Performances Magazine | Hollywood Bowl, September 2024
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WELCOME!
It’s an absolute thrill and honor to join you all for the 2024 Hollywood Bowl season. This summer marks the beginning of a long-held dream for me as I step into the role of President & CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
For many years, I’ve admired the LA Phil for showing how music can build community by bringing together this great city and visitors from beyond to share in the power of live performance. Music can inspire and transform us, and we strive to make that experience available to all. Nowhere is this felt more deeply than at the Hollywood Bowl. Founded by visionary Southern Californians who hoped to unite their community in song, the Bowl embodies a spirit of accessibility, from its $1 tickets to its role as a Los Angeles County public park, to its commitment to music education.
In my own musical journey, I have found inspiration in everything from punk rock to symphony orchestras. Artistry takes so many forms that we should celebrate, and this season truly showcases the diverse power of artistic expression, from the Roots to Rachmaninof to Rodgers & Hammerstein.
I am so excited to be welcomed into the LA Phil family and your Hollywood Bowl community. It is a distinct privilege to be entrusted with the legacy of this lauded institution, and it is a joy to work with the talented musicians, dedicated staf, generous donors, and all of our valued partners as we create new and transformational ways to touch hearts and souls through music.
Warmly,
Kim Noltemy President & CEO
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR
Thomas L. Beckmen*
VICE CHAIRS
Reveta Bowers*
Jane B. Eisner*
David Meline*
Diane Paul*
Jay Rasulo*
DIRECTORS
Nancy L. Abell
Gregory A. Adams
Julie Andrews
Camilo Esteban Becdach
Linda Brittan
Jennifer Broder
Kawanna Brown
Andrea Chao-Kharma*
R. Martin Chavez
Christian D. Chivaroli
Jonathan L. Congdon
Winnie Kho
Matt McIntyre
Francois Mobasser
Margaret Morgan
Leith O’Leary
Andy Park
Sandy Pressman
Richard Raffetto
Geoff Rich
Laura Rosenwald
Richard Schirtzer
G. Gabrielle Starr
Jay Stein*
Christian Stracke*
Jason Subotky
Ronald D. Sugar*
Vikki Sung
Donald P. de Brier*
Louise D. Edgerton
Lisa Field
David A. Ford
Alfred Fraijo Jr.
Hilary Garland
Jennifer Miller Goff*
Tamara Golihew
Carol Colburn Grigor
Marian L. Hall
Antonia Hernández*
Teena Hostovich
Jack Suzar
Keith Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Jon Vein
Jonathan Kagan*
Darioush Khaledi
Megan Watanabe
Regina Weingarten
Jenny Williams
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Irwin Winkler
Debra Wong Yang
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LIFE DIRECTORS
David C. Bohnett
Frank Gehry
Lenore S. Greenberg
Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy
*Executive Committee Member as of March 14, 2024
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WELCOME FROM SUPERVISOR BARGER
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
I’m excited to welcome you to the Hollywood Bowl, one of the most historic and beloved venues in Los Angeles County. Whether this iconic facility is hosting a performance by the exceptional Los Angeles Philharmonic or a concert by a visiting world-class musician, the Hollywood Bowl is known for its commitment to excellence both on the stage and behind the scenes. It’s particularly special to me that the Hollywood Bowl finds its home in Los Angeles County’s Fifth District among the communities I have the privilege to represent. With such a rich and storied history, and host to some of the biggest names in music today, the Bowl is one of the landmarks that make our district unique. Whether you’re visiting from down the street, across the county, or around the world, I hope you enjoy your time at this remarkable venue. I still hold near and dear the many fond and fun memories I’ve made at the
Hollywood Bowl throughout my life. I know your experience here will be just as memorable, whether it’s your first show or you’re a regular visitor. Throughout the season, I encourage you to take advantage of all the incredible opportunities available to you. To hop on the convenient and afordable Park & Ride shuttles accessible from all over the county, look at the delicious food options, get a sneak peek at your seats, and find everything else you need to know, head to hollywoodbowl.com/visit so you can make the most of your evening. You can stay in touch with me at kathrynbarger.lacounty.gov or on social media for the latest community updates and resources. I look forward to connecting with you and hope to see you at a Hollywood Bowl concert soon!
Best wishes, Supervisor Kathryn Barger Fifth District, Los Angeles County
A MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR NORMA EDITH GARCÍA- GONZALEZ
I am proud that the Hollywood Bowl, a world-class venue, is owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation (LA County Parks). When the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other musicians are not onstage, the Hollywood Bowl is open to the public for recreation and exercise.
LA County Parks and the LA Phil partner to enhance the dual role of the Hollywood Bowl as a public park and a one-ofa-kind performance venue.
concert series creating memories and experiences for families, friends, and visitors alike. Summer at the Hollywood Bowl is certainly a time of excitement, not only for music lovers but also for those who work behind the scenes to make it a memorable experience for all. This season the Hollywood Bowl features diverse music and exceptional performances for all ages and music enthusiasts.
The Hollywood Bowl ofers a magnifi cent park where visitors can stroll, take pictures in front of the iconic shell, and learn about the venue’s history at the on-site museum. The Hollywood Bowl is also the perfect setting for a great workout, with exercise enthusiasts taking advantage of the steps throughout the park.
The Hollywood Bowl never falls short of ofering a dynamic summer
LA County Parks and the LA Phil have also partnered to support the Hollywood Bowl Access Program. Each season hundreds of teens and seniors from LA County Parks programs experience the magic of Hollywood Bowl summer concerts. This partnership further strengthens the commitment of the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and LA County Parks to access for all!
For more LA County Parks summer programming, follow us via social media @lacountyparks
Kathryn Barger
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
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, Dudamel has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped to provide access to the arts for countless people in under-resourced communities. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair, of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
Dudamel’s bold programming and expansive vision led The New York Times to herald the LA Phil as “the most important orchestra in America—period.” In the 2022/23 season, Dudamel and the LA Phil continued their visionary, multiyear Pan-American Music Initiative and celebrated the 90th birthday of legendary film composer John Williams with a Gala event. Further highlights with the LA Phil included a fall tour with performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston, and Mexico City and Guanajuato as part of the Cervantino Festival; a multi-week exploration of the piano/orchestral works of Rachmaninof with Yuja Wang; and the return of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars, with video by Bill Viola.
Following his inaugural season as Music Director of the Paris Opera, the 2022/23 season featured Dudamel leading productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, a new production of John Adams’ Nixon in China, and Thomas Adès’ Dante Project, choreographed by Wayne McGregor. Dudamel has led over 30 staged and semi-staged operas as well as concert productions across the world’s major stages, including five
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productions with Teatro alla Scala, productions at the Berlin and Vienna State Operas, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and 13 operas in Los Angeles, with repertoire ranging from Così fan tutte to Carmen, from Otello to Tannhäuser, from West Side Story to contemporary operas by composers like John Adams and Oliver Knussen. In May 2024, Dudamel conducted the LA Phil and a star-studded cast in a revival of the 2022 production of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, produced in collaboration with Los Angeles’ Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre, Deaf performers of El Sistema Venezuela’s Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir), and the Dudamel Foundation.
Dudamel’s advocacy for the power of music to unite, heal, and inspire is global in scope. Shaped by his own training as a young musician, Dudamel with the LA Phil and its community partners founded YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) in 2007, now providing over 1,700 young people with free instruments, intensive music instruction, academic support, and leadership training. In October 2021, YOLA opened its first permanent, purpose-built facility: The Judith and
Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by architect Frank Gehry. Dudamel also created the Dudamel Foundation in 2012 with the goal “to expand access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.”
One of the few classical musicians to become a bona fide pop-culture phenomenon, Dudamel was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019, joining Hollywood greats as well as musical luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, and Arturo Toscanini. He conducted the score to Steven Spielberg’s new film adaptation of Bernstein’s West Side Story and starred as the subject of the documentary ¡Viva Maestro!
Dudamel’s extensive, multipleGrammy Award-winning discography numbers 67 releases, including LA Phil’s recent Nonesuch recording of Thomas Ades’ Dante, which won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.
For more information about Gustavo Dudamel, visit his ofcial website at gustavodudamel.com and the Dudamel Foundation at dudamelfoundation.org
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
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 Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. 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, Andrew Norman, and Thomas Adès—including a 2024 Best Orchestral Performance Grammy for the latter’s Dante
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).
“SO FAR AHEAD OF OTHER AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS THAT IT IS IN COMPETITION MAINLY WITH ITS OWN PAST ACHIEVEMENTS.”
— The New Yorker ’s Alex Ross
THOMAS WILKINS
Thomas Wilkins is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He has held a titled position at the Hollywood Bowl since 2008, when he was named Principal Guest Conductor; in the spring of 2014, he became Principal Conductor.
In addition, he is the Boston Symphony’s Artistic Advisor, Education and Community Engagement; Indiana University’s Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral Conducting, a position established by the late Barbara and David Jacobs; and Principal Guest Conductor of the Virginia Symphony. At the close of the 2020/21 season, he ended his long and successful tenure as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony. Other past positions include resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony and The Florida Orchestra (Tampa Bay) and associate conductor of the Richmond (VA) Symphony. He also has served on
the music faculties of North Park University (Chicago), the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Devoted to promoting a lifelong enthusiasm for music, Wilkins brings energy and commitment to audiences of all ages. He is hailed as a master at communicating and connecting with audiences.
Following his highly successful first season with the Boston Symphony, The Boston Globe named him among the “Best People and Ideas of 2011.” In 2014, Wilkins received the prestigious Outstanding Artist award at the Nebraska Governor’s Arts Awards for his significant contribution to music in the state, and in March 2018, the Longy School of Music at Bard College honored him with the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society. In 2019, the Virginia Symphony
bestowed Wilkins with its annual Dreamer’s Award. In 2022, the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Music, the Boston Conservatory awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Arts, and he was the recipient of the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award. During his conducting career, Wilkins has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonic orchestras; the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras; the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, and Detroit; and the National Symphony.
A native of Norfolk, VA, Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory and the New England Conservatory. He and his wife, Sheri-Lee, are the proud parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.
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HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is composed of approximately 65 regular players, an international mix of classically trained musicians who are among the best studio musicians in Los Angeles. Many spend their days on Hollywood’s scoring stages. It might be surprising to learn that there is no overlap between the musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and those of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra—another indicator that LA has a tremendous pool of musical talent.
Musicians have been performing at the Hollywood Bowl since its opening in 1922. “Bowl Orchestra” was used as early as 1925, and “Hollywood Bowl Orchestra” appeared on live recordings made in 1928. Leopold Stokowski was Music Director of the Hollywood Bowl
Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1946. During that time, the orchestra recorded a number of classical works. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capitol Records issued an extensive series of recordings of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra with a number of different conductors, including Carmen Dragon, Felix Slatkin, Alfred Newman, and Miklós Rózsa, with album titles such as Rhapsody Under the Stars Chopin by Starlight, Fiesta!, Marche!, and many others.
From the 1950s on, there was no official Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, until it reappeared in 1991, under the auspices of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, as a completely new ensemble under the direction of Principal Conductor John Mauceri. After retiring from the orchestra in 2006, Mauceri
was awarded the lifelong title of Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
In 2008, Thomas Wilkins began an appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. In June 2014, he became the orchestra’s Principal Conductor, in which position he continues to lead the ensemble each summer in a wide range of concerts at the fabled outdoor venue.
From Mozart to Motown, the repertoire of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is as diverse as Hollywood itself. In a single season, the orchestra may perform everything from Broadway favorites to film music, pop music to jazz, and classical music to world premieres by living composers. In essence, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra does it all.
YOLA
Through YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), 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—aged 6 to 18— empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. Seventeen years ago, the LA Phil and its community partners launched YOLA with 80 students at the EXPO Center in South LA. Today, there are five sites: in South LA, the Rampart District, Westlake/MacArthur Park, East LA, and Inglewood. YOLA engages players from more than 200 schools in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Music study is complemented by leadership development opportunities, workshops, and performances. YOLA’s young musicians have performed on great stages, from the LA Phil’s iconic venues—the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert
Hall—to national and international television broadcasts, and alongside the greatest artists.
On October 15, 2021, the Los Angeles Philharmonic opened the
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Gehry Partners, LLC, the first permanent, purposebuilt facility for YOLA.
To learn more about YOLA, please visit laphil.com/yola
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AN ICONIC DESIGN FOR AN ICONIC VENUE
Justina Blakeney, an LA-based artist and founder of the design studio and lifestyle brand Jungalow, calls the Hollywood Bowl one of her favorite places in Los Angeles. She says, “Music, nature, creativity swirling in the open air under the stars—who wouldn’t love it?!”
Blakeney captured all of those elements in her first collaboration with the Hollywood Bowl, a vibrant capsule collection for the 2023 Jazz Festival. For the 2024 season, she’s followed up with an eye-catching “Iconic” design that celebrates the venue’s acclaimed history, the beauty of its landscape, and the magic of experiencing live performance together. She shares her inspiration with us.
“When I’m at the Bowl, the shell shape always grabs my attention fi rst. So, in my artwork, I made sure that everything, from the guitars to the trumpets and the decorative scalloped details, subtly echoed that iconic form.”
“The Bowl’s rich history, tracing back to the 1920s, with its nods to Art Deco, also influenced my approach. You’ll notice geometric patterns, stepped forms, and stylized representations of nature in my art, paying homage to that era.”
“As for colors, I drew inspiration from the lush greens of the surrounding botanical life and the earthy browns of the terrain. These hues set the scene, reflecting the natural beauty surrounding the Bowl.”
“The dynamic interaction between the community and the performers at the Hollywood Bowl was something I was excited to capture. I represented these good vibrations through the symbols emerging from the trumpets—hearts, stars, diamonds, and four-leaf clovers, symbolizing love, light, abundance, and good luck.”
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Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.
The Bowl’s food and wine team--James Beard Award Winners chef Suzanne Goin and restaurateur Caroline Styne of celebrated restaurants Lucques, a.o.c., Caldo Verde and Cara Cara - are now in their seventh year of providing exceptional cuisine designed to make your concert experiences even more spectacular. From supper in your box seats to freshly-prepared picnic baskets and market-driven fare, there’s truly something for everyone.
FOOD + WINE AT-A-GLANCE
SUPPER IN YOUR SEATS
Enjoy a delicious pre-concert meal served to you in the comfort of your box seats. Menu selections include Suzanne Goin’s three course menus, family-style feasts, a la carte starters, main courses, desserts, and wine.
Order by 4pm the day before your concert.
MARKETPLACES
Specialty sandwiches, seasonal grab-and-go salads, cheese + charcuterie plates, snacks, beer, wide-ranging variety of approachable and delicious wines await you at all of three of our Marketplaces. You’ll find everything you need to build a picnic from scratch or supplement one you already have.
LUCQUES AT THE CIRCLE
Fine dining for subscribers of the Pool Circle, with a seasonal made-to-order menu and an exceptional wine list styled from the award-winning restaurant Lucques.
STREET FOOD & SNACKS
A variety of delicious options are available throughout the Bowl, including street tacos, salads, specialty sandwiches, gourmet pizza, pulled pork, artisan baked goods, sweets, and popcorn.
THE BACKYARD
Inspired by the gorgeous natural surroundings of the Bowl, this al fresco space has the feel of a chic backyard in the Hollywood Hills. Two large wood-burning grills are the focus of this farmers’ market-driven restaurant serving grilled fish, chops, steaks, vegetables, salads, and raw bar items.
ANN’S WINE BAR by a.o.c.
Inspired by the original a.o.c. on 3rd St., Ann’s Wine Bar features a wide selection of Caroline’s favorite new and old world wines to be explored by both experienced and novice wine lovers, all paired with Suzanne Goin’s signature small plates menu. Reservations recommended.
CATERING AT THE BOWL
Give your guests the experience of a lifetime when you host your next event at the Bowl! Our selection of seven beautiful venues is perfect for events of all sizes, from intimate gatherings to elaborate afairs.
KITCHEN 22
Kitchen 22 is the best place to indulge in fan favorites like burgers, French fries, fried chicken, specialty sandwiches, and salads.
MOBILE ORDERING: Download the Hollywood Bowl app or scan one of the many QR codes to place an order from the comfort of your seat and skip the line at pick up. Mobile ordering is available throughout the venue.
PICNIC BOXES
It’s easier than ever to enjoy a picnic supper before your concert with five options for delectable fresh-made picnic boxes from Food + Wine. Simply pre-order online by 4 pm the day before your concert, and your choice will be waiting for you when you arrive at the Bowl.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB STARK
THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL AND THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES:
The Hollywood Bowl, renowned for its world-class performances and picturesque natural setting, is not just a musical sanctuary but also a pioneering example of a public-private partnership in the arts—a model that has inspired similar ventures across the United States, including The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Center in New York.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JOHN ANSON FORD AND PHILANTHROPIST DOROTHY BUFFUM CHANDLER ARE PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE BOWL, 1956 (Photo by Otto Rothschild/Courtesy of The Music Center); SUPERVISOR
EDMUND D. EDELMAN AND ERNEST FLEISCHMANN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL MUSEUM, 1984; EDELMAN REHEARSES FOR HIS GUEST APPEARANCE IN THE LA PHIL’S CELLO SECTION, EARLY 1990S; BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL CONSTRUCTION SITE, 2004.
The story of the Hollywood Bowl began in the early 1920s, when Los Angeles was a young but rapidly expanding city.
Eager to build a welcoming community gathering place, the Hollywood Bowl’s founders inaugurated the first summerlong, outdoor symphonic concert series in the world in 1922. They believed that if they charged only 25 cents for a ticket, people would come en masse, night after night—and they were right.
By 1923, the mortgage on the land had been completely paid off. In a triumphant moment, the Bowl’s indomitable founder Artie Mason Carter set fire to the mortgage papers onstage, proclaiming: “We the People own the Hollywood Bowl!” One year later, in October 1924, the Bowl’s founders deeded the property to the County of Los Angeles, ensuring that they always would.
Since its gifting in 1924, the relationship between the Hollywood Bowl and the County of Los Angeles has flourished, creating a mutually beneficial partnership. In 1959, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation assumed ownership and operational control of the Bowl, with the LA Phil managing its programming. This arrangement has allowed the Bowl to thrive as an 88acre public park, open from sunrise to sunset every day, where urban wildlife and native plants coexist with cultural landmarks and performance and gathering spaces.
