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INTERNATIONAL SERIES AT THE GRANADA THEATRE

Gustavo Dudamel

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC conductor MICHELLE DeYOUNG mezzo-soprano

SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017, 4PM The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts) Vern Evans Vern

COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SERIES AT THE GRANADA THEATRE BIOGRAPHY

LOSOPUS 3 ARTISTSANGELES PRESENTS PHILHARMONIC GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, conductor MICHELLE DEYOUNG, mezzo-soprano

SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017, 4PM The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts) Sara Langdon FRANZ SCHUBERT No.1 in D Major, D.82 (1797-1828) Adagio; Allegro vivace Andante Menuetto Allegro vivace

GUSTAV MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1860-1911) (Songs of a Wayfarer) Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht Ging heut’ Morgen über’s Feld Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz The , under Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano the leadership of Music & Artistic and other thematic programs designed Director Gustavo Dudamel, is invested to enhance the symphonic music INTERMISSION in a tradition of the new, through a experience and delve further into SCHUBERT Symphony No.2 in B-flat Major, D.125 commitment to foundational works certain artists’ or ’ work. The Largo; Allegro vivace and adventurous explorations. Both at organization’s commitment to the music Andante home and abroad, the Philharmonic of our time is evident throughout the Menuetto is leading the way in ground-breaking season programming, as well as in the Presto vivace programming. 2016/17 marks the exhilarating Green Umbrella series and orchestra’s 98th season. the LA Phil’s extensive commissioning Programs and artists subject to change More than 250 concerts are initiatives. either performed or presented by the Since 2003, the LA Phil’s home CAMA gratefully acknowledges our sponsors Philharmonic each season at its two has been the inimitable Frank Gehry- for this performance… iconic venues: Walt Disney Concert designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, which International Series Season Sponsor: SAGE Publications Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. During its embodies the energy, imagination, and Principal Sponsor: The Samuel B. & Margaret C. Mosher Foundation 30-week winter subscription sea- son creative spirit of the city of Los Angeles Co-Sponsors: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and The Becton Family Foundation Robert & Christine Emmons • Jocelyne & Bill Meeker at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the LA and its orchestra. Praise for both the Bob & Val Montgomery • Ellen & John Pillsbury

3 design and the acoustics of the Hall has Schnéevoigt (1927-1929); Artur Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dudamel’s been effusive. Rodzinski (1929-1933); contract has been extended to the The orchestra’s involvement with (1933-1939); (1943- end of the 2021/2022 season. At his Los Angeles extends far beyond 1956); (1956-1959); initiative, the Los Angeles Philharmonic symphony concerts in a concert hall, (1962-1978); Carlo Maria has dramatically expanded the scope with performances in schools, churches, Giulini (1978-1984); (1985- of its community outreach programs, and neighborhood centers of a vastly 1989); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009); including most notably the creation diverse community. Among its wide- and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present). n of Youth Orchestra Los Angeles ranging education initiatives is Youth (YOLA), influenced by the philosophy Orchestra LA (YOLA). Inspired by of Venezuela’s admired , Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema, which encourages social development the LA Phil and its community partners through music. With YOLA and diverse provide free instruments, intensive GUSTAVO local educational initiatives, Dudamel music training, and academic support DUDAMEL brings music to children in underserved to over 700 students from underserved communities of Los Angeles. These neighborhoods. MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR programs have in turn inspired similar Always inspired to expand its Walt and Lilly Disney Chair efforts throughout the United States, as cultural offerings, the LA Phil each well as in Sweden (Hammarkullen) and zucco Lisa Marie Maz season produces concerts featuring As an internationally renowned Scotland (Raploch). he steadfastly commits some 25 weeks distinguished artists in recital, jazz, symphonic and operatic conductor, At the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of his annual schedule to the orchestras

