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NOVEMBER 2023
Contents 10 WELCOME MESSAGE
Book I • NOVEMBER 2–12
12 ABOUT THE LA PHIL
NOV 2–3 LA Phil
NOV 9 Songbook
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in Concert
Canto en resistencia Lila Downs, Catalina García, Goyo, Ely Guerra, and Ana Tijoux
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FEATURE California Festival Excursions
18 NEWS The latest from the LA Phil 21 SUPPORT THE LA PHIL 42 NEW ALBUM FROM THE LA PHIL P1 PROGRAM NOTES
JOHN WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHT
NOV 4–5 LA Phil Dudamel Leads Khachaturian NOV 7 Chamber Music
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
Pereira, Washington, and Mozart NOV 8 Jazz Brad Mehldau Trio
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
NOV 10–12 LA Phil
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
Canto en resistencia Dudamel and the LA Phil featuring Silvana Estrada NOV 12 Organ Recital
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
James McVinnie
Book II • NOVEMBER 14–28 NOV 14 Green Umbrella
NOV 22 Ellie Goulding with Orchestra
Chaparral and Interstates
NOV 25 KCRW Series Flamenco! María Bermúdez’s Sonidos Gitanos
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
JAMES McVINNIE ELY GUERRA
NOV 15 Colburn Celebrity Recital Alisa Weilerstein CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
FRAGMENTS 2 NOV 16–19 LA Phil
NOV 28 Chamber Music Dvořák and Kodály
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
Dudamel and the Music of Tango, Ballet, and Beyond
ANA TIJOUX
CATALINA GARCÍA
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LILA DOWNS
JEAN-Y VES THIBAUDET, GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, SILVANA ESTR ADA , BR AD MEHLDAU TRIO, ALISA WEILERSTEIN, AND VIMBAYI K AZIBONI
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
Welcome to the LA Phil We all know California as a diverse, creative, and innovative place, and we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to embrace that spirit this month through the inaugural California Festival. Bringing together more than 100 arts organizations that have each curated programs of new music, the festival showcases the incredible talent that resides in our state and the significance of today’s pioneering composers. At the LA Phil, much of our California Festival programming highlights Latina artists using their work as a form of protest, feminism, and resistance. This includes performances by Mexican singer-songwriters Silvana Estrada and Lila Downs, Chilean-French MC Ana Tijoux, and Latin Grammy–winning singers Ely Guerra (Mexico) and Catalina García (Colombia), plus the world premieres of Gabriela Ortiz’s Seis piezas a Violeta, inspired by Chilean activist and folk musician Violeta Parra, and Ortiz’s ballet score, Revolución diamantina, inspired by the 2019 “Glitter Revolution” in Mexico that rallied women against gender violence. Along with the performances on our stage, the festival also gives a deeper look into California’s artistic legacy through Excursions, supported by the LA Phil Insight initiative. From M.A. Tiesenga’s essay on the California plant life that inspired their new composition to a reflection on the experimental music hub San Francisco Tape Music Center, there’s so much to uncover on the festival website. We hope you will join us as we celebrate and contribute to California’s legacy as a nexus for art, expression, and creative freedom. Whether here at Walt Disney Concert Hall, online, or at one of the great venues throughout the state, we’re excited to explore it all with you.
Board of Directors CHAIR
Teena Hostovich
Thomas L. Beckmen* Jonathan Kagan* VICE CHAIRS David C. Bohnett* Reveta Bowers* Jane B. Eisner* David Meline* Diane Paul* Jay Rasulo*
Darioush Khaledi Winnie Kho Francois Mobasser Margaret Morgan Leith O’Leary Andy Park Sandy Pressman Richard Raffetto
DIRECTORS
Geoff Rich
Nancy Abell
Laura Rosenwald
Gregory A. Adams
G. Gabrielle Starr
Julie Andrews
Jay Stein*
Camilo Esteban Becdach
Christian Stracke*
Linda Brittan Jennifer Broder Kawanna Brown Andrea Chao-Kharma* R. Martin Chavez
Jason Subotky Ronald D. Sugar* Vikki Sung Jack Suzar Keith Terasaki Sue Tsao
Christian D. Chivaroli, Jon Vein JD Megan Watanabe Jonathan L. Congdon Regina Weingarten Donald P. de Brier* Alyce de Roulet Williamson Louise D. Edgerton Lisa Field
Irwin Winkler
David A. Ford
Debra Wong Yang
Hilary Garland Jennifer Miller Goff*
HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS
Tammy Golihew
Frank Gehry
Carol Colburn Grigor
Lenore S. Greenberg
Marian L. Hall
Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy
Suzanne M. Hart
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ABOUT THE LA PHIL
Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair Gustavo Dudamel is driven by the belief that music has the power to transform lives, to inspire, and to change the world. Through his dynamic presence on the podium and his tireless advocacy for arts education, he has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped provide access to the arts for countless people in underserved communities. Dudamel currently serves as Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein. Dudamel is one of the few classical musicians to become a bona fide pop-culture phenomenon. His film credits include Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Simpsons, and he led the LA Phil with Billie Eilish in the concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles. He has performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, the Academy Awards, and the Nobel Prize concert, and has worked with international superstars Christina Aguilera; Ricky Martin; Tyler, The Creator; Coldplay; and others. His extensive discography includes 67 releases and four Grammy Awards. Inspired by his transformative experience as a youth in Venezuela’s immersive musical training program El Sistema, he created the Dudamel Foundation in 2012, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal “to expand access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.” In July and August 2022, the Dudamel Foundation brought its Encuentros initiative to the Hollywood Bowl as part of the 100thanniversary season, in a two-week intensive global leadership and orchestral training program for young musicians from around the world that culminated in a concert at the Hollywood Bowl and a tour with the Orquesta del Encuentro to the legendary Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
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ABOUT THE LA PHIL
Los Angeles Philharmonic
“SO FAR AHEAD OF OTHER AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS THAT IT IS IN COMPETITION MAINLY WITH ITS OWN PAST ACHIEVEMENTS.” —The New Yorker’s Alex Ross The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. Both at home and abroad, the LA Phil—recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras—is leading the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming, onstage and in the community, that reflects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. The 2023/24 season is the orchestra’s 105th. Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Ford, and the Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. Situated in a 32-acre park and
under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, The Ford presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles. The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purpose-built facility: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Frank Gehry. The orchestra also undertakes tours, both domestically and internationally, including regular visits to New York, London (where the orchestra is the Barbican Centre’s International Orchestral Partner), Paris, and Tokyo. As
part of its global Centennial activities, the orchestra visited Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Boston, and New York. The LA Phil’s first tour was in 1921, and the orchestra has made annual tours since the 1969/70 season. The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy Award-winning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, and Andrew Norman. Deutsche Grammophon has released a comprehensive box set in honor of the orchestra’s centennial.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity. Their names are Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929), Artur Rodziński (1929-1933), Otto Klemperer (1933-1939), Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956), Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959), Zubin Mehta (1962-1978), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984), André Previn (1985-1989), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009), and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).
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ABOUT THE LA PHIL
Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Zubin Mehta Conductor Emeritus Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate Rodolfo Barráez Assistant Conductor Ann Ronus Chair
John Adams
John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair
Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz
FIRST VIOLINS Martin Chalifour Principal Concertmaster Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair
Nathan Cole First Associate Concertmaster
Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang Associate Concertmaster
Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair
Akiko Tarumoto Assistant Concertmaster Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Minyoung Chang I.H. Albert Sutnick Chair
Tianyun Jia Jordan Koransky Ashley Park Stacy Wetzel Justin Woo
SECOND VIOLINS
Contrabassoon
Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair
HORNS
CELLOS
Elise Shope Henry
Andrew Bain Principal
Robert deMaine Principal
Sarah Jackson
Nancy and Leslie Abell LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair
Mari L. Danihel Chair
Piccolo
Evan Kuhlmann
John Cecil Bessell Chair
Sarah Jackson
David Cooper Associate Principal
Ben Hong Associate Principal
OBOES
Gregory Roosa
Marc Lachat Principal
Amy Jo Rhine
Mark Kashper Associate Principal
Dahae Kim Assistant Principal
Carol Colburn Grigor Chair
Kristine Whitson Johnny Lee
Jonathan Karoly
Lyndon Johnston Taylor Principal Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Dale Breidenthal
Mark Houston Dalzell and James DaoDalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community
Ingrid Chun Jin-Shan Dai Chao-Hua Jin Jung Eun Kang Nickolai Kurganov Varty Manouelian Michelle Tseng Suli Xue Ayrton Pisco* Nebyu Samuel*
VIOLAS Teng Li Principal
Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair
Sadie and Norman Lee Chair
David Garrett Barry Gold Jason Lippmann Gloria Lum
Linda and Maynard Brittan Chair
Serge Oskotsky Brent Samuel+ Ismael Guerrero*
BASSES Christopher Hanulik Principal Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller Chair
Kaelan Decman Associate Principal Oscar M. Meza Assistant Principal
Marion Arthur Kuszyk Associate Principal Anne Marie Gabriele Carolyn Hove
English Horn Carolyn Hove
CLARINETS
Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair
Burt Hara Associate Principal Andrew Lowy Taylor Eiffert
E-Flat Clarinet
David Allen Moore
Ben Ullery Assistant Principal
Ted Botsford Jack Cousin Jory Herman Brian Johnson Peter Rofé Nicholas Arredondo*
Bass Clarinet
FLUTES
Shawn Mouser Associate Principal
Jenni Seo Dana Lawson
Richard Elegino John Hayhurst Ingrid Hutman Rochelle Abramson Michael Larco Camille Avellano Hui Liu Margaret and Jerrold Meredith Snow L. Eberhardt Chair Leticia Oaks Strong Deanie and Jay Stein Chair
* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen LA Phil Resident Fellow On sabbatical
Denis Bouriakov Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Alan Scott Klee Chair Loring Charitable Trust Chair
Elyse Lauzon
Reese and Doris Gothie Chair
Ethan Bearman Assistant
Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
Elizabeth Linares Montero*
TRUMPETS
Thomas Hooten Boris Allakhverdyan Principal M. David and Diane Principal
John Connell Chair
Rebecca Reale
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Catherine Ransom Karoly Associate Principal
Minor L. Wetzel Jarrett Threadgill*
Andrew Lowy Taylor Eiffert
BASSOONS Whitney Crockett Principal
Ann Ronus Chair
Michele Grego+ Evan Kuhlmann
The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.
Paul Chair
James Wilt Associate Principal Nancy and Donald de Brier Chair
Christopher Still
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair
Jeffrey Strong
TROMBONES David Rejano Cantero Principal James Miller Associate Principal Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair
Paul Radke
Bass Trombone John Lofton
Miller and Goff Family Chair
TUBA Mason Soria
TIMPANI Joseph Pereira Principal
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair
David Riccobono Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION Matthew Howard Principal James Babor Perry Dreiman David Riccobono
KEYBOARDS Joanne Pearce Martin Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
HARP Emmanuel Ceysson Principal
Ann Ronus Chair
LIBRARIANS Stephen Biagini Benjamin Picard KT Somero
CONDUCTING FELLOWS Carlos Ágreda Ross Jamie Collins Michelle Di Russo Anna Handler
The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.
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California Festival Excursions: Alice Coltrane with Strings The California Festival launches this month with more than two weeks of concerts from 95 arts organizations across the state that spotlight the Golden State as a home of new and trailblazing creativity. Online, California Festival Excursions collects writings and audio features from a range of celebrated authors that explore stories of that creative history—from avant-garde composer Henry Cowell to the early days of the San Francisco Tape Music Center to electroacoustic pioneer Maggi Payne. Andy Beta explores a pivotal moment in Alice Coltrane’s career that happened shortly after she moved to California. To read the full story, listen to examples, and explore more features, visit cafestival.org/excursions. When Alice Coltrane relocated Beverly Hills and the Pacific from Dix Hills to California in Ocean, The Village had served the early 1970s, her solo work as a Masonic temple for decades was transformed. In her mind’s before it was taken over, first by eye, Coltrane knew just how the a Bible Institute, and then later music should sound: a blend of by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. incandescent jazz and whirling The Maharishi transformed it into strings that–when their tonalities the West Coast nerve center for all came together–would suggest Transcendental Meditation, and the divine. But she couldn’t figure it’s said that the Beatles used to out just where to make the cut meditate in the large auditorium on the studio tape. And neither on the first floor. Now it was a could her producer, Ed Michel. It proper recording studio, which was early July 1972 and Coltrane would serve as the birthplace for had recently moved her family everything from Steely Dan’s Aja from Dix Hills on Long Island to Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. to California, first to Encino before settling in “THE LORD TOLD MOTHER HE Woodland Hills.
