Performances Magazine | Hollywood Bowl, August 2023

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WELCOME!

Summer evokes so many traditions—from fireworks celebrations and picnics to a restorative opportunity to get away and focus on the people who make our lives fuller. Here in Los Angeles, summer also means music. This season, we are thrilled to present a wide array of exciting jazz, rock, pop, and some stellar concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Whether you’re hearing Maxwell or Mendelssohn, we believe each night ofers a chance to share in great music and—just as importantly—community.

As remarkable as what happens on the Hollywood Bowl’s stage can be, what has made the Bowl a beloved Angeleno tradition often occurs where you’re sitting now: sharing time with family, making new friends over food and a favorite song, building community with those around us season after season. We’ve been so touched to have many of you share your personal Bowl stories and favorite traditions with us over these years, and we’re grateful to be part of how you experience summer in Los Angeles.

Daniel Song

Interim Chief Executive Officer; Chief Operating Officer

David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

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or a concert with a visiting world-class musician, the Hollywood Bowl is known for its commitment to excellence both on the stage and behind the scenes.

This is the second year the Hollywood Bowl finds its home in Los Angeles County’s Fifth District, making it part of the communities I have the privilege to represent. With such a rich and storied history, the Bowl is a welcome recent addition.

Be sure to take advantage of all the incredible opportunities available to you this season! Hop on the convenient Park & Ride shuttles accessible from all over the County, take a gander at the delicious food options, get a sneak peek at your seats, and fi nd everything else you need to know at hollywoodbowl.com/visit.

welcome you to the Hollywood Bowl, among the most historic and beloved venues in Los Angeles County.

Whether this iconic facility is hosting a performance by the exceptional Los Angeles Philharmonic

No matter if you’re visiting from down the street, across the County, or around the world, I hope you enjoy your time at this special venue. I still hold near and dear to me the many 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 frequent visitor.

You can stay in touch with me at kathrynbarger.lacounty.gov or on social media for the latest updates on our community. I look forward to connecting with you soon and hope to see you at a Hollywood Bowl concert this season!

Best wishes, Supervisor Kathryn Barger Fifth District, Los Angeles County

FROM DIRECTOR

NORMA EDITH GARCÍA-GONZALEZ

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION A MESSAGE

The Hollywood Bowl is a worldclass venue in a beautiful setting. I am proud that the Bowl is a part of the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation (LA County Parks) system. When the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other performers 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 world-class performance venue. The Hollywood Bowl ofers a magnificent park where visitors can stroll, bring out-of-town guests, take pictures in front of the iconic shell, and learn about the Bowl’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 concert series creating memories and experiences for families, friends, and visitors alike. Summer at the 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.

The 2023 Hollywood Bowl season features diverse music and exceptional performances for all ages and music enthusiasts. This summer’s lineup includes the hallmark Classical Tuesdays and Thursdays, Weekend Spectaculars—including Quincy Jones’ 90th-Birthday Tribute—and of course the annual July Fourth Fireworks Spectacular.

LA County Parks and the LA Phil have also partnered to support the Hollywood Bowl access program by providing youth and older adults the opportunity to experience the magic of the Bowl. This partnership serves to further strengthen the commitment of the LA County Board of Supervisors and LA County Parks to access for all! For more on LA County Parks’ dynamic summer programming, follow us via social media @lacountyparks.

As for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy music under the stars.

Norma Edith García-Gonzalez

Kathryn Barger

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 Opéra National de Paris and 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 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 April 2022, Dudamel conducted the LA Phil and a star-studded cast in a new 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 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 65 releases, including recent Deutsche Grammophon LA Phil recordings of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, which won the Grammy for Best Choral Performance, and the complete Charles Ives symphonies and Andrew Norman’s Sustain, which both won the 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

“THE RARE CLASSICAL ARTIST TO HAVE CROSSED INTO POP-CULTURE CELEBRITY.” — The New York Times’ Zachary Woolfe and Laura Cappelle

WHERE L.A. COMES TO

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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 2022/23 season is the orchestra’s 104th. Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Ford, and the famed Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the worldfamous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. Situated in a 32-acre

park and under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, The Ford presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.

The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purpose-built facility: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Frank Gehry.

The orchestra also undertakes tours, both domestically and internationally, including regular visits to New York, London (where the orchestra is the Barbican Centre’s International Orchestral Partner), Paris, and Tokyo. As part of its global Centennial activities, the orchestra visited Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City,

London, Boston, and New York. The LA Phil’s first tour was in 1921, and the orchestra has made annual tours since the 1969/70 season.

The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy Award-winning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, and Andrew Norman. Deutsche Grammophon has released a comprehensive box set in honor of the orchestra’s centennial.

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. Additionally, he is the Boston Symphony’s Artistic Advisor, Education and Community Engagement; Indiana University’s Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral Conducting 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 have included resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony and 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, Thomas 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 of 2018, the Longy School of Music honored him with the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society. In 2019 the Virginia Symphony

bestowed Thomas Wilkins with their annual Dreamer’s Award. In 2022 the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award for Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee 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, he has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras; the symphonies of Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, and Detroit; and the National Symphony.

A native of Norfolk, VA, Thomas Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He and his wife Sheri-Lee are the proud parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.

SHIYEON SUNG, AUG 1

MAGGIE ROGERS, AUG 13

JOE BONAMASSA, AUG 9

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD, AUG 8

JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AUG 15

RUBÉN BLADES, AUG 11

CALEB YOUNG, AUG 3

JONATHON HEYWARD, AUG 15

TARMO PELTOKOSKI, AUG 10

CHICANO BATMAN, AUG 6

PORTUGAL. THE MAN, AUG 6

CARLA MORRISON, AUG 12

THOMAS WILKINS, AUG 4-5

GLADYS KNIGHT, AUG 16

GEMMA NEW, AUG 31

STERLING ELLIOTT, AUG 17

BOY GEORGE AND CULTURE CLUB, AUG 25-26

HERBIE HANCOCK, AUG 23

FLEET FOXES, AUG 20

MY MORNING JACKET, AUG 20

SIMONE MENEZES, AUG 29

DANIEL BARTHOLOMEW-POYSER, AUG 18-19

DAVE KOZ, AUG 27

JOE HISAISHI, AUG 24

CHRIS THILE, AUG 22

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 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 this 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 Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, in which position he continues to lead the ensemble each summer in a diverse 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.

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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, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. YOLA provides players aged 6-18 with a strong musical and social foundation through participation in 12 to 15 hours of programming each week.

Sixteen 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 all over the world, including the LA Phil’s iconic venues—the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall—and in many other locations throughout

Southern California, on 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, purpose-built facility for YOLA.

our philanthropic community, including Margo and Irwin Winkler, Marc and Ashley Merrill, the Friars Charitable Foundation, and an Anonymous donor, more than 2,000 tickets to Hollywood Bowl concerts throughout the season are being provided to YOLA musicians, families, and teaching staf

Experiencing concerts under the stars provides inspiration for the young musicians of YOLA and can inform their music-making, artistic expression, and academic endeavors.

Learn more about how you can provide tickets for YOLA musicians by contacting friends@laphil.org.

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YOLA musicians and Silvana Estrada at the Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood.

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Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.

REMEMBERING JAZZ GIANT WITH 6 ESSENTIAL TRACKS

Whether leading his own groups or working with Miles Davis or Weather Report, the saxophonist and composer was constantly expanding his impeccable style.

Even if he’d never released an album under his own name, Wayne Shorter would have gone down as one of the most important jazz musicians of the 20th century. The saxophonist and composer, who died March 2, 2023, at the age of 89, was an integral member of three groups that changed the direction of the genre: He came to prominence via Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the early 1960s, enlisted as a member of Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet later that decade, and then went

on to form the pioneering fusion band Weather Report with synth monster Joe Zawinul in 1970. On his own records, particularly his brilliant ’60s run on Blue Note, Shorter’s playing could feel like a paradox: shrouded in mystery but open to the world. He presented himself in an astounding number of contexts, many of them seeming to have little to do with one another. He collaborated frequently with Joni Mitchell, he deconstructed bossa nova, he baptized Steely Dan’s jazzbo pretensions. And

yet, no matter the style, he played with a level of comfort that only elevated the music, and artists, around him.

Like his close friend Herbie Hancock, Shorter was convinced that jazz asked life’s ultimate question: How do you rehearse the unknown? For Shorter, the answer was deceptively simple—you play and you play and you play. These six recordings comprise one path through one of jazz’s most distinctive discographies, leading to many more.

ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS: “FREE FOR ALL” (1965 )

By the time they released Free for All in 1965, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers were emissaries who’d delivered their communiqués to adoring audiences around the globe. The opening title track, which Shorter penned, rolls out with a fanfare that sets the swaggering tone. Blakey plays his drums with a loose, jabbing energy that makes it sound like he’s falling sideways down a hill, but it’s Shorter’s four-minute tenor sax solo that makes the song really swing: At first it sounds as if he’s approaching a sleeping snake, then like he’s charmed it, then like it’s awoken angry in his hands, all while the band vamps behind him.

WAYNE SHORTER CIRCA 1975 (

PHOTO BY MICHAEL PUTLAND/GETTY IMAGES)

WAYNE SHORTER: “INFANT EYES” (1966)

Shorter was operating at a staggering level throughout 1964, thrilling in his last sessions with Blakey, his fi rst with Davis, and a run of solo albums that would come out over the next few years. “Infant Eyes,” from 1966’s Speak No Evil, is a lullaby for Shorter’s young daughter Miyako. It’s a master class of tone control—the quiver in the opening line is barely perceptible—that suggests the quiet and exhausted anticipation of early parenthood; he sounds uncertain about the future but convinced of the love he feels in the present.