world music, songbook, and visiting Gustavo Dudamel is motivated by a not only is the breadth of audiences and children of El Sistema,- both in Caracas orchestra performances, in addition profound belief in music’s power to reached remarkable, but also the depth and around the country. During his 18th to special holiday concerts and series unite and inspire. He currently serves of programming performed under season as Music Director of the entire of chamber music, organ recitals, and as Music & Artistic Director of the Dudamel. LA Phil programs continue to El Sistema project, he continues to lead Baroque music. Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music represent the best and boldest in new the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Through an ongoing partnership with Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony music, including numerous premieres in Venezuela, as well as on tour around , the orchestra Orchestra of Venezuela, and the impact and commissions by composers such as the globe. Following a late summer 2016 has a substantial catalog of concerts of his leadership extends from the , , Bryce Dessner, European tour, the Bolívars and Dudamel available online. In 2011, the Los Angeles greatest concert stages to classrooms, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Kaija launch the Carnegie Hall season in New Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel cinemas and innovative digital platforms Saariaho. A West Coast tour kicks off York with three programs. In March won a Grammy for Best Orchestral around the world. Dudamel also the LA Phil’s 2016/17 season, followed 2017, they perform entire Beethoven Performance for their recording of the appears as guest conductor with some by season highlights including Haydn’s symphony cycles in Barcelona, Brahms Symphony No.4. of the world’s most famous musical Creation, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, the and for the opening of ’s new The Los Angeles Philharmonic was institutions: in 2017, he tours Europe world premiere of Andrew Norman’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall. founded by William Andrews Clark, with the Berlin Philharmonic and is the New Work for Orchestra, Part 2, several Recordings, broadcasts and digital Jr., who established the city’s first youngest-ever conductor to lead the pieces by Lutoslawski and a series innovations are also fundamentalNicolas Brodard to permanent symphony orchestra in Vienna Philharmonic’s famous New of evenings contrasting the works of Dudamel’s passionate advocacy for 1919. became its Year’s Day Concert, watched annually by Schubert and Mahler. universal access to music. As a Grammy- first Music Director, serving until 1927; over 50 million people in 90 countries. Dudamel’s work in his native winning Deutsche Grammophon artist since then, ten renowned conductors As he enters his eighth season Venezuela serves as the cornerstone of since 2005, Dudamel has a discography have served in that capacity: Georg as Music & Artistic Director of the his engagement with young people, and that includes landmark recordings of John

4 5 Adams’ Gospel According to the Other the soundtrack for Star Wars: The Force Dudamel was born in 1981 in Barquisimeto, Mary (commissioned and performed by Awakens and, together with members of Venezuela. He began violin lessons as a the Los Angeles Philharmonic), the sound YOLA, became the first classical musician child with José Luis Jiménez and Francisco track to the motion picture Libertador, to participate in the Superbowl Half Time Díaz at the Jacinto Lara Conservatory. He for which Dudamel also composed the Show, appearing alongside pop stars continued his violin studies with Rubén score, Mahler 5 and 7 with Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. Cova and José Francisco del Castillo at the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel is one of the most the Latin American Academy of Violin. and Mahler 9 with the Los Angeles decorated conductors of his generation. His studies began in 1996 Philharmonic. A unique performance He received the Americas Society with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and, that same of Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” Cultural Achievement Award in 2016, year, he was given his first conducting featuring the combined forces of the and the 2014 Lifetime position, Music Director of the Amadeus LA Phil and the Bolívars and over 1000 Achievement Award for the Elevation of Chamber Orchestra. In 1999, he was choristers and children from across Music in Society from the Longy School. appointed Music Director of the Simón Venezuela, was captured for DVD/Blu- He was named Musical America’s 2013 Bolívar Youth Orchestra and began Ray and broadcast live to cinemas in the Musician of the Year, one of the highest conducting studies with the orchestra’s US and Canada. A film documentary, Let honors in the classical music industry, and founder, Dr. Abreu. Dudamel was brought the Children Play, featuring Dudamel, was was voted into the Gramophone Hall of to international attention by winning also shown in over 500 Fathom movie Fame. In October of 2011, he was named the inaugural Bamberger Symphoniker theaters nationwide. A special charity Gramophone Artist of the Year, and in Competition in 2004. He LP release of Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” May of the same year, was inducted into then went on to become Music Director Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in of the Gothenburg Symphony (2007- raised funds for music education projects consideration of his “eminent merits in 2012), where he currently holds the title leading orchestras, including the New in Europe and Latin America. Dudamel the musical art.” The previous year, he Honorary Conductor. His early musical York Philharmonic, Symphony has also independently produced an all- received the Eugene McDermott Award and mentoring experiences inspired Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, Wagner recording available exclusively for in the Arts at MIT. Dudamel was inducted his life-long commitment to music as Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco download, a complete set of Beethoven into l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres as a a catalyst for learning, integration, and Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, symphonies for digital learning, and a Chevalier in Paris in 2009, and received an social change. Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh streaming broadcast of two Stravinsky honorary doctorate from the Universidad For more information about Gustavo Symphony Orchestra, The Met Orchestra ballets with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado in Dudamel, visit his official website: (in Carnegie Hall), the Met Chamber Orchestra in cooperation with the Berlin his hometown of Barquisimeto. He also www.gustavodudamel.com. n Ensemble, Vienna Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall. received an honorary doctorate from Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel has been featured the University of Gothenburg in 2012. In Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, three times on CBS’s 60 Minutes and 2008, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Orchestre de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper was subject of a PBS special, Dudamel: was awarded Spain’s prestigious annual MICHELLE Orchestra, Berliner Staatskapelle, São Conducting a Life. He appeared on Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts DEYOUNG Paulo Symphony, and the Sesame Street with Elmo, on programs and, along with his mentor José Antonio mezzo-soprano Concertgebouworkest. She has also with Charlie Rose and Conan O’Brian, and Abreu, Dudamel was given the “Q” Prize appeared in the prestigious festivals of on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. from Harvard University for extraordinary Michelle DeYoung has already established Ravinia, Tanglewood, Aspen, Cincinnati, Most recently, Gustavo had a cameo role service to children. herself as one of the most exciting Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, Salzburg, St in Amazon Studio’s award-winning series, Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 artists of her generation. She appears Denis, and Lucerne. Mozart in the Jungle, guest-conducted on most influential people in 2009, Gustavo frequently with many of the world’s The conductors with whom she has