The Hollywood Bowl’s success owes much to the support of Los Angeles County Supervisors over the last century. John Anson Ford, a pivotal figure in the 1930s and 1940s, worked tirelessly to secure funding and legal changes that allowed for public investment in the arts. Ford’s legacy was continued by subsequent supervisors including Ernest Debs, Edmund Edelman, Zev Yaroslavsky, Sheila Kuehl, and, today, Supervisors Lindsey P. Horvath, Hilda L. Solis, Holly J. Mitchell, Janice K. Hahn, and Kathryn Barger. These leaders have championed the Bowl, cementing its status as a place
of civic pride for Angelenos and a beacon of cultural excellence for the world.
The continuous support from the County of Los Angeles has ensured that every summer season brings enhancements to the Bowl’s grounds, improving the experience for artists and audiences alike. While the Bowl’s numerous remodels and renovations have kept the venue feeling fresh and stateof-the-art, they also had made it difficult to meet the criteria for designation on the National Register of Historic Places—an important distinction that would secure the Bowl’s status and continued preservation.
“WE THE PEOPLE OWN THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL!”
— Artie Mason
Carter, Founding Figure
THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL’S SHELL UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 2004.
Working together, in July 2003 the County and the LA Phil developed the Hollywood Bowl’s first Design Guidelines, which ensure that all development at the venue adheres to a cohesive aesthetic inspired by the iconic sculpture and 1940 Works Progress Administration project Muse of Music, Dance, Drama by George Stanley.
Stanley’s design embodies the Streamline Moderne style of Hollywood’s Golden Age. As such, the Bowl’s design philosophy emphasizes simplicity and elegance—horizontal lines, circles, repetition, and indirect lighting—creating a balance between honoring the Bowl’s historical roots and embracing modernity.
As a result of these concerted eforts, in December 2023 the Bowl was listed for the first time on the National Register of Historic Places, marking the culmination of decades of advocacy and investment.
In all senses, the Hollywood Bowl is a hybrid—public and private, natural and developed, classic and modern. Yet it remains a constant: a cherished space that sets the standard for outdoor arts and culture spaces across the country. On behalf of all of us at the LA Phil and the County of Los Angeles, we hope you enjoy tonight’s concert and remind you that—for now and forever—the Hollywood Bowl belongs to you!
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP : FORMER LA COUNTY SUPERVISOR ZEV YAROSLAVSKY IN FRONT OF THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL’S MUSE OF MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA , C. 2006; SUPERVISOR EDMUND D. EDELMAN AND LA PHIL FORMER BOARD MEMBER OLIVE BEHRENDT AT THE GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL MUSEUM, JUNE 29, 1984; SUPERVISOR KATHRYN BARGER AT A HOLLYWOOD BOWL OPENING NIGHT, JUNE, 2022 (Greg Grudt/Mathew Imaging); EDELMAN AND LA PHIL FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO DEBORAH BORDA, AUGUST 27, 2007.
The newest exhibition at the Hollywood Bowl Museum focuses on the founding figures of the iconic venue.
In 1919, a virtual who’s who of Los Angeles cultural and civic life galvanized around a project to build the first urban open-air performing arts venue in the nation. Aiming to put Los Angeles on the map, these impresarios, musicians, real estate moguls, Theosophists, “professional men” of various backgrounds, and others brought their own ideas and agendas for the venue and how it could serve Los Angeles’ vast and growing communities.
Currently on view at the Hollywood Bowl Museum, Building the Bowl: From Dream to Destination focuses on six of the central founding figures of the Hollywood Bowl—Christine Wetherill Stevenson, Dr. T. Perceval Gerson, Charles E. Toberman, Artie Mason Carter, Frederick W. Blanchard, and Florence M. Irish—each of whom played a distinctive role in its history.
Tue–Fri | 10am–showtime Sat–Mon | 4 hours before showtime
On view through June 2025
CHRISTINE WETHERILL STEVENSON The Wealthy Theosophist
DR. T. PERCEVAL GERSON The Civic-Minded Physician
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ARTIE MASON CARTER The Music Evangelist
FREDERICK W. BLANCHARD The First President of the Bowl
FLORENCE M. IRISH The Bowl Field Marshal
HOLLYWOOD BOWL ON CLASSICAL KUSC
Classical California KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night series to air 10 Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts from the 2024 Hollywood Bowl Season
This marks the 17th year of the orchestra’s summer partnership with Southern California’s listener-sponsored classical music radio station. KUSC’s weekly spotlight on local concerts allows hundreds of thousands of listeners across Southern California to experience Hollywood Bowl performances each week.
Hosted by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen, the programs air weekly at 7pm on Sundays from August 25 through October 27 and are also available on demand at the KUSC website for one week immediately following each broadcast.
UPCOMING BROADCASTS SoCal Sunday Nights at 7PM on Classical California KUSC
SEPTEMBER 1
David Afkham, conductor; Ray Chen, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
SEPTEMBER 8
Elim Chan, conductor; Augustin Hadelich, violin
Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
SEPTEMBER 15
Zubin Mehta, conductor; Pinchas Zukerman, violin
MOZART Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Violin Concerto No. 3, Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”)
SEPTEMBER 22
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor; Alexander Malofeev, piano
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2
SEPTEMBER 29
Ryan Bancroft, conductor; Denis Kozhukhin, piano
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10
OCTOBER 6
Rodolfo Barráez, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin
COPLAND El Salón México
Kevin PUTS/ The Elements Edgar MEYER/ Jake HEGGIE/ Jennifer HIGDON/ Jessie MONTGOMERY
STRAVINSKY Circus Polka, Violin Concerto, The Rite of Spring
OCTOBER 27
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Yunchan Lim, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Programs and artists subject to change.
This series is made possible through the endowed LA Phil Broadcast Program Fund, generously supported by the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
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FANDANGOS
Roberto Sierra (b. 1953)
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.”
Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra commissioned the work and premiered it in February 2001 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It has traveled quite successfully since then, including a 2002 appearance on the First Night of the Proms in London. “A strong rhythmic drive throughout propelled the music onward,” Timothy Ball wrote in his Classical Source review. “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, welldefined 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. —John Henken
SCENES FROM CARMEN Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Inside almost every French composer is a Spaniard yearning to get out. Perhaps geographical proximity may be the reason many French musicians have authentically captured the musical imagery of their neighbors to the south. Whatever the magic may be, it was in full force in the case of Georges Bizet and his Carmen, even though he apparently had never set foot in the country whose atmosphere he so masterfully evoked.
Born in Paris, Bizet did spend three years in another country south of his own—Italy, as a reward for winning the Paris Conservatory’s Prix de Rome. Once back in Paris, he settled into a composing career that failed to bring him more than a modicum of attention until, after some minor successes in 1873, he was commissioned to write a work for the Opéra-Comique. Selecting Prosper Merimée’s vivid story Carmen as his subject, Bizet induced Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy to write the libretto. The opera premiered on March 3, 1875, and while its naturalism and luridness rufed some refined Parisian sensibilities, it attained a decent level of success. In the following weeks, it was performed nearly two dozen times, but tragically, on the night of its 23rd performance, three months to the day after its premiere, Bizet died at the age of 36. He never witnessed Carmen’s phenomenal popularity all over the world. Lavishly melodious, vitally rhythmic, richly orchestrated and harmonized, Carmen is nothing less than a miracle of lyric theater. Even without the vocal parts, an
opera’s lifeblood, it is irresistible, just like its title character who is killed by her former lover in a fit of jealous rage. It has inspired fulllength ballets, innumerable suites, Tom & Jerry’s cat-and-mouse game, and Beyoncé’s star turn in 2001’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera Tonight’s presentation eschews the opera’s impending tragedy and stitches together a selection of its nonstop stream of highlights.
From a note by Orrin Howard
ALEGRÍA
Roberto Sierra
Born in Puerto Rico in 1953, Roberto Sierra continued his education in England and Germany, and then worked with György Ligeti in Hamburg for three years. Sierra calls his fusion of European modernism and Latin American folk elements “tropicalization.”
Alegría, commissioned and premiered by the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1996, is a perfect example of this. Fleet, tonally centered, and brightly colored, it expresses alegría (happiness) with orchestral exuberance. Its rapid pulse plays rhythmic games with the fact that six beats can be stressed as either two groups of three or three groups of two, a characteristic of much Hispanic and Latin American music. Occasionally, the euphoric whirl takes some of the musicians beyond the measured bounds, as Sierra asks players to rush a pattern as fast as possible, independent of the rest of the orchestra. Sierra contrasts diferent sections of the orchestra and diferent dynamic levels and pushes the excitement envelope with uneven accents and a pellmell 5/8 dash to the final cadence. —John Henken
THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer of the Romantic era who, at 3 years old, was writing his first pieces on the piano. At 7, he was a celebrated concert organist, and by 10, he could play any of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas from memory at a moment’s notice. Over the course of his prolific and nearly 80-year career, Saint-Saëns would become one of classical music history’s most gifted yet underrated minds—on top of being an enthusiastic poet, playwright, philosopher, astronomer, animal rights activist, travel writer, and acoustics expert in his spare time. For in his mind, “A taste of the public for art, good or simple—it makes no diference, it is an infinitely precious guide for the artist. Whether he is a genius or talent, following this taste, he will be able to create good works.” And that he did, retaining a childlike curiosity and sense of wonder his entire life.
While visiting in a small Austrian village in 1886, Saint-Saëns came up with the idea to amuse the guests— and himself—at an upcoming Mardi Gras party. Inspired by the peculiarity of our world’s creatures, he composed The Carnival of the Animals as a 14-part grand suite of satire. He mimicked the sounds and personalities of various animals with flute, clarinet, strings, glass harmonica, xylophone, and two pianos, inviting his listeners into a captivating zoological fantasy. Fearing that the suite might overshadow his more “serious” works, Saint-Saëns never allowed it to be performed during his lifetime (with the exception of the Swan movement). Yet, a century later, this playful piece has become one of the most beloved and delightful works of imagination and wit.
Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Royal March of the Lion opens The Carnival of the Animals with a majestic proclamation from the king of the jungle. The piano sets a regal tone, leading into a proud, prowling theme played by the strings. The lion’s presence is unmistakable, and its grandeur and authority are conveyed through bold, sweeping melodies and a commanding rhythm.
Next, it’s time for the chickens to come out and eat. They waddle around, pecking at grain until they’ve gobbled it all up. In Hens and Roosters, the strings and pianists tap to the rhythm—first lightly, then more aggressively—imitating hungry birds. The clarinet chimes into the barnyard chaos, letting out a single “cock-a-doodledoo” that pierces through the rest of the ensemble’s animated clucking and crowing.
Wild Donkeys—Swift Animals are up next, and the pianists’ rapid, energetic scales evoke the speed and agility of these untamed creatures. The movement is 30 seconds at most, but it’s exhilarating and relentless, like a frenzied gallop through the wilderness.
But not so fast! Aesop’s famous fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” reminds us that “slow and steady wins the race.” In Tortoises, Saint-Saëns takes Jacques O fenbach’s famous “Can-Can” from his 1858 opera Orpheus in the Underworld and slows it down to a lethargic pace, poking fun at the unlikely juxtaposition.
Elephants are famously known for their intelligence and remarkable memory, but not so much for being light on their
feet. In The Elephant, SaintSaëns lets these giant animals waltz around in a deep, doublebass melody accompanied by a sturdy, staccato piano accompaniment. The contrast between the bulky bass and the nimble piano highlights the elephant’s graceful yet lumbering movements, adding a touch of elegance to its otherwise galumphing presence.
When you next hear the piano’s dissonant, hopping chords, it’s hard to imagine anything other than Kangaroos. Here, the performers mimic the animals’ unpredictable, bouncing leaps with sudden jumps and pauses in the music. The playful rhythm vividly depicts these energetic marsupials springing across the outback.
Plunging below sea level, Saint-Saëns immerses listeners in the underwater world of Aquarium. With their flowing, shimmering textures, the piano, strings, and glass harmonica evoke the serene and mystical ambience of marine life. If you close your eyes and listen closely, you might be able to picture the gentle glissandos as fish gracefully swimming among coral reefs in the deep, tranquil ocean.
Just don’t get too comfortable, because Characters with Long Ears are up next. With a name like that, could it mean rabbits? Maybe foxes? How about horses? Here, Saint-Saëns is referring to those stubborn donkeys again who just can’t stay away from the Carnival! Using the violins to mimic their harsh, repetitive shrieks, he creates a sharp and dissonant, almost ominous depiction of these “hee-hawing” animals. CONTINUED
Two pianos set the scene for the next movement— Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods—with steady but cautious chords capturing the quiet mystery of a treescape. In this forest of chords, an offstage clarinet softly but persistently interrupts to imitate the call of the cuckoo.
More birds arrive in the Aviary movement—in fact, an entire flock seems to burst from the flute with its high-pitched trills and fluttering melodies, representing our feathered friends darting and chirping inside a bustling birdhouse.
The animal kingdom is huge and diverse and even includes us humans. SaintSaëns teases novice keyboard players in Pianists, an exaggerated interpretation of their practicing habits.
In the original score, it’s noted that performers “should imitate the hesitant style and awkwardness of a beginner.” As a pianist and organist himself, Saint-Saëns would have known all too well about the repetitive and tedious nature of rehearsing scales and exercises.
Fossils features the xylophone in a lively role, evoking the clatter of ancient bones. Saint-Saëns quotes various “archaic” and wellknown tunes, including “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” “Au clair de la lune,” and his own Danse Macabre, blending them into a playful, percussive skeletal dance.
The Swan is the most famous movement of the suite and perhaps its most ethereal. Once you hear the slow cello melody float above
the two pianos, it becomes clear why Saint-Saëns published this sweet and simple section all on its own. Perfectly encapsulating the grace and elegance of a swan gliding across a lake, its calm, dignified beauty contrasts the more dynamic spirit of Fossils and the closing movement.
At last, in the Finale, all the animals get a chance to shine together, bringing the Carnival to a triumphant close. It’s a whirlwind of activity with the musicians zipping through snippets of earlier movements— the proud lion, pouncing kangaroo, pecking hens, and the rest of the quirky animal kingdom. But who gets the last laugh? The donkeys, of course, “hee-hawing” in the strings until the Carnival ’s final bars. —Piper Starnes
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
To read about Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel please turn to page 13
SERGIO TIEMPO
No matter which publication you consult, it is hard to find a review of Sergio Tiempo that does not highlight the virtuosity of his playing. Yet his technical prowess is rendered almost irrelevant by the individuality of Tiempo’s interpretations and by the depth of his understanding and insight into the repertoire he plays, from Brahms to Villa-Lobos, from Beethoven to Ginastera. With the full arsenal of expression at his disposal, he lets the listener in on what he sees in a piece of music. Both audacious and nuanced, his playing exposes the composer’s ideas as he recognizes them. If his choices seem daring, then that is a risk that pays of. It is easy to set Tiempo’s interpretations apart from any other, and the results are “scintillating” (The New York Times) performances, presented with incredible stage presence and charisma.
A career that started more than 35 years ago, when Tiempo made his professional debut at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw at the age of 14, has seen him perform with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orquestra Sinfônica
do Estado de São Paulo, and Berliner Philharmoniker in the past five years alone. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Tiempo began his piano studies with his mother, Lyl Tiempo. He pays tribute to her, and some of his closest musical relations and influences, in his new album, Hommage (Avanti). Among them are his sister and regular recital partner Karin Lechner; Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, both of whom entered his life as family friends long before they became teachers and companions on his musical journey; Alan Weiss, a lifelong friend and one of his earliest teachers; and Mischa Maisky, who, aside from his sister Karin, became Tiempo’s first chamber music partner and with whom he recorded several discs for Deutsche Grammophon. He has performed with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Marin Alsop, MyungWhun Chung, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, KenDavid Masur, Ludovic Morlot, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alondra de la Parra, Rafael Payare, Alexander Prior, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Xian Zhang, and, maybe most of all, with his fellow countryman and friend Gustavo Dudamel. With him, notable performances include the world premiere of Esteban Benzecry’s piano concerto Universos Infinitos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, followed by performances of the work at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic.
As a recitalist, Tiempo has appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s International Piano Series, Konzerthaus Wien, Wigmore Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, and Edinburgh International Festival, at Klavier Festival Ruhr, at the George Enescu Festival, the Martha Argerich festivals in Lugano and at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Warsaw Chopin Festival, Brussels Chopin Days, Music Days in Lisbon, and recital tours across China, South Korea, Italy, and North and South America.
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KARIN LECHNER
Karin Lechner was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She spent most of her youth in Caracas, Venezuela, where she began her musical studies with her mother, Lyl Tiempo. She made her first public appearance at the age of 5 and her debut with orchestra when she was 11. She moved to Europe and continued her piano studies with Maria Curcio and Pierre Sancan and received musical advice from Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Daniel Barenboim, Nikita Magalof, and Rafael Orozco. At the age of 13, Karin Lechner performed in Washington, and during the same season she appeared at the opening concert of the Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw with the Amsterdam Philharmonic. Since then, she has had an active international career playing in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S., as well as frequent appearances in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, and Japan. Lechner has performed in major concert halls all over the world,
including the Kennedy Center in Washington, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Berlin, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and she participates in important international festivals such as Menton, Toulouse, Montpellier, Colorado, Verbier, Lugano, Pietrasanta, and Schleswig-Holstein.
In chamber-music performances, Karin Lechner has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Janós Starker, Barbara Hendricks, and Viktoria Mullova, and she regularly performs two-piano music with her brother, Sergio Tiempo, with whom she forms a permanent duo and has recorded several CDs. She is also a member of the Trio Carlo Van Neste with the violinist Maya Levy and the cellist Alexandre Debrus. Karin made her first recording at the age of 13 for EMI. She made her debut as a conductor at St. John’s Smith Square (now Sinfonia Smith Square) in London, with her daughter Natasha Binder as the 9-year-old soloist. In 2013, she was invited to Caracas to conduct Debussy, Ravel, and Liszt, with her daughter and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra.
RIHAB CHAIEB
The current and upcoming seasons mark significant milestones for Tunisian Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, including her debut at Opernhaus Zürich as Charlotte in Werther, the title role in Carmen at Glyndebourne Festival and in concert excerpts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Claire in Melancholia with the Royal Swedish Opera, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra, a return to the Metropolitan Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper, and appearances with Bregenzer Festspiele, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra de Montréal, Festival San Sebastián, Canadian Opera Company, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms.
