor Long Yu, long-honored tradition of incomparable the China Philharmonic Orchestra is excellence. A program of music by two already one of China’s top orchestras SOUNDS HALLOWEEN ORGAN & FILM and an active advocate of Chinese music iconic conductor/composers promises MON OCT 31 8PM the best of both worlds. worldwide. In 2009, the CPO was included in Gramophone’s list of “The 10 Most ABOUT TOWN The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Inspiring Orchestras.” “They brought a Clark Wilson, organ popular programme that wowed us with Here’s your chance to experience Organ virtuoso Clark Wilson will improvise an appropriately atmospheric sound track on their virtuosity.” (The Telegraph) “… with the remarkable talent of the next Walt Disney Concert Hall’s magnificent pipe organ for this groundbreaking 1920 silent film, superb woodwind, they play with generation here in the Southland. one of the earliest, most influential and artistically acclaimed films in the German fastidious precision and considerable Expressionist genre, directed by Robert Wiene. elegance.” (The Guardian) SUN JAN 22 2PM USC Thornton Symphony Carl St.Clair, conductor BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

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