6 7 worked include , Pierre Symphony’s Great Performances series, Boulez, James Conlon, Sir Colin Davis, Cal Performances in Berkeley, SUNY Stéphane Denève, Christoph von Dohnányi, Purchase, Calvin College, the Pittsburgh Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Symphony, Roy Thomson Hall, the Théâtre , Alan Gilbert, , du Châtelet, the Gulbenkian Foundation Manfred Honeck, , James (Lisbon), the Edinburgh Festival, ’s Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Kent Wigmore Hall, and Brussels’ La Monnaie. Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, DeYoung’s recording of Kindertoten- André Previn, David Robertson, Donald lieder and Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Tilson Thomas, Franz Welser-Möst, and Symphony (SFS Media) was awarded the Jaap van Zweden. 2003 Grammy® for Best Classical Album. DeYoung has also appeared with She has also been awarded the 2001 many of the finest opera houses of the Grammys for Best Classical Album and world including the Metropolitan Opera, Best Opera Recording for Les Troyens with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Orchestra (LSO Live). Her growing Glimmerglass Opera, La Scala, Bayreuth discography also includes recordings of Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, Hamburg Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with the Chicago State Opera, Opera National de Paris, Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra de Nice, (CSO Resound) and with the Pittsburgh Theater Basel, and the Tokyo Opera. Symphony and Manfred Honeck (PID); She was also named the 2015 Artist in Bernstein’s Symphony No.1, “Jeremiah,” Residence at Wolf Trap Opera. Her many with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and roles include the title roles in Samson et Leonard Slatkin (Chandos), Das Klagende ABOUT THE PROGRAM Dalila and The Rape of Lucretia, Fricka, Lied with the and Notes by Linda Shaver-Gleason Sieglinde, and Waltraute in The Ring Cycle; Michael Tilson Thomas (BMG), and Das Lied Kundry in Parsifal, Venus in Tannhäuser, von der Erde with the Minnesota Orchestra Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Herodias (Reference Recordings). Her first solo disc SYMPHONY NO.1 IN D MAJOR, D.82 a prominent symphonist, two figures in Salome, Eboli in Don Carlos, Amneris was released on the EMI label. FRANZ SCHUBERT on opposite ends of the Romantic era. in Aida, Santuzza in Cavelleria rusticana, Michelle DeYoung’s many engagements These works all come from early in Marguérite in La damnation de Faust, this season include appearances with Composed: 1813 their composers’ careers, as they were Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, Didon in Les the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Length: c. 30 minutes developing their craft and had yet to Troyens, Gertrude in Hamlet, and Jocaste Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Orchestration: flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, inhabit the roles that music history would in Oedipus Rex. She also created the role Louis Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, eventually assign them. Nevertheless, of the Shaman in ’s The First Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Portland and strings for both composers, their work in other Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera. Symphony, Finnish National Radio Orchestra, First LA Phil performance: May 5, 2017, genres informed their personal styles In recital, Michelle DeYoung has been Paris Ensemble Intercontemporain, Gustavo Dudamel conducting and shaped their legacies. COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA, INC • CAMASB.ORG presented by the University of Chicago NHK Symphony in Tokyo, Hong Kong In the case of Franz Schubert, Presents series, the Ravinia Festival, Weill Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, and This program features symphonies from of over 600 art songs, Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, San Francisco the New Zealand Symphony. n a prolific songwriter and songs from appreciation for his skills as a symphonist