MILES DAVIS: “NEFERTITI” (1968)

Shorter wrote reams of brilliant songs for Miles Davis, including “E.S.P.,” “Orbits,” and “Footprints.” Today, “Nefertiti” feels particularly resonant. It’s a simple song, brilliant in its construction. The central motif is repeated again and again by Shorter and Davis, who play like they’re handling a decaying document, while the rhythm section and pianist Herbie Hancock absentmindedly pick away in the background. The shambolic playing pushes and pulls the musicians in and out of phase (and in the case of Shorter and Davis, in and out of key), like a jazz take on minimalist composer Steve Reich’s contemporary experiments. The melody itself unfurls like a fern in bloom, its ragged edges tracing brilliant lines over blank space.

WAYNE SHORTER: “DINDI” (1969)

It takes a special pair of ears to pick up a song as delicate and loveworn as Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova classic “Dindi” and hear it as an acid-fried samba breakdown. A few days after finishing work on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Shorter gathered up that album’s drummer, Jack DeJohnette, electric pianist Chick Corea, and guitarist John McLaughlin, plus guitarist Sonny Sharrock and bassist Miroslav Vitouš, for the proto-fusion album Super Nova. They bookend a faithful recording of Jobim’s hit, sung by Maria Booker, with a fully zonked jam that foregrounds the sexual longing that’s sublimated by the existential cool of the original.

WEATHER REPORT: “PALLADIUM” (1977 )

One of Shorter’s favorite compositional tricks was to present himself as the nonmoving center of a rapidly revolving circle. In “Palladium,” from Weather Report’s 1977 high point Heavy Weather, everything moves at incredible speeds: Alex Acuña’s drumming and Manolo Badrena’s percussion roll in and out of one another, Zawinul’s synths fizz uncontrollably, virtuoso bassist Jaco Pastorius sounds like Jaco Pastorius. Shorter, meanwhile, contents himself with repeating the song’s theme, a gently evolving line rich with romance delivered with an emotional virtuosity that matches the instrumental fi reworks going of all around him.

WAYNE SHORTER: “THE THREE MARIAS” ( 2018 )

Given the sophistication of his ensemble compositions, it’s no surprise that Shorter would eventually try his hand at writing for chamber orchestra. Emanon, his final album, is a song suite so heavy on narrative lore it came with its own comic book. “The Three Marias” first appeared on 1985’s Atlantis, and while the big, bright melodies and slippy rhythms of the orchestration feel like classic Shorter, Danilo Perez’s furtive piano and Shorter’s ticklish playing in the breakdown suggest the openness of the avant-garde. For Shorter, the future was always being written.

—Sadie Sartini Garner

A version of this article first appeared in Pitchfork in March 2023. Reprinted with permission.

PICTURE PERFECT

PHOTOS

OF THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL BY OTTO ROTHSCHILD (1906–1981)

The Hollywood Bowl Museum presents Picture Perfect: Photos of the Hollywood Bowl by Otto Rothschild (1906–1981), the first exhibition in the Museum’s history solely dedicated to the work and legacy of a pioneering self-taught photographer who is responsible for some of the most memorable images in Hollywood Bowl history. The exhibition contains over 130 photographs and 26 artifacts, including some original cameras and personal possessions of Rothschild alongside two large murals.

Picture Perfect: Photos of the Hollywood Bowl by Otto Rothschild will be on view through June 2024 and is organized into three themes: the photographer, the Hollywood Bowl, and the artists who performed there. Rothschild photographed nearly every world-renowned conductor, musician, dancer, actor, and celebrity who

stepped onto the Bowl stage during his career, and the exhibition draws on the more than 10,000 photos he took at the iconic venue.

“As the Hollywood Bowl 2023 summer season kicks of, it is wonderful to look back at some of the stunning images of LA’s iconic amphitheater and the artists who performed there,” said Laura Connelly, General

Manager, Hollywood Bowl/VP Production. “No visual history of the Hollywood Bowl’s fi rst century is complete without Otto Rothschild’s images. The Hollywood Bowl Museum is always free for all visitors, and we encourage you to bring your family and immerse yourself in the Bowl’s beauty through the lens of this brilliant photographer.”

HOLLYWOOD BOWL PERFORMANCE, C. 1960S; COURTESY OF THE MUSIC CENTER.

Otto Rothschild’s photography career began in 1932 with a handful of clients, including the Hollywood Bowl. He became known for impeccable technique, an artistic eye, and his eagerness to make a mark on Los Angeles. His photographs depict the city’s iconic venues, the glamour of the film industry, and sporting and political events. Rothschild’s rise to fame is rooted in his stunning work at capturing the performing arts. He served as the ofcial photographer of the Hollywood Bowl (1937-1964) and The Music Center (1964-1974), capturing thousands of events at those venues, as well as the Philharmonic Auditorium and the Civic Light Opera, leaving behind an archive

of nearly half a million images. Combining the things he loved most—the camera, music, and drama—Rothschild is remembered as a photographer who could get the best pictures not only because of his superb technique, but also because of his sensitivity and ability to make his subjects, even the most finicky, comfortable. Upon the founding of his business, the House of Rothschild, in 1937, he expanded his client roster to include major U.S. corporations such as Standard Oil, Eastman Kodak Co., U.S. Steel, Reynolds Metals, Carnation, Phillips Petroleum and Transamerica, and both the Republican and Democratic parties. Rothschild is credited with pioneering the use

of 35mm film in the LA area, using a German-made Leica 1(A) almost immediately after it was released worldwide in 1925. This compact fixed-lens camera enabled him to take photographs anywhere. For his pioneering work in the field, Rothschild was honored with a life membership in the National Press Photographers Association in 1969.

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OTTO ROTHSCHILD ON THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL STAGE, THE LA PHIL SUMMER FESTIVAL, 1981; COURTESY OF LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ARCHIVES

BOWLING ONSTAGE DURING A REHEARSAL, 1955; COURTESY OF NEWSPAPER COLLECTION USC LIBRARY

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WHERE PASSION LEADS TO COMMUNITY, AT THE

HOLLYWOOD BOWL AND ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

LA Phil Board Member Winnie

Kho and her husband, Chris Testa, are passionate advocates for music and its role in building community—in ways both large and small. That is why they became co-chairs of the Philharmonic Council with fellow Board Member Christian Chivaroli and his wife, Tifany Chivaroli.

A group of major donors contributing $15,000 or more per year, the Philharmonic Council raises more than $7 million annually, a vital pillar of support for the LA Phil. It allows the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, expand artistic programming, and invest in innovative learning programs.

“The LA Phil brings music to the Los Angeles metro area and the world through concerts at three venues: Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford, through its digital concert series Sound/Stage, and through its music learning programs, including YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles),” Kho said. “Those who can support this work—at any level of gift— are making a diference in our local community and joining a passionate group of music lovers.”

For Kho, who is originally from Singapore and has lived on the west side of Los Angeles since 2006, music has played an integral role throughout her life. She grew up taking piano lessons and remembers her mother loving Patsy Cline and her father

always playing Elvis Presley—one of just a handful of legendary 20th-century musicians who never appeared at the Bowl!

Beyond the performances themselves, it is the LA Phil’s community, as well as the community of like-minded members in the Philharmonic Council, that encourages Kho’s philanthropic support. “The LA Phil is in the business of gathering people together. It’s the same as why we go to restaurants: not only to eat, but to gather. That is very, very special, and I give it as much weight as the music itself.”

Kho also cites community as one of the many reasons for YOLA’s importance and why she personally gives to the program. For her, YOLA is not only about the music but also about the creation of a network for young musicians. “YOLA is a support system. It ensures students have a routine and stay centered.”

In recognition of and gratitude for their support of a wide range of LA Phil initiatives, members of the Philharmonic Council are invited to engage with the LA Phil’s programming beyond the stage, and they have the opportunity to listen to some of the world’s most talented musicians in intimate settings.

For more information on how you can join this group of dedicated supporters, please contact patrons@laphil.org or visit laphil.com/philcouncil

WINNIE KHO SPEAKING AT THE PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL’S AN EVENING AT THE FORD EVENT IN APRIL 2023.

PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL DINNER ON THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL’S STAGE IN AUGUST 2021.

ALL RACHMANINOFF

TUESDAY

AUGUST 1, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Shiyeon Sung, conductor

Yunchan Lim, piano

RACHMANINOFF

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 (c. 42 minutes) Allegro ma non tanto Intermezzo

Finale

Yunchan Lim

INTERMISSION

RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (c. 35 minutes) Non allegro—Lento—Tempo I Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) Lento assai—Allegro vivace

Programs and artists subject to change.

cial Korean Media Partner of the LA Phil

Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.

Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

Official Travel Partner of the Hollywood Bowl

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Right around the time Stravinsky was emerging as Russia’s great avant-gardist, his fellow countryman Sergei Rachmaninof was embarking on the second phase of his stellar career as a concert pianist in the Romantic tradition. Rachmaninof had been a student of Anton Arensky, who had been a student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and of Taneyev, who had studied with Tchaikovsky. Thus, Rachmaninof straddled two Russias—both chronologically, between the composers of “old Russia” and the Soviets, and aesthetically, between the Nationalism of RimskyKorsakov and the academic Romanticism of Tchaikovsky.

The year 1909 marked the beginning of Rachmaninof ’s last years in Russia leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution. He was now performing more as a pianist and conductor than composing, but he began the Third Piano Concerto in the summer of 1909 at his home at Ivanovka, in southern Russia, for a planned American concert tour that fall.

Premiered by the composer with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch on November 28, 1909, the piece was recognized as characteristic Rachmaninoff: excruciatingly difficult piano writing with sprawling chords and magnificent lines, lush orchestral textures, and moody, bittersweet melodies. And although today it is considered the pinnacle of Romantic concerto writing, the Third Concerto was performed by few besides Rachmaninoff himself until Vladimir Horowitz introduced it to the mainstream.