I regarded myself as the Charlie Parker of the razor blade; I could do impossible edits. But I just broke my back on that one and couldn’t make it work,” Ed Michel told Down Beat.
“I’ll go home and meditate on it,” Coltrane told her longtime producer, and left for the day. When she arrived at the studio the next morning, the solution was in hand, as Michel recalled, recounting Coltrane’s own words: “I meditated on it, and I got some help from Bach and The Father”– which is how she always referred to her husband John after his passing– WOULD MEET HER IN CALIFORNIA.” “and Mr. Stravinsky. Mr. Stravinsky said, And now Alice was in —Sita Michelle Coltrane ‘Cut it here.’” Michel a Los Angeles studio, Alice was in the studio with her remembered the astonishing trying to achieve this holy sound. trio (bassist Charlie Haden and result: “I said, it’s impossible. It She was booked for the entire drummer Ben Riley) and a platoon will never work. But I cut it there week at The Village Recorder, of strings: twelve violinists, six and it worked perfectly.” With a most auspicious studio space, violists, and seven cellists. They the ghosts of Bach, Coltrane, putting together the album that had just recorded her version and Stravinsky guiding her, Alice would be a watermark of spiritual of Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Coltrane attained the sound she jazz, Lord of Lords. It would be a ballet he had first written in had long been seeking. Coltrane’s seventh solo album in 1910 and that she presented as as many years. And it would be the Find out what happens next at a compact six-minute dervish of last album she would record for cafestival.org/excursions. sound and vertiginous strings. Impulse Records. And yet, the marriage between California Festival Excursions is Built by Freemasons in 1922 on jazz trio and orchestral strings presented as part of the LA Phil Santa Monica Boulevard, almost still sounded off. “There was an Insight initiative, which is generously smack-dab in the middle between edit that needed to be made, and supported by Linda and David Shaheen. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 17
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Audience members listen to The New York Times’ Wesley Morris at the California African American Museum (CAAM)
Announcing
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association recently announced its 2023/24 Insight projects and festival curators. Formerly known as the LA Phil Humanities initiative, Insight is now in its fifth year of offering guest curator-driven festivals, multidisciplinary art projects, publications, and digital initiatives that explore the themes that emerge from the LA Phil’s concert programming. LA Phil Humanities Director Julia Ward, who oversees the Insight initiative, said, “The beauty of the Insight initiative lies in the fact that it is an open invitation–an invitation to a uniquely diverse array of guest artists, scholars, and community-based partners to create new avenues for engagement within their areas of expertise. It’s also an invitation to audiences to invest in their own curiosity and discover transformative new ideas and experiences.” This November, Insight explores the history of new music in California and the work of Latinx artists working at the intersection of music and resistance.
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California Festival In conjunction with the California Festival (November 3–19), the LA Phil Insight initiative has commissioned a series of editorial offerings highlighting the visionary figures and lesserknown pathways that have helped shape the state’s storied continuum of contemporary music. Newly commissioned features include in-depth articles, audio programs, visual essays, and original graphic scores from contributors including acclaimed music journalists Geeta Dayal and Andy Beta, MacArthur Fellow Josh
ALICE BAG
Kun, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tim Page, pianist and producer Sarah Cahill, Grammy Award winner John Schneider, composer M.A. Tiesenga, and Peabody Award–winning broadcaster Nadia Sirota. The California Festival’s editorial offerings can be found at cafestival.org/excursions. New features will continually be added in the lead-up to the festival.
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Pan-American Music Initiative: Canto en resistencia Curated by LACMA’s head of contemporary art, Rita Gonzalez, as part of the Pan-American Music Initiative’s focus on feminism and cultural protest, the Canto en resistencia Insight programs spotlight contemporary Latina artists whose work intersects with the worlds of sound and music. Gonzalez’s programming kicks off on November 11 with Sonic Biographies, featuring punk legend Alice Bag, multidisciplinary artist and community archivist Guadalupe Rosales, and DJ collective Chulita Vinyl Club in conversation about the music that has influenced their work and set them on a path to move culture forward. In partnership with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ ALOUD program, MacArthur Fellow
Cristina Rivera Garza will also join the festival, leading a discussion about her most recent work, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, on November 15. Tickets are available via the Library Foundation of Los Angeles (lfla.org).
Learn more about the history of the LA Phil Insight initiative and its upcoming programs by visiting laphil.com/insight. LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.
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Sculpting Harmony To commemorate Walt Disney Concert Hall’s 20th anniversary, the Getty Research Institute presents Sculpting Harmony, a digital exhibition featuring more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs documenting the concert hall’s development. New research, interviews, and innovative 3D-media capture reveal the multidisciplinary process behind the building’s design. Drawn from the extensive Frank O. Gehry Papers at the Getty, Sculpting Harmony celebrates the realization of the LA Phil’s home. gehry.getty.edu
County of Los Angeles BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Hilda L. Solis Holly Mitchell Lindsey P. Horvath Janice K. Hahn Chair Kathryn Barger
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE Kristin Sakoda Director
COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION Liane Weintraub President Leticia Buckley Vice President Patrisse Cullors Secretary Madeline Di Nonno Executive Committee Eric R. Eisenberg Immediate Past President CONSTRUCTING A MODEL OF WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, 1991, FR ANK O. GEHRY AND ASSOCIATES. PHOTO: JOSHUA WHITE. GETT Y RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 2017.M.66. © FRANK O. GEHRY
Pamela Bright-Moon Diana Diaz Sandra Hahn Helen Hernandez Constance Jolcuvar Alis Clausen Odenthal Anita Ortiz Jennifer Price-Letscher Randi Tahara The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s programs are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Harmonizing the Future:
Jay Bartush’s Gift Ensures Music’s Continuity Jay Bartush’s deep, lifelong love of music inspired him to join the William Andrews Clark Society, which is composed of donors who have remembered the LA Phil through a gift from their estate. Through his legacy gift to the LA Phil, Bartush is ensuring that young people today will have the same opportunities to experience music that he had as a child, attending symphony orchestra concerts for youth. Bartush has been an LA Phil subscriber since moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s. He has heard the LA Phil evolve from André Previn’s orchestra to Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen’s to Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel’s today. “Dudamel, in particular, has a knack for being able to pair music in eyeopening and dynamic ways,” Bartush said. “I remember the concerts featuring the music of both Charles Ives and Dvořák. They are such disparate composers, but Dudamel was able to draw out what connected them. He has done that time and again throughout his time here.”
JAY BARTUSH
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
John Williams Spotlight E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in Concert Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2023 8PM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 8PM
A Steven Spielberg Film
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Dee Wallace Peter Coyote Henry Thomas as Elliott Music by John Williams Written by Melissa Mathison Produced by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy Directed by Steven Spielberg A Universal Picture
Tonight's program is a presentation of the complete film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.
Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Available on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Programs and artists subject to change.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
FROM THE COMPOSER
that the film absolutely qualifies to be ranked as a classic. What’s particularly special about tonight’s concert is that we’ll hear one of our great symphony orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing the entire score live, along with the complete picture, sound effects, and dialogue. I know I speak for everyone connected with the making
of E.T. in saying that we’re greatly honored by this event…and I hope that tonight’s audience will find great joy in experiencing this magical film. —John Williams
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC, and the Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.
Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice
The score for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been adapted for live concert performance.
Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson
Music Composed by John Williams
Steven Spielberg’s film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has always held a special place in my heart, and I personally think it’s his masterpiece. In looking at it today, it’s as fresh and new as when it was made in 1982. Cars may change, along with hairstyles and clothes…but the performances, particularly by the children and by E.T. himself, are so honest, timeless, and true
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill
Technical Director: Mike Daniels
Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service
Production Manager: Sophie Greaves
Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt
Production Assistant: Katherine Miron
Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson
Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC
Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe
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With special thanks to: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, David Newman, Michael Silver, Patrick Koors, Tammy Olsen, Lawrence Liu, Thomas Schroder, Tanya Perra, Chris Herzberger, Noah Bergman, Jason Jackowski, Shayne Mifsud, Darice Murphy, Mark Graham, and the musicians and staff of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
For a biography of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 12.
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JOHN WILLIAMS
In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and the concert stage. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than 100 films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and the Indiana Jones films. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 14 seasons and remains its Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage, including two symphonies and more than a dozen concertos commissioned by some of America’s most prominent orchestras. He has received five Academy Awards and 53 Oscar nominations, seven British Academy Awards, 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. His other honors include the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, an honorary KBE from Queen Elizabeth II, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, and the Gold Medal from the UK’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
Dudamel Leads Khachaturian Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
KHACHATURIAN
Adagio from Spartacus Suite No. 2 (c. 9 minutes)
KHACHATURIAN
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (c. 33 minutes)
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2023 8PM SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5 2PM
Allegro ma non troppo e maestoso Andante con anima Allegro brillante
Jean-Yves Thibaudet INTERMISSION
Thomas ADЀS
Tower for Frank Gehry (U.S. premiere) (c. 3 minutes)
JANÁČEK
Sinfonietta (c. 24 minutes)
Allegretto Andante—Allegro Moderato Allegretto Andante con moto
Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. These performances are generously supported by the Frank Gehry Fund for Creativity.