In the 2022/23 season, Rihab debuted at the Bayerische Staatsoper, wowing the audience as Fenena in Nabucco under Daniele Rustioni, and at the LA Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro under James Conlon. She reprised her exceptional portrayal of Carmen at the Canadian Opera Company and Calgary Opera and returned to the Grand Théâtre de Genève starring in the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Voyage vers l’espoir as La mère Meryem. On the concert platform, Chaieb appeared with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Otto Tausk for Berlioz’s Les
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nuits d’été, and debuted the role of Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
Recent successes include Chaieb’s debuts at Houston Grand Opera in the world premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix, as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Cincinnati Opera and as Ofenbach’s Fantasio at Opéra de Montpellier, Dorabella at Teatro Santiago de Chile, Kasturbai in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha, and Carmen in Lydia Steier’s production at Oper Köln.
Chaieb recorded Bach’s Mass in B minor and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Orchestre Métropolitain under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the latter released on Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Stage. She reprised Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
KATHLEEN O’MARA
Soprano Kathleen O’Mara is a member of LA Opera’s DomingoColburn-Stein Young Artist Program and is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She made her LA Opera debut in the fall of 2023
as Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, which she will reprise for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2025. She has also been seen at LA Opera as Erste Zofe in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg, conducted by James Conlon. In the 2024/25 season, she will also participate in the 2024 Operalia competition as well as debut Mimì in La bohème at San Diego Opera. This summer she was a Gaddes Festival Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, making her OTSL debut as Duchess Christina in Galileo Galilei by Philip Glass and covering Mimì in La bohème Kathleen won a Career Grant Award from the Sullivan Foundation in 2023 and was a 2022 winner of the Bizet Award at the Orpheus Vocal Competition. She performed Zémire in André Grétry’s Zémire et Azor with Westminster Opera Theater and has participated in programs including the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Palm Beach Opera’s Apprentice Program, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy, CoOPERAtive, and Music Academy of the West. She received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from Westminster Choir College. She is a native of Fort Washington, PA.
MADELEINE LYON
Mezzo-soprano Madeleine Lyon is a proud native of San Marcos, TX. In 2022, Lyon joined the LA Opera as a Domingo-ColburnStein Young Artist. She made her LA Opera mainstage debut as Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, a new production coproduced with the Metropolitan Opera. During her two seasons at LA Opera, she was also seen as Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Genevieve/Yniold (Impressions of Pelleas), Frida Image (El último sueño de Frida y Diego), and Playmate (Der Zwerg). In 2025, Lyon will return to the LA Opera to sing the role of Giovanna (Rigoletto). This summer, Madeleine joined Opera Theatre Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, singing the role of Nireno in Giulio Cesare The previous summer, she performed at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, where she focused on song repertoire. Notably, Lyon was featured in a jazz concert curated by Grammy Award-winning singer Kurt Elling. In 2022, Lyon finished her graduate studies at Rice University, where she had received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2019. Most recently, Lyon performed in recitals curated by the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, where she sang Zemlinsky’s Sechs Gesänge, Op. 13.
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MADELEINE LYON
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE
BIG BOI DANIELLE PONDER
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 8PM
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Danielle Ponder
Big Boi
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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
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TROMBONE SHORTY
Born Troy Andrews, Trombone Shorty got his start (and nickname) earlier than most: At 4, he made his first appearance at Jazz Fest performing with Bo Diddley; at 6, he was leading his own brass band; and by his teens, he was hired by Lenny Kravitz to join the band he assembled for his Electric Church World Tour. Shorty’s proven he’s more
than just a horn player, though. Catch a gig, open the pages of The New York Times or Vanity Fair, flip on any late-night TV show and you’ll see an undeniable star with utterly magnetic charisma, a natural-born showman who can command an audience with the best of them.
Since 2010, he’s released four chart-topping studio albums; toured with everyone from Jeff Beck to the Red Hot Chili Peppers; collaborated across genres
with Pharrell, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, Foo Fighters, ZHU, Zac Brown, Normani, Ringo Starr, and countless more; played Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk, Newport Jazz, and nearly every other major festival; performed four times at the Grammy Awards, five times at the White House, on dozens of TV shows, and at the star-studded Sesame Street Gala, where he was honored with his own Muppet; launched the Trombone Shorty Foundation to support youth music education; and received a prestigious Caldecott Honor for his first children’s book.
Meanwhile in New Orleans, Shorty now leads his own Mardi Gras parade atop a giant float crafted in his likeness, hosts the annual Voodoo Threauxdown shows that have drawn guests including Usher, Nick Jonas, Dierks Bentley, Andra Day, and Leon Bridges to sit in with his band, and has taken over the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s hallowed final set, which has seen him closing out the internationally renowned gathering after performances by the likes of Neil Young, The Black Keys, and Kings of Leon.
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BIG BOI
Atlanta indisputably set the pace for modern hip-hop. However, Big Boi set the pace for Atlanta and, by proxy, the culture at large. If the genre of hip-hop ever gets its own “Rap Mount Rushmore,” a legacy as the region’s foremost wordsmith, funkiest gentleman, and resident ATLien certainly guarantees a place for the diamond-selling artist, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actor, and philanthropist, born Antwan André Patton. Big made history as the preeminent spitter of the Dungeon Family and one-half of OutKast. The legendary duo sold 25 million albums and garnered six Grammy Awards, becoming the first and only hip-hop artists in history to win the Grammy for Album of the Year upon release, for the 2003 RIAA Diamondcertified Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Big Boi made his proper introduction as a solo artist in 2010 with Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. A modern classic, it rose to No. 3 on the Billboard
Top 200 and landed on Pitchfork’s “100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far.”
Following a succession of high-profile album releases, Big Boi released his most recent album, Boomiverse, in 2017. The smash single “All Night” provided the soundtrack for a high-profile Apple Animoji commercial, blew up radio, and clocked 40 million streams within a year. The song also hit the Top 30 on the pop chart
and Top 10 at Rhythmic. In addition to his music career, the hip-hop legend recently announced that he would be the executive producer for a new crime series titled Government Records. He also signed a deal with Bread and Butter Content Studio to produce Big Boi’s Gotta Eat, an upcoming series to find the freshest seafood and unique food culture coast to coast, with an energy that only Big Boi can bring.
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DANIELLE PONDER
Bravery can take many forms. For Danielle Ponder it took the shape of a leap of faith: leaving her successful day job as an attorney in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Rochester, NY, to devote herself full-time to sharing her powerful voice with the world. While working as a public defender, Ponder also toured Europe and scored an opening spot with George Clinton. In 2018, after five years as a public defender, she made the gutsy decision to pursue her No. 1 passion—music.
In 2021, Ponder performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, where her performance was hailed as one of the standout performances of the event. The following year was a banner one for Ponder, with appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers and CBS This Morning and tours with Marcus Mumford, Amos Lee, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, and Leon Bridges. On
September 16, 2022, Ponder released her debut album, Some of Us Are Brave, on Future Classic. Written and recorded over three years, the album is a refreshingly original, shiver-inducing mix of pop, R&B, blues, rock, and moody trip-hop topped by Ponder’s celestial voice—an instrument
that can plumb melancholy depths with a heartsick murmur and scrape the sky with hurricane-force wails. Ponder continues to advocate for criminal justice reform and has been an influential leader in the Black Lives Matter movement in Rochester.
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DUDAMEL LEADS BEETHOVEN’S NINTH
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 8PM
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Key’mon Murrah, countertenor
Hera Hyesang Park, soprano
Rihab Chaieb, mezzo-soprano
Anthony León, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
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BEETHOVEN
Chichester Psalms (c. 19 minutes)
Psalm 108, verse 2; Psalm 100
Psalm 23; Psalm 2, verses 1–4
Psalm 131; Psalm 133, verse 1
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Los Angeles Master Chorale
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Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” (c. 65 minutes)
Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Adagio molto e cantabile
Presto—Allegro assai
Hera Hyesang Park, Rihab Chaieb, Anthony León, Dashon Burton
Los Angeles Master Chorale
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CHICHESTER PSALMS
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
The impetus for Bernstein’s creation of Chichester Psalms came in December 1963 in the form of a commission letter from Walter Hussey, Dean of the Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England, for a festival to be held in Chichester in August 1965. (The work was premiered July 15, 1965, in New York City, with the composer conducting the New York Philharmonic, before its August performance two weeks later in Chichester.)
The commission couldn’t have come at a better time. Since having become music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958, Bernstein had completed only his “Kaddish” Symphony No. 3 (1963). In his commissioning letter, Hussey informed Bernstein that he and the Chichester organist and
choirmaster John Birch “wondered if you would be willing to write something for us…. The sort of thing we had in mind was perhaps, say, a setting of Psalm 2, or some part of it, either unaccompanied or accompanied by orchestra or organ, or both.” In a follow-up letter after Bernstein had accepted the commission, Hussey added, “I hope you will feel free to write as you wish and will in no way feel inhibited by the circumstances. I think many of us would be very delighted if there was a hint of West Side Story about the music.”
Bernstein didn’t bother with an organ, but he did include music cut from the Prologue to West Side Story as well as verses from Psalm 2 in the second movement. He also recycled materials from his incomplete musical The Skin of Our Teeth. Each of the three movements includes a complete psalm and a fragment from another; the fragments either agree or contrast
with the ideas expressed in the complete psalm.
The first movement for chorus and orchestra presents the complete text of Psalm 100 and fragments from 108. Following the opening chorus of Psalm 108:2, the music runs headlong into a bouncy 7/4-meter, dance-like music in praise of the Lord with great noise and joy.
The second movement begins with a cymbal flourish leading immediately into a setting of Psalm 23 for treble voice accompanied by harp. The peace is broken by the bellicose nature of Psalm 2:1–4 rendered as a martial type of music for full chorus, brass, and percussion. The remainder of the movement weaves together the two diferent themes.
After a plaintive opening for strings and solo trumpet, the third movement continues with calmness and peace representing the sentiments expressed in Psalms 131 and 133:1. —Steve Lacoste
SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, OP. 125, “CHORAL”
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Beethoven lived in a revolutionary era. His music also overturned the rules and boundaries of previous orders, while creating fresh paradigms that have influenced the arts ever since. Beethoven has become a symbol of the individual genius pushing limits, the artist as rebel.
An astonishingly radical work for its time, the Ninth Symphony certainly supports that defiantloner image of Beethoven. Yet paradoxically it celebrates the unity of humanity with a vast, all-inclusive embrace.
The basic arc of the piece is from chaos and struggle to serenity and jubilation. That mirrors the course of its creation.
Friedrich Schiller published his ode An die Freude (To Joy) in 1785, and Beethoven was much moved by this ecstatic vision. The young composer may have tried to set it to music even before he left his hometown of Bonn, Germany, in 1792, and he grappled with the poem twice before 1817, when the Philharmonic Society of London
invited him to conduct two new symphonies that winter, neither of which materialized.
As a result of the invitation, however, Beethoven started planning for two symphonies, one in D minor, the other with a choral slow movement. These two works began to merge into one in 1822, when the correspondence with the Philharmonic Society finally turned into an accepted commission. Beethoven worked steadily at this grand project throughout 1823, completing it in March 1824. The work premiered in Vienna on May 7, 1824, the famous concert at which the now-deaf composer had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause he could no longer hear.
The Ninth Symphony opens in hushed anticipation, from which an elementally simple theme soon erupts violently. The dynamic energy and scope of the ideas in this movement suggest creation myths or the Big Bang.
Beethoven changed the usual order of symphonic movements here, placing a Scherzo next. Typically a dancing, often humorous
movement with a contrasting middle section, Beethoven’s dark Scherzo is relentlessly concentrated, its insistence intensified by fugal imitation. The contrast is supplied by a graceful hymn that suggests the ultimate joy of the finale.
The slow movement (Adagio) ofers a peaceful balance to the preceding furies. Beethoven develops two themes to increasing levels of yearning through sophisticated variations.
Chaos returns at the beginning of the fourth movement, from which Beethoven recalls the main themes of the preceding movements before introducing voices, his most obvious innovation, although he had models in French revolutionary symphonies. It is an electrifying moment when the baritone first sings, calling for more agreeable tunes. The composer’s decades-in-themaking setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”—which he freely cut and reordered—emerges at last as an immense and triumphant set of variations, expressing our highest aspirations with music of life-afrming exaltation. —John Henken
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
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KEY’MON MURRAH
Countertenor Key’mon Murrah has been heralded by Opera News for the “voluptuous tone throughout his enormous range and phrasing with the feel of fine silk” and continues to garner international acclaim for his “vocal acrobatics” and “mature artistry.” The 2023/24 season sees Murrah debut at the Metropolitan Opera in El Niño, at LA Opera in El último sueño de Frida y Diego, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in Giulio Cesare, and the New Jersey Symphony in Handel’s Messiah These performances follow a summer of appearances in Europe, where Murrah appeared with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Dido and Aeneas, in concert at Oper Köln, and with Komische Oper Berlin in Jephtha, for which the Morgenpost praised
his “wonderfully supple voice.”
In the 2022/23 season, Murrah’s performances included his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Dido and Aeneas, Messiah with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Chorale, his debut with San Diego Opera in the world premiere of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, the title role in Xerxes for Detroit Opera, and the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Murrah has previously appeared at Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Grand Rapids Symphony, University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, Bluegrass Opera, Red River Lyric Opera, and the American Baroque Opera Co.
Murrah was a young artist at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, a member of the Studio Artist Program at the Florida Grand Opera, and a Fleming Artist at Aspen Music Festival & School. He was selected for a Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute Master Class with Joyce DiDonato in 2019.
HERA HYESANG PARK
Hailed by The New York Times for her “bright, clear voice and impressive coloratura technique,” Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park is attracting the attention of opera houses and concert houses worldwide. In the 2023/24 season, Park returned to Opéra National de Paris for Despina in Cosí fan tutte and reprised the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Seoul City Opera before returning to Korea National Opera for Violetta in La traviata. In concert, she sang Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, made her debut with London Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Edward Gardner, and gave solo recitals at Milton Court London, Stoller Hall Manchester, Wells Cathedral School, and across Mexico. In recent seasons, Park has made a series of prestigious house and role debuts, including Adina in L’elisir
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KEY’MON MURRAH
HERA HYESANG PARK
d’amore at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; Despina at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Rosina and Despina at Glyndebourne Festival; Musetta in La bohème at Komische Oper Berlin; and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires. On the concert stage, some of Park’s notable appearances include performances of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at Carnegie Hall; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with San Diego Symphony; Galatea in Acis and Galatea at the Tanglewood and Caramoor festivals with Philharmonia Baroque; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic, as well as recitals at Alice Tully Hall, Montreal’s Bourgie Hall, and Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música.
As a participant of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist program, Park made her Met debut as the First Sprite in a new production of Rusalka conducted by Mark Elder. She holds an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from The Juilliard School and earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Seoul National University. She made her professional opera debut as Violetta with Korea National Opera.
Park is an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist. Her debut album, I Am Hera with the Wiener Symphoniker and Bertrand de Billy, was released in November 2020 to enormous critical acclaim.
RIHAB CHAIEB
The current and upcoming seasons mark significant milestones for Tunisian Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, including her debut at Opernhaus Zürich as Charlotte in Werther, the title role in Carmen at Glyndebourne Festival and in concert excerpts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Claire in Melancholia with the Royal Swedish Opera, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra, a return to the Metropolitan Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper, and appearances with Bregenzer Festspiele, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra de Montréal, Festival San Sebastián, Canadian Opera Company, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms. In the 2022/23 season, Rihab debuted at the Bayerische Staatsoper, wowing the audience as Fenena in Nabucco under Daniele Rustioni, and at the LA Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro under James Conlon. She reprised her exceptional portrayal of Carmen at the Canadian Opera Company and Calgary Opera and returned to the Grand Théâtre de Genève starring in the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Voyage vers l’espoir as La mère Meryem.
On the concert platform, Chaieb appeared with the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Otto Tausk for Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, and debuted the role of Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
Recent successes include Chaieb’s debuts at Houston Grand Opera in the world premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix, as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Cincinnati Opera and as O fenbach’s Fantasio at Opéra de Montpellier, Dorabella at Teatro Santiago de Chile, Kasturbai in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha, and Carmen in Lydia Steier’s production at Oper Köln. Chaieb recorded Bach’s Mass in B minor and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Orchestre Métropolitain under Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the latter released on Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Stage. She reprised Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
RIHAB CHAIEB
ANTHONY LEÓN
American tenor Anthony León won First Prize and the Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela at the Operalia World Opera Competition in 2022. He was also a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2022. Recent highlights include a return to the LA Opera Young Artist program for a second season, when León performed Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Other engagements include Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor, Spoletta in Tosca, and Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro with LA Opera. Anthony has also performed Remendado in Carmen at Santa Fe Opera (where he was an Apprentice Artist) and Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the New England Conservatory. On tour with ensemble I Gemelli, Anthony sang Giove and Amphinome in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Arsenal Theatre Metz, and Victoria Hall in Geneva. Last season, León took part in the Vocal Residency program at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Project. This season, Anthony performs with the Dutch National Opera in Ellen Reid’s The Shell Trial and in Beethoven’s Ninth in concert with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
DASHON BURTON
Hailed as an artist “alight with the spirit of the music” (Boston Globe), bass-baritone Dashon Burton has established a vibrant career, appearing regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. Highlights of his 2023/24 season include multiple appearances with Michael Tilson Thomas, including a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the San Francisco Symphony; Copland’s Old American Songs with the New World Symphony, and selections from Tilson Thomas’ Meditations on Rilke with the San Diego Symphony. Burton also performs Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Washington Bach Consort and sings in Handel’s Messiah with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra. With The Cleveland Orchestra, Burton participates in a semi-staged version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Last season, Burton returned to The Cleveland Orchestra for
Schubert’s Mass No. 6 with Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland and at Carnegie Hall; to the Houston Symphony for Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Juraj Valčuha; and to the New York Philharmonic for Michael Tilson Thomas’ Meditations on Rilke, led by the composer. Debut appearances included Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Milwaukee Symphony led by Ken-David Masur and the world premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s The Year of Silence with the Louisville Orchestra led by Teddy Abrams. In summer 2023, Burton appeared at Tanglewood and Caramoor in critically acclaimed performances of Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Philharmonia Baroque. He continues his relationship with San Francisco Performances as an Artist-in-Residence with appearances at venues and educational institutions throughout the Bay Area.
Burton won his second Grammy Award in March 2021 for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album with his performance in Dame Ethel
ANTHONY LEÓN
DASHON BURTON
Smyth’s masterwork The Prison with the Experiential Orchestra (Chandos). As an original member of the groundbreaking vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, he won his first Grammy Award for its inaugural recording of all new commissions and a third Grammy for the 2023 album Rough Magic. His album of spirituals garnered high praise and was singled out by The New York Times as “profoundly moving…a beautiful and lovable disc.” Burton received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He is an assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE
The Grammy-winning Los Angeles Master Chorale is the “the finest-by-far major chorus in America” (Los Angeles Times) and a vibrant cultural treasure. Hailed for its powerful performances, technical precision, and artistic daring, the Chorale is led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director; Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong; and President & CEO Scott Altman. Its Swan Family Artistin-Residence is Reena Esmail. Created by legendary conductor Roger Wagner in 1964, the Chorale is a founding resident company of The
Music Center and choir-inresidence at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Chorale reaches over 175,000 people a year through performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, its international touring of innovative works, and its collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and others.