The themes of the entire work are presented in the first movement. First, a dotted rhythmic motive serves as the motor of the whole concerto. The opening Allegro begins in the orchestra, and the piano overlays the melancholic but dignified first theme. Fragments of the second theme are introduced by the horn, clarinet, trumpet, oboe, and piano, then it is fully stated in the strings, a staccato-figure variation on the rhythmic motive that evolves into a sweet, singing tune. The development is a long crescendo/accelerando in which the two themes seem to morph together, and the orchestral accompaniment is in a constant taf y-pull with the piano’s

elaborate phrases. Rachmaninof wrote two cadenzas for this movement. The longer, more chordal, and more difcult “ossia” version was written first; the shorter, more slippery version was the one Rachmaninof played. The original, uncut version was brought into fashion by Van Cliburn at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition. The wintry Intermezzo is introduced by the orchestra, and after 32 measures the piano storms in and dissolves into stillness. The theme is developed in the remote key of D-flat, alternately brooding and calm. In the middle section, the mood brightens considerably with a waltz in 3/8, outlining the tune in the context of fluttering triplets. The sullen mood returns, and one last grand gesture explodes into the alla breve Finale. Here again are variations on those initial two themes; it’s the velocity, the rhythmic ferocity, and hammering staccato that create variety and interest. A middle scherzando section presents decorative piano variations on the second theme over a calm orchestra scene. The return of tempo brings the concerto to a close with furious drive, the piano playing thick chords in a percussive staccato. —Meg Ryan

SYMPHONIC DANCES Sergei Rachmaninoff

We now recognize and admire Rachmaninof as a creator of moodily memorable melodies, without feeling the need, as we once did, to apologize for the beauty of those melodies—or blame him for being widely emulated by composers of film scores (who, likewise, are now regarded with a degree of respect formerly denied them) or the creators of the popular love songs his melodies inspired.

Rachmaninof summed up his life as a composer shortly before his death, in Beverly Hills, his final home: “In my own compositions, no conscious efort has been made to be original, or Romantic, or Nationalistic, or anything else. I write down on paper the music I hear within me, as naturally as possible.

I am a Russian composer, and the land of my birth has influenced my temperament and outlook. My music is the product of my temperament, and so it is Russian music.... I have been strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov: but I have never, to the best of my knowledge, imitated anyone. What I try to do when writing down my music is to make it say simply and directly that which is in my heart when I am composing. If there is love there, or bitterness, or sadness, or religion, these moods become part of my music, and it becomes either beautiful or bitter or sad or religious.”

For most of his career

Rachmaninof, also one of the great pianists of his time, was the object of critics’ scorn for remaining stylistically rooted in the 19th century while living in the 20th. At the end of his life, however, with the present Symphonic

Dances, Rachmaninof combined a modernist rhythmic element— inspired by Stravinsky and Prokofiev— with his own unquenchable penchant for the big, big tune.

The Symphonic Dances had its beginnings as far back as 1915, in sketches for a ballet score called The Scythians (not to be confused with a similarly titled work by Prokofiev) that he submitted to dancer-choreographer Mikhail Fokine, who rejected them as “unballetic.” A quarter-century later, while living on New York’s Long Island, Rachmaninof resurrected ideas from The Scythians to form the first movement of the Symphonic Dances, premiered in 1941 by its dedicatees, Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra. The initial reception for what is now widely regarded as Rachmaninof’s most important symphonic work was lukewarm. The audience wanted more lushness, the critics less. It has since become the darling of critics among the composer’s scores and, increasingly, an audience favorite.

Interestingly, Rachmaninof, his performers’ capabilities ever in mind, was in the habit of having an accomplished violinist check the practicability of the bowings for all his works involving strings. For the Symphonic Dances, this function was fulfilled by no less than Fritz Kreisler, Rachmaninof’s frequent recital partner. Since Kreisler considered no violin part too difcult, the score emerged as music for a virtuoso orchestra. The terse, march-like opening thematic figure dominates the entire first movement. It features prominently even in the gorgeously mournful, quintessentially Russian episode for the alto saxophone, whose part was submitted to another expert, the composer

and Broadway arranger Robert Russell Bennett, for his approval. The final theme of the movement, announced staccato in the strings, is an exotic, richly chromatic afair that Rachmaninof seems to have lifted from his de facto orchestration textbook, RimskyKorsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel. In the coda, Rachmaninof quotes the opening theme of his First Symphony (1897). Does this act signify coming full circle? One hazards such a guess, since the premiere of the symphony was so disastrous that it caused critics to predict that Rachmaninof had no future as a composer. Furthermore, the noisily hostile reception for the symphony, while not quite in a class with that later accorded Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, contributed to Rachmaninof’s subsequent nervous breakdown.

The second dance opens with menacing chords (stopped horns and muted trumpets), followed by an eerie waltz that moves from near-lethargy to extreme agitation. The movement concludes with soft, scampering woodwind-and-string figures that suggest the participants not so much ending their dance as being blown away, still whirling, out of their dark, ghostly ballroom into an even darker night. The third and final section mixes Russian Orthodox chant and the medieval chant for the dead, “Dies irae.” The church is further represented by the “Alleluia” theme from the composer’s own choral Vespers (1915), which eventually muscles out the “Dies irae”: a symbolic triumph of life over death? Withal, this was the last music Rachmaninof ever wrote. Two years later, and a month after becoming an American citizen, he died (of cancer), a few days short of his 70th birthday. —Herbert Glass

SHIYEON SUNG

The South Korean conductor Shiyeon Sung is a real trailblazer of her profession. She is the first female conductor out of South Korea to make the leap to the podium of internationally renowned orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, and the Bamberg Symphony.

When she was appointed assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2007, her reputation as one of the most exciting emerging talents on the international music circuit was already secure: Shortly before, Shiyeon Sung had won the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition and the Gustav Mahler Conductors’ Competition in Bamberg. During her three-year tenure in Boston, she began a close collaboration with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted its season-opening concert in 2007. In 2009, the orchestra established

an associate conductor’s position especially for her, which she held until 2013.

The list of orchestras that Shiyeon Sung has worked with since then includes renowned European orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, and Bamberg Symphony, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; she also led a spectacular debut concert with Martha Argerich at the Tongyeong International Music Festival. In addition, she appeared as guest conductor at the Teatro Colón and the Stockholm Opera.

She was chief conductor of the Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra from 2014 until the end of 2017, during which time she led the orchestra to international success. Following a performance in 2015 at the Philharmonie Berlin, in 2017 Shiyeon Sung and her orchestra were the first Asian orchestra to be invited for a guest appearance at

the Musikfest Berlin, the renowned international orchestra festival. Their recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 for Decca documents Shiyeon Sung’s outstanding work with the group of predominantly young orchestral musicians, for which she was awarded the 2017 Musical Performance Prize from the Daewon Cultural Foundation. After her departure from Gyeonggi, Shiyeon Sung relocated to Berlin, where she now resides, but she remains a popular guest in her home country and regularly returns to the Korea National Opera and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the Haifa Symphony, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Orquesta de Valencia, and the Auckland Philharmonia were special highlights of the 2021/22 season. In the 2022/23 season, she made her debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Queensland Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the Hofer Symphoniker, as well as the orchestras of Navarra and Tenerife in Spain. She also returned to the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires for a concert at the Teatro Colón, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Oviedo Filarmónica, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and the Auckland Philharmonia. Born in Pusan, South Korea, Shiyeon Sung won various prizes as a pianist in youth competitions. From 2001 to 2006, she studied orchestral conducting with Rolf Reuter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and continued her education with advanced conducting studies with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

SHIYEON SUNG

YUNCHAN LIM

In June 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest person ever to win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition; his performances throughout showcased a “magical ability” and a “natural, instinctive quality” ( La Scena) that astounded listeners around the world. Marin Alsop said: “Yunchan is that rare artist who brings profound musicality and prodigious technique organically together.” The depth of his artistry and connection to listeners also secured him the Audience Award and Best Performance of a New Work.

Just 19 years old, Yunchan has had a meteoric ascent to international stardom. His audacious Cliburn Semifinal Round performance of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes “created a buzz throughout the international piano community”—his “intelligent virtuosity and total immersion into Liszt’s idiom truly defined transcendental” (Gramophone). And his final Cliburn Competition appearance with Rachmaninof’s Piano Concerto No. 3 delivered the defining moment of the three-week event; as one critic noted: “The applause that followed was endless: A star had emerged before our eyes” (Seen and Heard International ). The video of that performance trended globally on YouTube in the days after, reaching No. 24, and has now become the most-watched version of that piece on the platform, amassing more than 5.5 million views in just one month and almost 9 million views in three months.

Born in Siheung, South Korea, Lim began piano lessons at age seven, when it was time to choose an afterschool activity. He entered the Music Academy of the Seoul Arts Center the next year and quickly became immersed in his musical studies. He auditioned for and was accepted into the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts at age 13, where he met his teacher and mentor, Minsoo Sohn. Yunchan entered the international music stage a year later, in 2018, winning second prize and the Chopin Special Award in his first-ever competition, the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists. Also that year, he stood out as the youngest participant in the Cooper International Competition, where he won both third prize and the audience prize and was provided the opportunity to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra. The next year, 2019, brought more accolades, when, at the age of 15, he was the youngest to win South Korea’s Isang Yun International Competition, also taking home two special prizes.