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AT A GLANCE Music for Heroes
Khachaturian was officially a hero himself—a Hero of Socialist Labor, one of the Soviet Union’s highest honors—and his best-known music often exhibits extroverted and epic sensibilities. That’s the case in the ballet Spartacus; even the lush Adagio the titular rebel slave shares with his wife is roiled with intimations of struggle and tragedy. The Piano Concerto that introduced
ADAGIO FROM SPARTACUS SUITE NO. 2 Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) Composed: 1954 Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd=bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (cymbals, snare drum, tam-tam, bass drum), harp, piano, and strings First LA Phil performances. Aram Khachaturian’s picture graced the walls of Russia’s conservatories, alongside those of Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, as one of the country’s three greatest composers of the 20th century. Interestingly, his works—from favorites like the Masquerade incidental music and the ballets Gayane and Spartacus to his less-familiar, but no less engaging, symphonies and
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Khachaturian to the broader musical world is a spiky vehicle for a musical hero of aspiring spirit and virtuosity (cue Jean-Yves Thibaudet). Thomas Adès’ spiraling new Tower pays tribute to Frank Gehry, the architectural hero of Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Janáček’s raucous Sinfonietta is in many ways an autobiographical travelogue to his cultural roots. —John Henken
concertos—do not enjoy the international reputation that those of his two more familiar compatriots do. Perhaps this is because of Khachaturian’s relatively limited output— only three symphonies compared with Prokofiev’s seven and Shostakovich’s 15, for example—but his works, for the most part, lack the 20th-century edge that gives the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich its more contemporary and challenging feel. But that’s why he was a Soviet musical hero, especially after he publicly renounced formalism when criticized by the government in 1948—his music overflows with melody and vitality, its languorous moments alternating with sections of overwhelming rhythmic dynamism. As an ethnic Armenian born in a suburb of Tbilisi, Georgia, Khachaturian became a manifestation of one of the cornerstones of Soviet arts policy—the combination
of the folk heritage of the various Socialist republics with Russia’s artistic traditions, embodied in music by composers such as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. As did Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian composed three ballets. Spartacus was his third, premiered by the Kirov company in Leningrad in 1956 and revised for its 1968 production at the Bolshoi in Moscow. This tale of a Roman slave revolt offered obvious possibilities for political messages about the nobility and obligations of revolutionary struggle. The lush Adagio opens with languid expressions of the love between Spartacus and Phrygia, but then develops more martial intimations of revolutionary rather than romantic fervor. It ends where it began, but with the tenderness undercut by ominous hints of the trouble to come. —Notes from the Philharmonic’s archive
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PIANO CONCERTO Aram Khachaturian Composed: 1936 Orchestration: 2 flutes (1st=piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, flexatone, snare drum), strings, and solo piano First LA Phil performance: March 28, 1946, Alfred Wallenstein conducting, with William Kapell, soloist Khachaturian had wide-ranging early musical experiences but little formal training before moving from Tbilisi to Moscow to study biology. In Tbilisi, he had played in an amateur band and composed some piano music, and in Moscow, he began to study cello and to write music for an Armenian theater group directed by his brother. In 1929, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1934. He stayed on for two years of graduate work, however, and his Piano Concerto, composed in 1936, was a breakthrough piece in terms of both public recognition and artistic development. The ashugh tradition of Armenian bards was an important influence on Khachaturian, an influence apparent in the rhythmic and metrical games, instrumental color, and sheer virtuosity of his Piano Concerto. The piece is cast in the three fast-slowfast movements of concerto tradition, but each movement is sectional itself, with clear motivic relationships developed across all the movements. The dynamism and spiky “wrong note” harmony—A-natural against A-flat, for example—that
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characterize the Concerto are immediately apparent in the orchestral introduction, and the three notes of the piano’s entry form the foundation motive. Woodwinds introduce several important subjects, one of which is developed in a lyrical cadenza. The opening movement’s second cadenza contrasts strongly with the earlier one in decibels and speed, though not in motives. The not-so-slow second movement—Andante con anima—opens darkly, with a characterful theme from the bass clarinet against the muted upper strings. Where the first movement was clearly based on D-flat, this one finds a quiet home in A minor, the inevitable explosive contrasts notwithstanding. There is no cadenza, but the movement’s sections suggest a sort of rondo form, with a clear sense of rounded recapitulation at the end, as the bass clarinet returns with a variant of its opening theme, over the same gently pulsing string texture. The last movement holds all the dash and sparkle one could ask for in a concerto finale. It begins firmly on C, with aggressive energy and more “wrong” notes, vigorously at play in a field of shifting meters. This movement does have a kaleidoscopic cadenza, which tails off softly with a chromatic plunge to the bottom of the keyboard. From there, it is mainly a matter of gathering momentum again for a mad drive to D-flat and a thunderous, over-the-top coda that dramatically recalls the first movement. —John Henken
TOWER Thomas Adès (b. 1971) Composed: 2023 Orchestration: 2 piccolo trumpets, 10 trumpets, 2 bass trumpets (or trombones) First LA Phil performances. Tower for Frank Gehry was commissioned for the opening of the LUMA tower in Arles, France. Tower is my third work inspired by Frank Gehry: Tal Rosner’s video for In Seven Days (2008), for the anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, incorporated forms from Frank’s building; and Polaris (2010) was composed for the opening of his New World Center in Miami. Tower begins with a kernel taken from the “Carillon” in Bizet’s L’Arlésienne, which I multiplied to the power of 14 to grow a musical “tower.” The music to me is really architecture, and as with Frank’s work, one moves around and within it to see how it itself moves. The helical structure creates confluences and divergences, platforms, and staircases. It is built as a perpetual ascent, spiraling always upwards like an Archimedes screw. The bright sound of the trumpets and the cascading textures evoke the joyful ebullience of Frank’s forms. —Thomas Adès
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SINFONIETTA Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) Composed: 1926 Orchestration: 4 flutes (4th=piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd=English horn), 2 clarinets (2nd=E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 12 trumpets, 6 trombones, 2 tenor tubas, tuba, timpani, chimes, cymbals, harp, and strings First LA Phil performance: July 23, 1974, Charles Mackerras conducting Janáček could hardly have been called a modernist; he was definitely “prepostmodernist,” if you will. In fact, it is difficult to attach any kind of convenient label to his music, particularly to this work. Known now chiefly for his vocal music and operas, Janáček nevertheless
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penned several works that have joined the standard repertoire, including the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba. The opening of the Sinfonietta is an obstreperous and repetitive brass fanfare, vaguely jazz-sounding (though it is unclear if Janáček ever heard or even knew of jazz music). A steady timpani motive punctuates the whole of the Allegretto (“Fanfare”). Janáček was a man of his country, too, an expert in the folk music of Moravia. The main theme in the Andante (“The Castle”), for example, is a folksy, raucous dance-hall tune, first heard in the oboes and then in the trombones. The title of the movement makes reference to an ominous castle that overlooked the town of Brno, Czechoslovakia. The lyrical beginning of the third movement, the Moderato
(“The Queen’s Monastery,” where Janáček had been a chorister), is also vaguely folk-inspired. The military sound returns in the middle of the Moderato, the brass reminding us of the martial nature of the work; remembrances of the lyrical melody that started off this movement end it quietly. The second Allegretto (“The Street”) returns us to the whimsical music of the fanfare and the dance hall. The fanfare of the first movement is recalled in the opening strains of the final movement, marked Allegro (“The Town Hall”), though the theme is now in the flutes. Calm at first, the agitation and anxiety build through the movement as the brass and timpani fanfare returns to frame the entire work and underscore its patriotic and rousing purpose. —Dave Kopplin
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
For a biography of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 12.
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JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET
Through elegant musicality and an insightful approach to contemporary and established repertoire, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest pianists. He is especially known for his diverse interests beyond the classical world, including numerous collaborations in film, fashion, and visual art. A recording powerhouse, Thibaudet appears on more than 70 albums and six film scores. He is a devoted educator and is the first-ever Artist-in-Residence at the Colburn School, which awards several scholarships in his name. Thibaudet appears as soloist in seven compositions this season, performed with 19 orchestras: Gershwin’s Concerto in F, Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto, Ravel’s Concerto in G, Debussy’s Fantaisie, Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, and
Scriabin’s Prometheus. In addition to his orchestral dates, Thibaudet joins longtime collaborators Gautier Capuçon and Lisa Batiashvili for a trio tour of the United States. He also continues his multiseason focus on Debussy’s Préludes, performing both books in recitals throughout Europe. With Michael Feinstein, he continues the acclaimed program Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More? this season, presenting works by Gershwin, Rodgers, and more in new arrangements for piano, voice, and orchestra. Thibaudet records exclusively for Decca. His most recent solo album, 2021’s Carte Blanche, features a collection of deeply personal solo piano pieces never before recorded by the pianist. Other highlights from Thibaudet’s catalog include a 2017 recording of Bernstein’s “The Age of Anxiety,” recordings of the complete solo piano music of Debussy and Satie, and Grammy-nominated recordings of Ravel’s complete solo piano works and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5. He is the soloist on Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch; his playing can also be heard in Pride and Prejudice, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Wakefield, and the Oscar-winning and critically acclaimed film Atonement. His concert wardrobe is designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood.
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CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 7–19, 2023 Walt Disney Concert Hall The California Festival is a statewide music showcase spotlighting the most compelling and forward-looking voices in performances of works written in the past five years.
As part of the festival, the LA Phil will present concerts ranging from songs of Latin American protest led by Gustavo Dudamel to world premieres of works from cutting-edge composers to recitals by trailblazers.
The LA Phil’s performances as part of the California Festival are generously supported by the Michael J. Connell Foundation, Christian Stracke, and the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music.
“CALIFORNIA HOLDS A UNIQUE PLACE IN MUSIC AND CULTURE, NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES BUT IN THE WIDER WORLD AS WELL. IT BRINGS OUT THE UNEXPECTED AND ILLUMINATES THE UNSEEN, MOVING EVEN THE MOST RESERVED AMONG US.” —Joint statement from festival creators LA Phil Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, and San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare
Explore the Full Festival
Whether you want to see all events happening across the Golden State or get lost in the stories you’ll find in our Excursions, featuring articles and audio deep dives into the visionary figures who shaped California’s creative legacy, there’s plenty to do at CAFestival.org.
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CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL
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Pereira, Washington, & Mozart
Chaparral and Interstates
Chamber Music
Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
NOV 9 Canto en resistencia Lila Downs, Catalina García, Goyo, Ely Guerra, and Ana Tijoux Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
NOV 10–12 Canto en resistencia Dudamel and the LA Phil featuring Silvana Estrada Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
NOV 12
Organ and Piano Recital
James McVinnie
Green Umbrella
LA Phil New Music Group Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor James McVinnie, organ
NOV 15
Colburn Celebrity Recital
FRAGMENTS 2
Alisa Weilerstein, cello and project creator Elkhanah Pulitzer, director Seth Reiser, scenic and lighting designer Hanako Yamaguchi, artistic producer and advisor
NOV 16–19 Dudamel and the Music of Tango, Ballet, and Beyond Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Leticia Moreno, violin Programs, artists, prices, and dates subject to change.
For festival programs, please turn to pages P11, P20, P23, and P27 or visit laphil.com/cafestival
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CHAMBER MUSIC
Pereira, Washington, & Mozart Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Shelley WASHINGTON
MIDDLEGROUND (c. 10 minutes) Bing Wang, violin Johnny Lee, violin Dana Lawson, viola Jason Lippmann, cello
Joseph PEREIRA
A Shadowy Figure Went Past (c. 13 minutes) Bing Wang, violin Teng Li, viola Robert deMaine, cello Joanne Pearce Martin, piano
Kevin DAY
Piano Trio No. 3, Ecstatic Samba (c. 7 minutes) Catherine Ransom Karoly, flute Ismael Guerrero, cello Joanne Pearce Martin, piano
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2023 8PM
INTERMISSION MOZART
Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563 (c. 40 minutes)
Allegro Adagio Menuetto: Allegro Andante Menuetto: Allegro Allegro
Nathan Cole, violin Ben Ullery, viola Robert deMaine, cello
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Programs and artists subject to change.
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AT A GLANCE Serious Fun
This contribution to the California Festival’s statewide celebration of new music features chamber music by composers who also are (or were) active and accomplished as instrumentalists. Shelley Washington and Kevin Day are both rooted in American vernacular music, and it shows in the bigspirited dances representing their work here:
MIDDLEGROUND Shelley Washington (b. 1991) MIDDLEGROUND: the space grounded, the between, the center. The Heartland. The prairie, the grasslands, Konza, Flint Hills, Manhattan, Emporia, Salina. Where we gathered. Home of the heart, heart of the home. The years spent in cars, daydreaming, scooping handfuls of wheat, racing out into amber fields, cycling together, water wheel ice cream, fireworks and apples. The stories shared, books read while sprawled in the yard, family prayers over anything, late-evening walks, quiet nights. Open arms, open hearts, humble and extraordinary. Together, with our wonder, our joy, we created an incredible painting with abounding colors. The kinds of colors that linger in the mind’s eye long after they are out of sight and cradle you long after goodbyes are spoken and car doors closed. The kinds that find you counting the days until the next birthday, the next holiday, the next bike ride, the next Camp, the next anything just so you can see them again. When you close your eyes, you feel their warmth.
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music of layered grooves that suggest fiddle tunes in MIDDLEGROUND and kinetic Latin jazz in Ecstatic Samba. In between, LA Phil timpanist Joseph Pereira offers a haunted search for elusive allusions. Concluding the program, Mozart in his magisterial E-flat Divertimento gives weight and depth to light music as only he could. —John Henken
They stay. The middle ground: my refuge born from the land living in my heart. Where my home is, living and breathing outside of my body, thousands of miles apart. This hallowed ground. World premiere by the JACK Quartet in New York City, 2016. —Shelley Washington
A SHADOWY FIGURE WENT PAST Joseph Pereira (b. 1974) A Shadowy Figure Went Past, for piano quartet, was written in 2023. The starting place for the piece was forgotten material I was working on during COVID, which I rediscovered as short recordings on my iPhone. There were many clips of my prepared piano experiments which I then transcribed and reformed. The piano material, echoing itself with the constant muffling and repeated figures, is filtered, expanded, and then eventually provoked by the strings. Many short gestures meant to be shadows of themselves flash by almost unnoticed. When I was almost finished writing, the recurring images of working with shadow figures led me to use a quote
from Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. The idea of using this quote seemed to fit well with what I had already written, and it was ironic that the pitches and intervals I based my piece on—a clear repetitive whole-step motif, with heavy chromatic development, was almost identical to Mahler’s intervals in the first movement of his Ninth symphony. I have been part of many Mahler 9 performances, and every time I’m struck by the section titled “Schattenhaft,” which appears in the first movement at bar 254. Something about the ominous darkness of this section sounds completely modern, and I can never really grasp the meaning of it. It’s perfectly dark and distinct, and I always forget about it until it surprises me every time. I did not initially set out to use this quote in my piece. So I wanted it to show up unannounced, make a quick appearance, and whisk away, much like it does for me when I experience it. My quote leaves out the horn sighs that punctuate this section— we know they’re there, and this moment may provoke a memory of something we can’t quite remember or grasp, much like a quick shadow that passes by. —Joseph Pereira
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PIANO TRIO NO. 3, ECSTATIC SAMBA Kevin Day (b. 1996) For Kevin Day, every composition represents a part of himself. He says he’s constantly thinking, “What haven’t I shown yet? What haven’t I said yet musically that I could say in these moments?” Having composed over 200 works at just 27 years old, Day is still finding ways to use every aspect of his versatile, musical voice. Hailing from Arlington, TX, Day is one of today’s most innovative young composers, known for blurring the distinctions between jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical music—most effectively done in his Piano Trio No. 3, Ecstatic Samba. As its name suggests, Ecstatic Samba elicits an unbridled joy that one can’t help but sway along with its danceable rhythm. Samba originated in late-19th-century and early-20th-century AfroBrazilian communities and has remained one of the most iconic Latin music styles. Here, Day presents a more modern, experimental approach, drawing inspiration from jazz fusion greats such as Chick Corea. As an undergraduate student at Texas Christian University, Day wrote Ecstatic Samba for flute, cello, and piano, a winning combination for allowing each instrument’s tones and textures to shine their brightest. It’s these strong, distinct parts that make the piece feel so connected, responsive, and alive.