8 9 came posthumously; his arching veering SONGS OF A WAYFARER “Great” C-Major symphony SCHUBERT COMPLETED though tragic woodwind GUSTAV MAHLER was discovered by Robert HIS SYMPHONY NO.1 solos and duets. The Schumann a decade after ON OCTOBER 28, 1813, strings carry the work Composed: 1883-1885; 1809 his death. That symphony WHEN HE WAS SIXTEEN of development for a Length: c. 15 minutes manifests Schubert’s YEARS OLD. HE WAS while, but the woodwinds Orchestration: Three flutes (3rd = efforts to secure a NEARING THE END OF ultimately steer the piccolo), two oboes (2nd = English horn), reputation as a “serious” HIS EDUCATION AT THE movement back to a three clarinets (3rd = bass clarinet), two composer in the mold of VIENNA STADTKONVIKT surprising return of the bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, Beethoven. Yet Schubert (IMPERIAL SEMINARY) introduction, this time set three trombones, timpani, percussion had been writing AND PREPARING at the faster tempo. After (bass drum, , orchestra bells, symphonies since he TO BECOME A a recapitulation of the suspended , tam-tam, triangle), was a teenager, with the SCHOOLTEACHER LIKE earlier themes, Schubert harp, strings, and solo voice earliest ones reflecting HIS FATHER. ends the movement as First LA Phil performance: his studies of Mozart and emphatically as it began. August 6, 1953, Erich Leinsdorf Haydn. The Andante rolls out conducting, with soloist Carol Brice Schubert completed his Symphony a sunny melody in the first violins, No.1 on October 28, 1813, when he nudged forward by the other strings Although Schubert found that was sixteen years old. He was nearing gently embellished by the woodwinds. Gustav Mahler, photo by being known primarily as a composer the end of his education at the Vienna The mood suddenly turns plaintive, with Adolph E. Bieber-Kohut (1900) of Lieder did not carry enough artistic Stadtkonvikt (Imperial Seminary) and halting phrases. The opening melody significance to make him a “serious” opting for the diverse palate of tone preparing to become a schoolteacher returns, but it has been affected by the composer on par with Beethoven, over color available from the ever-increasing like his father. During his five years tragedy, dipping into minor. the course of the 19th century public orchestra. Yet with its continued at the seminary, he had trained with The Menuetto follows a Haydnesque perception of both the composer and emphasis on the realization of poetry, Antonio Salieri; Schubert would continue design, complete with moments of the genre shifted. What had begun orchestral Lieder tended to display the composition lessons with him privately cleverness: It begins with a boisterous as domestic music, meant to entertain contemplative spirit of its modest roots even after he embarked on his new Allegro that becomes fixated on an or edify privately among family or a rather than the extravagance of other career. eighth-note turning gesture. The circle of friends, became emblematic of genres combining voice and orchestra, The first movement begins with contrasting Trio passage evokes the the Romantic era’s preoccupation with such as opera. a solemn Adagio, full of established, Ländler, a traditional Austrian folk dance, integrating multiple art forms. The art By the time Gustav Mahler started attention-grabbing techniques: before returning to a literal repeat of the song gained intellectual and spiritual his career, Schubert was a long- bold statements in octaves, decisive minuet section. gravitas as it developed. Linking multiple acknowledged early master of a arpeggios, and unexpected harmonic The Allegro vivace finale begins with poems together in a song cycle allowed respected genre and an obvious model shifts. This leads to the nimble Allegro just the two violin sections: the firsts toss composers to trace complex emotional for the younger composer’s early vivace, with a scampering theme that off the melody as the seconds establish arcs; Schubert himself composed attempts at Lieder. Mahler had written soon runs into chords that echo the the eighth notes that run nearly nonstop several song cycles, most famously Die several stand-alone songs for voice dramatic harmonies of the introduction. throughout the movement. Even as schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise and piano, starting as a teenager, but After a transition from the woodwinds, the rest of the orchestra joins the fray (1827). around the end of 1883 (when he was the strings introduce a carefree and the texture grows more complex, Also true to Romantic sensibilities, in his mid-20s), heartbreak prompted melody. This second theme forms the indefatigable energy drives the finale to composers expanded the accompaniment him to attempt his first song cycle. He basis of the development section, its its conclusion. beyond the intimacy of a single piano, had become infatuated with soprano