Lim has since performed across South Korea—including with the Korean Orchestra Festival, Korea Symphony, Suwon Philharmonic, and Busan Philharmonic orchestras—as well as in Madrid, at the invitation of the Korea Cultural Center in Spain. He also participated in the recording of 2020 Young Musicians of Korea, organized by the Korean Broadcasting

System and released that November. His 2022/23 inaugural tour as Cliburn winner has taken him across four continents, with highlights including the Aspen Music Festival, Performing Arts Houston, and the New York Philharmonic in the United States; Seoul Arts Center, National Concert Hall in Taipei, and the KBS and Korean National Symphony orchestras in Asia; and Wigmore Hall and Fondation

Louis Vuitton in Europe. He is currently in his second year at the Korea National University of Arts, where he continues to study with Sohn.

YUNCHAN LIM

A LIVE PRESENTATION OF 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Caleb Young, conductor

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Grant Gershon, Artistic Director

Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Part One (c. 90 minutes)

INTERMISSION

Part Two (c. 70 minutes)

Programs and artists subject to change.

Presented in association with Warner Bros.; the Southbank Centre, London; and the British Film Institute

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

As Warner Bros. celebrates 100 years of entertaining audiences around the world, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is presented with live orchestral and choral accompaniment. Long recognized as one of the greatest science-fiction works of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey is celebrated for its technological realism, its innovative, Oscar-winning special efects, and its bold use of music. The film

brought worldwide fame to both Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra and the music of György Ligeti. It also created one of cinema’s most memorable images as a spaceship floats serenely through space to the strains of Johann Strauss’ The Blue Danube waltz.

Building toward a worldpremiere performance in July 2010, London’s Southbank Centre worked closely with the British Film Institute, the rights holder Warner Bros., and the Kubrick estate to create a music-free version of the film,

while the bespoke score was created in collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor André de Ridder.

Since then, there have been multiple sold-out screenings of 2001: A Space Odyssey with live orchestral accompaniment in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. It has also been performed in more than 25 countries around the world by premier orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES

CALEB YOUNG

Known for his outstanding interpretations of American music, Berlin-based conductor Caleb Young has gained international renown as one of the most exciting emerging American artists of today. Mentored by legendary Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Young connects his rigorous training in the European classical tradition with a passion for the viscerality of American music, resulting in daring and fresh renditions of both. He commands a breadth of repertoire and is able to tap into the full spectrum of American composers. Indeed, under Young’s baton, the works of Copland, Bernstein, Jennifer Higdon, and Jessie Montgomery receive artistic treatment equal to that of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Mahler, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich.

Young’s conducting résumé includes a number of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Finnish Chamber Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; as cover conductor, he works regularly with John Williams and orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and has served the Cincinnati Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Atlanta Opera, Portland Symphony, and the National Music Festival.

Having made a strong impression in Finland, Young made his debut with the Tapiola Sinfonietta in the 2022/23 season. He also returned to the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and to the Cleveland Ballet to conduct Balanchine’s Serenade

Several of Europe’s hallowed institutions have recognized Young’s sensitivity, dynamism, and exemplary technique. In summer 2021, Finland’s Fiskars Summer Festival named Young part of “the next generation of leaders in classical music,” awarding him mentorship under renowned conductors Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, and others at the LEAD! Foundation Academy’s conductors’ master class. To close the festival, Young was further awarded the honor of conducting the Finnish Chamber Orchestra alongside Saraste and Salonen, a performance that received glowing reviews. Previously, he received the 2016 Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors Prize, given by the Salzburg Festival and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alongside his developing career in Europe, Young’s engagements frequently take him to the United States, where he was appointed Guest Conductor for Engagement for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, starting with the 2021/22 season. The appointment enabled him to build upon his recent awardwinning five-year tenure as the Philharmonic’s Associate Conductor, a formidable legacy that includes more than 200 performances conducted, as well as founding the “Music and Mixology” series, which continues to engage young professionals with orchestral music. In 2018, he earned an Emerging Artist Award, an honor bestowed upon the region’s “arts and cultural leaders” by Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne—one of the oldest nonprofit artistic funding initiatives in the United States.

Young holds a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University; his former pedagogues include David Efron, Arthur Fagen, Demondrae Thurman, and John Ratledge.

CALEB YOUNG

LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE

The Los Angeles Master Chorale is “the finest-by-far major chorus in America” ( Los Angeles Times), which turns “precision into wonder” (The New Yorker ). 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 Interim President & CEO Terry Knowles. Reena Esmail is Swan Family Artist-in-Residence.

Created by legendary conductor Roger Wagner in 1964, the Chorale is a founding resident company of The Music Center and choir-in-residence at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The fully professional choir is a diverse and vocally dynamic group that reaches more than 175,000 people a year through its concert series at Walt Disney Concert Hall, international touring of innovative works, and performances 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 Award with the National Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and Pacific Chorale. Under Gershon’s direction, the Chorale has released eight recordings, including Mysterium with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers on Avie Records and The

Sacred Veil by Eric Whitacre on Signum Records. The Chorale is heard on the soundtracks of many major motion pictures, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Jungle Cruise. Throughout 2018 and 2019, the Chorale toured its production of Lagrime di San Pietro, directed by Peter Sellars, earning rave reviews across the globe: Süddeutsche Zeitung called the 2019 Salzburg Festival performance “painfully beautiful”; Sydney Morning Herald said, “Their voices soared to the heavens”; and London’s The Stage called Lagrime a “balm for the soul.” In the 2022/23 season, the Chorale performed its second collaboration with Sellars, Music to Accompany a Departure, which it takes to the 2023 Salzburg Festival before embarking on a wider tour.

LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE

SOPRANO

Lauren Adaska

April Amante

Tamara Bevard

Christina Bristow

Graycen Gardner

Kelci Hahn

Caroline McKenzie

Molly Pease

Alina Roitstein

Sunmi Shin

Kathryn Shuman

Courtney Taylor

Maura Tufy

Suzanne Waters

Sunjoo Yeo

Andrea Zomorodian

ALTO

Garineh Avakian

Aleta Braxton

Monika Bruckner

Amy Fogerson

Michele Hemmings

Shabnam Kalbasi

Sharon Chohi Kim

Sharmila G. Lash

Sarah Lynch

Adriana Manfredi

Julia Metzler

Alice Kirwan Murray

Jessie Shulman

Nancy Sulahian

Kristen Toedtman

Tracy Van Fleet

TENOR

Matthew Brown

Bradley Chapman

Pablo Cora

Daniel Curran

Jon Lee Keenan

Dermot Kiernan

Charlie Kim

Bryan Lane

Charles Lane

JJ Lopez

Matthew Miles

Robert Norman

Darita Seth

Todd Strange

Matthew Tresler

BASS

Paul An

Michael Bannett

David Castillo

Kevin Dalbey

Dylan Gentile

Will Goldman

Scott Graf

James Hayden

Luc Kleiner

Chung Uk Lee

Scott Lehmkuhl

Jamal Moore

Jim Raycroft

Mark Edward Smith

Shuo Zhai

The singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, James Hayden, AGMA Delegate.

ELGAR AND MOZART

TUESDAY

AUGUST 8, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Hélène Grimaud, piano

Caroline SHAW

MOZART

Entr’acte (c. 11 minutes)

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (c. 28 minutes)

Allegro Romance

Allegro assai

Hélène Grimaud

INTERMISSION

ELGAR

Enigma Variations, Op. 36 (c. 29 minutes)

Theme (Andante)

Variation I (L’istesso tempo) “C.A.E.”

Variation II (Allegro) “H.D.S-P.”

Variation III (Allegretto) “R.B.T.”

Variation IV (Allegro di molto) “W.M.B.”

Variation V (Moderato) “R.P.A.”

Variation VI (Andantino) “Ysobel”

Variation VII (Presto) “Troyte”

Variation VIII (Allegretto) “W.N.”

Variation IX (Adagio) “Nimrod”

Variation X (Intermezzo: Allegretto) “Dorabella”

Variation XI (Allegro di molto) “G.R.S.”

Variation XII (Andante) “B.G.N.”

Variation XIII (Romanza: Moderato) “* * *”

Variation XIV (Finale: Allegro presto) “E.D.U.”

Programs and artists subject to change.

ENTR’ACTE Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has worked with a range of artists including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, and Yo-Yo Ma, and she has contributed music to films and TV series including Fleishman is in Trouble, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, and Beyonce’s Homecoming

The composer writes:

“Entr’acte was written in 2011 after I heard the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Op. 77, No. 2—with their spare and soulful shift to the D-flat major trio in the minuet. It is structured like a minuet and trio, rifng on that classical form but taking it a little further. I love the way some music (like the minuets of Op. 77) suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking-glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, Technicolor transition.” —Caroline Shaw

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 20 IN D MINOR, K. 466 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Broad generalization: The Romantics weren’t enamored of Mozart. They liked his life story, the precocious childhood, the financial crises, and the life’s premature end. But his music was, in the general estimation, too courtly, too innocent, hardly able to reflect the world as they saw it. Nonetheless, 19th-century audiences and composers were mad about his Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466. And we can assume that they appreciated the Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491, as well. Why? Because neither work is happy or serene or smoothly sculpted, with the exception of the lighthearted final pages of K. 466. Both concertos—and no praise could be higher in the age of and after Beethoven—were regarded as Beethovenish

Indeed, K. 466 was a favorite of the “Titan” himself, figuring prominently in his repertoire as a concert pianist

and for which he even wrote cadenzas, Mozart not having left us any himself. Today, rather than standing in nearsolitary splendor alongside Mozart’s only other minor-key piano concerto, it is regarded as the first in the succession of the half-dozen sublime masterpieces for piano and orchestra dating from 1785 to 1786—the same brief span that also saw the creation of Le nozze di Figaro, the “Prague” Symphony, the Clarinet Trio, the last two string quartets dedicated to Haydn, and the String Quartet K. 499, the four-hand Sonata K. 497, and the aforementioned C-minor Concerto. And that is only a partial listing.