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Ecstatic Samba opens with a springy, fluttering theme in the piano, accentuated by an aggressive pelting of notes from the flute and powerful, syncopated plucks in the cello. Though it starts here, the piece veers into a more delicate, melodic section, still driving home that samba bounce. Shifting between the two contrasting sections, Day creates a state of controlled chaos only to resolve it in the final measures. —Piper Starnes
DIVERTIMENTO IN E-FLAT MAJOR, K. 563 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Simple means, employed to glorious effect, resulted in this extraordinary work from the pen of a 31-year-old genius who would be dead at the age of 35. He had composed his last three symphonies (No. 39 in the same key, E-flat; No. 40 in G minor; and No. 41 in C major, the “Jupiter”) in the three months prior, but his depressed circumstances would preclude any further composition for some nine months. In his earlier years, Mozart had produced a wide assortment of works with such interchangeable titles as Cassation, Notturno, Serenade, and Divertimento, some scored for wind ensemble, some for strings, some for orchestra, including charming but insignificant works as well as celebrated gems such as the Gran Partita for winds, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, and the “Posthorn” Serenade.
In the more serious chamber music genres, Mozart had composed an extended collection of works for string quartet, and he wrote a masterful series of string quintets, but the Divertimento was his first and only music for string trio. Mingling the intimacy of these forces with an abundance of invention, he produced his longest chamber work, and yet avoided any potential tedium by varying the tempos and the formal structures of the six movements. The composer was in dire financial straits in 1788, and he wrote (not for the first time) to his fellow Freemason Michael Puchberg asking for a loan; by way of repayment, Mozart dedicated the Divertimento, K. 563, to Puchberg. Despite its modest instrumentation, the work received its premiere at a public concert, April 13, 1789, in Dresden. Mozart himself played his favorite instrument, the viola. The sequence of movements was typical for such a “diverting” work, with an opening fast movement matched by a similar one to conclude, and a pair of slow movements plus two menuets sandwiched in between. In addition to the richness of his thematic materials, Mozart was clever enough to diversify his musical methods, writing one slow movement in sonata form, the other as a theme and variations. His menuets also exhibited differing structures, including an extra trio section for one of them. Analysis of such a masterpiece would be superfluous. —Dennis Bade
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NATHAN COLE
First Associate Concertmaster Nathan Cole, who joined the LA Phil in 2011, has appeared as guest concertmaster with the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Houston, Ottawa, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon. He was previously a member of the Chicago Symphony and Principal Second Violin of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Cole’s articles and videos on practicing, performing, teaching, and auditioning have helped thousands of violinists worldwide. Visit natesviolin. com for the complete collection. In addition to his online teaching, Nathan is on faculty at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts, with classes at the Colburn Conservatory and USC. His articles and photographs have also appeared in Strings, Symphony, and Chamber Music magazines. Cole is married to Akiko Tarumoto, the LA Phil’s Assistant Concertmaster. Together they host the weekly podcast Stand Partners for Life, an inside look at orchestra life, which can be heard at standpartnersforlife.com. Nathan and Akiko live in Pasadena with their three children.
ROBERT deMAINE
Robert deMaine has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestra principal, recording artist, chamber musician, and composerarranger. In 2012, he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. He collaborates often in
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a piano trio with violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Natalie Zhu. A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as principal cello for over a decade. DeMaine studied at the Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Southern California, Yale University, and the Kronberg Academy in Germany. Please visit robertdemaine.com to learn more.
ISMAEL GUERRERO
Born in Havana, Cuba, Ismael Ariel Guerrero Bombut is an accomplished cellist who has won many competitions and performed all over the world. He is a member of the renowned Sphinx Virtuosi, featuring the nation’s top Black and Latinx soloists, and an active member of the Colour of Music Festival, which also promotes Black excellence in the arts. Guerrero completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory and his Master of Music degree from USC Thornton School of Music. He is extremely thankful to Cecylia Barczyk and the Borowsky Family for providing him the opportunity to immigrate to the United States to pursue his studies and begin his career.
An avid educator, Guerrero recently taught master classes at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and George Mason University. While at USC Thornton School of Music, he was part of the Thornton Community Engagement Program and had the chance to work with children from Los Angeles schools.
CATHERINE RANSOM KAROLY
Catherine Ransom Karoly joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as second flutist in May 1996. In October 2000, she made her solo debut with then–Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the LA Phil in Ibert’s Flute Concerto. She was appointed Associate Principal Flute by Salonen in March 2009. Karoly was a member of the award-winning Dorian Wind Quintet from 1994 to 1996. She has participated in numerous music festivals, including Marlboro, Tanglewood, and Spoleto (Italy). She has been a featured performer at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 1991. In 2014, she released an album of flute and piano music titled French Inspirations. Born in Minneapolis, MN, Karoly received a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Carol Wincenc. Karoly graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Phi Beta Kappa honors and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to study in England. Karoly has been a faculty member at the USC Thornton School of Music since 2021.
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DANA LAWSON
Violist Dana Lawson is a Massachusetts native. She began violin studies at the age of five and took up the viola at 15. After graduating from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Modern European History, she attended the Juilliard School, where she received her Master’s degree in 2003. In Boston, she studied viola and chamber music with James Dunham and Robert Levin. At Juilliard, she studied with Misha Amory and Heidi Castleman. During her summers, she attended the Aspen, Taos, and Tanglewood music festivals. She was a member of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2004. She is the mother of three wonderful daughters.
JOHNNY LEE
Violinist Johnny Lee joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2005 under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Previously, he was Assistant Concertmaster of the Charlotte Symphony and Concertmaster of the Canton Symphony. He was also a member of the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago. Lee has been a featured soloist with the LA Phil twice, performing Vivaldi concertos at Walt Disney Concert Hall and at the Hollywood Bowl. An avid chamber musician, Johnny appears frequently on the LA Phil’s Chamber Music series and serves as a founding member of Ensemble Ditto. Lee began playing the violin at age five and won his first competition three years later. An Ohio native,
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he spent his weekends taking lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). After graduating from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Economics, Lee realized that music was his true passion and returned to CIM, where he received his Master’s degree in 2003.
TENG LI
Teng Li is a diverse and dynamic performer internationally. She was appointed Principal Violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic after more than a decade as Principal with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Li is an active recitalist and chamber musician, participating in festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, and the Rising Stars at Caramoor. She has performed with the Guarneri Quartet in New York, at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), and with the 92nd Street Y Chamber Music Society. She is a member of the Rosamunde Quartet and the Toronto-based Arkel Trio. Li has been featured as soloist with the National Chamber Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Haddonfield Symphony, Shanghai Opera Orchestra, Canadian Sinfonietta, and Esprit Orchestra. Her discography includes a solo album entitled 1939 with violinist Benjamin Bowman and pianist Meng-Chieh Liu (for Azica). Teng is a graduate of the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
JASON LIPPMANN
Cellist Jason Lippmann joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 2004/05 season, after five years of performing as a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Along with his orchestral playing, Lippmann has actively performed as a chamber and solo musician, most recently on the Philharmonic’s Chamber Music and Green Umbrella series. A native of Cincinnati, OH, Lippmann began his music studies on the violin at the age of three. He switched to the cello a year later and studied with Norman Johns, Assistant Principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony. Lippmann received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Peter Wiley, Alan Stepansky, Julia Lichten, and David Geber, whose father, Ed Geber, was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic cello section. Lippmann has performed at the Tanglewood Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bard Festival, and the Bellingham Music Festival.
JOANNE PEARCE MARTIN
Pianist Joanne Pearce Martin was appointed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2001. A native of Allentown, PA, and a graduate of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, she balances a busy career as soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. Martin has been featured with the LA Phil on multiple occasions at both the
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Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall. She has performed at dozens of music series and festivals spanning four continents and has been guest soloist with many other orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. Martin’s playing can be heard on Hollywood movie soundtracks, and she has made numerous television appearances. Martin had the distinct pleasure of working alongside Steven Spielberg as the featured solo pianist in his award-winning semiautobiographical film The Fabelmans. At the personal invitation of John Williams, she recorded a varied collection of solo classical pieces as well as Williams’ original score for the film. When she’s not making music, you might find Martin up in the air—she is an instrument-rated airplane pilot and master-rated skydiver.
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BEN ULLERY
Violist Ben Ullery enjoys a multifaceted performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and educator. In 2023, he was chosen by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel for the position of Associate Principal Viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he had held the position of Assistant Principal since 2012. As a chamber musician, Ullery has been in high demand in the Los Angeles area and at festivals and concert series in the U.S. and Europe. As a recording artist, he has been featured on releases on the Bridge and Albany record labels. An enthusiastic teacher, Ullery is on the faculty at the Colburn School. He has given master classes at the Aspen Music Festival; California State University, Fullerton; Azusa Pacific University; and the Shanghai Orchestra Academy. A native of St. Paul, MN, Ullery earned a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the Oberlin Conservatory, and later studied violin at New England Conservatory and viola at the Colburn School.
BING WANG
Violinist Bing Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1994. She has served on the faculty and as concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2003. Since 2009, she has also been Guest Concertmaster of her hometown orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Wang appears annually as both concertmaster and soloist at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of composer John Williams, performing his signature movie classics such as Schindler’s List and his arrangement of Fiddler on the Roof. Active as a chamber musician, she has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Wang began studying the violin with her parents at the age of six. After coming to the U.S. to study with Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory, she received her Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Glenn Dicterow. In 2012, Bing Wang was named an Adjunct Associate Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music.
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JAZZ
Brad Mehldau Trio Brad Mehldau, piano Larry Grenadier, bass Jeff Ballard, drums
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Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Programs and artists subject to change.
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BRAD MEHLDAU
Grammy Award–winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. In 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio (repackaged and re-released as a five-disc box set by Nonesuch in late 2011). During that same period, Mehldau also released a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle and a record called Places that included both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle and Places might be called “concept” albums made up exclusively of original material with central themes that hover over the compositions. Other Mehldau recordings include Largo, a collaborative effort with the innovative musician and producer Jon Brion, and Anything Goes—a trio outing with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. Mehldau’s musical personality forms a dichotomy. He is first and foremost an improviser and greatly cherishes the surprise and
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wonder that can occur from a spontaneous musical idea that is expressed directly, in real time. But he also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music, and it informs everything he plays. In his most inspired playing, the actual structure of his musical thought serves as an expressive device. As he plays, he listens to how ideas unwind and the order in which they reveal themselves. Each tune has a strongly felt narrative arc, whether it expresses itself in a beginning, an end, or something left intentionally open-ended. The two sides of Mehldau’s personality—the improviser and the formalist— play off each other, and the effect is often something like controlled chaos. Mehldau was appointed curator of an annual four-concert jazz series at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall during its 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons, appearing in at least two of the four annual concerts. At Carnegie Hall he served a season-long residency in 2010–11 as holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair—the first jazz artist to hold that position since it was established in 1995.