The Chorale’s discography includes the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, for which the Chorale won a Best Choral Performance Grammy with the National Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and Pacific Chorale. The Chorale released The Sacred Veil by Eric Whitacre in 2020. Under the direction of Grant Gershon, the Chorale has released eight commercial recordings and is featured on the soundtracks of many major motion pictures, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker The Chorale toured its productions of Lagrime di San Pietro and Heinrich Schütz’s Music to Accompany a Departure, both directed by Peter Sellars, earning rave reviews across the globe that cited the Chorale’s performances as “painfully beautiful” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and “transcendent” and “incomparably moving” ( Los Angeles Times).
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE
JAZZ ON TAP AT THE BOWL
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 8PM
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Christian McBride, music director and bass
Christian Sands, piano
Rodney Jones, guitar
Clayton Cameron, drums
Savion Glover, special guest
Dulé Hill, special guest
Additional special guests to be announced.
Intermission to be announced from the stage.
Media Sponsor: KJAZZ
This performance is generously supported by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills
Programs and artists subject to change.
THOMAS WILKINS
To read about Thomas Wilkins Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, please turn to page 16.
CHRISTIAN M c BRIDE
To read about the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, please turn to page 19
Raised in Philadelphia, a city steeped in soul, Christian McBride moved to New York in 1989 to pursue classical studies at The Juilliard School. There, he was promptly recruited to the road by saxophonist Bobby Watson. Call it a change in curriculum: a decade’s worth of study through hundreds of recording sessions and countless gigs with an ever-expanding circle of musicians. He was finding his voice, and others were learning to listen for it. In 2000, the lessons of the road came together in the formation of what would become his longest-running project, the Christian McBride Band. In 2009 McBride began focusing this same energy through a more traditional
lens with the debut of his critically acclaimed Inside Straight quintet, and again with the Christian McBride Big Band, whose 2011 release The Good Feeling won a Grammy Award for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album. McBride is also a respected educator and advocate, first noted in 1997 when he spoke in former President Bill Clinton’s town hall meeting “Racism in the Performing Arts.” He has since been named Artistic Director of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions (2000) and co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (2005), and he served as Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (2005). Currently McBride hosts and produces The Lowdown: Conversations With Christian on SiriusXM satellite radio and NPR’s Jazz Night in America,
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HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
CHRISTIAN McBRIDE
HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
a weekly radio show and multimedia collaboration of WBGO, NPR, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, showcasing outstanding live jazz from across the country. With his staggering body of work, McBride is the ideal host, drawing on history, experience, and a gift for storytelling to bridge the gap between artist, music, and audience. He brings that same breadth of experience to bear as Artistic Advisor for Jazz Programming at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).
Whether behind the bass or away from it, Christian McBride is always of the music. From jazz (Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny) to R&B (Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Lalah Hathaway, and the one and only Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown) to pop/rock (Sting, Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Don Henley, Bruce Hornsby) to hip-hop/neo-soul (The Roots, D’Angelo, Queen Latifah) to classical (Kathleen Battle, Edgar Meyer, Shanghai Quartet, Sonus Quartet), he is a luminary with one hand ever reaching for new heights and the other extended in fellowship—and perhaps the hint of a challenge— inviting us to join him.
SAVION GLOVER
Famous tap dancer, choreographer, and actor Savion Glover is the epitome of a living legend. Born in 1973, the tapping marvel has graced the stage since childhood. He was the youngest person ever to receive a scholarship at the Newark Community School of the Arts. Before he was a teenager, Savion made his mark in the leading role in the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid. Upon graduating from Newark’s Arts High School, he returned to Broadway in George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam Savion Glover developed his own dancing style he dubbed “free-style hard core.” The Tony Award winner has worked with dancing greats Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr. Among his credits are starring roles in major motion pictures, and in 1992, Glover made history when he became the youngestever recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. As a choreographer, Glover creates work that has helped maintain tap dancing as an art form in the modern dance world. In 1996, Glover rejoined Wolfe to conceive, choreograph, and star in Bring in ’da Noise, Bring
in ’da Funk. The Broadway musical revue chronicles events in African American history and brought Savion a Tony for Best Choreographer. Glover became known to the younger generation through his recurring appearances on Sesame Street. He is credited with the live dancing motion capture behind Mumble the penguin in the Disney films Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2 Savion also served as cochoreographer for the films. Glover’s quick steps and amazing rhythms continue to influence the lives of young people. His production company tours schools across the country, spreading enthusiasm for tap dancing and cementing his place in history.
SAVION GLOVER
DULÉ HILL
Dulé Hill can currently be seen starring as the patriarch Bill Williams in ABC’s reimagining of The Wonder Years. Inspired by the beloved series of the same name, the Peabody Awardwinning The Wonder Years is a coming-of-age story set in the late 1960s that takes a nostalgic look at a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, AL. Hill was most recently seen in the Netflix film Hypnotic and opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway in the HBO Max heist film Locked Down. Previously, Hill portrayed the character Alex Williams in the USA Network drama Suits. For eight seasons, Hill portrayed Burton “Gus” Guster in the USA Network comedy Psych and served as a producer of the series. He received seven NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. Hill revived his role with the original co-stars in the films Psych: The Movie, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, and the third comedy feature Psych 3: This Is Gus, which premiered on Peacock. In 1999, Hill joined the cast of NBC’s acclaimed series The West Wing as Charlie Young, personal aide to the President (Martin Sheen), and subsequently, deputy special assistant to the chief of staf (Allison Janney). During his seven seasons on the series, Hill garnered an Emmy Award nomination and four Image Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama
Series, as well as receiving two Screen Actors Guild Awards as part of the ensemble in a drama series. Hill began attending dance classes at the Marie Wildey School of Dance in East Orange, NJ, when he was 3. He first came to prominence as “The Kid” opposite Savion Glover and Jefrey Wright in Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk (Public Theatre, Broadway), directed by George C. Wolfe.
CHRISTIAN SANDS
Christian Sands’ star continues to rise. His piano skills align perfectly with his artistic vision, leading to a fresh perspective on jazz music. Sands’ musical expression is marked by a diverse range of techniques and styles.
From a young age, Sands has shown a deep passion for music. Starting formal lessons at age 4, he composed his first piece at 5 and started performing at 10. His education at prestigious institutions like the Manhattan School of Music paved the way for a successful career. Collaborating with jazz legends such as Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Christian McBride, Sands has made a name for himself in the jazz world.
With multiple Grammy nominations, international performances, and most recently the prestigious title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, Sands shows no sign of slowing down as he continues to make a lasting impact on the world.
DULÉ HILL
CHRISTIAN SANDS
RODNEY JONES
Rodney Jones, a revolutionary force in the realm of jazz guitar, redefines tradition with a fearless innovation that echoes the pioneering spirit of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner.
From the moment he first picked up the guitar at the age of 8, Jones was on a quest to push the boundaries of the jazz guitar tradition like never before. His early years were a melting pot of musical exploration, from the soulful strains of Jimi Hendrix to the soul-stirring sounds of James Brown and Curtis Mayfield. But it was the deep wellspring of the blues that truly captured Jones’ soul, infusing his
playing with an emotional depth and authenticity that would become his hallmark.
The turning point came when Jones joined the legendary Dizzy Gillespie’s quartet, embarking on a transformative three-year journey. Armed with the wisdom gleaned from his time with Gillespie, Jones struck out on his own, touring the globe and recording a series of groundbreaking albums that showcased his virtuosity and vision.
As a professor at esteemed institutions such as The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Jones has dedicated himself to passing the torch of innovation to the next generation.
CLAYTON CAMERON
Clayton Cameron is known as a dynamic drummer who has also experimented with and perfected the art of brush technique. Cameron has toured with Sammy Davis, Jr., and Tony Bennett as well as other legends of the jazz world. During Cameron’s time with Tony Bennett, the group performed with many great artists, including Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Sting, Mariah Carey, Brandy, the Backstreet Boys, James Taylor, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, and Ricky Martin.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Cameron received a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, Northridge. After graduating, Clayton moved to Las Vegas to perform nightly with a jazz group called the Kirk Stuart Trio, further exploring and honing his unique brush technique.
In 1990, after the release of his video The Living Art of Brushes, Clayton was given the honorary title “Brush Master.” He has also written a groundbreaking book on the elusive art of brush playing, titled Brushworks. You can hear his masterful work on his 2012 album Here’s to the Messengers: A Tribute to Art Blakey
RODNEY JONES
CLAYTON CAMERON
DUDAMEL AND THE STARS OF OPERA
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 8PM
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Diana Damrau, soprano
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
SUPPÉ
LEHÁR
LEHÁR
LEHÁR
LEHÁR
STOLZ
Overture to Pique Dame (c. 8 minutes)
Selected Arias, Duets, and Dances
“My lips, they give so fiery a kiss” from Giuditta (c. 6 minutes)
“Love is a pilgrim” from Eva (c. 4 minutes)
“Friends, life is well worth living” from Giuditta (c. 4 minutes)
“You are my heart’s delight” from The Land of Smiles (c. 4 minutes)
“My love song should be a waltz” from The White Horse Inn (c. 3 minutes)
Josef STRAUSS, Die Nasswalderin Polka (c. 6 minutes) Arr. Wolfgang DÖRNER
Johann STRAUSS, Jr. The Watch Duet from Die Fledermaus (c. 3 minutes)
Johann STRAUSS, Jr. Wiener Blut (c. 6 minutes)
Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann
INTERMISSION
R. STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier Suite (c. 21 minutes)
Prelude (Act I)
Presentation of the Silver Rose (Act II)
Baron Ochs’ Waltz (Act II)
“Ist ein Traum” (Act III)
Waltz (reprise)
This performance is generously supported by the Lloyd E. Rigler–Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation
Programs and artists subject to change.
OVERTURE TO PIQUE DAME
Franz von Suppé (1819–1895)
“MY LIPS, THEY GIVE SO FIERY A KISS” FROM GIUDITTA
“LOVE IS A PILGRIM” FROM EVA
“FRIENDS, LIFE IS WELL WORTH LIVING” FROM GIUDITTA
“YOU ARE MY HEART’S DELIGHT” FROM THE LAND OF SMILES
Franz Lehár (1870–1948)
“MY LOVE SONG SHOULD BE A WALTZ” FROM THE WHITE HORSE INN
Robert Stolz (1880–1975)
DIE NASSWALDERIN POLKA
Josef Strauss (1827–1870)
Arranged by Wolfgang Dörner (b. 1959)
THE WATCH DUET FROM DIE FLEDERMAUS
WIENER BLUT
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825–1899)
In 1860, Viennese audiences got their first taste of operetta when Jacques O fenbach’s delectable Orpheus in the Underworld, which had been a runaway success since its Paris premiere two years earlier, was staged at the city’s Carltheater.
This lighter cousin of opera, often tempered with a dash of timely satire, was embraced by the Viennese public. Two revivals of O fenbach’s Orpheus were staged the following year, and local composers immediately made their own contributions to the form. One of these figures was Franz von Suppé, who had been writing musical accompaniments
for the city’s Volkstheater productions for nearly two decades. Within months of Orpheus’ Viennese debut, Suppé started churning out his own operettas. The Overture to Pique Dame was written in 1862, originally intended as a curtain-raiser for the operetta Die Kartenschlägerin (The Fortune Teller). Suppé later revised the work around the loose structure of Alexander Pushkin’s 1834 story The Queen of Spades, or Pique Dame in French (which would also inspire a Tchaikovsky opera 25 years later). The overture opens with a mischievous laughing motif that darkens before exploding into
a bright gallop reminiscent of O fenbach’s “Can-Can.”
Underneath its frothy tunes and silly plots, the operetta served a political purpose in the vast and ethnically diverse Austro-Hungarian Empire. Within its unified framework, it brought together musical traditions from across its lands: Viennese waltzes, Polish mazurkas, Hungarian czardas, and Czech polkas all whipped together into a delicious evening of entertainment.
This melting pot of cultures influenced composer Franz Lehár. Born into an ethnically Hungarian family in what is now Komárno, Slovakia, he studied at the Prague Conservatory before joining the Austro-Hungarian military as a bandmaster. Lehár’s first major success, for which he is still best known, was The Merry Widow (1905). But he continued to produce popular operettas for decades after World War I precipitated the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Premiered in 1934, Giuditta is one of Lehár’s final works and one of his most ambitious. It tells of the beautiful Giuditta, who leaves her husband to accompany the dashing Captain Octavio on his excursion into North Africa. The lovers are separated when Octavio is reassigned to a military regiment, and Giuditta must support herself as a nightclub dancer. Giuditta’s
“ My lips, they give so fiery a kiss” alternates between a sizzling, Iberian-inflected dance and a passionate waltz as she embraces her new life in the nightclub. Octavio’s aria “ Friends, life is well worth living ” comes in the first act and is filled with promises of exciting adventures and tender caresses.
Lehár’s Eva, dating from 1911, was one of a string of the composer’s hits from the preWorld War I era. It’s a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-losesgirl-only-to-win-her-back tale. In “ Love is a pilgrim” the title character, the foster daughter of a factory owner, sings a dreamy waltz on the occasion of her 20th birthday.
“ You are my heart’s delight ” was written for the Austrian tenor Richard Tauber, who helped revive Lehár’s career in the 1920s by inspiring the composer’s later heroic tenor parts. Lehár’s soaring arias that showcased his muse are still called Tauberlied. This prime example of Taublerlied was initially included in the 1923 operetta The Yellow Jacket and repurposed for 1929’s The Land of Smiles, a bittersweet tale of an ill-fated
love afair between a Viennese countess and a Chinese prince. Based on a popular play set in an Austrian resort, the 1930 operetta The White Horse Inn harnessed the talents of several librettists and composers. Robert Stolz contributed the dizzy hit duet “My love song should be a waltz.”
No evening of operetta would be complete without the Strauss family. Though overshadowed by his father Johann and older brother Johann, Jr. (the so-called Waltz King), Josef Strauss wrote a number of popular waltzes, polkas, and marches— some now believed to be credited to his more famous brother. Josef initially pursued an engineering and architecture career before entering the family music-making business. Die Nasswalderin Polka is a gentle, lilting dance evoking the bucolic life of a girl from the Alpine village of Nasswald.
Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus (1874) brings us back to the gilded center of 19th-century Vienna, filled with illicit flirtations, seductive guises, and clever
comeuppances soaked in a flood of effervescent champagne. These elements are at play in the second act’s Watch Duet . Amid a masked ball, Rosalinde (disguised as a Hungarian countess) snatches the watch of her husband, Eisenstein (who is less convincingly pretending to be a Frenchman), as proof of his infidelity. While Eisenstein’s unfaithfulness is eventually revealed, champagne is blamed for his indiscretions, and all is forgiven.
Tonight’s first half closes with what else but a prime example of a Strauss waltz.
Written the year before Die Fledermaus Wiener Blut premiered on April 22, 1873, to celebrate the wedding of Archduchess Gisela Louise Marie, daughter of Franz Joseph I, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. Its regal opening eventually melts into a familiar sighing melody in the strings that builds momentum as oom-pahpahing brass and percussion join. A secondary theme offers the slightest tinge of melancholy before indulging in the gilded splendor of the age. —Amanda Angel
DER ROSENKAVALIER SUITE
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
When Richard Strauss needed local color for his opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose), which is set in Vienna, he turned to the waltz. It was an anachronistic choice, since the opera is set roughly 100 years before Johann Strauss, Jr. (no relation), and company had everyone in the Austrian capital dancing in 3/4 time during its 19th-century glory days. By the time Strauss composed Der Rosenkavalier from 1909 to 1910, the sun was setting on that golden age, and the composer used the waltz in the opera as shorthand for the elegance and grace of a bygone era.
The opera’s story unfolds in old-regime Europe. Octavian, a young nobleman (sung by a mezzo-soprano in the opera), is carrying on a love afair with the Marschallin (wife of a German field marshal). Baron Ochs, a bumbling old bumpkin and relative of the Marschallin, wants to marry lovely young Sophie, so the Marschallin suggests Octavian as a go-between for the proposal. When Octavian falls in love with Sophie, amusing machinations ensue, and eventually their love becomes clear to all. In the end, the
Marschallin gives up Octavian so that he and Sophie can be united. Strauss’ score for the opera, with its delectable waltzes and passages of ravishing beauty, proved extremely popular with audiences, and Strauss culled two “Waltz Sequences” from the score for performance in the concert hall. Delicious as these are, they miss out on some of the score’s more subtle flavors. The composer also had a hand in the arrangement of substantial excerpts from the score to accompany a 1925 silent film of Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Robert Wiene of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame. Strauss was reluctant about the whole venture, in spite of a $10,000 fee, and his trepidation was borne out by a disappointing end result. Two decades later, Strauss consented to another version of his Rosenkavalier score for orchestra, the suite presented tonight. This version was presumably arranged by Artur Rodziński, conductor of the New York Philharmonic at the time. (He served as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1929 to 1933.) Rodziński led the first performance of this suite in New York on October 5, 1944. Strauss, in a tough spot financially after World War II, agreed to its publication in 1945. The suite opens as the opera
does, with bellowing horns and glowing strings portraying the afterglow of a tryst that has taken place between Octavian and his significantly older mistress, the Marschallin. The music that accompanies the presentation of the silver rose in Act II (Octavian gives it to Sophie as an engagement present from Baron Ochs) follows, delicate and rapt, the rose itself depicted by a series of shimmering chords played by flutes, solo violins, harps, and celesta. A brief passage of turbulent music that accompanies Ochs’ discovery that Octavian has been posing as his go-between only to pursue Sophie himself precedes the series of waltzes that we hear in Act II while Ochs is trying to sweet-talk Sophie with smooth lines like “With me, no night will be too long for you!” Here, any attempt to follow the narrative of the opera begins to disintegrate, as the suite jumps back to the beginning of Act II and then to an orchestral rendition of the famed trio and duet that close the opera, as the Marschallin gracefully yields to Sophie and the elated young lovers sing their duet. The suite’s coda brings yet another waltz, this time from earlier in Act III, a fitting culmination for an opera that revels in the splendor, opulence, and charm of Vienna’s golden age. —John Mangum
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
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DIANA DAMRAU
Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans title roles in Anna Bolena (Zurich Opera House, Vienna State Opera), I masnadieri, Capriccio (Bavarian State Opera), Roméo et Juliette (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House), Manon (Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera), and La traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, and Bavarian State Opera), as well as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Bavarian State Opera). She made her acclaimed debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Bavarian State Opera in December 2023. The Metropolitan Opera has been a house in which the soprano has performed her signature roles, been broadcast in HD to cinemas globally, and made seven role debuts since her own debut there as
Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos in 2005. Highlights have included new productions of Rigoletto (Gilda), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), Le comte Ory (Adèle), and Les pêcheurs de perles (Leïla), as well as title roles in La traviata, Manon, La sonnambula, La fille du régiment, and Roméo et Juliette. She was also the first singer in Metropolitan Opera history to perform the roles of Pamina and Queen of the Night in diferent performances of the same run of Die Zauberflöte Damrau has performed contemporary works for the opera stage in roles written especially for her, most notably the title role in Iain Bell’s operatic adaptation of Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress (Theater an der Wien, 2013) and main roles in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 (Royal Opera House, 2005). One of today’s most sought-after interpreters of song, she enjoys a close artistic partnership with pianist Helmut Deutsch, harpist Xavier de Maistre, and Sir Antonio Pappano. Diana Damrau is Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera (2007) and holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2010). She is a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021). She has also been selected Singer of the Year (Opernwelt, International Opera Award London, Opera News, Gramophone Editor’s Choice), and, since 2020, an asteroid bears her name.