10 11 Johanna Richter while he conducted heut’ Morgen über’s Feld” (“This Morning SYMPHONY NO.2 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, at the opera house in Kassel, but their I Went Over the Field”), became the D.125 relationship ended unhappily. opening theme of Mahler’s first symphony FRANZ SCHUBERT Mahler wrote the poetry for Lieder – and his treatment of the theme in the eines fahrenden Gesellen (“Songs of symphony informed his instrumentation Composed: 1814-1815 a Wayfarer”) himself, though he was choices when later setting the songs Length: c. 30 minutes heavily influenced by the folk verses in with orchestra. The song is relentlessly Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn cheerful and the accompaniment bustling 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, (“The Youth’s Magic Horn,” selections with layers of activity as the surrounding 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings from which he would later set for voice nature repeatedly asks the narrator, “Is First LA Phil performance: and orchestra). His poems are almost it not a beautiful world?” But for the final November 20, 1928, Georg Schnéevoight

certainly autobiographical; Mahler casts refrain, the tempo slows as he responds conducting Historic statue of Franz Schubert, Vienna the protagonist/himself as “a travelling that his happiness can never bloom. journeyman who has met with adversity, The third song, “Ich hab’ ein glühend Schubert composed his Second while the eighth notes continue their setting out into the world and wandering Messer” (“I Have a Gleaming Knife”), Symphony between December 1814 frantic pace. The texture grows more on in solitude.” opens with a tumultuous orchestral and March 1815, as he started his intricate, then clears up just before He originally penned six poems but introduction before the narrator courses teaching at his father’s school. Yet the the recapitulation revisits the earlier trimmed the cycle down to four, which through waves of agony. The storm symphony still has ties to the seminary thematic material. he composed for voice and piano. (They retreats as Mahler thins out the texture, that had trained him: It is dedicated to The Andante second movement are performed by either male or female leaving flutes, horns, harp, and muted the headmaster, Innocenz Lang, and the features a theme and variations. The singers.) During this time, Mahler also strings to accompany the singer as the seminary orchestra played the premiere theme, introduced by the strings worked on his first symphony, honing narrator reflects on the pain of constant performance. alone, is characteristic of Schubert the techniques that would distinguish reminders of lost love. But the forces of Like his First Symphony, it begins songwriter: tuneful and balanced. The him as one of the last great Romantic the orchestra cannot be held back for with a slow introduction: The Largo five ensuing variations demonstrate his symphonists. Sometime around 1890 long, overwhelming the narrator once alternates between forceful chords ability to recast the simple melody in Mahler decided to orchestrate the more. from the winds, brass, and timpani, many forms, from a pastoral scene with accompaniment, bringing his symphonic The final song, “Die zwei blauen and winding, chromatic lines from horn calls to a tempestuous minore. sensibilities back to his first song cycle. Augen von meinem Schatz” (“The Two the strings. The ensuing Allegro The Menuetto begins with a brusque Irony abounds in the first song, “Wenn Blue Eyes of my Beloved”), begins with vivace bursts forth with a sprinting Allegro vivace, far removed from mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” (“When My a funeral march, similar to the third theme that borrows heavily from the amicable minuet of his previous Sweetheart is Married”): Chipper triangle movement of Mahler’s first symphony Beethoven’s overture to The Creatures symphony. The Trio section lightens and woodwind flourishes alternate with – both works share his penchant for of Prometheus. Schubert’s theme, up by paring down to solo oboe and slow, drooping phrases from the singer juxtaposing Major and minor instances however, playfully places an accent sparse string accompaniment; other and strings as the narrator expresses of the same musical gesture. As the on the second beat of the measure, instruments add embellishments to anguish at his beloved marrying song continues, it incorporates gently giving a slight displacement that jolts the delicate texture before the minuet someone else. Mahler realizes the rocking lullaby tropes to represent the the melody forward. The second theme comes tromping back. The Presto poem’s nature imagery in the second narrator resting beneath the linden maintains the momentum through a vivace provides a suitable closure to the half, with birdsong evoked through trills, tree. It seems that the wandering has constantly oscillating accompaniment symphony as a whole, with galloping but the slow, mournful wedding song come to an end, yet the song ends that buzzes beneath the soaring melody. occasionally overcome by returns. inconclusively, with flutes and harp The development isolates a three-note sudden, intense drama. n The melody of the second song, “Ging unable to find resolution. gesture and layers it on top of itself, all Notes ©2017, Linda Shaver-Gleason