LARRY GRENADIER
As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has been praised as “a deeply intuitive” musician by The New York Times and as an instrumentalist with a “fluid sense of melody” by Bass Player Magazine. Over a performing and recording career that now spans three decades, it has been not only Grenadier’s instrumental virtuosity and instantly recognizable tone that have made him such an in-demand collaborator but also his uncommon artistic sensitivity, imagination, and curiosity. In February 2019, ECM Records released Grenadier’s first album of solo bass. Titled The Gleaners, it presents a brace of originals by the bassist alongside pieces by George Gershwin, John Coltrane, and Paul Motian, as well as a pair of pieces written especially for Grenadier by guitarist and fellow ECM artist Wolfgang Muthspiel. Grenadier also includes an instrumental interpretation of a song by his wife and frequent collaborator, the singer-songwriter Rebecca Martin. “The process for making this record began with
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a look inward, an excavation into the core elements of who I am as a bass player. It was a search for a center of sound and timbre, for the threads of harmony and rhythm that formulate the crux of a musical identity,” says Grenadier. Of his performance style, Grenadier has observed: “I’m hyper-aware of the balance between a studied approach to music and a more primal, instinctual understanding of the way music works. Having access to technique is useful in being able to communicate and express yourself musically. But music is about intuition and emotion. Compassion, strength, flexibility, and stamina are all important qualities in playing music. But the most important thing is the ability to listen.” Despite his veteran status, “playing music is still a learning experience for me,” he said. “I’m always working on the technical aspects of my playing, but at the same time, I know that what happens on stage between musicians isn’t about that. The level of telepathy and intuition that exists in music, especially in jazz, is a constant reminder of what we’re capable of, both inside and outside of music.”
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JEFF BALLARD
As a child, drummer Jeff Ballard would lie in bed and listen to the music his father would play: Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sérgio Mendes, Oscar Peterson, and Milton Nascimento. “I remember feeling the power of a Basie big band shout chorus, which would then suddenly disappear into some quiet dancing riff,” said Ballard, a native of Santa Cruz, CA. “It was the swing in it that excited me the most. I also remember how it felt traveling through sounds of the jungle in a Milton Nascimento record. The drums, percussion, and voice would sound as if they either came from the earth or were made of water. And I was so happy to hear the joy of Ella and Louis singing and playing together. I think that that early exposure has made me part of what I am today, especially in regard to my love for sound.” At the age of 25, Ballard began an educational journey no college could match. He went on the road for eight months annually from 1988 to 1990 with Ray Charles, backing one
of music’s biggest stars, perfecting his time feels and tempos from playing with Charles nightly on the bandstand for three years. In 1990, Ballard moved to New York and jumped into the transformative scene that was developing there. He began collaborating with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Joshua Redman, and Ben Allison, among others who were mixing jazz tradition with their own influences, ranging from Middle Eastern rhythms to electronica and modern hip-hop. Ballard also has performed and toured with Eddie Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Buddy Montgomery, Lou Donaldson, Mike Stern, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, and Danilo Pérez. He joined the late Chick Corea in 1999. His present work continues with the Brad Mehldau Trio, as co-leader of collective group FLY (featuring Mark Turner, Ballard, and Larry Grenadier), and with his own groups The Jeff Ballard Trio and Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds.
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SONGBOOK
Lila Downs, Catalina García, Goyo, Ely Guerra, and Ana Tijoux Canto en resistencia Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Lila Downs Catalina García Goyo Ely Guerra Ana Tijoux
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
For a biography of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 12.
LILA DOWNS
Lila Downs is one of the most influential artists in Latin America. She has one of the most unique voices in the world and is known for her charismatic performances. Throughout her career she has been honored with numerous awards, including a Grammy and five Latin Grammys. Her compositions often combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz, hip-hop, cumbia, and folklore. Her music often focuses on social justice, immigration, and women’s issues. Downs sings in Spanish, English, and various native languages such as Zapoteco, Mixteco, Nahuatl, Maya, and Purépecha. She has recorded duets with artists as diverse as Mercedes Sosa, Caetano Veloso, Juanes, Norah Jones, Yo-Yo Ma, Juan Gabriel, Carla Morrison, Natalia Lafourcade, Santana, The Chieftains, Niña Pastori, Esteman, Soledad, Diego el Cigala, Aída Cuevas, Totó la Momposina, La Santa Cecilia, and Bunbury. Chavela Vargas proclaimed Downs her successor. Her extensive repertoire has allowed her to sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the UNAM Symphony in Mexico, as well as with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln
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Center Jazz Orchestra. She has given concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Hollywood Bowl in the U.S.; Teatro Colón in Argentina; and Auditorio Nacional and Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. She was invited by President Barack Obama to sing at the White House and has appeared at the Oscars for her role in the film Frida. Her music has also been included in feature films such as The Counselor, Tortilla Soup, Real Women Have Curves, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Fados, Mariachi Gringo, and Hecho en México.
CATALINA GARCÍA
Catalina García is a Colombian singer and actress, known as the vocalist and writer for the band Monsieur Periné. She was born in Cali, Colombia, and attended the Paul Valéry French high school in the same city. She moved to Bogotá and began studying anthropology at Javeriana University. While living in Bogotá, García met musicians Santiago Prieto, Nicolás Junca, and Camilo Parra, with whom she began to play various genres of Latin American music and jazz, performing at various venues in the city. They took the name Monsieur Periné from the French word for “perineum.” In 2012 they released their first album, called Hecho a Mano. The album turned out to be a commercial success, leading the group to perform throughout Latin America and at jazz festivals in Europe.
Their second album, Caja de Música, was released in 2015 and produced by musician Eduardo Cabra (Calle 13). The album earned the group a Latin Grammy that same year in the Best New Artist category. García is currently promoting their most recent album, Bolero Apocalíptico (2023), around the world.
GOYO
Gloria Martinez, aka Goyo, is a singer, rapper, and producer who co-founded the Grammywinning group ChocQuibTown. Born in Condoto Chocó on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, she is one of the most inspiring Colombian global artists today. Goyo is heir to a musical family. Her mother and aunt influenced her melodic voice while her father also encouraged her love for music. Goyo’s lived many firsts: first AfroLatina to be honored as one of the “Leading Ladies of Entertainment” by the Recording Academy for the Latin Grammys and first Afro-Latina to be an official ambassador for Cadillac. In Goyo’s words, “I’m often the ‘first’ in instances like these, but that’s not what excites me because it reflects how few opportunities there are for women like me.” As the passionate, soulful voice of Colombia, Goyo is one of the most rousing and conscious lyricists of our time. Since Goyo’s first appearance in the public eye, the prominent Afro-Latina has garnered a loyal following, countless media recognitions,
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and international awards. Goyo consciously uses her platform to inspire and champion women’s rights, equality, and inclusion while transcending borders. “Hip-hop is a model,” she said. “I understand the power that hip-hop has. Hip-hop is music that allows us to be real and to be bold. Through hip-hop, we can mix a variety of sounds and rhythms and fuse genres.”
ELY GUERRA
Ely Guerra is a Mexican singer-songwriter and music producer with a 30-year career. She is the 2010 Best Alternative Music Album Latin Grammy winner and an independent businesswoman for over 18 years at Homey Company. She has performed throughout Mexico as well as in Europe, the United States, Cuba, and Central and South America. Ely has worked with talented music producers including Argentinian Camilo Froideval, New Yorker Andrés Levin, Angelino Thom Russo, New Yorker Frank Filipetti, Mexican Emmanuel del Real, Scotsman Sandy McLelland, and Spaniard Teo Cardalda, among others. Ely has collaborated with musicians, singers, actors, and writers, including Alondra de la Parra, who conducted her performance of traditional and contemporary Mexican songs in her Travieso Carmesí project. She performed with Sting during a concert for the Mexican pro-education social-responsibility
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program Learning for Life as its ambassador. Guerra has performed at Carnegie Hall and at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a tribute to Chavela Vargas alongside Los Macorinos, Eugenia León, and Tania Libertad. She has also participated in movie and series soundtracks such as Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu), Sundown (Michel Franco), Monarca (Salma Hayek), De la calle (Gerardo Tort), Sueño (Renée Chabria), El viaje de Teo (Walter Doehner), and Vacas Vaqueras (Will Finn and John Sanford). In 2022, Ely celebrated 30 years of music. During 2023, Guerra has been part of two productions that celebrate regional Mexican music: Cumbia Machine—the show that brings together La Sonora Santanera and La Sonora Dinamita—and at the Chavela y sus Mujeres gala, a tribute to Chavela Vargas, alternating with Los Macorinos, the Mariachi Gama 1000, and the voices of Eugenia León, Ximena Sariñana, and Marisoul.
ANA TIJOUX
Ana Tijoux is a Chilean hiphop protester. She was born in Lille, France, in 1977. Her parents had gone into exile during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, which has left a mark on her career, notable for a special sensitivity to political and social issues. Her music dialogues to the sound of hip-hop, fused. A feminist and activist in her lyrics, she denounces social
and cultural deficiencies. Tijoux is committed to defending women’s rights and has denounced gender violence and inequality as well as the inequality faced by cinema artists and singers. “We realize that in every place we visit, in every news item we see, violence against women is reiterated, multiplied, and totally normalized (...) deep down you are being asked with whom you abandon your children when you go on tour, and many times it is women journalists who ask you that, so I wonder: When are the daddy men who leave their children when they go on tour going to ask this question? “We have to be young, we have to be attractive, we have to be intelligent, but they hope we don’t talk too much, and sing very beautifully and hopefully see ourselves very sexy on the stage (...) one as a musician questions oneself and says: ‘chucha, what is my capacity for movement here,’ because finally if one says that one has critical thinking, one is still confronted daily with this, from advertising, from atrophied bodies.” Tijoux is a global artist. About to publish her first book of poetry and her fifth studio album, she dares to go through all the creative processes: She composes, writes, and arranges both her own themes and those she develops for different audiovisual projects, from films to documentaries. She has also put herself in front of the camera in films such as La Isla de los Pingüinos and a Chilean series with feminist themes called La Jauría.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
Dudamel and the LA Phil featuring Silvana Estrada Canto en resistencia Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Silvana Estrada, singer
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Roberto SIERRA
Fandangos (c. 11 minutes)
Tania LEÓN
Stride (c. 15 minutes)
Arturo MÁRQUEZ
Danzón No. 2 (c. 12 minutes) INTERMISSION
Gabriela ORTIZ
Seis piezas a Violeta (c. 18 minutes) (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)
Preludio Andino Geometría Austral Rítmo Genésico Canto del Angelito Danza Esdrújula Amen
Silvana Estrada with the LA Phil Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall
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AT A GLANCE El Pueblo Unido/The People United
The voice of resistance throughout the Americas has always been a singing one, and this program powerfully expresses the intersection of music and social justice. Gabriela Ortiz’s new arrangement of her Seis piezas a Violeta (the original was for piano and string quartet) pays evocative tribute to the spirit and music of Violeta Parra and Chilean nueva canción. Inspired by suffragist Susan B. Anthony and her
FANDANGOS Roberto Sierra (b. 1953) Composed: 2000 Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, castanets, cowbells, cymbals, marimba, snare drum, tambourine, tam-tam, tom-toms, triangle, vibraphone, xylophone), harp, piano, celesta, and strings First LA Phil performance: March 4, 2004 (West Coast premiere), Leonard Slatkin conducting Fandangos, the composer says, is a fantasy on a keyboard fandango by Antonio Soler (and the fandango finale from one of Luigi Boccherini’s Guitar Quintets). “I bring it to the present through some transformations of the musical fabric. When we are hearing something that may sound Baroque, a window into our time opens, and the piece is transformed. My title Fandangos (in plural) refers to the multidimensionality of the work.”