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DIANA DAMRAU
JONAS KAUFMANN
Hailed as “the world’s greatest tenor” by The Telegraph, Jonas Kaufmann has performed over 70 roles in the world’s leading opera houses. The New York Times has described him as having “clarion top notes, the blend of virility and tenderness in his singing,” and praised his “refined musicianship.” He is not only a great vocal technician; his performances are also praised for their dramatic impact. “He embodies each role with such an investment that he makes the viewer think that this is the last time he will perform this work.” (Telerama). One of today’s greatest interpreters of lieder, Kaufmann is also in high demand in concert. His performances and recordings have earned him
multiple honors and awards, including 11 ECHO/OPUS Klassik awards and Singer of the Year from classical music magazines including Opernwelt Diapason, and Musical America. He has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a member of the Bayerischer Maximiliansorden. Last season, Kaufmann appeared at the Bavarian State Opera ( Peter Grimes and La fanciulla del West), the Vienna State Opera ( Andrea Chenier and Aida), Zurich Opera House (Tosca), La Scala Milan ( Andrea Chenier ), Teatro San Carlo in Naples ( Die Walküre), and the Royal Opera House in London (Werther ). He also made his long-awaited role debut as Tannhäuser at the Salzburg Easter Festival. After concerts at the end of the year with the Berlin Philharmonic, Kaufmann performed in various concerts, including in Baden-Baden, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and at the Waldbühne in Berlin. To mark its festival’s centenary, Kaufmann gave a concert in the Arena di Verona, together with Sonya Yoncheva and Ludovic Tézier. At the beginning of the 2023/24 season, he presented a special project with Helmut Deutsch and
director Claus Guth at the Park Avenue Armory in New York: Doppelgänger, a staged interpretation of Schubert’s Schwanengesang Having a voice that excels in a large variety of repertoire, Kaufmann has received recognition for his performance of French, German, and Italian roles, as well as his performance in recital. Standout roles include Don José, Werther, Don Carlo, Otello, Andrea Chenier, Maurizio, Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Florestan, which he has performed at houses such as Teatro alla Scala, Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Zurich Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, and the Vienna State Opera. He has released multiple recordings, also encompassing diverse repertoire, including operatic repertoire, lieder, and operetta.
A native of Munich, Germany, Jonas Kaufmann completed his vocal studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, in addition to which he attended master classes with Hans Hotter, James King, and Josef Metternich. During his first years at the State Theatre in Saarbrücken, he continued his training with Michael Rhodes in Trier.
JONAS KAUFMANN
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
Grammy Award-winning duo Rodrigo y Gabriela grew up on an eclectic mix of classic rock, heavy metal, and flamenco, a rare alchemy of influences that still informs their work today. Not long after the dissolution of their first band, the Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero set of with their acoustic guitars and ended up in Ireland, where they soon ran out of money and began busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street—a turn of events that led to their crossing paths with Irish singersongwriter Damien Rice, who then asked them to open for him at an early headline show. As they developed their distinct breed of guitar music, Rodrigo y Gabriela quickly gained recognition for their extraordinary live show and made their full-length debut with 2002’s Re-Foc. Along with turning out eight additional acclaimed and kaleidoscopic albums over the years, including Area 52 (a 2012 efort made with
a Cuban orchestra), 9 Dead Alive (a 2014 release that spotlighted their more rock-leaning sensibilities), and Mettavolution, winner of the 2020 Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, the duo have cemented their status as a globally renowned live act. Among their many successes: performing at the White House for the president and first lady of Mexico at a 2010 event hosted by President Obama; headlining the Jazz World Stage at Glastonbury; selling out
major venues like the Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, London’s Royal Albert Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sydney Opera House; and performing for massive crowds in such far-flung cities as Tokyo and Paris. In 2023, they released their most ambitious project yet, the Advaita Vedanta-inspired In Between Thoughts...A New World, featuring their signature dual guitar attack augmented by a full orchestra, with a corresponding world tour.
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AFRO - CUBAN ALL STARS
The Afro-Cuban All Stars orchestra has always been devoted to promoting the full range of Cuban music, one that embraces several generations and all musical styles. Over the years, many of the band’s musicians have become international stars, including brilliant performers such as Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Guillermo Rubalcaba, Amadito Valdés, and Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal.
The genesis of the AfroCuban All Stars goes back to the early 1990s. At that time, the son ensemble Sierra Maestra, headed by Juan de Marcos, was receiving a lot of international exposure. Consequently, de Marcos was introduced to Nick Gold, president of World Music Records (then a small independent world music label). That encounter led to a couple of successful tours in Europe. Later, the group went to London and recorded Dundunbanza!, considered one of the jewels of the world-music scene of the early ’90s. (In retrospect, this recording opened the doors to the incredible boom of traditional Cuban music of the period.)
Months later, de Marcos got the go-ahead to do an album celebrating the classic Cuban sound of the 1950s—a recording that would feature many great musicians de Marcos knew. An agreement was reached, with a plan to prepare two projects: one featuring a Cuban big band and the other favoring a more traditional sound reminiscent of the acoustic style of Nico Saquito or Portabales.
In March 1996 the group recorded the album A Toda Cuba le Gusta, featuring nearly 60 performers. Then, with the addition of
celebrated artists such as Compay Segundo, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Barbarito Torres, and legendary American guitarist Ry Cooder, the group became the Buena Vista Social Club. Finally, with a small budget, two live sessions, and simple orchestrations written at the studio by de Marcos, they recorded Introducing Rubén González, González’s first solo album. This was destined to become one of the most successful of the “Buena Vista” series of recordings.
During the spring of 1997 and along with the release in Europe of the three albums, de Marcos and a select group of stellar musicians started touring the continent as the Afro-Cuban All Stars. The original lineup included Rubén González and Guillermo Rubalcaba (piano); Orlando López (bass); Amadito Valdés (timbale); Carlos González and Roberto Valdés (bongos and Cuban percussion); Ángel Terry (congas); Daniel Ramos, Alejandro Pichardo, and Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal (trumpets); Alberto “Molote” Martínez and Jesús “Aguaje” Ramos (trombones); and Raúl Planas, Manuel Licea, Pío Leiva, Ibrahim Ferrer, and Félix Baloy (lead singers).
After years of success— including four Grammy nominations, being the subject of several documentaries and films, and receiving many other distinctions—the Afro-Cuban All Stars have become one of the best-known and most successful Cuban orchestras, along with Los Van Van and Irakere.
The Afro-Cuban All Stars have also opened the doors to a new generation by welcoming young musicians into the band. With his project, de Marcos has developed a concept: to stand up on the roots for creating the future. More than simply creating a band, his approach has allowed him to expand its creative range by incorporating contemporary styles of Cuban music, taking a fluid approach to adjusting the orchestra’s lineup by changing or adding musicians to best reflect the diferent styles of music from the various periods that the band features.
See the Afro-Cuban All Stars in the Oscar-nominated Buena Vista Social Club documentary by Wim Wenders, the Tony Knox documentary Salon of Dreams, and the DVDs Live in Japan and Live in The Hague
AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS
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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
Afliates Chair
Rebecca Reale
Deanie and Jay Stein Chair
Rochelle Abramson
Minyoung Chang
I.H. Albert
Sutnick Chair
Tianyun Jia
Jordan Koransky
Ashley Park
Justin Woo
Katherine Woo
Ye Melody Yuan
SECOND VIOLINS
[Position vacant]
Principal
Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Mark Kashper
Associate Principal
Kristine Whitson
Johnny Lee
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
Vivian Kukiel
Nickolai Kurganov
Varty Manouelian
Michelle Tseng Nebyu Samuel*
VIOLAS
Teng Li
Principal
John Connell Chair
Ben Ullery
Associate Principal
Jenni Seo
Assistant Principal
Dana Lawson
Richard Elegino
John Hayhurst
Ingrid Hutman
Michael Larco Hui Liu
Meredith Snow
Leticia Oaks Strong
Minor L. Wetzel
Jarrett Threadgill*
Nancy and Leslie
Abell LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair
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LA Phil Resident Fellow
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CELLOS
Robert deMaine
Principal
Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair
Ben Hong
Associate Principal
Sadie and Norman
Lee Chair
Dahae Kim
Assistant Principal
Jonathan Karoly
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
David Allen Moore
Ted Botsford
Jack Cousin
Jory Herman
Brian Johnson
Peter Rofé
Nicholas Arredondo*
FLUTES
Denis Bouriakov
Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Catherine
Ransom Karoly
Associate Principal
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Russell Smith Chair
Elise Shope Henry
Mari L. Danihel Chair
Sarah Jackson
Piccolo
Sarah Jackson
OBOES
[Position vacant]
Principal
Carol Colburn
Grigor Chair
Marion Arthur
Kuszyk
Associate Principal
Anne Marie Gabriele
Carolyn Hove
English Horn
Carolyn Hove
CLARINETS
Boris Allakhverdyan
Principal
Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair
[Position vacant]
Associate Principal
Andrew Lowy
Taylor Eifert
E-Flat Clarinet
Andrew Lowy
Bass Clarinet
Taylor Eifert
BASSOONS
Whitney Crockett
Principal
Shawn Mouser
Associate Principal
Ann Ronus Chair
Michele Grego
Evan Kuhlmann
Contrabassoon
Evan Kuhlmann
HORNS
Andrew Bain
Principal
John Cecil Bessell Chair
David Cooper
Associate Principal
Gregory Roosa
Alan Scott Klee Chair
Amy Jo Rhine
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
Principal
M. David and Diane
Paul Chair
James Wilt
Associate Principal
Nancy and Donald
de Brier Chair
Christopher Still
Ronald and Valerie
Sugar Chair
Jefrey Strong
TROMBONES
David Rejano Cantero
Principal
Koni and Geof
Rich Chair
James Miller
Associate Principal
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair
Paul Radke
Bass Trombone
John Lofton
Miller and Gof
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
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HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
Thomas Wilkins Principal Conductor
John Mauceri Founding Director
FIRST VIOLINS
Kathryn Eberle Concertmaster
Marisa Sorajja Principal
Grace Oh Associate Principal
Rebecca Bunnell
Chloe Szu-Yun Chiu
Christine Frank
Yen-Ping Lai
Radu Pieptea
Adrianne Pope
Yutong Sharp
Shelly Shi
Mari Tsumura
SECOND VIOLINS
[position vacant]
Principal
Cheryl Norman Brick Associate Principal
Pam Gates
Natalie Leggett
Carolyn Osborn
Robert Schumitzky
Kathleen Sloan
Olivia Tsui
Vivian Wolf
VIOLAS
Erik Rynearson Principal
[position vacant] Associate Principal
Carrie Holzman-Little
Carole Kleister-Castillo
Stefan L. Smith
Phillip Triggs
Hyeree Yu
CELLOS
Dennis Karmazyn Principal
Armen Ksajikian Associate Principal
Giovanna Moraga
Clayton
Trevor Handy
Julie Jung
Erin Breene Schumitzky
BASSES
[position vacant] Principal
Denise Briesé Associate Principal
Paul Macres
Barry Newton
FLUTES
Heather Clark Principal
Lawrence Kaplan Piccolo [position vacant]
OBOES
Lelie Resnick Principal
English Horn
Catherine Del Russo
CLARINETS
Gary Bovyer Principal
Bass Clarinet
Ralph Williams
BASSOONS
Elliott Moreau Principal
Contrabassoon
Allen Savedof HORNS
Dylan Hart Principal
Allen Fogle Associate Principal
Todd Miller
TRUMPETS
Robert Schaer Principal
Robert Frear
TROMBONES
William Booth Principal
Alexander Iles
Bass Trombone
Todd Eames
TUBA
Jim Self Principal
TIMPANI
Tyler Stell Principal
DRUMS
Brian Miller Principal
PERCUSSION
Wade Culbreath Principal
Gregory Goodall
HARP
Cristina Montes
Mateo Principal
KEYBOARDS
Alan Steinberger Principal
SAXOPHONE [position vacant]
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Scott Dunn
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Shana Bey
LIBRARIAN
Stephen Biagini
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Kick
2024/25 Season with Gustavo Dudamel
OCT 1
LA Phil Gala Concert: Dudamel & Lang Lang
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
OCT 3–4
A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Dudamel
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Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Alberto Arvelo, director
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Jana McIntyre, soprano
OCT 25–27
John Williams Spotlight From Mexico to Hollywood: Golden Age Cinema
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Gustavo Dudamel, conductor and curator
John Williams, curator
NOV 1–3
Día de los Muertos with Dudamel
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Deepa Johnny, mezzo-soprano
María Valverde, narrator
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble
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Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
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RISING TO THE PODIUM
On July 18, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announced the 2024/25 class of Dudamel Fellows. These four rising conductors from around the world will work alongside Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as with visiting artists, guest conductors, and LA Phil education programs.
2024/25 DUDAMEL
FELLOWS
LUIS CASTILLO - BRICEÑO
Born: Costa Rica
Currently lives: Zurich
Instruments: Violin, flute, piano, organ
Mentors: Barbara Hannigan, Edward Gardner
Story: Growing up among a family of musicians, Luis Castillo-Briceño began playing the violin at age 5 at the National Conservatory of Music of Costa Rica. He eventually gravitated to keyboard instruments, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in piano from the Zurich University of the Arts before focusing on conducting.
Résumé Highlights: 2023/24 London Philharmonic
Orchestra Conducting Fellow, Equilibrium Young Artist (2020–present), designate winner in the Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2025
MOLLY TURNER
Born: China
Raised: Tacoma, WA
Instruments: Violin, viola, piano
Mentors: Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Robertson
Story: Though Molly Turner began playing piano in the first grade, she entered her freshman year at Rice University planning to be a doctor. But inspired by the conductor of the university orchestra, Turner turned her focus to composition and eventually conducting, lured by her interest in dissecting musical scores.
Résumé Highlights: New World Symphony Conducting Fellow, Colburn School Conservatory of Music Salonen Fellow, Aspen Music Festival Conducting Fellow, Dallas Hart Institute for Women Conductors
“We are proud to welcome our 14th class of Dudamel Fellows to Los Angeles for a season of shared beauty, mentorship, and transformation.... Watching these young conductors learn and grow with us, and then go out into the world with their expanded vision, is a source of endless joy for me. Through their talent and hard work, we are building a new future where the orchestra is a source of profound artistry as well as a force for social good.”
— Gustavo Dudamel, Music & Artistic Director
DAYNER TAFUR- DÍAZ
Born: Chimbote, Peru
Currently lives: Germany
Instrument: Trumpet
Mentor: Rasmus Baumann
Story: Dayner Tafur-Díaz began conducting as part of the DaCapo and Arpegio Perú programs, which use music to promote children’s cultural and academic development. In 2017, he moved to Germany to continue his musical education, rising to work with professional ensembles in Cologne, Baden-Baden, and Stuttgart, where he has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst.
Résumé Highlights: 2024 Siemens Conductors Scholarship, 2023 German Conducting Award, First Prize in the 2022 International Opera Conducting Competition of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège (Belgium), and Second Prize in the 2022 University of Almería conducting competition in Spain.
HOLLY HYUN CHOE
Born: South Korea
Raised: Los Angeles
Instrument: Clarinet
Mentor: Paavo Järvi
Story: Largely self-taught, Holly Hyun Choe didn’t take a formal music lesson until she was 19 but has quickly risen to the top of a new generation of conductors. She completed her Master’s degree in music at New England Conservatory in 2017, followed by studies at the Zurich University of the Arts, and served as an assistant conductor for Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi. She is principal conductor of the progressive German chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor.
Résumé Highlights: Selected to the 2018 German Music Council’s Grant Forum Dirigieren, recipient of a Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award and a Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship scholarship, and participant in the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation Mentoring Program
G A L A
Tuesday, October 1, 20
Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
Gustavo Castillo, baritone
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
GINASTERA Estancia
COCKTAIL RECEPTION 5:30PM CONCERT 7PM
DINNER AND AFTER-PARTY 9PM
THIS EVENING IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE PROUD SUPPORT OF
For more information, call 213 972 3051, email gala@laphil.org, or visit us online at laphil.org/gala.
LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US!
Take the stress out of your next concert trip. Audiences have been taking part in the Hollywood Bowl bus program since 1974, helping to make it the largest and most comprehensive transportation system of any concert venue west of the Mississippi. This season, the Hollywood Bowl has added a transportation hub to help streamline access for Park & Ride, Bowl Shuttle, Metro, and rideshares. These efforts help reduce the number of cars coming to the Bowl by more than 2,000 vehicles each evening, making your night run smoother. Plan your next trip at hollywoodbowl.com/gettinghere
DID YOU KNOW?
• When you show your same-day Park & Ride or Shuttle ticket at the Plaza Marketplace, you get 20% off your purchase.
• New this season, buses drop you of at the top of Lot B.
• Bowl Shuttle rides are FREE with a valid TAP card used within the previous two hours, a GoMetro Round-Trip Pass, or a Burbank Metrolink ticket.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We acknowledge the Gabrielino Tongva, Gabrielino Kizh, and Fernandeño Tataviam Nations as the traditional stewards of the land now called the Hollywood Bowl.