The composer-pianist was at the time still the idol of Viennese society, his audiences willing to accept anything that flew from his pen, even so uncharacteristic a score as the Concerto in D minor—if Mozart were also the performer. K. 466 was introduced to the world at one of his academies, i.e., subscription concerts: “produced by and starring W.A. Mozart,” as we might say today. The success of

the Concerto on February 11, 1785 (it was completed the day before), was considerable, based in no small part on the composer’s playing of the demanding solo, the entire presentation made additionally exigent by the fact that the ink was still wet on some of the orchestral parts until an hour before the performance. While the Concerto makes its stormy intentions clear from the get-go, it (uncharacteristically) does not state its principal theme at the outset; rather, there are a few bars of murmurous, agitated, syncopated swirlings in the violins and violas, with stabbing cellos and basses, until the tension explodes—for the first of several times in this turbulent music—in a volley for the entire orchestra. The piano creeps in with a quiet, almost frightened-sounding theme, which the orchestra

attempts repeatedly to banish. The battle is unceasing, and there is no victor. The tension remains to the end, unresolved (albeit in D minor).

The only thing predictable about the slow movement is that it will provide graceful, lyric contrast. But it does so with qualms. At midpoint, Mozart intrudes on the calm B-flat song with a cyclonic presto outburst in G minor, jolting listener and performer from their reverie, while the soloist is forced to race up and down the keyboard with a degree of virtuosity elsewhere in Mozart restricted to the outer movements of a concerto.

As in the finale of Mozart’s Concerto in F, K. 459, the piano here announces the theme and then gives way to a rich, long development in the orchestra.

In K. 459, it is blithely sublime; here it’s all fire and fangs,

before the reentry of the piano, with some particularly felicitous interchanges with the winds. But menace remains in the air. There is no transition to the major; it just happens. The conflict was not going anywhere, only becoming more conflicted. Thus, the conclusion of this most D-minor of concertos is in D major. Alfred Einstein, in his 1945 book titled, simply, Mozart, still in certain respects indispensable (even after research into and revision of the Mozart legend by countless subsequent scholars), describes this stunning aboutface as “a coda of enchanting sweetness, which represents at the same time an afecting ray of light, a return to the social atmosphere of earlier works, the courtly gesture of a grand seigneur who wishes to leave his guests with a friendly impression.” —Herbert Glass

ENIGMA VARIATIONS

Edward Elgar (1857–1934)

Elgar’s 1899 Variations on an Original Theme provides the listener an opportunity to follow a musical idea through diverse transformations. The piece earned its moniker “Enigma” for two reasons: first, because the composer himself claimed that the original theme was combined with another theme in his mind—a kind of shadow musical character— whose identity he refused to reveal. Second, because he tagged most of the 14 variations with initials that referred to private nicknames.

Elgar explained his concept in a letter to August Jaeger (portrayed in Variation IX): “I have sketched a set of Variations (orkestra) on an original theme: the Variations have amused me because I’ve labeled ’em with the nicknames of my particular friends—you are Nimrod. That is to say, I’ve written the variations each one to represent the mood of the ‘party’—I’ve liked to imagine the ‘party’ writing the var. him (or her) self and have written what I think they wd. have written—if they were asses enough to compose.”

Elgar’s lighthearted description

is at odds with the weighty masterpiece that earned him a new measure of respect.

The trick to any set of variations is the delicate balance between repetition (so the listener retains an awareness of the musical idea) and variety (so the listener remains diverted). Conventional wisdom is to begin with a theme that is compact and memorable. But herein lies another enigma of this work: The theme has an open-ended quality that simultaneously defies easy recognition and lends itself to ingenious permutations. Many of Elgar’s subjects were musicians, and the set reveals the composer’s sense not only of their individual personalities but also of the underlying relationship between personality and musical expression. The warm lyricism of the first variation represents the composer’s wife, followed by skittering passages in the second depicting H.D. StuartPowell’s enthusiastic piano exercises. In “R.B.T.,” Elgar uses woodwinds to mimic Richard Baxter Townshend’s ability to break into falsetto; in “W.M.B.,” brass and timpani paint the forceful personality of William M. Baker before “R.P.A.” suggests a more complex balance in Richard P. Arnold, son of Matthew Arnold.

Efective juxtapositions abound: The wistful strains of “Ysobel” (Isabel Fitton, a viola player) give way to the of-balance timpani strokes of “Troyte” (Arthur Troyte Grifth, an architect and wannabe musician), then yield to the graceful “W.N.” (Winifred Norbury).

A perennial favorite is the ninth variation, a portrait of “a long summer evening talk, when my friend [Jaeger] grew nobly eloquent (as only he could) on the grandeur of Beethoven, and especially of his slow movements.” It’s back to speech patterns in the diffident phrases of “Dorabella” (Dora Penny). The subject of “G.R.S.”—a big, exclamatory work—is nominally cathedral organist Dr. George Robinson Sinclair but is actually his bulldog Dan! A cello solo in “B.G.N.” (Basil G. Nevinson) recalls Elgar’s experiences playing chamber music with his friend. In the “Romanza ***´,” the clarinet quotes from Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture— a nod to the fact that the dedicatee (Lady Mary Lygon) was sailing to Australia. The final variation portrays the composer himself: stirring, multi-valanced, and ultimately transcendent. —Susan Key

RYAN BANCROFT

Ryan Bancroft grew up in Los Angeles and first came to international attention in April 2018 when he won both First Prize and Audience Prize at the prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen. Since September 2021, Bancroft has been principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In 2021, Bancroft was invited to become Artist in Association with the Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland and named chief conductor designate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since winning the Malko Competition, Bancroft has made debuts with leading European orchestras including the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Toulouse, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, RAI Torino, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. In North America, he has worked with the Toronto Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Houston Symphony and debuted in the 2022/23 season with the Dallas Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra. The 2022/23 season also saw Bancroft make his

debut at Suntory Hall with the New Japan Philharmonic and Midori, at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia and Stephen Hough, and at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic.

Bancroft has a passion for contemporary music and has performed with Amsterdam’s acclaimed Nieuw Ensemble, assisted Pierre Boulez in a performance of his Sur Incises in Los Angeles, premiered works by Sofia Gubaidulina, John Cage, James Tenney, and Anne LeBaron, and has worked closely with improvisers such as Wadada Leo Smith and Charlie Haden.

Bancroft studied trumpet at the California Institute of the Arts, alongside additional studies in harp, flute, cello, and Ghanaian music and dance. He then went on to receive an MMus in orchestral conducting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. While studying in Scotland, he played trumpet with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on many occasions. He continued his conducting studies in the Netherlands and is a graduate of the prestigious Nationale Master Orkestdirectie run jointly by the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. His main mentors were Edward Carroll, Kenneth Montgomery, Ed Spanjaard, and Jac van Steen.

RYAN BANCROFT

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD

Hélène Grimaud is not just a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life, but she is also a Renaissance woman, who has established herself as a committed wildlife conservationist, a compassionate human rights activist, and a writer.

Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin, before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in piano performance a mere three years later. In 1987, renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim invited her to perform with the Orchestre de Paris. This marked the launch of Grimaud’s musical career, characterized ever since by concerts with most of the world’s major orchestras and many celebrated conductors.

In addition to touring extensively as a soloist and recitalist, Grimaud is a committed chamber musician. She has performed with a wide range of musical collaborators, including Sol Gabetta, Rolando

Villazón, Jan Vogler, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen, Gidon Kremer, Gil Shaham, and the Capuçon brothers. Her contributions to and impact on the world of classical music were recognized by the French government when she was admitted into the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest decoration, at the rank of Chevalier. In 1999, Grimaud established the Wolf Conservation Center in upstate New York, after a chance encounter in northern Florida sparked her lifelong interest in the endangered species. Grimaud has also pursued a writing career, publishing three books:

Variations Sauvages (2003), Leçons particulières (2005), and Retour à Salem (2013).

Grimaud has been an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2002. Her recordings have been critically acclaimed and awarded numerous accolades, among them the Cannes Classical Recording of the Year, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Diapason d’Or, Grand Prix du Disque, Record Academy Prize (Tokyo), Midem Classic Award, and the Echo Klassik Award. Her most recent recording, The Messenger, was released in October 2020 and features works by Silvestrov and Mozart.

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD

JOE BONAMASSA WITH ORCHESTRA

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 2023 8PM

Please note that tonight’s program is presented without intermission.

Programs and artists subject to change.

Joe Bonamassa David Campbell, conductor

JOE BONAMASSA

Blues-rock superstar Joe Bonamassa is one of the most celebrated performing musicians of today. The three-time Grammynominated artist recently achieved his 26th No. 1 album on the Billboard Blues Chart with his latest studio album Time Clocks, marking his most raw, rocking album yet, featuring his unmatched vocals and playing skills. Joe is only in his mid-40s, and he’s already become a living legend with an astounding multi-genre catalog of music. Collectively, Bonamassa has over 40 albums to date with studio and live recordings as well as collaborative albums with his side projects. A prolific writer who is always

on the hunt to expand his eclectic musical horizons, Bonamassa has a limitless work ethic whether it’s in a studio, on the road, or working with other artists to spur new music. In recent years, he’s been producing an immense number of albums for his exciting independent label KTBA Records. He’s been featured in several publications from Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, and Parade to Rolling Stone and American Songwriter, as well as on the covers of Guitar World, Guitar Player, Vintage Guitar, Guitarist, and Classic Rock Magazine

Bonamassa’s nonprofit Keeping the Blues Alive has reached 74,000 students and aims at supporting music in schools as well as helping musicians in need.