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own grandmother, Tania León wrote Stride, a percussion-rich piece about moving forward with steady determination. The work won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos is a vigorously propelled homage to Spanish dance. Silvana Estrada caps the evening with some of her own deeply felt songs and León Gieco’s classic Argentine protest song “Sólo le pido a Dios.” —John Henken
It was commissioned by Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony and premiered by them in February 2001 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. It has traveled quite successfully since then, including an appearance on the First Night of the 2002 Proms in London. “A strong rhythmic drive throughout propelled the music onward,” Timothy Ball wrote in his Classical Source review of that concert. “One of the memorable features is the way in which Soler’s Fandango seems to disappear, swallowed up in a welter of brass and exotic percussion, only to reemerge unscathed.” Both the Soler and Boccherini fandangos are archetypical manifestations of the dance, well-defined in meter, rhythm, and harmonic scheme. Sierra preserves these elements for much of his piece, and the music retains its kinetic dance movement even when refracted through his glittering orchestration. Harp and keyboards often suggest guitar figuration, and castanets further reflect the source material. The result is a sort of hyper-fandango, relentless in its obsessions, confidently colored, and imaginative in texture. —Notes from the Philharmonic’s archive
STRIDE Tania León (b. 1943) Composed: 2019 Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (1=marimba, chimes, bass drum, tom-toms, bongos; 2=vibraphone, chimes, roto toms, small cymbal, sand blocks; 3=crotales, small bass drum or zurdo, djembe, timbales, mounted tambourin, sizzle cymbal, medium cymbal, sand blocks), harp, and strings First LA Phil performances. When the New York Philharmonic reached out to me about writing for this project celebrating the 19th Amendment, I confess I only knew about it generally. I started doing research, reading Susan B. Anthony’s biography, her statements. It was tremendous to see the inner force that she had. Then I started looking for a title before starting the piece—not the way I usually do it. The word
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
“stride” reflected how I imagined her way of not taking “no” for an answer. She kept pushing and pushing and moving forward, walking with firm steps until she got the whole thing done. That is precisely what I mean by “Stride.” Stride has some of what, to me, are American musical influences, or at least American musical connotations. For example, there is a section where you can hear the horns with the wa-wa plunger, reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, getting that growl. It doesn’t have to be indicative of any particular skin tone; it has to do with the American spirit. When I discovered American music, Louis Armstrong actually was the first sound that struck me. When I moved here, the only composers I knew anything about were Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin. The night I arrived at Kennedy Airport, I was picked up by a Cuban couple from the Bronx, who allowed me to stay on their sofa. I looked at the stairs outside of their building, and I started crying “Maria!” They were confused, and I explained that in Cuba I’d heard the song by Leonard Bernstein. I later worked with Bernstein, and we were very close in his later years. When I first arrived here, I couldn’t speak English...but I knew how to say “Maria.” —Tania León
DANZÓN NO. 2 Arturo Márquez (b. 1950) Composed: 1994 Orchestration: 2 flutes (2nd=piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, claves, güiro, snare drum, suspended cymbal, 3 tom-toms), piano, and strings
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First LA Phil performance: October 15, 2017, Gustavo Dudamel conducting Born in Mexico, Arturo Márquez spent his middle school and high school years in La Puente, CA, where he began his musical training. After he returned to Mexico, Márquez studied at the Conservatory of Music and the Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico, followed by private study in Paris with Jacques Castérède, and then at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick, Stephen Mosko, Mel Powell, and James Newton. At that time, Márquez was much interested in avant garde techniques and processes, although his time at CalArts gave him ideas about how jazz and world music elements could be added to the mix. His first Danzón, composed in 1992, shows how that was beginning to play out. It was essentially an electronic piece for tape and optional saxophone, but including Minimalist aspects and references to the traditional danzón, an old salon dance from Cuba that became very popular in Veracruz and then in Mexico City, where it still holds sway. This initial elaboration on the danzón proved crucial for Márquez, renewing his own musical language in a turn away from Modernist impulses. His Danzón No. 2, one of the most popular pieces of “classical” music of the last quarter-century, confirmed this new direction. “The idea of writing the Danzón No. 2 originated in 1993 during a trip to Malinalco with the painter Andrés Fonseca and the dancer Irene Martínez,
both of whom are experts in salon dances with a special passion for the danzón, which they were able to transmit to me from the beginning, and also during later trips to Veracruz and visits to the Colonia Salón in Mexico City,” the composer writes. “From these experiences onward, I started to learn the danzón’s rhythms, its form, its melodic outline, and to listen to the old recordings by Acerina and his Danzonera Orchestra. I was fascinated, and I started to understand that the apparent lightness of the danzón is only like a visiting card for a type of music full of sensuality and qualitative seriousness, a genre which old Mexican people continue to dance with a touch of nostalgia and a jubilant escape towards their own emotional world; we can fortunately still see this in the embrace between music and dance that occurs in the State of Veracruz and in the dance parlors of Mexico City.” —John Henken
SEIS PIEZAS A VIOLETA Gabriela Ortiz (b. 1964) Composed: 2023 Orchestration: string orchestra and piano First LA Phil performances (world premiere). Having been raised in a family where Latin American folklore and the so-called “Canto Nuevo” were always present, I had the opportunity to be in contact with South American composers, singers, and groups through which I acquainted myself with the music of Violeta Parra.
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As a girl I met Uruguayan performer Daniel Viglietti, Argentinean Mercedes Sosa, and Chileans Victor Jara and the famous IntiIllimani. All of them gave me access to Violeta’s songs, which I enjoyed enormously although, due to my age, I was not yet aware of the meaning of her texts and her own life. After Pinochet’s coup, I had the opportunity to be in touch with the members of Inti-Illimani during the group’s forced exile, either on their visits to Mexico or during my years of study in Europe. Our last encounter took place in the port city of Valparaiso, during the winter
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
For a biography of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 12.
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of 2001, in a Chile that had recovered its democracy. Thanks to all this, I was able to deepen my knowledge of the greatness of this Chilean composer and performer Violeta Parra. Later on, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano commissioned a work to celebrate its 20th anniversary and, taking into account that three of them had seen the first light in the very country where this extraordinary woman was born, I decided to write and dedicate this quintet to her memory. The work is divided into six short pieces; three of them, “Andean Prelude,” “Song of the Little Angel,” and “Amen,”
SILVANA ESTRADA
Mexican indie star Silvana Estrada released her EP Abrazo on the heels of her two Latin Grammy nominations for Best Singer-Songwriter Album and Best New Artist. She was awarded a 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist at just 25 years old. Abrazo is a combination of songs originally recorded during the Marchita album sessions as well as more recently recorded tracks. Estrada has performed and recorded with artists including Natalia Lafourcade, Andrew
are inspired by and closely related in a very personal way to the life of Violeta, whereas the remaining ones, “Austral Geometry,” “Genesic Rhythm,” and “Danza Esdrújula,” are studies that utilize certain technical aspects of polyrhythms already used in other works of mine. In August 2022, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel asked me to create an arrangement for string orchestra as part of the Canto en resistencia concert during the 2023 California Festival. —Gabriela Ortiz
Bird, Devendra Banhart, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A multi-instrumentalist, Estrada most often plays the Venezuelan cuatro guitar, whose small body and warm sound suit her hands and syncs with the rolling variations of her vocals. Raised singing Mexican son jarocho and Baroque choir music and schooled in jazz, she is an iconoclast who dismisses musical trends for a personal, poetic style that goes straight to the heart of listeners. “My music is made of who I am,” she says. Silvana’s childhood home was the setting for her recent NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. She grew up in a house where not only music, but instruments, were made. Both of Silvana’s parents are luthiers, and a path was worn to their home in Coatepec, a mountain town in Veracruz, by the musicians who arrived daily to commission a new violin or cello or have their instruments repaired.
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ORGAN
James McVinnie James McVinnie, organ and piano
Gabriella SMITH
Imaginary Pancake (c. 6 minutes)
Meredith MONK
Ellis Island (c. 3 minutes)
Nico MUHLY
Patterns (c. 9 minutes)
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2023 7:30PM
II. Palindromes IV. Very Fast Music
inti FIGGIS-VIZUETA build-it-yourself (c. 2 minutes) J.S. BACH
Duetto No. 1 in E minor, BWV 802 (c. 3 minutes)
J.S. BACH
Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp minor, BWV 853 (c. 8 minutes)
J.S. BACH
“Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot,” BWV 678 (c. 6 minutes)
J.S. BACH
Toccata in F major, BWV 540 (c. 7 minutes) INTERMISSION
Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
Philip GLASS
A Distant Figure (Passacaglia) (c. 13 minutes)
Philip GLASS
Dance No. 4 (c. 18 minutes)
Philip GLASS
Music in Fifths (c. 10 minutes)
Philip GLASS
Etude No. 20 (c. 9 minutes)
Manuel Rosales and Morgan Byrd are principal technicians for the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ.
Philip GLASS
Mad Rush (c. 11 minutes)
laphil.com/organstoplist
Michael Wilson is Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ Conservator.
Programs and artists subject to change.
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AT A GLANCE California Festival
Among the six composers on this eclectic and spacious program, the one who hails from California is Gabriella Smith, born in Berkeley. She was mentored there by John Adams, a transplant from New England to the Bay Area and a towering figure on the California new music scene. But despite their common Northeastern origins, the four other Americans (Monk, Muhly, figgis-vizueta, Glass) have all worked extensively with California’s major
Gabriella Smith (b. 1991) is no stranger to Los Angeles. Several of her recent major works were commissioned by the LA Phil, including Breathing Forests (2021), an organ concerto written for James McVinnie. Like many of Smith’s compositions, it reflects her intense involvement with environmental issues and climate change. The playful miniature Imaginary Pancake (2020), commissioned by Carnegie Hall for pianist Timo Andres, is something quite different, however. As a child at a summer music camp, she saw an older boy playing a piece (perhaps by Beethoven) that stretched his arms to the lowest and highest notes of the keyboard. This early memory became the source of her own dazzling virtuosic showpiece, a sort of toccata that travels to the remote edges of the instrument. The “pancake” of the title, she explains, came from the image of the pianist “leaning over the keyboard with arms outstretched, flat like a pancake.”
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musical organizations—including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony. Even Bach, who died when Jesuit priests were establishing early Spanish missions in California, has grown deep roots here. The California Bach Society, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and many other organizations have for decades presented Bach’s works in a distinctly West Coast atmosphere and style. —Harlow Robinson
Born in New York, her creative home base, Meredith Monk (b. 1942) has also appeared frequently in California, where her holistic and meditative approach to music has found a particularly receptive audience. A multitalented artist who works in many different media, Monk has directed several films, including Ellis Island (1981), a poetic short documentary re-creation of the experience of immigrants arriving at this storied processing site. Monk also wrote the film’s hauntingly beautiful music. Later, she turned the film’s end-credit music into a short keyboard piece that exists in multiple versions: one for two pianos and one for solo piano, adapted here into a version for organ. Cast in Monk’s trademark minimalist style, with simple lyrical phrases and diatonic harmonies, Ellis Island’s continuous cycling rhythms and subtly changing patterns seem to evoke the endless flow of immigrants seeking the American dream.
Nico Muhly (b. 1981) grew up in Vermont and Rhode Island, where he was introduced to the organ as a church chorister in the city of Providence. In New York, he worked and studied with Philip Glass. More recently, he has been EsaPekka Salonen’s collaborative partner at the San Francisco Symphony. For Muhly, composing for the organ is “a part of my DNA,” and he calls his frequent collaborator the organist James McVinnie— for whom he has written “a ton of organ music”—“one of my oldest friends.” Patterns (2014) unfolds in four sections, each of them a “rhythmic etude,” Muhly explains. “The second movement (‘Palindromes’) revolves around an idée fixe in the left hand while the right hand interjects and ornaments. The pedals, here, are a clumsy cousin, constantly upturning the sense of rhythmic stability…. The finale (‘Very Fast Music’) is a perpetual-motion machine on its highest setting—manic and hyper, with hiccoughs offsetting the regularity of some of the rhythms.”