We honor and respect the many indigenous peoples connected to this land and express our admiration for their resilient and important cultural leaders in our region—past, present, and future.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Janice K. Hahn FOURTH DISTRICT
Lindsey P. Horvath
J. Mitchell SECOND DISTRICT Hilda L. Solis FIRST DISTRICT
THIRD DISTRICT CHAIR
Kathryn Barger FIFTH DISTRICT CHAIR
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The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We provide leadership, services, and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations, countywide arts education initiatives, commissioning and care for civic art collections, research and evaluation, access to creative pathways, professional development, free community programs, and cross-sector creative strategies that address civic issues. All of this work is framed by our long-standing commitment to fostering access to the arts and by the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative.
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission supports and advocates for the mission, vision, and values of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. The Commission is an advisory group to the Board of Supervisors, with three appointees for each District.
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 Arts Commission, from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Afairs, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Hilda L. Solis
Holly J. Mitchell
Lindsey P. Horvath Chair
Janice K. Hahn
Kathryn Barger
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE
Kristin Sakoda Director
COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
Leticia Buckley President
Randi Tahara
Vice President
Rogerio V. Carvalheiro
Secretary
Liane Weintraub
Immediate
Past President
Pamela Bright-Moon
Patrice Cullors
Diana Diaz
Eric R. Eisenberg
Brad Gluckstein
Sandra P. Hahn
Helen Hernandez
Constance Jolcuvar
Alis Clausen Odenthal
Anita Ortiz
Jennifer Price-Letscher
Holly
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024 AT 7PM
We open the season with a celebration of choral “bangers” — big, bold classics that have defined the artistry and achievement of the Chorale for the past 60 years. From the intricate polyphony of the Renaissance to the grandeur of the 19th and 20th centuries, experience the evolution of choral expression in one single, harmonious evening. As a special treat we will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Morten Lauridsen’s beloved O Magnum Mysterium
WILLIAM BYRD Sing Joyfully
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF May Our Mouths Be Filled
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Cherubic Hymn
MORTEN LAURIDSEN O Magnum Mysterium (30TH ANNIVERSARY)
ALICE PARKER (ARR.) Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
MOSES HOGAN (ARR.) Elijah Rock
ELINOR REMICK WARREN At Midnight
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Make Our Garden Grow
Please visit lamasterchorale.org for the full program.
GRANT GERSHON, CONDUCTOR 92 SINGERS, PIANO
A LIFELONG PASSION FOR THE ARTS: JAMIE RIGLER BRINGS OPERA TO THE BOWL AND THE WORLD
On September 12, the LA Phil will present “Dudamel and the Stars of Opera”—a spectacular evening of operetta and arias at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Jonas Kaufmann, under the baton of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. This enchanting concert owes its realization to the extraordinary generosity of Jamie Rigler, a dedicated patron of the arts whose unwavering support has brought world-class performances to Los Angeles for decades.
Rigler’s commitment to the LA Phil and the broader arts community is deeply rooted in his lifelong passion for music. From his early days in Chicago, where he was captivated by the magic of 78s on his record player, to his professional career as an opera singer, music has been “the greatest gift” in Rigler’s life. Since he was 5 years old, his love
of music was nurtured by his family, particularly his uncle Lloyd Rigler, who played a significant role in his philanthropic journey.
For the past 30 years, Jamie has led Classic Arts Showcase, a not-for-profit 24-hour satellite programming service founded by his uncle. Through Classic Arts Showcase, Rigler has worked tirelessly to bring the world of music, theater, dance, and film to thousands of viewers nationwide, encouraging audiences to attend live performances.
Rigler’s philanthropic contributions to the LA Phil are as extensive as they are impactful. As president of the Lloyd E. Rigler–Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation, he has committed millions to support the LA Phil’s artistic and educational initiatives, including creating the Maestro Fund, which has underwritten many of Dudamel’s most ambitious
and innovative programs. “The minute I heard him,” Rigler said, “I found knowledge, excitement, passion, and true love of music. Getting to know him has been a great privilege and honor.”
As Rigler continues to champion the arts, his legacy of generosity and passion for music will undoubtedly leave an indelible mark on the LA Phil and Los Angeles. His belief in the transformative power of the arts is a beacon of hope and inspiration, reminding us all of the vital role that music and the arts play in our lives.
This month, as audiences gather under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, they will also be celebrating the remarkable contributions of Jamie Rigler—a true patron of the arts whose love of music and steadfast support continue to enrich the cultural fabric of Los Angeles.
CORPORATE PARTNERS
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is honored to recognize our corporate partners, whose generosity supports the LA Phil’s mission of bringing music in its varied forms to audiences at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. To learn more about becoming a partner, email corporatepartnerships@laphil.org.
ANNUAL GIVING
From the concerts that take place onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford to the learning programs that fill our community with music, it is the consistent support of Annual Donors that sustains and propels our work. We hope you, too, will consider making a gift today. Your contribution will enable the LA Phil to build on a long history of artistic excellence and civic engagement. Through your patronage, you become a part of the music— sharing in its power to uplift, unite, and transform the lives of its listeners. Your participation at any level is critical to our success.
FRIENDS OF THE LA PHIL
Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil share a deep love of music and are committed to ensuring that great musical performance thrives in Los Angeles. As a Friend or Patron, you will be supporting the LA Phil’s critically acclaimed artistic programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford, as well as groundbreaking learning initiatives such as YOLA, which provides free after-school music instruction to children in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil. For more information, or to learn about membership benefits, please call 213 972 7557 or email friends@laphil.org.
PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL
Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Tifany Chivaroli, Co-Chairs
The Philharmonic Council is a vital leadership group whose members provide critical resources in support of the LA Phil’s general operations. Their vision and generosity enable the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, invest in groundbreaking learning initiatives, and stage innovative artistic programs, heralded worldwide for the quality of their artistry and imagination. We invite you to consider joining the Philharmonic Council as a major donor. For more information, please call 213 972 7209 or email patrons@laphil.org.
THE CONCERT
Good and evil battle it out in an American retelling of the classic story. Randy Newman’s only musical features the songwriter’s unmatched wit and some of his greatest songs. This Soraya-produced original concert will feature an all-star cast of fresh talent led by two Broadway phenoms - Reeve Carney (“Penny Dreadful” and Hadestown) as Devil and Javier Muñoz (In the Heights and Hamilton) as Lord.
Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
Starring
Reeve Carney
Javier Muñoz
Jordan Temple Veronica Swift
Joanna Lynn-Jacobs
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 April 15, 2024.
$25,000,000 AND ABOVE
Walt and Lilly
Disney Foundation
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch
$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999
David Bohnett Foundation
$10,000,000 TO $19,000,000
The Annenberg Foundation
Colburn Foundation
Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999
Anonymous
Dunard Fund USA
Carol Colburn Grigor
Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
Los Angeles
Philharmonic Afliates
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
$1,000,000 TO $2,499,999
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 Jefrey
Carrie and Stuart Ketchum
Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee
B. Allen and Dorothy Lay
Los Angeles
Philharmonic Committee
Estate of Judith Lynne
Maddocks-Brown Foundation
Ginny Mancini
Raulee Marcus
Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Merle and Peter Mullin
William and Carolyn Powers
Koni and Geof Rich
H. Russell Smith Foundation
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust
Ronald and Valerie Sugar
I.H. Sutnick
$500,000 TO $999,999
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
Judy Ungar and Adrienne Fritz
Lee and Hope Landis
Warner YOLA
Student Fund
Edna Weiss
$250,000 TO $499,999
Nancy and Leslie Abell
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
Baker Family Trust
Veronica and Robert Egelston
Gordon Family Foundation
Ms. Kay Harland
Joan Green Harris Trust
Bud and Barbara Hellman
Gerald L. Katell
Norma Kayser
Joyce and Kent Kresa
Raymond Lieberman
Mr. Kevin MacCarthy and Ms. Lauren Lexton
Alfred E. Mann Charities
Jane and Marc B. Nathanson
Y & S Nazarian
Family Foundation
Nancy and Sidney Petersen
Rice Family Foundation
Robert Robinson
Katharine and Thomas Stoever
Sue Tsao
Alyce and Warren Williamson
$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
Nicholas T. Goldsborough
Gonda Family Foundation
Margaret Grauman
Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green
Joan and John F. Hotchkis
Freya and Mark Ivener
Ruth Jacobson
Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.
Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan
Yates Keir
Susanne and Paul Kester
Vicki King
Sylvia Kunin
Ann and Edward Leibon
Ellen and Mark Lipson
B. and Lonis Liverman
Glenn Miya and Steven Llanusa
Ms. Gloria Lothrop
Vicki and Kerry McCluggage
David and Margaret Mgrublian
Diane and Leon
Morton
Mary Pickford
Foundation
Sally and Frank Raab
Mr. David Sanders
Malcolm Schneer and Cathy Liu
David and Linda Shaheen Foundation
William E.B. and Laura K. Siart
Magda and Frederick R. Waingrow
Wasserman Foundation
Robert Wood
Syham Yohanna and James W. Manns
$25,000 TO $99,999
Marie Baier Foundation
Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.
Jacqueline Briskin
Dona Burrell
Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation
Ann and Tony Cannon
Dee and Robert E. Cody
The Colburn Fund
Margaret Sheehy Collins
Mr. Allen Don Cornelsen
Ginny and John Cushman
Marilyn J. Dale
Mrs. Barbara A. Davis
Dr. and Mrs.
Roger DeBard
Jennifer and Royce Diener
Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner
The Englekirk Family
Claudia and Mark Foster
Lillian and Stephen Frank
Dr. Suzanne Gemmell
Paul and Florence Glaser
Good Works Foundation
Anne Heineman
Ann and Jean Horton
Drs. Judith and Herbert Hyman
Albert E. and Nancy C. Jenkins
Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody
Ms. Ann L. Kligman
Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald
Michael and Emily Laskin
Sarah and Ira R. Manson
Carole McCormac
Meitus Marital Trust
Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.
John Millard
National Endowment for the Arts
Alfred and Arlene Noreen
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Dr. M. Lee Pearce
Lois Rosen
Anne and James Rothenberg
Donald Tracy Rumford
Family Trust
The SahanDaywi Foundation
Mrs. Nancie Schneider
William and Luiginia Sheridan
Virginia Skinner
Living Trust
Nancy and Richard Spelke
Mary H. Statham
Ms. Fran H. Tuchman
Tom and Janet Unterman
Rhio H. Weir
Mrs. Joseph F. Westheimer
Jean Willingham
Winnick Family Foundation
Cheryl and Peter Ziegler
Lynn and Roger Zino
LA PHIL
MUSICIANS
Anonymous
Kenneth Bonebrake
Nancy and Martin Chalifour
Brian Drake
Perry Dreiman
Barry Gold
Christopher Hanulik
John Hayhurst
Jory and Selina Herman
Ingrid Hutman
Andrew Lowy
Gloria Lum
Joanne Pearce Martin
Kazue Asawa
McGregor
Oscar and Diane Meza
Mitchell Newman
Peter Rofé
Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski
Barry Socher
Paul Stein
Leticia Oaks Strong
Lyndon and Beth Johnston Taylor
Dennis Trembly
Allison and Jim Wilt
Suli Xue
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.
ROMANTICS:
ARTISANS:
MARTÍN + HAYDN + BEAL
Jaime
CELESTIALS: MOBLEY + VIVALDI
Reginald Mobley
TRAILBLAZERS: MARTÍN + BRAHMS + BAUER Jaime Martín MUSIC
CURRENT: ROUTES Lara
BOURGEOISIE: MOZART + HAYDN + HANDEL
Jeannette
PIONEERS: MARTÍN + SCHUMANN + PRICE
IMPRESSIONISTS:
VANGUARD:
CURRENT: ROOTS
Tessa Lark CURATOR
VISIONARIES: MARTÍN + BEETHOVEN
MAESTROS: MARTÍN + BACH Jaime
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 April 16, 2023, and April 15, 2024.
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous (3) Ann and Robert Ronus
$500,000 TO $999,999
The Ahmanson Foundation Ballmer GroupDunard Fund USAJennifer Miller GoffMusic Center Foundation
$200,000 TO $499,999
Anonymous
Lynn K. Altman
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen
Colburn Foundation
Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner
Lisa Field
Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll
The Getty Foundation
Gordon P. Getty
Max H. Gluck Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
$100,000 TO $199,999
Anonymous (3)
Nancy and Leslie Abell
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW@ Annenberg
The Blue Ribbon
R. Martin Chavez
Donelle Dadigan
Louise and Brad Edgerton/ Edgerton Foundation
The Eisner Foundation
Breck and Georgia Eisner
$50,000 TO $99,999
Anonymous (4)
Mr. Robert J. Abernethy
Amgen Foundation
Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser
Aramont Charitable Foundation
Linda and Maynard Brittan
California Community Foundation
Canon Insurance Service
Esther S.M. Chui
Chao & Andrea Chao-Kharma
Dan Clivner
Nancy and Donald de Brier
De MarchenaHuyke Foundation
Berta and Frank Gehry
Mr. James Gleason
Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore
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
David Z. & Young O. Hong Family Foundation
The Hearthland Foundation
Tylie Jones
Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
Anne Akiko
Meyers and Jason Subotky
Ms. Erika J. Glazer
Daniel Huh
Kaiser Permanente
Winnie Kho and Chris Testa
County of Los Angeles
Mr. and Mrs.
David Meline
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Ms. Teena
Hostovich and Mr. Doug Martinet
Frank Hu and Vikki Sung
Rif and Bridget Hutton
Monique and Jonathan Kagan
Mr. and Mrs.
Joshua R. Kaplan
Linda and
Donald Kaplan
W.M. Keck
Foundation
Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi
Dr. Ralph A. Korpman
The Music Man Foundation
Michael J. Connell Foundation
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Barbara and Jay Rasulo
John Mohme Foundation
Maureen and Stanley Moore
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Peninsula Committee
The Rauch Family Foundation
James D. Rigler/ Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation
Rolex Watch USA, Inc.
Richard and Ariane Raffetto
Koni and Geoff Rich Rosenthal Family Foundation
James and Laura Rosenwald/ Orinoco Foundation
Linda and David Shaheen
Alyce de Roulet Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger
The Norman and Sadie Lee
Foundation
Live Nation
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
Renee and Meyer Luskin
Alfred E. Mann
Charities
Linda May and Jack Suzar
Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Ms. Irene Mecchi
Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation
Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson
National Endowment for the Arts
M. David and Diane Paul
Ms. Linda L. Pierce
Sandy and Barry D. Pressman
Mr. Bennett
Rosenthal
Allyson Rubin
Wendy and Ken Ruby
Thomas Safran
Richard and Diane Schirtzer
Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting
Elizabeth and Henry T. Segerstrom
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation
Trust
Christian Stracke
Kristin and Jeff Worthe
Ellen and Arnold Zetcher
Ronald and Valerie Sugar
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Michael Tyler
David William Upham Foundation
Ellen GoldsmithVein and Jon Vein
Barbara and Robert Veir
Mr. Alex Weingarten
John and Marilyn Wells
Family Foundation
Margo and Irwin Winkler
Debra Wong Yang and John W. Spiegel
MAHLER SYMPHONY No. 1
OCTOBER 26, 2024
BRETT MITCHELL, conductor
AKIKO SUWANAI, violin
PETER BOYER New Beginnings
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
MAHLER Symphony No. 1, “Titan”
MOZART “JUPITER” SYMPHONY
JANUARY 25, 2025
BRETT MITCHELL, conductor
INON BARNATAN, piano
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst
FLORENCE PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement
MOZART SymphonyNo. 41, “Jupiter”
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
BRETT MITCHELL, conductor
STEWART GOODYEAR, piano
MASON BATES Sea-Blue Circuitry
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue RAVEL Unebarquesurl’océan
DEBUSSY La Mer
DVORÁK CELLO CONCERTO
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
BRETT MITCHELL, conducto r MARK KOSOWER, cello
WAGNER “Magic Fire Music” from Die Walküre
DVORÁK Cello Concerto
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO No. 5 “TURKISH”
MARCH 22, 2025
BRETT MITCHELL, conductor
STEFAN JACKIW, violin
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Baroque Suite
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, “Turkish”
PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony
STRAVINSKY Suite from Pulcinella
Brett Mitchell MUSIC DIRECTOR
BEETHOVEN “PASTORAL” SYMPHONY
MAY 3, 2025
BRETT MITCHELL, conductor
WILLIAM HAGEN, violin
SAMUEL JONES Hymn to the Earth
BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
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Sullens
LA Soundscapes Family Shows Un Fandanguito con Caña Dulce y Caña Brava
$25,000 TO $49,999
Anonymous (7)
The Herb Alpert Foundation
Amazon
Tracy Anderson
Mr. and Mrs.
Phil Becker
Susan and Adam Berger
Samuel and Erin Biggs
Mr. and Mrs. Norris
J. Bishton, Jr.
David Bohnett Foundation
Kawanna and Jay Brown
Michele Brustin
Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow
Thy Bui
Steven and Lori Bush
Oleg and Tatiana Butenko
Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation
California
Arts Council
California Office of The Small Business Advocate
Chevron Products Company
Mr. Richard W. Colburn
Becca and Jonathan Congdon
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cook
Lynette and Michael C. Davis
Orna and David Delrahim
Jennifer Diener and Eric Small
The Walt Disney Company
Malsi and Johnny Doyle
Michael Dreyer
Van and Francine Durrer
East West Bank
Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt
Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg
Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation
Max Factor Family Foundation
Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher
Foothill Philharmonic Committee
Debra Frank
Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
$15,000 TO $24,999
Anonymous (4)
Drew and Susan Adams
Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler
Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli
Stephanie Barron
Susan Baumgarten
Camilo Esteban
Becdach
Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Bellomy
Dr. William Benbassat
Miles and Joni Benickes
Mark and Pat Benjamin
Helen and Peter S. Bing
Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation
Mr. Ronald H. Bloom
Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin
Otis Booth Foundation
Jaron and Wendy Brooks
Mrs. Linda L. Brown
Business and Professional Committee
Campagna Family Trust
Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler
Francis Goelet
Charitable Lead Trusts
Goldman Sachs Co. Llc
Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley
Kate Good
Liz and Peter Goulds
Rob and Jan Graner
Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence
Jason Greenman and Jeanne Williams
Renée and Paul Haas
Harman Family Foundation
Lynette Maria Carlucci Hayde
Stephen T. Hearst
Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen
Andrew Hewitt
Liz Levitt Hirsch
David and
Martha Ho
Fritz Hoelscher
Mr. Tyler Holcomb
Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation
Ms. Michelle
Horowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Paul Horwitz
Annica and James
Newton Howard
Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Hunter
Robin and Gary Jacobs
Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan
Terri and Michael Kaplan
Paul Kester
Mr. and Mrs.