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Gustavo Dudamel PICCOLO Christopher Still GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Mark Kashper David Garrett ENGLISH HORN TRUMPETS PERSONNEL MANAGER MusicMusic & &Artistic Artistic Director Director Associate PrincipalCarrie Dennis Barry Gold Sarah Jackson Carolyn Hove Ronald andThomas Valerie Hooten Sugar Chair Jeffrey Neville WaltWalt and and Lilly Lilly Disney Disney Chair Chair Principal Jason Lippmann Principal Kristine Whitson CLARINETS Stéphane M.Beaulac David and Diane Paul Chair CONDUCTING FELLOWS Johnny Lee John Connell ChairGloria Lum OBOES Boris Allakhverdyan Esa-PekkaEsa-Pekka Salonen Paolo Bortolameolli Linda and Maynard Brittan Ariana Ghez * Principal James Wilt Conductor Laureate Dale Breidenthal Elim Chan Conductor Laureate Dale Hikawa SilvermanChair TROMBONESAssociate Principal Ingrid Chun Principal Burt Hara Kahchun Wong Mirga Gražinyte˙ -Tyla Associate Principal David RejanoNancy Cantero and Donald de Brier Chair Jin-Shan Dai Tao Ni Associate Principal AssociateMirga Gra Conductoržinyte˙ -Tyla Chao-Hua Jin Serge Oskotsky Marion Arthur Kuszyk Principal *on sabbatical AnnAssociate Ronus ConductorChair Ben Ullery Christopher Still Nickolai Kurganov Brent Samuel Associate Principal Andrew Lowy Ronald and Valerie Sugar JohnAnn RonusAdams Chair Guido LamellAssistant Principal David Howard James MillerChair Creative Chair Varty Manouelian BASSES Anne Marie Gabriele Associate Principal The Los Angeles Philharmonic E-FLAT CLARINET Stéphane Beaulac John Adams Paul Stein Dana Lawson Dennis Trembly string section utilizes revolving Gail Samuel Carolyn Hove Andrew Lowy Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair Creative Chair Yun Tang Principal seating on a systematic Acting President and TROMBONES Suli Xue Richard Elegino BASS CLARINET basis. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Hanulik David Rejano Cantero Gail Samuel John Hayhurst Principal ENGLISH HORN David Howard BASS TROMBONEPrincipal Players listed alphabetically VIOLAS FIRST VIOLINS change seats periodically. Acting President and Carrie DennisIngrid Hutman Oscar M. Meza Carolyn Hove BASSOONS John Lofton Martin Chalifour James Miller Chief Executive Officer Principal Michael Larco Assistant Principal Whitney Crockett In those sections where Principal Concertmaster Associate Principal John Connell Chair Principal Judith and Thomas L. Beck- there are two principals the Marjorie Connell Wilson Hui Liu David Allen Moore CLARINETS TUBA musicians share the position ChairFIRST VIOLINS Dale Hikawa SilvermanMeredith Snow Boris Allakhverdyan Norman Pearsonmen Chair Jack Cousin Shawn Mouser equally and are listed in Associate Principal NathanMartin ColeChalifour Leticia Oaks StrongBrian Johnson Principal Associate Principal BASS TROMBONE order of length of service. First Associate Concertmaster Ben Ullery Peter Rofé Principal Concertmaster Minor L. Wetzel Michele Grego TIMPANIJohn Lofton The musicians of the Los Ernest Fleischmann Chair Assistant Principal Burt Hara Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair Patricia Kindel Joseph Pereira Angeles Philharmonic are FLUTES Associate Principal TUBA Bing Wang Dana LawsonCELLOS Denis Bouriakov Principal Norman Pearson represented by Professional AssociateNathan Cole Concertmaster CONTRABASSOON Musicians Local 47, AFM. Richard Elegino Principal Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair Robert deMaine Andrew Lowy Patricia Kindel Cecilia andTIMPANI Dudley Rauch Chair First Associate ConcertmasterJohn Hayhurst Virginia and Henry Mancini Principal Chair David Howard HORNS Joseph Pereira AkikoErnest Tarumoto Fleischmann Chair Ingrid Hutman Principal Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair Andrew Bain PERCUSSION Assistant Concertmaster