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The innovative, improvisatory, and multicultural music of inti figgis-vizueta (b. 1991 in Washington, DC) has been heard in numerous major California venues, including the Ojai Festival and the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella series. As its witty title indicates, build-it-yourself (2020) reflects her desire to give musicians a high degree of freedom (or “agency”) in creating performances of her work. This tiny piece grew out of the Music for Piano by Twenty initiative created by composer Robin Haigh during the COVID-19 pandemic. Playing a repeated bell-like chord in the right hand, the pianist is instructed to add an extra note to the chord at will, to increase or decrease tension. Timing is also left up to the performer, who chooses how fast or slow to play. A sweet arpeggiated melody enters briefly at the end, then abruptly stops. The timeless keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) continue to intrigue and inspire composers in California and elsewhere. During his lifetime, Bach’s fame
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as an organist almost eclipsed his reputation as a composer. The playful Toccata in F, BWV 540 (1713) shows the influence of Antonio Vivaldi’s ritornello concerto style. Later, he turned increasingly to writing for other keyboard instruments: harpsichord, clavichord, and piano. Among the major works are the Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp minor, BWV 853 (1722), the eighth of the 24 preludes and fugues contained in the beloved Well-Tempered Clavier; and the Duetto 1, BWV 802 (1739), from a set of four Duette, two-part fugues in the style of inventions. But Bach returned to the organ for what many considered his greatest work for the instrument: Part III of the Clavier-Übung (“Keyboard Practice”), published in 1739, also known as the German Organ Mass, a practical translation of Lutheran doctrine into musical terms. The cycle includes mathematically ingenious contrapuntal settings of various chorale tunes, including “Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot,” BWV 678 (“These are the holy 10 commandments”), a hymn written by Martin Luther.
Bach’s influence on the music of Philip Glass (b. 1937) has been noted by numerous musicians and critics. Like Bach, Glass employs repetitive structures and patterns, layering them in different voices to build a larger structure. This technique is evident in his many works for organ, an instrument closely identified with Bach, including Music in Fifths (1969), an intentionally monotonous study in tiny changes focused on the “forbidden” combination of parallel fifths; Dance No. 4 (1979), created for a dance piece by Lucinda Childs; and Mad Rush (1981), a majestic processional composed for the Dalai Lama’s visit to New York. Glass’ piano pieces also sound Bachian but are less rigid and more impressionistic in form and expression. The nearly Chopinesque Etude No. 20 (2012) and the wistful A Distant Figure (2017), composed for pianist Anton Batagov, reveal a more emotional and romantic aspect of Glass’ musical personality. —Harlow Robinson
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JAMES McVINNIE
Through his boundless approach to music-making, his collaborations with a vast array of artists from many different walks of musical life, and innovative programming and captivating musicianship of the highest order, James McVinnie has carved out a unique career as an organist and keyboard player. Steeped in the traditions of Anglican church music (having held organ-playing positions at St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey), he has since had major concerto and solo works written for him by Nico Muhly, Gabriella Smith, Tristan Perich, Tom Jenkinson/ Squarepusher, artist Martin
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Creed, David Chalmin, David Lang, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Darkstar, among many others. Alongside his work in contemporary music, McVinnie’s lifeblood musical focus is the organ and keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He directs the James McVinnie Ensemble, a collective of virtuoso keyboardists dedicated to exploring work often preoccupied with political themes by contemporary and emerging composers. The ensemble’s roots go back to 2017 with a performance at London’s Barbican Centre of Music in Twelve Parts by Philip Glass—the only performance in the piece’s history given by anyone other than the Philip Glass Ensemble. New works by Gabriella Smith and inti figgisvizueta are planned for the Ensemble in 2024 and beyond. Recent premieres include Infinity Gradient, an hour-long work written for McVinnie by Tristan Perich for organ and 100 speakers in 1-bit audio; Breathing Forests, an organ concerto about the complex relationship between
humans, forests, climate change, and fire by Gabriella Smith for McVinnie and the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by Esa-Pekka Salonen; and a new work by Ellen Reid as part of SOUNDWALK, a three-year, GPS-enabled work of public art in London’s Regent’s Park that uses music to illuminate the natural environment. Shadow Volumes, for solo organ and electronics by Edmund Finnis, is planned for the 2025/26 season. From 2024 he will be an Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre. McVinnie is a member of Icelandic collective and record label Bedroom Community, on which he has released three albums: Cycles (2013, works by Nico Muhly), Cycles_1 (2016, a remix album), and Counterpoint (2021), which pairs music of J.S. Bach and Philip Glass. The Grid (2018, Orange Mountain Music) is a studio album of music by Glass using organ samples. All Night Chroma, featuring music by Tom Jenkinson/ Squarepusher and recorded at the organ of the Royal Festival Hall in London, was released on Warp Records in 2019.
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WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL ORGAN – STOP LIST
GREAT – MANUAL II
32' 16' 16' 16' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 5-1/3' 4' 4' 3-¹⁄₅' 2-2/3' 2' III VIII IV VII 32' 16' 8' 4' 8'
Violonbasse Prestant Violonbasse Bourdon Principal Diapason à pavillon Violoncelle Flûte harmonique Chimney Flute Bourdon Grand Nasard Octave Spire Flute Grande Tierce Octave Quinte Super Octave Grande Fourniture Mixture Cymbale Corneta Magna Contre Basson Basson Basson Basson Trompeta de Los Angeles Sostenuto
POSITIVE – MANUAL I
16' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 4' 4' 2-2/3' 2' 2' 1-³⁄₅' 1-1/3' IV 16' 8' 8'
Quintaton Principal Unda Maris Gambe Flûte harmonique Gedackt Octave Hohlflöte Nasard Super Octave Waldflöte Tierce Larigot Mixture Bass Clarinet Trompette Cromorne
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8' 8' 4' 16' 8' 4' 8'
Clarinet Cor anglais Clairon Tremolo Llamada Tuba Llamada Tuba Llamada Tuba Trompeta de Los Angeles Harp Celesta Sostenuto
SWELL – MANUAL III
16' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 8' 4' 4' 2-2/3' 2' 1-³⁄₅' 1' III-V 16' 8' 8' 8' 4' 8' 8'
Bourdon Diapason Flûte traversière Bourdon Viole de Gambe Voix céleste Dulciane doux Voix angélique Principal Flûte octaviante Nasard Octavin Tierce Piccolo Plein-jeu harmonique Bombarde Trompette Hautbois Voix humaine Clairon Fast Tremulant Slow Tremulant Trompeta de Los Angeles Llamada Tuba Sostenuto
LLAMARADA – MANUAL IV
8' 4' V V 16' 8'
Flautado grande Octava real Lleno fuerte Compuestas Contra Tromba Tromba
4' 8' 16' 8' 4'
Tromba Clarion Tremolo Chimes Trompeta de Los Angeles Llamada Tuba Llamada Tuba Llamada Tuba Llamadas on Great Sostenuto Cymbelstern Campanitas Pajaritos
PEDAL
32' Flûte 32' Violonbasse 32' Bourdon 16' Flûte 16' Prestant 16' Violonbasse 16' Subbass 16' Bourdon 10-2/3' Grosse Quinte 8' Octave 8' Flûte 8' Violoncelle 8' Bourdon 4' Super Octave 4' Flûte V Mixture 64' Contre Basson (b) 32' Contre Bombarde 32' Contre Basson 16' Grande Bombarde 16' Llamada Tuba 16' Contra Tromba 16' Basson 16' Bass Clarinet 8' Llamada Tuba 8' Trompeta de Los Angeles 8' Basson 8' Clarinet 4' Trompeta de Los Angeles 4' Llamada Tuba Pedal Chimes Pedal Divide
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Endowment Donors We are honored to recognize our endowment donors, whose generosity ensures the long-term health of our organization. The following list represents cumulative contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Endowment Fund as of July 31, 2023. $25,000,000 AND ABOVE
$1,000,000 TO $2,499,999
$500,000 TO $999,999
Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation Cecilia and Dudley Rauch
Linda and Robert Attiyeh Judith and Thomas Beckmen Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty Helen and Peter Bing William H. Brady, III Linda and Maynard Brittan Richard and Norma Camp Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Connell Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell Mari L. Danihel Nancy and Donald de Brier The Rafael & Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation The Walt Disney Company Fairchild-Martindale Foundation Eris and Larry Field Reese and Doris Gothie Joan and John Hotchkis Janeway Foundation Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Carrie and Stuart Ketchum Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee B. Allen and Dorothy Lay Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee Estate of Judith Lynne MaddocksBrown Foundation Ginny Mancini Raulee Marcus Barbara and Buzz McCoy Merle and Peter Mullin William and Carolyn Powers H. Russell Smith Foundation Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust Ronald and Valerie Sugar I.H. Sutnick
Ann and Martin Albert Abbott Brown Mr. George L. Cassat Kathleen and Jerrold L. Eberhardt Valerie Franklin Yvonne and Gordon Hessler Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis Mr. and Mrs. David Meline Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Earl and Victoria Pushee William and Sally Rutter Nancy and Barry Sanders Richard and Bradley Seeley Christian Stracke Donna Swayze Lee and Hope Landis Warner YOLA Student Fund Edna Weiss
$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999 David Bohnett Foundation
$10,000,000 TO $19,999,999 The Annenberg Foundation Colburn Foundation
$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999 Anonymous Dunard Fund USA Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Carol Colburn Grigor Terri and Jerry M. Kohl Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates Diane and Ron Miller Charitable Fund M. David and Diane Paul Ann and Robert Ronus Ronus Foundation John and Samantha Williams
$2,500,000 TO $4,999,999 Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann Lynn Booth/Otis Booth Foundation Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Karl H. Loring Alfred E. Mann Elise Mudd Marvin Trust Barbara and Jay Rasulo Flora L. Thornton
$100,000 TO $249,999
Mr. Robert J. Abernethy William A. Allison Rachel and Lee Ault W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Deborah Borda The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Jane Carruthers Pei-yuan Chia and Katherine Shen James and Paula Coburn Foundation The Geraldine P. Coombs Trust in memory of Gerie P. Coombs Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox Silvia and Kevin Dretzka Allan and Diane Eisenman Christine and Daniel Ewell Arnold Gilberg, M.D., Ph.D. David and Paige Glickman $250,000 Nicholas T. Goldsborough TO $499,999 Gonda Family Nancy and Leslie Abell Foundation Mr. Gregory A. Adams Margaret Grauman Baker Family Trust Kathryn Kert Green and Veronica and Mark Green Robert Egelston Joan and Gordon Family John F. Hotchkis Foundation Freya and Mark Ivener Ms. Kay Harland Ruth Jacobson Joan Green Harris Trust Stephen A. Kanter, M.D. Bud and Jo Ann and Barbara Hellman Charles Kaplan Gerald L. Katell Yates Keir Norma Kayser Susanne and Paul Kester Joyce and Kent Kresa Vicki King Raymond Lieberman Sylvia Kunin Mr. Kevin MacCarthy Ann and Edward Leibon and Ms. Lauren Lexton Ellen and Mark Lipson Alfred E Mann B. and Lonis Liverman Family Foundation Glenn Miya and Jane and Steven Llanusa Marc B. Nathanson Ms. Gloria Lothrop Y & S Nazarian Vicki and Family Foundation Kerry McCluggage Nancy and David and Sidney Petersen Margaret Mgrublian Rice Family Foundation Diane and Leon Morton Robert Robinson Mary Pickford Katharine and Foundation Thomas Stoever Sally and Frank Raab Sue Tsao Mr. David Sanders Alyce and Malcolm Schneer Warren Williamson and Cathy Liu David and Linda Shaheen Foundation
William E.B. and National Endowment for the Arts Laura K. Siart Magda and Frederick Alfred and R. Waingrow Arlene Noreen Wasserman Foundation Occidental Petroleum Robert Wood Corporation Syham Yohanna and Dr. M. Lee Pearce James W. Manns Lois Rosen Anne and James Rothenberg $25,000 Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust TO $99,999 The SahanDaywi Marie Baier Foundation Foundation Dr. Richard Bardowell, Mrs. Nancie Schneider M.D. William and Jacqueline Briskin Luiginia Sheridan Dona Burrell Virginia Skinner Ying Cai & Wann Living Trust S. Lee Foundation Nancy and Ann and Tony Cannon Richard Spelke Dee and Mary H. Statham Robert E. Cody Ms. Fran H. Tuchman The Colburn Fund Tom and Margaret Sheehy Janet Unterman Collins Rhio H. Weir Mr. Allen Don Mrs. Joseph F. Cornelsen Westheimer Ginny and Jean Willingham John Cushman Winnick Family Marilyn J. Dale Foundation Mrs. Barbara A. Davis Cheryl and Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ziegler Roger DeBard Lynn and Roger Zino Jennifer and Royce Diener LA PHIL Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner MUSICIANS The Englekirk Family Anonymous Claudia and Kenneth Bonebrake Mark Foster Nancy and Lillian and Martin Chalifour Stephen Frank Dr. Suzanne Gemmell Brian Drake Perry Dreiman Paul and Barry Gold Florence Glaser Christopher Hanulik Good Works John Hayhurst Foundation Jory and Anne Heineman Selina Herman Ann and Jean Horton Ingrid Hutman Drs. Judith and Andrew Lowy Herbert Hyman Gloria Lum Albert E. and Joanne Pearce Martin Nancy C. Jenkins Kazue Asawa McGregor Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody Oscar and Diane Meza Mitchell Newman Ms. Ann L. Kligman Peter Rofé Sandra Krause and Meredith Snow and William Fitzgerald Mark Zimoski Michael and Barry Socher Emily Laskin Paul Stein Sarah and Leticia Oaks Strong Ira R. Manson Lyndon and Beth Carole McCormac Johnston Taylor Meitus Marital Trust Dennis Trembly Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D. Allison and Jim Wilt Suli Xue John Millard
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org. Thank you.