Simon K.C. Li
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates
Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen
The Seth MacFarlane Foundation
Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury
Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker
Marc and Ashley Merrill
Molly Munger and
Stephen English
Deena and Edward Nahmias
Anthony and Olivia Neece
Mr. and Mrs.
Randy Newman
Mr. Robert W. Olsen
Tye Ouzounian
Bruce and Aulana Peters
Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello
Madeline and Bruce Ramer
Ross Endowment Fund
Bill and Amy Roth
Linda and Tony Rubin
Katy and Michael S. Saei
Mr. Lee C. Samson
San MarinoPasadena Philharmonic Committee
Ellen and Richard Sandler
Dena and Irv Schechter/ The Hyman
Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR
Melanie and Harold Snedcof
Randy and Susan Snyder
Jeremy and Luanne Stark
Lisa and Wayne Stelmar
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
Dr. James
Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer
Charles Urban
Jennifer and Dr. Ken Waltzer
Walter and Shirley Wang
Debra and John Warfel
Stasia and Michael
Washington
Mindy and David Weiner
John and Samantha Williams
Libby Wilson, M.D.
Jill Black Zalben
Lynn and Roger Zino
Zolla Family Foundation
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
Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli
Sarah and Roger Chrisman
Larison Clark
Susan Colvin
Jay and Nadege Conger
Faith and Jonathan Cookler
Zoe Cosgrove
Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie
Victoria Seaver
Dean, Patrick
Seaver, Carlton
Seaver
Michael Dillon
Sean Dugan and Joe Custer
Dr. and Mrs.
William M. Duxler
Michael Edelstein and Dr.
Robin Hilder
Edison International
Ms. Ruth Eisen
Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche
Geoff Emery
Bonnie and Ronald Fein
Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation
E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Fleisher, II
Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg
Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert
N. Braun, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman
Ms. Kimberly Friedman
Gary and Cindy Frischling
Roberta and Conrad Furlong
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Gainsley
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Gertz
Carrie and Rob Glicksteen
Greg and Etty Goetzman
Goodman Family Foundation
Robert and Lori Goodman
Lori Greene
Gordon and Neil Gordon
The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency
Mr. Bill Grubman
Marnie and Dan Gruen
Eric Gutshall and Felicia Davis
Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian
Laurie and Chris Harbert and Family
Lyndsay Harding
Diane Henderson
M.D.
Walter and Donna Helm
Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray
Carol Henry
Marion and Tod Hindin
Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin
Arlene Hirschkowitz
Deedie and Tom Hudnut
Mr. Gregory
Jackson and Mrs. Lenora Jackson
Meg and Bahram Jalali
Mr. Eugene Kapaloski
Tobe and Greg Karns
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert A. Kasirer
Igor Khandros and Susan Bloch
Jennifer and Cary Kleinman
Larry and Lisa Kohorn
Ms. Ursula C. Krummel
Naomi and Fred Kurata
Ellie and Mark Lainer
David Lee
Keith and Nanette Leonard
Allyn and
Jeffrey L. Levine
Marvin J. Levy
Ms. Agnes Lew
Karen and Clark Linstone
$10,000 TO $14,999
Anonymous (4)
ABC Entertainment
Affiliates of the Desert
B. Allen and Dorothy Lay
Tichina Arnold
Ms. Lisette
Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila
The Aversano
Family Trust
Pamela and Jeffrey Balton
Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.
Mrs. Linda E.
Barnes
Mr. Joseph A. Bartush
Sondra Behrens
Phyllis and Sandy Beim
Mr. Herbert
M. Berk
Suzette and Monroe Berkman
Ms. Judith W. Locke
Theresa Macellaro
/ The Macellaro Law Firm
The Mailman Foundation
Raulee Marcus
Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew W. Marlowe
Phillip and Stephanie Martineau
Leslie and Ray Mathiasen
Jonathan and Delia Matz
Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie
David and Margaret Mgrublian
Marcy Miller
Cindy Miscikowski
Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin
Mr. John Monahan
Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc.
Wendy Stark Morrissey
Mr. Brian R. Morrow
Ms. Kari Nakama
Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Napier
NBC Universal
Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero
Christine M. Ofiesh
Laura Owens
Melissa PappGreen and Jeff Green
Andy S. Park
Gregory Pickert and Beth Price
Nancy and Glenn Pittson
Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Porath
Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud
Cathleen and Scott Richland
Ms. Anne Rimer
John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson
Mimi Rotter
Ann M. Ryder
The SahanDaywi Foundation
Ron and
Melissa Sanders
Santa MonicaWestside
Philharmonic Committee
Gary Satin
Evy and Fred Scholder Family
Mr. Murat
Sehidoglu
Joan and Arnold Seidel
Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman
Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder
Jane Semel
Mr. James J. Sepe
Julie and Bradley Shames
Mr. Steven Shapiro
Nina Shaw and Wallace Little
Jill and Neil Sheffield
Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer
Mr. Lev Spiro and Ms. Melissa Rosenberg
Stein Family Fund - Judie Stein
Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson
Eva and Marc Stern
Tom Strickler
Akio Tagawa
Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin
Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima
Warren B. and
Nancy L. Tucker
Elinor and Rubin Turner
Tom and Janet Unterman
Nancy Valentine
Noralisa Villarreal and John
Matthew Trott
Meredith Jackson and Jan Voboril
Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn
Wagner
Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi
Mr. Nabih Youssef
Karl and Dian Zeile
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zelikow
Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan
Ms. Gail K. Bernstein
Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien
Christopher Bridges
Garrett Camp
Mara and Joseph Carieri
Chien Family
Chivaroli and Associates
Insurance Services
Carla
Christofferson
Leland Clow
Mr. and Mrs.
V. Shannon Clyne
Mrs. and Mr.
Eleanor Congdon
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard W. Cook
Alison Moore
Cotter
Dr. and Mrs.
Nazareth E. Darakjian
Nancy and Patrick Dennis
Lauren Shuler
Donner
Elizabeth and Kenneth M.
Doran
Emil Ellis
Farrar and Bill
Ramackers
Mr. Tommy
Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang
Ella Fitzgerald
Charitable
Foundation
Daniel and Maryann Fong
Mr. Michael Fox
Bernard H.
Friedman and Lesley Hyatt
Dr. and Mrs.
David Fung
Beth Gertmenian
Harriett and Richard E. Gold
Manuela Cerri Goren
Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel M.
Gottlieb
Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Gouw
Diane and Peter H. Gray
Tricia and Richard Grey
Beverly and Felix Grossman
Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff
Ms. Marian L. Hall
Ms. Deborah Harkness
Mr. Sam Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
Helford and Family
Jackson N. Henry
Jessica and Elliot Hirsch
Linda Joyce Hodge
Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust
Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth
Joyce and Fredric Horowitz
Mr. Frank J. Intiso
James Jackoway
Kristi Jackson and William Newby
Sharon and Alan Jones
Mr. and Mrs.
Steaven K. Jones, Jr.
Marilee and Fred Karlsen
Rizwan and Hollee Kassim
Marty and Cari Kavinoky
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael C. Kelley
Mr. and Mrs.
Jon Kirchner
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth N. Klee
Nickie and Marc Kubasak
Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine
Mr. and Mrs.
Norman A. Levin
Randi Levine
Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr.
Donna Richey
Maria and Matthew
Lichtenberg
Anita Lorber
Kyle Lott
Sandra Cumings
Malamed and Kenneth D. Malamed
Vilma S. Martinez, Esq.
Pam and Ron Mass
Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Matt
Liliane Quon
McCain
Cathy McMullen
Lisa and Willem Mesdag
Ms. Joanna Miller
Marc and Jessica Mitchell
Carmen Morgan
Dick and Chris Newman / C & R
Newman Family Foundation
Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Irene and Edward Ojdana
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter O’Malley
Steve and Gail Orens
Mr. Ralph Page and Patty Lesh
Loren Pannier
Ellen Pansky
Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon Johannessen
Chris Pine
Lorena and R. Joseph Plascencia
Troy Pospisil
Joyce and David Primes
Mark Proksch and Amelie Gilette
$5,500 TO $9,999
Anonymous (9)
Cary Albertsone
Edgar Aleman
Bobken and Hasmik Amirian
Mr. Robert C. Anderson
Debra and Benjamin Ansell
Art and Pat Antin
Javi Arango
Dr. Mehrdad Ariani
Ms. Judith A. Avery
Mr. Mustapha
Baha
Karen and Jonathan Bass
Reed Baumgarten
Ellis N. Beesley, Jr.
M.D.
Logan Beitler
Ms. Karen S. Bell and Mr.
Robert Cox
Maria and Bill Bell
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Birnholz
Mitchell Bloom
Steven Blum
Joan N. Borinstein
Greg Borrud
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick
Mr. Ray Boucher
The Hon. Bob Bowers and Mrs.
Reveta Bowers
Mrs. Susan Bowey
Ms. Marie Brazil
Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard
Mr. Donald M.
Briggs and Mrs.
Deborah J. Briggs
William “Mito” Rafert
Lee Ramer
Risk Placement
Services
Hon. Ernest M. Robles
Ernesto Rocco
Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Roen
Ms. Rita Rothman
Jesse Russo and Alicia Hirsch
Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk
Dr. and Mrs.
Heinrich Schelbert
Samantha and Marc Sedaka
Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr.
Jon Zimmermann
Ruth and
Mitchell Shapiro
Walter H. Shepard and Arthur
A. Scangas
Gloria Sherwood The Sikand Foundation
Angelina and Mark Speare
Jennifer Speers
Terry and Karey Spidell
Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Bristing
Kevin Brockman and Dan Berendsen
Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel
Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W. Kearney
Tanille Carter
CBS Entertainment
Dr. Kirk Y. Chang
Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Clements
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Cohen
Mr. David Colburn
Mr. Michael Corben and Ms. Linda Covette
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin
Lloyd Eric Cotsen
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Crowell
Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez
Gloria De Olarte
Ms. Rosette Delug
Ms. Mary Denove
Wanda DensonLow and Ronald
Low
The Randee and Ken Devlin Foundation
Mr. Kevin Dill
Julie and Stan Dorobek
James and Andrea Drollinger
Bob Ducsay and Marina Pires
de Souza
Steven Duffy
Janet and Larry Duitsman
Mr. and Mrs.
Brack W. Duker
Anna Sanders Eigler
Mrs. Eva Elkins
Bryan Elms
John B. Emerson and Kimberly Marteau
Emerson
Richard J. Evans and Sara Evans
Janice Feldman, JANUS et cie
Mr. and Mrs.
Irwin S. Field
The Hon. Michael
W. Fitzgerald and Mr. Arturo Vargas
The Franke
Family Trust
Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Freilich
Linda and James Freund
Mrs. Diane Futterman
Ruchika Garga
Mr. and Mrs.
Alan M. Gasmer
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie
Joseph and Suzanne Sposato
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Stern
James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation
Rose and Mark Sturza
Marcie Polier
Swartz and David Swartz
Suzanne and Michael E. Tennenbaum
Michael Frazier Thompson
Jeremy Thurswell
Donald Glover
Jory Goldman
Mr. and Mrs.
Russell
Goldsmith
Mr. and Mrs.
Louis L. Gonda
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Lee Graff
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Paul
E. Griffin III
Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Guerin
Beth Fishbein
Hansen
Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma
Mr. Rick Harrison and Ms.
Susan Hammar
Mr. Donald V. Hayes
Stephen and Hope Heaney
Myrna and Uri Herscher
FamilyFoundation
Jill Hopper
Dr. and Mrs.
Mel Hoshiko
Kevin Huvane
Andrei and Luiza Iancu
Libby and Arthur Jacobson
Jeffrey and Kristen Jaeger
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Jaffe
Mr. Channing
Johnson
Barbara A. Jones
Christine Upton
Kathy Valentino
Mr. and Mrs. Johannes
Van Tilburg
Rachel Wagman
Laura and Casey Wasserman
Bob and Dorothy Webb
Sheila and Wally Weisman
Alana L. Wray
David Zuckerman and Ellie Kanner
Randi and Richard B. Jones
Dr. William B. Jones
Mr. William Jordan
Meredith Jury
Catherine and Harry Kane
Judith and Russell Kantor
Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Keller
Susan Keller and Myron S. Shapero, M.D.
Leigha Kemmett and Jacob
Goldstein
Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee
Molly Kirk
Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.
Kathryn Ko
Lee Kolodny
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krivis
Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren
Rosenthal
Dr. and Mrs. Kihong Kwon
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald B. Labowe
Vicki Lan
Katherine Lance
Mr. and Mrs.
Jack D. Lantz
Mrs. Grace E. Latt
Ms. Leerae Leaver
Mr. George Lee
Mr. Randall Lee and Ms.
Stella M. Jeong
Mr. Benjamin Lench
Mary Beth and John Leonard
Saul Levine
Lydia and Charles Levy
Mr. Jeff Levy
Arthur Lewis
Marie and Edward Lewis
David and Rebecca Lindberg
Lynn Loeb
Patricia and Larry Londre
Julie and Ron Long
Ms. Diana Longarzo
Scott Lord
Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Committee
Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr.
James Kelley
Ruth and Roger MacFarlane
Mr. and Mrs. John V. Mallory
Melvin Mandel, M.D.
Paul Martin
Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson
Mr. Gary J. Matus
Kathleen
McCarthy and Frank Kostlan
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas E. McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs.
William F. McDonald
Jeffrey and Tracy McEvoy
Mr. David McGowan
Mr. Sheldon and Dr. Linda Mehr
Michael and Jan Meisel
Lawry Meister
Carlos Melich
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Messina
Ms. Marlane Meyer
Coco Miller
Mr. Weston F. Milliken
Linda and
Kenneth Millman
Mrs. Lillian Mueller
Gretl and Arnold Mulder
Sheila Muller
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Craig and Lisa Murray
Kevin Nazemi
Robert and Sally Neely
Mrs. Cynthia Nelson
Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff
Mr. Jerold B. Neuman
Ms. Kimberly Nicholas
Ms. Mary D. Nichols
Renae Niles
Steven A. Nissen
Nellie Nizam
Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur J. Ochoa
Ms. Margo Leonetti
O’Connell
Adriana Ortiz
Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz
Cynthia Patton
Alyssa Phaneuf
Julie and Marc Platt
Bronwyn Pollock
Lyle and Lisi Poncher
Robert J. Posek, M.D.
Ms. Eleanor Pott
James S. Pratty, M.D.
Steven Ray
Mr. Eduardo Repetto
Hon. Vicki Reynolds and Mr. Murray Pepper
Mrs. Laura H. Rockwell
Murphy and Ed Romano and Family
Peter and Marla Rosen
Mr. Bradley Ross and
Ms. Linda McDonough
Mr. Steven F. Roth
Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew Rowland
Ms. Karen Roxborough
Dr. Michael Rudolph
Mr. David Rudy
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rutter
Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner
Ms. Yvonne Nam and
Mr. David Sands
Drs. Joan and Harry Saperstein
Mark and Valerie Sawicki
Dr. Marlene M. Schultz
and Philip M. Walent
Dr. and Mrs.
Hervey Segall
Hope and Richard N. Shaw
Abby Sher
Mr. Adam Sidy
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter R. Skinner
Professor Judy and Dr. William Sloan
Mr. Douglas H. Smith
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael G. Smooke
Virginia Sogomonian and Rich Weiss
William Spiller
Ian and Pamela Spiszman
Lael Stabler and Jerone English
John Stauffer
Ms. Margaret Stevens and Mr. Robin Meadow
Jennifer Taguchi
Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Tamura
Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann Weyman
Mr. Stephen S. Taylor
Mr. Todd H. Temanson
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Toibb
Mary Tong
Richard Turkanis and Wendy Kirshner
Typesetting Ink
Charles and Nicole Uhlmann
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter J. Van Haften
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Vickers
Terry and Ann Marie Volk
Mr. Nate Walker
Lisa and Tim Wallender
Eric Wang
Mr. and Mrs.
Steven White
Mr. Kirk Wickstrom and Mrs. Shannon
Hearst Wickstrom
Mr. Robert E. Willett
David and
Michele Wilson
Mr. Steve Winfield
Bill Wishner
Karen and Rick Wolfen
Ms. Eileen Wong
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wong
Paul and Betty Woolls
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Wynne
Ms. Stacie Yee
Mr. Kevin Yoder
Yust Family
$3,500 TO $5,499
Anonymous (3)
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Agrama
CURATED BY Stanley Clarke
Immerse yourself in the vibrant sounds of jazz music echoing through multiple venues throughout the day, along with food and beverage, specialty vendors, and more. This one-day festival in Santa Monica celebrates the intergenerational transmission of the arts.
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Mr. Robert A. Ahdoot
Ty Ahmad-Taylor
Ms. Rose Ahrens
Adrienne S. Alpert
Mr. Peter Anderson and Ms. Valerie Goo
Carol L. Archie
Sandra Aronberg, M.D.
Carlo and Amy Baghoomian
Tawney Bains and Zachary Roberts
Mr. Barry Baker
Terence Balagia
Howard Banchik
Clare Baren and David Dwiggins
Isaac Barinholtz and
Erica Hanson
Ken and Lisa Baronsky
Catherine and Joseph Battaglia
Kay and Joe Baumbach
George and Karen Bayz
Newton and Rochelle Becker
Charitable Trust
Ms. Nettie Becker
Mr. Richard Bemis
Benjamin Family Foundation
Mr. Stephen Bergens
Mr. and Mrs.
Elliot S. Berkowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein
Vince Bertoni and Damon Hein
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Biles
Lisa Biscaichipy
Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh Lindsey
Michael Blake
Mr. Michael Blea
Mr. Larry Blivas
Thomas J. Blumenthal
Ms. Leslie Botnick
Anita and Joel Boxer
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler
Mrs. William Brand and Ms. Carla B. Breitner
Drs. Maryam and Iman Brivanlou
Mr. Tad Brown and Mr. Jonathan Daillak
Casey and Brea Brumels
Diana Buckhantz
Mrs. Lupe P. Burson
Mr. Jon C. Chambers
Jerry Chang
Nolan and Marlene Charbonnet
Adam Chase
Mr. Louis Chertkow
Arthur and Katheryn Chinski
Judith Hill Isaiah Collier
Stanley Clarke
Gretchen Parlato
Jeremiah Collier
Gerald Clayton
Jahari Stampley
Spiñorita
Connie Han Cameron Graves
Clarence Penn Alan Hampton
Ruslan Sirota
INSTANT ALTER with Emilio Modeste and Natasha Agrama
Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Chitea
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Colby
Susan and David Cole
Ms. Ina Coleman
Dr Leni and Roger Cook
Kevin and Katie Cordano
Cox Family - Pernell, Keila, and Harper Q.