JOE BONAMASSA

DAVID CAMPBELL

Arranger-conductor David Campbell has guestconducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Dallas, Melbourne, and Baltimore Symphony orchestras, the Tokyo and Queensland Philharmonic orchestras, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Olympic Games. He conducted the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl for shows by The xx, Sheryl Crow, Death Cab for Cutie, Faith Hill, Ray LaMontagne, Willie Nelson, and Beck. His arrangement work appears on more than 425 gold or platinum albums, including 23 Grammy Albums of the Year (nominees and winners). His film work has earned him two Oscars and two Oscar nominations for music.

Campbell grew up in Seattle, studying violin, viola, piano, orchestration, and conducting from an early age. After studying with iconic viola virtuoso William Primrose, he attended Manhattan School of Music and played several seasons with the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall under Leopold Stokowski. In his early days as a studio musician in LA, he was fortunate to play on historic sessions such as Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me,” and Carole King’s “Tapestry.”

The official song of the 2012 London Olympics, “Survival,” featured a collaborative choir arrangement by Muse and Campbell. In 2013, Campbell co-arranged and conducted the 167-member orchestra for Beck’s “Sound & Vision” 360-degree video project.

DAVID CAMPBELL

SIBELIUS AND GRIEG

THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Tarmo Peltokoski, conductor

Anton Mejias, piano

SAARIAHO Ciel d’hiver (c. 10 minutes)

GRIEG

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (c. 30 minutes)

Allegro molto moderato

Adagio

Allegro moderato molto e marcato

Anton Mejias

INTERMISSION

SIBELIUS

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 (c. 44 minutes)

Allegretto

Andante, ma rubato

Vivacissimo

Finale: Allegro moderato

Programs and artists subject to change.

Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

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CIEL D’HIVER

Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023)

Images of the night, dreams, myths, and distant mysteries always loomed large in Kaija Saariaho’s work. The Finnish composer’s extensive catalog contains evocative titles like From the Grammar of Dreams, Wing of the Dream, Caliban’s Dream, For the Moon, Graal Theatre, The Castle of the Soul, and her opera L’amour de loin (Love from Afar). Orion, the mysterious and adventurous hunter of Greek mythology, was the mortal son of Neptune, the god of seas. After his death, Orion was placed by Zeus in the sky as a radiant constellation. He is, thus, at once an active (even hyperactive) human being and an immobile heavenly object, and Saariaho exploited those contrasts in her symphonic work Orion

Ciel d'hiver is an arrangement of the second movement of that piece, focusing on the winter sky. It opens with a haunting piccolo solo, continued by solo violin, clarinet, oboe, and muted trumpet. As the orchestral soloists pass the melody around, the other instruments provide a colorful and atmospheric accompaniment. The orchestral

texture later fills out with multilayered polyphony, yet the movement remains calm and contemplative. For the ending, the already slow tempo becomes even slower as the piano emerges from the background with a sky-high melody repeating a few notes in changing permutations over expressive string glissandos and the sound of chimes, bowed vibraphone, and crotales. —Adapted from a program note by Peter Laki, reprinted courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra

PIANO CONCERTO Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

A generation prior to Sibelius, Edvard Grieg tackled the problem of creating a style that united personal and communal identity. He was motivated first by his associations with violinist Ole Bull and composer Rikard Nordraak. “It was as if the scales fell from my eyes,” recalled Grieg. “From Nordraak I learned for the first time what the Norwegian folk song was and learned to know my own nature.” In most of his music, however, he avoided direct quotation

from folk sources, preferring, as in the Piano Concerto, to work for less obvious ways to evoke melodic contours suggestive of Norway (“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish,” he once quipped).

Grieg was only 25 at the work’s 1869 premiere, which might lead you to think that the piece would be superficial— and there is no dearth of surface here: catchy tunes, brilliant timbres, flashy virtuoso exhibitions. Yet the young composer had a feel for the way this surface could serve those elements of music that emerge in longer terms: longrange formal structures, subtle relationships between parts, and the like. Also appropriate to his youth is Grieg’s emphasis on mood painting; what he has managed to do here is create a tone poem—or a series of tone poems—for piano and orchestra, with a distinctive Norwegian feel created by the use of characteristic melodic patterns and rhythms. Thus the work retains a certain youthful naivete even while sweeping the listener along in a coherent aesthetic vision.

The arresting gesture that opens the Concerto—a downward cascade that

outlines an A-minor chord— demonstrates the play between surface brilliance and deeper significance. By firmly establishing the harmony of A minor, it allows for exploration of further harmonic regions without disrupting the stability of the movement. It also allows the listener to follow a plethora of thematic material without losing a basic point of reference. The second movement reminds us that Grieg was more at home in the smaller lyric genres; here we are drawn into an intimate scene using the colors of muted strings and woodwind solos. The soloist does not enter until well into the movement, first as a decorative touch, then gradually integrated into the principal thematic material. The last movement is dominated by the soloist’s robust foot-stomping theme, which steps back briefly for a serene interlude introduced by a flute solo (that foreshadows Grieg’s equally deft use of the instrument in Peer Gynt) and featuring lyrical, improvisatory passages from the piano. Soon the dance takes over again, pushing the piece to its dramatic conclusion. —Susan

Key

SYMPHONY NO. 2 Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

In March 1900, a couple of months before the first European concert tour of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Sibelius received a letter signed by “X.” X inquired whether Sibelius had considered writing an overture for the concert at the World’s Fair in Paris. He reminded Sibelius of Anton Rubinstein’s fantasy Rossija (Russia), written for the 1889 World’s Fair, and declared: “The name of your overture should be Finlandia—shouldn’t it?” It was Mr. X, alias Baron Axel Carpelan, who invented the name of one of Sibelius’ most well-known compositions.

Later the same year Sibelius received another letter: “You have been sitting at home for quite a while, Mr. Sibelius, it is high time for you to travel. You will spend the late autumn and the winter in Italy, a country where one learns cantabile, balance and harmony, plasticity and symmetry of lines, a country where everything is beautiful—even the ugly. You remember what Italy meant for Tchaikovsky’s development and for Richard Strauss.”

Unfortunately, Baron Carpelan was penniless. He had connections, though, and managed to find a patron who consented to supply funds for Sibelius’ stay in Italy. Sibelius with family left home in October 1900, stayed first for two months in Berlin, and continued from there to Italy at the end of January 1901. He rented a mountain villa near Rapallo. There in his study, a literary remembrance suddenly came to his mind: “Jean Paul says somewhere in Flegeljahre that the midday moment has something ominous to it…a kind of muteness, as if nature itself is breathlessly listening to the stealthy footsteps of something supernatural, and at that very moment one feels a greater need for company than ever.”

This image continued to haunt him, and he wrote on a sheet of paper the following vision: “Don Juan. Sitting in the twilight in my castle, a guest enters. I ask many times who he is.—No answer. I make an effort to entertain him. He remains mute. Eventually he starts singing. At this time, Don Juan notices who he is—Death.” On the reverse side of the sheet he noted the date 2/19/01 and sketched the melody that

became the D-minor bassoon theme of the Tempo andante, ma rubato second movement of the Second Symphony. Two months later, in Florence, he drafted a C-major theme above which he wrote the word “Christus.” This theme became the second theme, in F-sharp major, of the same movement. The former may well stand for death and defeat and the latter for life and resurrection. There is no evidence of eventual programmatic ideas related to the other movements of the Second Symphony. But immediately after its premiere on March 8, 1902, the Symphony was appropriated as an emblem of national liberation. The hard times the Grand Duchy

of Finland was going through during the ‘Russification program’ of Tsar Nikolai II in the years 1899-1905 spontaneously invited such an interpretation. But it was Robert Kajanus, founder and conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, who put it in words: “The Andante strikes one as the most brokenhearted protest against all the injustice that threatens at the present time to deprive the sun of its light and our flowers of their scent.… The scherzo gives a picture of frenetic preparation. Everyone piles his straw on the haystack, all fibers are strained, and every second seems to last an hour. One senses in the contrasting trio section, with its oboe motive in G-flat major,

what is at stake. The finale develops toward a triumphant conclusion intended to rouse in the listener a picture of lighter and confident prospects for the future.”

Sibelius categorically denied any such programmatic readings, claiming that his symphonies were pure absolute music. Nevertheless, there are scholars who firmly believe in the Symphony’s political connotations. The controversy, however, is not very productive, since it cannot be solved; and even if there was a secret program in the composer’s mind at the time he composed the Symphony, the reception of it as a work of art does not require any knowledge of it. —Ilkka

Oramo

TARMO PELTOKOSKI

Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski was awarded the title of Principal Guest Conductor in January 2022 by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the first conductor to hold the position in the orchestra’s 42-year history. In May 2022, Peltokoski was named Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. He began his term in the 2022/23 season. He was subsequently named Principal Guest Conductor of

the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In August 2022, at the age of 22, he completed his first Wagner Ring cycle at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival. In December 2022, Peltokoski was announced as Music Director of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse.

In the 2021/22 season, Peltokoski made highly successful debuts with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In the summer of 2022, he appeared at the Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, and Musikfest Bremen.

In the 2022/23 season, Peltokoski conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, RSB Berlin, the Hallé, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Göteborgs Symfoniker, San Diego Symphony, and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. He returns to the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival to conduct Tristan und Isolde

His work with soloists includes collaborations with Yuja Wang, Asmik Grigorian, Matthias Goerne, Jan Lisiecki, Julia Fischer, Golda Schultz, Martin Fröst, and Sol Gabetta.