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ANNUAL DONORS
Annual Donors The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $3,500 or more to the LA Phil, including special-event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between August 1, 2022, and July 31, 2023.
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$500,000 TO $999,999 The Ahmanson Foundation Ballmer Group
Jenny Miller Goff Estate of Yates Keir
County of Los Angeles Music Center Foundation
$200,000 TO $499,999 Anonymous (2) Lynn K. Altman Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Colburn Foundation Michael J. Connell Foundation
Dunard Fund USA Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner Lisa Field Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll Gordon P. Getty
Max H. Gluck Foundation The Hearthland Foundation Tylie Jones Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky The Music Man Foundation
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts M. David and Diane Paul The Rauch Family Foundation Koni and Geoff Rich
Rolex Watch USA, Inc. The Rose Hills Foundation Linda and David Shaheen
Linda May and Jack Suzar John Mohme Foundation Maureen and Stanley Moore Peninsula Committee Richard and Ariane Raffetto
Barbara and Jay Rasulo James D. Rigler/Lloyd E. Rigler—Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation
James and Laura Rosenwald/Orinoco Foundation Estate of Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr. Antonia Hernandez and Michael L. Stern Christian Stracke
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Margo and Irwin Winkler Ellen and Arnold Zetcher
Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Mr. James Gleason Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony DeFrancesco Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Yvonne Hessler Mr. Philip Hettema The Hillenburg Family The Hirsh Family Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation Monique and Jonathan Kagan W.M. Keck Foundation Paul Kester Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Winnie Kho and Chris Testa Dr. Ralph A. Korpman Live Nation Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture The Seth MacFarlane Foundation
Alfred E. Mann Charities Barbara and Buzz McCoy Mr. and Mrs. David Meline Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Ms. Linda L. Pierce Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Andrew M. Rosenfeld Family Allyson Rubin Wendy and Ken Ruby
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust Marilyn and Eugene Stein Ronald and Valerie Sugar Ms. Lois M. Tandy Sue Tsao Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jon Vein Stasia and Michael Washington Mr. Alex Weingarten John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation Debra Wong Yang and John W. Spiegel
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook Lynette and Michael C. Davis Orna and David Delrahim Malsi Doyle-Forman and Michael Forman East West Bank Geoff Emery Max Factor Family Foundation Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher William Kelly and Tomas Fuller Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore Goldman Sachs Gives Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency Liz and Peter Goulds The Green Foundation Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence
Jason Greenman and Jeanne Williams Renée and Paul Haas Harman Family Foundation Jackson N. Henry Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin Fritz Hoelscher Mr. Tyler Holcomb Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Annica and James Newton Howard Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hunter Rif and Bridget Hutton Robin and Gary Jacobs
Kaiser Permanente Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Joshua R. Kaplan Terri and Michael Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger David Lee Marvin J. Levy City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates
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$100,000 TO $199,999 Anonymous (2) Nancy and Leslie Abell Mr. Gregory A. Adams The Blue Ribbon R. Martin Chavez Donelle Dadigan Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation
Breck and Georgia Eisner The Eisner Foundation Ms. Erika J. Glazer The Grand LA/Related Ms. Teena Hostovich and Mr. Doug Martinet Ms. Ursula C. Krummel
$50,000 TO $99,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. Robert J. Abernethy Amazon Amgen Foundation Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser Regina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Antonieta Arango, In memory of Javier Arango David Bohnett Foundation
Linda and Maynard Brittan Michele Brustin Steven and Lori Bush Esther S.M. Chui Chao and Andrea Chao-Kharma Dan Clivner Becca and Jonathan Congdon Nancy and Donald de Brier De Marchena-Huyke Foundation The Walt Disney Company
$25,000 TO $49,999 Anonymous (7) The Herb Alpert Foundation Tracy Anderson Debra and Benjamin Ansell Mr. and Mrs. Phil Becker Susan and Adam Berger Samuel and Erin Biggs Mr. and Mrs. Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Jill Black Zalben Kawanna and Jay Brown Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow
Thy Bui Business and Professional Committee Oleg and Tatiana Butenko Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation California Arts Council Chevron Products Company Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli Mr. Richard W. Colburn
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Marc and Ashley Merrill David and Margaret Mgrublian Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson Molly Munger and Stephen English Deena and Edward Nahmias Carrie Nery
Mr. Robert W. Olsen Tye Ouzounian Andy S. Park Bruce and Aulana Peters Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud Mr. Bennett Rosenthal Ross Endowment Fund Mimi Rotter Katy and Michael S. Saei
Thomas Safran Mr. Lee C. Samson Ellen and Richard Sandler Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting Gregory Slewett Randy and Susan Snyder Jeremy and Luanne Stark
Lisa and Wayne Stelmar Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer
David William Upham Foundation Nancy Valentine Walter and Shirley Wang Mindy and David Weiner WHH Foundation Zolla Family Foundation
Marnie and Dan Gruen Mr. and Mrs. Paul Guerin Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian Stephen T. Hearst Walter and Donna Helm Diane Henderson MD Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation Liz Levitt Hirsch Ms. Michelle Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paul Horwitz Meg and Bahram Jalali Mr. Eugene Kapaloski Marilee and Fred Karlsen Tobe and Greg Karns Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kasirer Sandi and Kevin Kayse Igor Khandros and Susan Bloch Jennifer and Cary Kleinman Larry and Lisa Kohorn Nickie and Marc Kubasak Naomi and Fred Kurata Ellie and Mark Lainer Vicki Lan Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine
Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine Ms. Agnes Lew Mr. and Mrs. Simon K.C. Li Ms. Judith W. Locke Anita Lorber Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro Law Firm The Mailman Foundation Raulee Marcus Jonathan and Delia Matz Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D. Marcy Miller Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin Joel and Joanne Mogy Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc. Carmen Morgan Ms. Kari Nakama Mr. and Mrs. Dan Napier Anthony and Olivia Neece Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero Christine M. Ofiesh Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel Gregory Pickert and Beth Price Nancy and Glenn Pittson
Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello Cathleen and Scott Richland John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson Linda and Tony Rubin The SahanDaywi Foundation Ron and Melissa Sanders Santa MonicaWestside Philharmonic Committee Dena and Irv Schechter/The Hyman Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR Joan and Arnold Seidel Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder Mr. James J. Sepe Mr. Steven Shapiro Nina Shaw and Wallace Little Jill and Neil Sheffield Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer Melanie and Harold Snedcof Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer The Specialty Family Foundation
Mr. Lev Spiro and Ms. Melissa Rosenberg Jeremy Stark Stein Family Fund Judie Stein James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation Tom Strickler Akio Tagawa Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker Elinor and Rubin Turner Tom and Janet Unterman Christine Upton Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott Tee Vo and Chester Wang Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn Wagner Warner Bros. Discovery Bryan D. Weissman and Jennifer Resnik John and Samantha Williams Libby Wilson, MD Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi Andre Young Karl and Dian Zeile David Zuckerman and Ellie Kanner
Tara Dollinger Sean Dugan and Joe Custer Bonnie and Ronald Fein Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman Daniel and Maryann Fong Foothill Philharmonic Committee Mr. Michael Fox Dr. and Mrs. David Fung Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Gainsley Beth Gertmenian Greg and Etty Goetzman Harriett and Richard E. Gold Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Gonda
Manuela Cerri Goren Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Gottlieb Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gouw Diane and Peter H. Gray Alexia Grevious Tricia and Richard Grey Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff Mr. William Hair Laurie and Chris Harbert Christy Haubegger Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Helford and Family Carol Henry Arlene Hirschkowitz Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust
Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth Joyce and Fredric Horowitz Roberta and Conrad Furlong Ms. Julia Huang Ms. Loretta Hung Mr. Frank J. Intiso Mr. Gregory Jackson and Mrs. Lenora Jackson Kristi Jackson and William Newby Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Jackson Earvin Johnson Jr. Barbara A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Steaven K. Jones, Jr. Dr. William B. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keller Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Klee
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$15,000 TO $24,999 Anonymous (6) Drew and Susan Adams Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler Bank of America Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli Susan Baumgarten Dr. William Benbassat Miles and Joni Benickes Helen and Peter S. Bing Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation Mr. Ronald H. Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bourne Jaron and Wendy Brooks Mrs. Linda L. Brown Campagna Family Trust The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin Dominic Chan Andrea ChaoKharma and Kenneth Kharma Marlene Schall Chavez, Ph.D Sarah and Roger Chrisman Faith and Jonathan Cookler Alison Moore Cotter
Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver Jennifer Diener and Eric Small Lauren Shuler Donner Van and Francine Durrer Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder Edison International Ms. Ruth Eisen Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra Debra Frank Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N. Braun, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman Gary and Cindy Frischling Carrie and Rob Glicksteen Goodman Family Foundation Robert and Lori Goodman Rob and Jan Graner Mr. Bill Grubman
$10,000 TO $14,999 Anonymous (4) Ty Ahmad-Taylor B. Allen and Dorothy Lay Art and Pat Antin Tichina Arnold Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila The Aversano Family Trust Lorrie and Dan Baldwin Mr. Joseph A. Bartush Stiv Bators Sondra Behrens Phyllis and Sandy Beim Mark and Pat Benjamin Mr. Herbert M. Berk Suzette and Monroe Berkman Ms. Gail K. Bernstein
Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien Ms. Deborah Booth Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick Christopher Bridges Mr. Ronald W. Burkle Mr. Jon C. Chambers Chien Family Carla Christofferson Larison Clark Mr. and Mrs. V. Shannon Clyne Susan Colvin Committee of Professional Women Jay and Nadege Conger Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Crowell Dr. and Mrs. Nazareth E. Darakjian Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie
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The album, digitally released by Platoon, is part of the LA Phil’s Pan-American Music Initiative, a five-year project exploring more than 30 new commissions and numerous creative partnerships, emphasizing the importance of Latin American heritage—a vital part of Dudamel’s life’s work. Dudamel helped cement the reputation of Mexican composer Arturo Márquez by championing his Danzón No. 2. That piece paved the way to Fandango. Said violinist Meyers: “In 2018, after hearing Danzón No. 2, music that made my heart and soul dance, my dream for a mariachi-inspired violin concerto was reignited. Soon after, I approached the great Arturo Márquez, and he shared with me that his late father was a mariachi violinist, and he was waiting to write this music that stirred in his heart for decades.” laphil.com/fandango 42 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
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Welcome to The Music Center!
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Live at The Music Center THU 2 NOV / 6:30 p.m. Amal Walks Across America CENTER THEATRE GROUP AND THE MUSIC CENTER @ Jerry Moss Plaza THU 2 NOV / 7:30 p.m. The Barber of Seville LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 11/12/2023 THU 2 NOV / 8:00 p.m. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial in Concert LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/3/2023 SAT 4 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Dudamel Leads Khachaturian LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/5/2023 TUE 7 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Pereira, Washington, and Mozart LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall WED 8 NOV / 8:00 p.m. Brad Mehldau Trio LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
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SAT 18 NOV / 7:30 p.m. El Último Sueño de Frida & Diego LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 12/9/23 L.A. County Tree Lighting. Photo by Bryan Chan.
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BE TRANSFORMED BY AN ICONIC MASTERPIECE The Rite of Spring & common ground[s]
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