John Curry
Mrs. Nancy A. Cypert
Jessica and James Dabney
Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch
Chris Daly
Mr. and Mrs. Leo David
Mr. Howard M. Davine
David Diaz
Tim and Neda Disney
R. Stephen Doan and Donna E. Doan
Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms. Georgia Archer
Mr. Gregory C. Drapac
Martha Duran
Dr. David Eisenberg
Alex Elias
Susan Entin
Bob Estrin
Ms. Anita Famili
Sidney B. Felsen
Jen and Ted Fentin
Lyn and Bruce Ferber
Dr. Walter Fierson and Dr. Carolyn Fierson
Mr. Michael A. Firestein
A.B. Fischer
Ms. Melanie Salata Fitch
Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Flynn
David and Eve Ford
Mrs. Diane Forester
Bruce Fortune and Elodie Keene
Lynn Franklin
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Freeland
Ms. Alisa J. Freundlich
Friars Charitable Foundation
Ian and Meredith Fried
Steven Friednam
David Fury
Ben Gardner
Ms. Sybil Garry
Sara and Derek Geissler
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Gerber
Susan and David Gersh
Susan and Jaime Gesundheit
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Gibbs
Jason Gilbert
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Gill
The Gillis Family
William and Phyllis Glantz
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Glaser
Ms. Patricia Glaser and
Mr. Sam Mudie
Glendale Philharmonic Committee
Madelyn and Bruce S. Glickfeld
Dana Goldberg
SANTA BARBARA’S PROFESSIONAL THEATRE COMPANY
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Goldberg
The Honorable and Mrs. Allan J. Goodman
Samantha Grant
Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Gregory
Dr. Wayne W. Grody
Marcy Gross
Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre and Rubina Habis
Charles F. Hanes
Mr. Robert T. Harkins
Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. Harvey
Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis K. Hashimoto
Mr. David R. Hatcher
Christy Haubegger
Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk
Byron and DeAnne Hayes
Nicolette F. Hebert
Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge Margaret Nagle
Dryden and Brian Helgoe
Gail and Murray E. Heltzer
Betsydiane and Larry Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. Enrique
Hernandez, Jr.
Jim Herzfeld
The Hill Family
Dr. and Mrs. Hank Hilty
Greg and Jill Hoenes
Laura Fox, M.D., and John Hofbauer, M.D.
Janice and Laurence Hoffmann
Mrs. Cathy Hong
In Hong
Douglas and Carolyn Honig
Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale
International Committee
Harry and Judy Isaacs
Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore W. Jackson
Gordon M. Johnson and Barbara A. Schnell
Mr. Sean Johnson
Ratna Jones
Robin and Craig Justice
Mr. Ken Kahan
Lawrence Kalantari
Karen and Don Karl
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Karton
Ms. Christine Kaunitz
Dr. and Mrs. David Kawanishi
Kayne, Anderson and Rudnick
Mr. Stephen Keck
Richard Kelton
Ms. Sharon Kerson
Nona Khodai
Daisietta Kim and Rudolf Marloth
Richard and Lauren King
Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel
Michael and Patricia Klowden
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Konheim
Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald
Sharon and Joel Krischer
Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean
Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo
Thomas and Gloria Lang
Joan and Chris Larkin
James Laur and Peter Kongkasem
Craig Lawson and Terry Peters
Mr. Les Lazar
Mr. Robert Leevan
Ms. Marie-Laure Leglise
Dr. Bob Leibowitz
Mr. Stephen Leidner
Mr. Donald S. Levin
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Levine
Benjamin Bear Levy
David and Meghan Licata
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Lipian
Ms. Elisabeth Lipsman
Mr. Greg Lipstone
Ms. Bonnie Lockrem and Mr. Steven Ravaglioli
Long Beach Auxiliary
Robert and Susan Long
Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord
Mr. and Mrs. Boutie Lucas
Crystal and Elwood Lui
Nigel Lythgoe
Dr. Jamshid Maddahi
Konstantina Mahlia
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Manzani
Mona and Frank Mapel
Dorrie and Paul Markovits
Mr. Allan Marks and
Dr. Mara Cohen
Jay and Alice Marks
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Maron
Bridgette Marsh
Dr. and Mrs. Gene Matzkin
Lisa Mazzocco and Andrew Silver
Courtney McKeown
Robert L. Mendow
Marcia Bonner Meudell and Mike Merrigan
Linda and David Michaelson
Larry and Mary Anne Mielke
Dr. Gary Milan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Mills
Janet Minami
Mr. and Mrs. William Mingst
Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch
Cynthia Miscikowski
Maria and Marzi Mistry
Robert and Claudia Modlin
Linda and John Moore
Mr. Alexander Moradi
William Morton
Mr. Emory R. Myrick
Mr. James A. Nadal and Amelia Nadal
Mr. Jose Luis Nazar
Stuart and Bruce Needleman
Mr. John M. Nisley
Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen
Ms. Margaret
R. O’Donnell
Mr. Dale Okuno
Mr. and Mrs.
John D. Olinski
David Olson and Ruth Stevens
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Orkand
Kim and P.F.
James Overton
January
Parkos-Arnall
Nicholas Pepper
Mrs. Ethel Phipps
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman LLP
Nancy Pine
Mr. Jeff Polak and Mrs. Lauren Reisman Polak
Mr. Joseph S. Powe
Debbie and Rick Powell
Mr. Albert Praw
John R. Privitelli
Ms. Marci Proietto
Ms. Miriam Rain
Bradley Ramberg
Marcia and Roger Rashman
Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Ratkovich
Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Ray
David and Mary
Beth Redding
Resource Direct
Dr. Susan F. Rice
Mr. Ronald Ridgeway
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Riley
Mr. and Mrs.
Norman L. Roberts
Mr. Jed Robinson
Phil Alden
Robinson and Paulette Bartlett
Rock River
Ms. Kristina
Rodgers
Berta Rodriguez
In memory of RJ and JK Roe
Mr. Lee N. Rosenbaum and Mrs. Corinna Cotsen
Michelle and Mark Rosenblatt
Mr. Richard Rosenthal and Ms. Katherine Spillar
Joshua Roth and Amy Klimek
Mr. Michael Rouse
Mr. Andrew E. Rubin
Betty J. Saidel
Valerie Salkin
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Curtis Sanchez
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Sanders
Mr. and Mrs.
Charles M. Sarff
Ms. Maryanne Sawoski
Sue and Don Schuster
Carol (Jackie) and Charles Schwartz
Mr. Alan Scolamieri
Michael Sedrak
John L. Segal
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Segal
Dr. and Mrs. Hooshang Semnani
Ms. Amy J. Shadur-Stein
Ms. Avantika Shahi
Dr. Ava Shamban
Dr. Alexis M. Sheehy
Ms. Martha Shen-Urquidez
Mr. Chris Sheridan
Mr. Ross Shideler and Ms.
Kathleen Komar
Pamela and Russ Shimizu
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shoenman
Mr. Murray Siegel
June Simmons
Loraine Sinskey
Leah R. Sklar
Cynthia and John Smet
Ms. Roberta Smith
Mr. Steven Smith
Michael Soloman and Steven Good
Michael and Mildred Sondermann
Dr. Michael Sopher and Dr. Debra Vilinsky
Mr. Hamid Soroudi
Shondell and Ed Spiegel
Ms. Angelika Stauffer
Mr. and Mrs.
Pierre Steele
Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Stein
Jeff and Peg Stephens
Mr. Scott Stephens
Hilde StephensLevonian
Mr. Roy Sukimoto
Ed and Peggy Summers
Deborah May and Ted Suzuki
Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Swanson
David Jan Takata
Mr. Marc A. Tamaroff
Mr. Glenn Tan
Judith Taylor
Mrs. Elayne Techentin
Mr. Nick Teeter
Suzanne Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan H.
Thompson
Ms. Evangeline M. Thomson
Tichenor & Thorp Architects, Inc.
Tina Gittelson
John Tootle
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Unger
Ingrid Urich-Sass
The Valley Committees for the Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Vargo Physical Therapy
David H. Vena
Dorrit Vered and Jerome Vered
Adriana Vinson
Jenny Vogel
Elliott and Felise Wachtel
Christopher V. Walker
Mr. Eldridge
Walker
Kathy S. Walton
J. Leslie Waxman
Craig R. Webb and Melinda Taylor
Ms. Diane C. Weil and Mr. Leslie R. Horowitz
Robert Weingarten
Mr. and Mrs.
Doug M. Weitman
Robert and Penny White
Mr. William A. White
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams
Tom and Lisa Williams
Mr. Lee Winkelman and Ms. Wendey Stanzler
Dr. and Mrs.
Daniel H. Wiseman
Lori Wolf
Delores M. Komar and Susan M. Wolford
Scott Lee and Karen Wong
Chris and Melissa Wood
Linda and John Woodall
Robert Wyman
Damier Xandrine
Susan Young
Mrs. Lillian Zacky
Mr. William Zak
Zamora & Hoffmeier, A Professional Corporation
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Zane
Rudolf H. Ziesenhenne
Rachel and Michael Zugsmith
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If your name has been misspelled or omitted from the list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org. Thank you.
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CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Karen Bass Mayor
Hydee Feldstein Soto
City Attorney
Kenneth Mejia Controller
CITY COUNCIL
Bob Blumenfield
Kevin de León
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Eunisses Hernandez
Heather Hutt
Paul Krekorian President
John S. Lee
Tim McOsker
Imelda Padilla
Traci Park
Curren D. Price, Jr.
Nithya Raman
Monica Rodriguez
Hugo Soto-Martínez
Katy Young Yaroslavsky
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Daniel Tarica
General Manager
CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION
Thien Ho President
Robert Vinson Vice President
Natasha Case
Ray Jimenez
Asantewa Olatunji
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WALT DISNEY CONCERT
HALL HOUSE STAFF
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Master Carpenter
Marcus Conroy
Master Electrician
Kevin F. Wapner
Master Audio/Video
Greg Flusty House Manager
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POOL CIRCLE
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ABC Entertainment
Mrs. Lisette Ackerberg
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
Ms. Barbara Adams-Mitchell
Arnon and Camille Adar
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Agrama
Nancy Furse Alder
Edgar Aleman
Missy and Dennis Alfieri
Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen L. Allen
Mr. Ronald Altoon
Dariush Arfaania
Avery Dennison Corporation
Bank of America
Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli
Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.
Karen and Jonathan Bass
Gia Battocchio and Carrie Battocchio
Menachem
Mr. Robert Bellevue
Dr. William Benbassat
Barbara Bernstein and Stephen R. Bernstein
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery, Inc.
Samuel and Erin Biggs
Mr. and Mrs.
Norris J. Bishton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs.
John Blasius
Mr. Michael Blea
Martha and Avrum Bluming
Mr. Jay Borzi
Ms. Bonnie Brae
John and Annette Brende
Gabriel and Deborah Brener
Abbott Brown
Mrs. Linda L. Brown
Patricia Bulkeley
Mr. Ronald W. Burkle
Canon Insurance Service
Mara and Joseph Carieri
Mr. Ernie Carswell and Mr.
Donald Kreindler
Andrea ChaoKharma and Kenneth Kharma
Chicago Title Company
Helen and Morgan Chu
The Cloobeck
Family
Bruce M. Cohen, Esq.
Mr. Garrett Collins and Mr. Matthew McIntyre
Mr. Robert Corwin
Arline and Michael Covell
Faye and Bob Davidson
Kelvin and Hana
Davis, in honor of Mary Davis
Orna and David Delrahim
Ms. Rosette Delug
Mr. John Devoe
Mr. Kevin Dill
Michael Dillon
Martin and Geraldine Dirks
Elizabeth and Kenneth M. Doran
Malsi and Johnny Doyle
Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt
Anna Sanders
Eigler
Dr. David Eisenberg
Geof Emery
Dr. Annette Ermshar and Dan Monahan
Dr. James Eshom
Marc Ezralow
Mr. Brad Fauvre
Mr. C. Randolph
Fishburn and Mr. Andrew Sands
Pauline and Gordon Freshman
Joan Friedman,
Ph.D., and Robert N. Braun, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman
Mrs. Brenda L. Galloway
Rachel Gerstein
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Leslie and Clif Gilbert-Lurie
Kiki Ramos
Gindler and David Gindler
Mr. and Mrs.
Gregg J. Gittler
Paige and David Glickman
Greg and Etty Goetzman
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Goldberg
Henry J. Gonzalez, M.D.
Daniel Gore
Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Gouw
Mr. Jef Green
Leonard Green and Partners LP
Tricia and Richard Grey
Mr. Alan Grosbard and Ms.
Karen Bobo
Renée and Paul Haas
Mr. and Mrs.
David Haddad
Rod Hagenbuch
Ms. Timi Hallem
Hancock Park
Associates
Mr. and Mrs.
John Hancock
Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma
Mr. Les Harrison
Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk
Lynette Hayde
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Hearn
Mr. and Mrs.
Irwin Helford and Family
Mr. and Mrs.
Enrique
Hernandez, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Hertz
Dr. and Mrs.
Warren F.
Hofman
Janice and Laurence
Hofmann
K. Hohman Family
Heather and Chris Holme
Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Holthouse
Mr. Benjamin Hops
Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Paul Horwitz
Ms. Julia Huang
Mrs. Bonnie Hutchins
Dr. and Mrs.
Mark H. Hyman
Shelby and Jason Istrin
Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore W.
Jackson
Mr. Richard Jacobs
Ms. Lorri L. Jean and Ms.
Gina M. Calvelli
Mrs. Michelle
Joanou
Jones Day Jones Marketing Services
Gary Kading
Monique and Jonathan Kagan
Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs.
Joshua R. Kaplan
Linda and
Donald Kaplan
Dr. and Mrs.
Robert M. Karns
Tobe and Greg Karns
Rizwan and Hollee Kassim
Jerry Katell
Kem Productions, Inc.
Richard Kendall and Lisa See
Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi
Vicki King
Mr. Gary
Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Rebeccah
Bush Kirkpatrick
Ms. Madeleine
A. Kleiner
Michael and Patricia Klowden
Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Koblin
Carla and Archy Kotoyantz
KPMG LLP
Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Kramer
Sandra Krause and William
Fitzgerald
Eric Kunze
Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo
The Norman and Sadie Lee
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs.
Russ Lesser
Saul Levine
Mr. and Mrs.
Steven Levine
Lydia and Charles Levy
Allison and Thomas S. Levyn
Ms. Agnes Lew
Marie and Edward Lewis
Mr. Stuart Liner
Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Loeb
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Lopata
Shelly and Dennis Lowe
Ms. Marion Lowry
Dr. and Mrs.
Franklin W. Lusby
Theresa Macellaro
/ The Macellaro
Law Firm
Barbara Marshall
Mr. Gary J. Matus
Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey
Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie
Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.
Marc and Ashley Merrill
Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce A. Meyer
David and Margaret Mgrublian
Ms. Julie Milligan
Ms. Cynthia Mitchell
Montessori School
Mr. David S. Moromisato
Michael J. Morris and Julie A. Dopheide
Susan Morse
Christy Mozilo
Larsen
Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson
Mr. Jose Luis Nazar
Mumsey and Allan Nemirof
Mr. Jerold B. Neuman
Dr. and Mrs. Jay Orringer
Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz
M. David and
Diane Paul
Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph P. Perna
Lorena and R. Joseph Plascencia
Mr. Mark E. Pollack
Lyle and Lisi Poncher
Mr. Michael Poole
Resource Direct
Mr. Max Rifkind-Barron
Betsey and Neil Roberts
Ms. Iva C. Roberts
Ari Rosenblatt, D.D.S.
James and Laura Rosenwald/ Orinoco Foundation
Joyce and Deane Ross
Robyn and Steven Ross
Linda and Tony Rubin
Mr. Larry Ruderman
Katy and Michael S. Saei
The Saitman
Family
Mr. Lee C. Samson
Ellen and
Richard Sandler
David N. Sayah, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred G. Scheid
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Schwartz
Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann
Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman
Dr. and Mrs. Hrayr
K. Shahinian
Dr. Hanna Shammas
Mrs. S. Shinbane
Dr. and Mrs. Lee B. Silver
June Simmons
Grady and Shelley Smith
Marilyn and Eugene Stein
Hilde StephensLevonian
Ed and Peggy Summers
Mr. David Suruki and Mr. Bob Shahnazarian
Mr. Elgart Aster and Mr. Paul A. Swerdlove
Mr. Stephen A. Talesnick
Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Tamura
Mr. Andrew Tennenbaum and Dr. Ali Strocker
Ms. Jennifer Cannon Terry
Suzanne Thomas Thomson
Technicolor
Jeremy Thurswell
Judith and Dr. John Uphold
Ellen GoldsmithVein and Jon Vein
Joan Velazquez and Joel Kozberg
Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott
Western Health Insurance Services, Inc.
Christopher V. Walker
Robert and Nancy Wallan
Lisa and Tim Wallender
Walter and Shirley Wang
Fredda and Bruce
Wasserman
Mr. and Mrs.
Bradley Wayne
Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Weber
Mr. Beryl Weiner
Mindy and David Weiner
Mr. Joel Weiner
Ms. Galena
Nayberg and Mr. Seth Weissman
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Mr. Peter Christian and Mr. Robert Wyka
Mr. Dylan Yolles
Mrs. Lillian Zacky
Ms. Seeta Zieger
CONCERT CONDUCT
If the behavior of a patron or patrons near you becomes disruptive, the incident should be reported to the nearest usher or security person. To report an incident discreetly during an event, a text can be placed to the Customer Courtesy Line using the keyword BOWL sent to 69050 For the full Code of Conduct, visit hollywoodbowl.com/houserules
SMOKING POLICY
By law (LACC 17.04.645), smoking is not permitted on the Hollywood Bowl grounds, except in designated areas. Violators are subject to removal. Smoking in any other areas could lead to arrest and would be considered a misdemeanor.
FIRST AID
In case of illness or injury, please see an usher, who will escort you to the First Aid Station.
LOST AND FOUND
Any lost articles found on concert nights may be claimed at the Operations Ofce the next morning. Unclaimed articles are kept for 30 days from the date they are found. For information, call 323 850 2060
PHOTOGRAPHS
Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgment of willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Hollywood Bowl and releases the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, its lessees, and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs.
PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES
For information detailing accessible seating, restrooms, dining, onsite transportation, assistive listening devices, or any further information, visit hollywoodbowl.com/access For additional information, call Accessibility Services at 323 850 2125
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