Peltokoski began his conducting studies with Jorma Panula at the age of 14 and studied with Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy. He has also been taught by Hannu Lintu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Also an acclaimed pianist, he studied piano at the Sibelius Academy with Antti Hotti. His piano playing has been awarded at many competitions, and he has appeared as a soloist with major Finnish orchestras. In 2022, he received the Lotto Prize at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

Peltokoski has also studied composing and arranging, and he especially enjoys musical comedy and improvisation.

TARMO PELTOKOSKI

ANTON MEJIAS

Finnish-Cuban pianist Anton Mejias was born in Helsinki in 2001. He has been described by Finnish newspaper Aamulehti as a pianist whose most “exquisite quality…is his ability to go inside the music and create his completely own sound world.” He made his recital debut at the age of 8 and has been lauded by both press and public for his performances in recital and with orchestras around the world.

From a young age, Mejias was inspired and fascinated by the music of J.S. Bach. By the age of 10, he had learned the entire Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, and he has since added to his repertoire the complete French Suites and English Suites and all six Partitas, as well as the WellTempered Clavier, Book II

Mejias has performed with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Tampere Philharmonic, among other orchestras in Finland and abroad. He debuted in autumn 2022 with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester under conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and makes further international debuts in upcoming seasons.

Mejias has also performed with conductors including Klaus Mäkelä and Lawrence Renes. He has won top prizes from the Viotti International Piano Competition and the Nordic Piano Competition.

Mejias began studying piano when he was 5 years old and went on to study at the Sibelius Academy with Teppo Koivisto and Niklas Pokki. He is pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he is in the studio of Ignat Solzhenitzyn and also studies with the renowned Gary Grafman.

ANTON MEJIAS

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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

Paolo Bortolameolli

Associate

Conductor

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

Michele Bovyer

Deanie and Jay Stein Chair

Rochelle Abramson

Camille Avellano

Margaret and Jerrold

L. Eberhardt Chair

Minyoung Chang

I.H. Albert

Sutnick Chair

Tianyun Jia

Jordan Koransky

Mischa Lefkowitz

Edith Markman

Ashley Park

Stacy Wetzel

Justin Woo

SECOND VIOLINS

Lyndon Johnston Taylor

Principal

Dorothy Rossel

Lay Chair

Mark Kashper+

Associate Principal

Kristine Whitson

Johnny Lee

Dale Breidenthal

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-

Dalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community

Ingrid Chun

Jin-Shan Dai

Chao-Hua Jin

Jung Eun Kang

Nickolai Kurganov

Varty Manouelian

Michelle Tseng

Suli Xue

Gabriela

Peña-Kim*

Sydney Adedamola*

Eugene and Marilyn

Stein LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair

VIOLAS

Teng Li

Principal

John Connell Chair

Ben Ullery

Assistant Principal

Jenni Seo

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

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

Marc Lachat 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

Burt Hara

Associate Principal

Andrew Lowy

E-Flat Clarinet

Andrew Lowy

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

Amy Jo Rhine

Acting Associate Principal

Loring Charitable Trust Chair

Gregory Roosa

Alan Scott Klee Chair

Elyse Lauzon

Reese and Doris

Gothie Chair

Ethan Bearman Assistant

Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair

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

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

Justin Ochoa*

KEYBOARDS

Joanne Pearce

Martin

Katharine Bixby

Hotchkis Chair

HARP

Emmanuel Ceysson Principal

Ann Ronus Chair

LIBRARIANS

Stephen Biagini

Benjamin Picard

KT Somero

CONDUCTING FELLOWS

Rodolfo Barráez

Linhan Cui

Chloé Dufresne

Luis Toro Araya

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Thomas Wilkins

Principal

Conductor

John Mauceri

Founding Director

FIRST VIOLINS

Kathryn Eberle

Concertmaster

Marisa Sorajja

Principal

Grace Oh

Associate Principal

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Chloe Szu-Yun Chiu

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Associate Principal

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Natalie Leggett

Carolyn Osborn

Robert Schumitzky

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Olivia Tsui

Vivian Wolf

VIOLAS

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Principal

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Associate Principal

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Principal

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Associate Principal

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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 [position vacant] Principal

KEYBOARDS

Alan Steinberger Principal

SAXOPHONE [position vacant]

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Scott Dunn

PERSONNEL MANAGERS

Lila Atchison

Shana Bey

LIBRARIAN

Steve Biagini

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.

FOOD + WINE

The Bowl’s food and wine team— James Beard Award winners chef Suzanne Goin (right) and restaurateur

Caroline Styne of celebrated restaurants Lucques, a.o.c., Caldo Verde, and Cara Cara—are now in their eighth year of providing exceptional cuisine designed to make your concert experiences even more spectacular. From supper in your box seats to specially prepared picnic baskets and market-fresh fare, there’s truly something for everyone.

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 threecourse menus, family-style feasts, à la carte starters, main courses, desserts, and wine. Order by 6pm the day before your concert.

ANN’S WINE BAR BY A.O.C.

Inspired by the original a.o.c. on 3rd Street, 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

KITCHEN 22

Kitchen 22 is the best place to indulge in fan favorites like burgers, french fries, Spanish fried chicken, specialty sandwiches, and salads.

THE BACKYARD

Inspired by the gorgeous natural surroundings of the Bowl, this alfresco 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 more.

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.

CATERING AT THE BOWL

Give your guests the experience of a lifetime when you host your next event at the Bowl! Our beautiful venues are perfect for events of all sizes, from intimate gatherings to elaborate afairs.

MARKETPLACES

Specialty sandwiches, seasonal grab-and-go salads, cheese and charcuterie plates, snacks, beer, and a variety of approachable and delicious wines await you at all three of our Marketplaces. You’ll find everything you need to build a picnic from scratch or to enhance one you brought.

STREET FOOD AND SNACKS

A variety of delicious options are available throughout the Bowl, including street tacos, Suzanne’s fried chicken, salads, specialty sandwiches, gourmet pizza, pulled-pork sandwiches, artisan baked goods, sweets, soft-serve ice cream, and popcorn.

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 pickup. Mobile ordering is available throughout the venue.

2023 OPENING NIGHT AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL CHAIRS AND COMMITTEE

TITLE SPONSOR

Kaiser Permanente

CENTENNIAL LEADERS

R. Martin Chavez

Lisa Field

Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

OPENING NIGHT COMMITTEE

Leslie and Nancy Abell

Tom and Judy Beckmen

Joe Berchtold

David C. Bohnett

Kawanna and Jay Brown

Ron Burkle

California Community Foundation

Andrea Chao-Kharma & Ken Kharma, Esther Chui-Chao

Steve Cius and Risk Placement Services

Tara Dollinger

OPENING NIGHT CO-CHAIRS

Gregory A. Adams

Lisa Field

Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

PREMIER SPONSOR

City National Bank

Louise and Brad Edgerton

Jane and Michael Eisner

Alexandra Glickman and Gayle Whittemore

Jennifer Miller Gof

Marnie and Dan Gruen, The Fred & Peggy Hartley

Family Foundation

Antonia Hernández

Andy and Jacinta Hewitt

Julia Huang and Intertrend

Terri and Jerry Kohl

Rafael and Sharyl Mendez

Carmen Morgan

Teena Hostovich, Doug Martinet, and Michael Martinet

Stasia and Michael Washington

MUSE SPONSORS

Amazon

Tracy Anderson

Live Nation-Hewitt Silva

Christine Muller and John Swanson

Sujata Murthy and Universal Music

Jay and Barbara Rasulo

Ariane and Richard Rafetto

William Rodriguez

Marc Chazaud and Diana Reid

Bill Silva

Christian Stracke

Jack Suzar and Linda May

Jon Vein and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein

Emory Walton

Kathy S. Walton

Casey and Laura Wasserman

Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima

Gregory Annenberg

Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg

Jef Wilson and Chevron Products Company

Stephen Schulte and Lori Williams

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Kimberly K. Wilson

From left: Marc Chazaud, James Muhammad, Lori Williams, Stephen Schulte

FRONT ROW (from left): Christine Muller, Gayle Whittemore, Nancy Abell, Teena Hostovich, Lisa Field, Stasia Washington, Robyn Field BACK ROW (from left): John Swanson, Alexandra Glickman, Steve Cius, Thelma Houston, Kathy Walton, Kimberly K. Wilson, Anthony O’Carroll

JANET JACKSON LIGHTS UP HOLLYWOOD BOWL OPENING NIGHT

A NIGHT OF ICONIC MUSIC, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND SPECTACULAR FIREWORKS

The legendary Janet Jackson kicked of the 2023 Hollywood Bowl season with an electrifying Opening Night show, Together Again, on Saturday, June 10. Grammy Award–winning rapper Ludacris set the stage for Jackson with his highenergy performance, getting the crowd ready for the main event. Jackson, renowned for her groundbreaking contributions to the music industry, delivered a sensational performance, captivating the audience with her powerful vocals and mesmerizing stage presence. From chart-topping classics like “All for You” and “Rhythm Nation” to fan favorites such as “Nasty” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” Jackson’s setlist spanned her

illustrious career, reminding everyone why she is a true music icon.

Beyond the star-studded performances, the Hollywood Bowl Opening Night is a critical fundraiser for the LA Phil and its Learning and community programs. The concert featured a special performance in which Jackson was joined by members of YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), which provides free, high-quality instrumental and orchestral training to youth from diverse and dynamic neighborhoods across Los Angeles.

The success of the Hollywood Bowl Opening Night would not have been possible without the dedicated eforts of the Opening Night Co-Chairs: Gregory A. Adams; Lisa Field; Robyn Field and Anthony

O’Carroll; Teena Hostovich, Doug Martinet, and Michael Martinet; and Stasia and Michael Washington. Their commitment and hard work contributed to the seamless execution of this remarkable event. The Hollywood Bowl Opening Night featuring Janet Jackson was an evening that celebrated the power of music, the spirit of community, and the joy of artistic expression. It was a testament to the enduring legacy of an iconic performer and the transformative potential of music education. With its spectacular performances and philanthropic mission, the event left an indelible mark on the hearts of all those in attendance, reminding them of the magic that can be found at the Hollywood Bowl.