Michael Larco Catherine Ransom Karoly Principal Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair PhilharmonicBing Wang Affiliates Chair Hui Liu Associate Principal E-FLAT CLARINET Matthew Howard Meredith SnowBen Hong John Cecil Bessell Chair PERCUSSION MicheleAssociate Bovyer Concertmaster Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell SmithAndrew Lowy Principal Leticia Oaks StrongAssociate Principal Matthew Howard RochelleBarbara andAbramson Jay Rasulo Chair Chair Associate Principal (Vacant) Minor L. WetzelSadie and Norman Lee Chair James BaborPrincipal Camille Avellano Elise Shope Henry BASS CLARINET Gregory Roosa ElizabethAkiko Tarumoto Baker Perry DreimanJames Babor CELLOS Dahae Kim Sarah Jackson David Howard MarkAssistant Baranov Concertmaster Robert deMaine Amy Jo Rhine Perry Dreiman Minyoung Chang Principal Assistant PrincipalPICCOLO Loring Charitable Trust Chair KEYBOARDS VijayPhilharmonic Gupta Affiliates Chair Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Sarah Jackson KEYBOARDS BASSOONS Brian Drake Joanne Pearce Martin Mischa Lefkowitz Chair Jonathan Karoly Joanne Pearce Martin Reese and Doris Gothie Chair Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair EdithMichele Markman Bovyer OBOES Whitney Crockett Ben Hong Ariana Ghez * Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair Mitchell Newman David Garrett Principal Ethan Bearman HARP Rochelle Abramson Associate Principal Principal Stacy Wetzel Assistant Lou Anne Neill Sadie and NormanBarry Lee Gold Chair Camille Avellano Marion Arthur Kuszyk Shawn Mouser Bud and Barbara HellmanHARP Chair SECOND VIOLINS Jason Lippmann Elizabeth Baker Dahae Kim Associate Principal Associate Principal Lou Anne LIBRARIANSNeill Lyndon Johnston Taylor Kazue Asawa McGregor Mark Baranov Assistant PrincipalGloria Lum Principal Anne Marie Gabriele Michele Grego Kenneth Bonebrake DorothyMinyoung Rossel Chang Lay Chair Jonathan KarolyLinda and MaynardCarolyn Brittan Hove Chair LIBRARIANSStephen Biagini Patricia Kindel Vijay Gupta Kazue Asawa McGregor Tao Ni Mischa Lefkowitz Kenneth Bonebrake Serge Oskotsky CONTRABASSOON Edith Markman Stephen Biagini 15 14 Brent Samuel Patricia Kindel Mitchell Newman Stacy Wetzel PERSONNEL MANAGER BASSES HORNS Jeffrey Neville Dennis Trembly Andrew Bain SECOND VIOLINS Principal Principal Lyndon Johnston Taylor CONDUCTING FELLOWS John Cecil Bessell Chair Principal Christopher Hanulik Paolo Bortolameolli Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair Principal Associate Principal (Vacant) Elim Chan Kahchun Wong Mark Kashper Oscar M. Meza Gregory Roosa Associate Principal Assistant Principal Amy Jo Rhine *on sabbatical Kristine Whitson David Allen Moore Loring Charitable Trust Chair Johnny Lee The Los Angeles Philharmonic Jack Cousin Brian Drake string section utilizes revolving Dale Breidenthal Brian Johnson Reese and Doris Gothie Chair seating on a systematic basis. Ingrid Chun Peter Rofé Players listed alphabetically Jin-Shan Dai Ethan Bearman change seats periodically. Chao-Hua Jin FLUTES Assistant Nickolai Kurganov Denis Bouriakov Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair In those sections where there Guido Lamell Principal are two principals the musicians Varty Manouelian Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair TRUMPETS share the position equally and are Paul Stein Thomas Hooten listed in order of length of service. Catherine Ransom Karoly Yun Tang Principal Associate Principal The musicians of the Los Angeles Suli Xue M. David and Diane Paul Chair Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair Philharmonic are represented by James Wilt Professional Musicians Local 47, Elise Shope Henry Associate Principal AFM. Sarah Jackson Nancy and Donald de Brier Chair

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