TOP | FRONT ROW (FROM LEFT): JAROD, VIOLIN; CHRISTINE, CELLO; SACHIELLE, VIOLA; AMERIE, PERCUSSION; JANET JACKSON; CLARISSA, FLUTE; ARELI, FLUTE; ASHLEY, FRENCH HORN; NICK, PERCUSSION; THOMAS WILKINS; BACK ROW (FROM LEFT): DANIEL, CLARINET; PABLO, VIOLIN; ANGEL, VIOLIN; DYLAN, CELLO; ELIZABETH, BASSOON; SOYOON, VIOLA; MARY CARMEN, VIOLIN; CORA, OBOE; RUDY, DOUBLE BASS; BOTTOM LEFT | FRONT ROW (FROM LEFT): JEFF JANGER, RACHEL DAVIDSON, MEAGHAN LLOYD, CALVIN VEASLEY, KEVIN LEMMON; BACK ROW (FROM LEFT): MARK GAVENS, JANE GAVENS, ANTHONY O’CARROLL, ROBYN FIELD, SHARONA ALPERIN, LISA FIELD, KEVIN LEE; BOTTOM CENTER | FRONT ROW (FROM LEFT): DEREK FOLK, MICHAEL WASHINGTON, DAMAINE RADCLIFF; BACK ROW (FROM LEFT): JACKIE FOLK, STASIA WASHINGTON, TALITHA WATKINS; BOTTOM RIGHT | FROM LEFT: ROBERT RONUS, JUDY BECKMEN, TOM BECKMEN, HARROLD APPLEBAUM, BETSY APPLEBAUM, JOAN BURNS

Photos by Shannon Cottrell, Solaiman Fazel, and Timothy Norris

Since 1923, the ACLU of Southern California has fought to defend and advance the rights of all people in the southland. For the next 100 years and beyond, the ACLU SoCal dares to create a world where we the people means all of us.

LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US!

Audiences have been riding the Hollywood Bowl bus program since 1974, helping make it the largest and most comprehensive transportation system of any concert venue west of the Mississippi. The two official services, Park & Ride and Bowl Shuttle, help reduce the number of vehicles coming to the Bowl by an estimated 2,000 cars per concert, providing access to the Bowl for all LA County residents. With just over 3,500 separate bus trips to Bowl events last season, ridership is poised to expand with new shuttle lines from Burbank Metro and West Hollywood/Pacific Design Center in 2023.

DID YOU KNOW?

• When you show your same-day Park & Ride or Shuttle ticket at the Plaza Marketplace, you get 20% off your purchase.

• Buses drop you of at the Box Office Plaza near the top of the hill.

• Bowl Shuttle rides are FREE with valid Metro and Metrolink TAP cards.

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.

Celebrating California Institute of the Arts’ 50th Anniversary

For 50 years, California Institute of the Arts has been a place where creative individuals come together to experiment, practice, teach, and learn as a community of artists. Their impact and influence have transformed the cultural landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.

As we celebrate this milestone anniversary, we look to our artists to challenge what has come before and show us what could be for generations to come.

Ofering undergraduate and graduate degrees in:

Top right: The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts faculty, Jonathan Pinson

Bottom right: Cissi Efraimsson MFA3 Experimental Animation thesis film, “Sea Angels”

At left: The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. Photo: Josh Rose

BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB

LOS FABULOSOS CADILLACS

STERLING ELLIOTT

CARLA MORRISON

BUDDY GUY JOHN LEGEND

MAGGIE ROGERS

MY MORNING JACKET FLEET FOXES

PIXIES MODEST MOUSE

GLADYS KNIGHT

Photography: Sharen Bradford

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC STAFF

Daniel Song

INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Paula Michea

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Summer Bjork

CHIEF OF STAFF

Nora Brady

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Glenn Brifa CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Margie Kim

CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER

Emanuel Maxwell CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER

Mona Patel

GENERAL COUNSEL

Meghan Umber

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMMING

SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Laura Connelly

GENERAL MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL; VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION

Cynthia Fuentes

DIRECTOR, THE FORD

Elsje Kibler-Vermaas

VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING

Sara Kim

VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY

Johanna Rees

VICE PRESIDENT, PRESENTATIONS

Carlos Singer

DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Julia Ward

DIRECTOR, HUMANITIES

ADMINISTRATION

Stephanie Bates

COVID MONITOR

Michael Chang

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Linda Diaz

OFFICE MANAGER/RECEPTIONIST

Kevin Higa

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

ENGINEER

Dean Hughes

SYSTEM SUPPORT III

Charles Koo

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

Kevin Ma

SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Jef Matchan DIRECTOR, INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

Sergio Menendez

SYSTEM SUPPORT I

Edward Mesina

INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Andrew Moreno

ASSISTANT, OFFICE SERVICES

Angela Morrell

TESSITURA SUPPORT

Marius Olteanu

IT SUPPORT ENG I

Sean Pinto

DATABASE APPLICATIONS MANAGER

Miguel A. Ponce, Jr.

SYSTEM SUPPORT I

Christopher Prince

TESSITURA SUPPORT

Mark Quinto DIRECTOR, IT SERVICES

Meredith Reese

DIGITAL ASSET MANAGER

Aly Zacharias DIRECTOR, LEGAL

ARTISTIC PLANNING & PRESENTATIONS

Emily Davis

ARTIST LIAISON

Kristen Flock-Ritchie

PROGRAMMING MANAGER

Brian Grohl

PROGRAM MANAGER, POPS / MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA

Ljiljana Grubisic

ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Daniel Mallampalli

SENIOR PROGRAMMING MANAGER

Rafael Mariño

PROGRAM MANAGER

Mark McNeill

CREATIVE PRODUCER

Ayrten Rodriguez

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

Stephanie Yoon

ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER

Rebeca Zepeda

ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

AUDIENCE SERVICES

Denise Alfred

REPRESENTATIVE

Vilma Alvarez

SUPERVISOR

Brendan Broms

SUPERVISOR

Diego De La Torre

SUPERVISOR

Jacquie Ferger

REPRESENTATIVE

Linda Holloway

PATRON SERVICES MANAGER

Jennifer Hugus

PATRON SERVICES

Bernie Keating

REPRESENTATIVE

William Minor

REPRESENTATIVE

Rosa Ochoa

AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

Karen O’Sullivan

REPRESENTATIVE

Eden Palomino

REPRESENTATIVE

Teresa Phillips

SUPERVISOR

Richard Ponce

REPRESENTATIVE

Diana Salazar

PATRON SERVICES

Christopher Selland

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Michelle Sov

REPRESENTATIVE

HOLLYWOOD BOWL / FORD BOX OFFICE

Gema Allatorre

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Yuliza Barraza

TICKET SELLER

Alejandra Cabrales

TICKET SELLER

Angelica Carbajal

1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Irene Chow

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

David Cranton

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Shawana Deloach

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Matt Dolce

TICKET SELLER

Nancy Fitzgerald

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Angelia Franco

TICKET SELLER

Noricel Fulay Cole

TICKET SELLER

Carla Galvez

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Chris Harmony

TICKET SELLER

Kim Havens

TICKET SELLER

Russell Healey

1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Liliana Hernandez

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Lillian Herrera

1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Jason Horst

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Tomorrow Kitchen

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Richard Martinez

2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER

Yasmine Melendez

TICKET SELLER

Kishisa Ross

TREASURER

Steve Sims

1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Fabio Tassone

1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER

Jose Villasenor

TICKET SELLER

William Walton

TICKET SELLER

Mark Wilson

TICKET SELLER

FINANCE

Jyoti Aaron

CONTROLLER

Adriana Aguilar

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

Steven Cao

ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Katherine Franklin

VENUE ACCOUNTING

SUPERVISOR

Lisa Hernandez

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

LaTonya Lindsey

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

COORDINATOR

Debbie Marcelo

FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER

Wade Mueller

PAYROLL MANAGER

Kristine Nichols

PAYROLL COORDINATOR

Yuri Park

FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST

Nina Phay

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

Lisa Renteria

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST

Sierra Shultz

STAFF ACCOUNTANT

HOLLYWOOD BOWL SUMMER STAFF

Joel Argueta

CUSTODIAL MANAGER

Frank Ayala

BOWL SECURITY

Edwin Bonilla

FACILITIES SERVICE MANAGER

Oswaldo Camarena

LOT MANAGER

Jairo Flores

LOT MANAGER

Tamir Gilboa

VALET PARKING MANAGER

Emilia House

HOUSE MANAGER

Judy Lim

LOT MANAGER

Kelsey Reeder

HOUSE MANAGER

Ruben Reyes

ASSOCIATE HOUSE MANAGER

Hai Tran

LOT MANAGER

Thao Tran

LOT MANAGER

Fred Vogler

SOUND DESIGNER

HOLLYWOOD BOWL & THE FORD

Steve Arredondo

TRANSIT MANAGER

Dreima Flores OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR

Charee Heard

EVENT MANAGER

Gabriella Isabel Hernandez COORDINATOR, THE FORD

Norm Kinard

PARKING & TRAFFIC MANAGER

Mark Ladd DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Gina Leoni OPERATIONS MANAGER, THE FORD

Megan Ly-Lim OPERATIONS COORDINATOR, HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Tom Waldron OPERATIONS MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL

HUMAN RESOURCES

Amber Blanco

HR BUSINESS PARTNER

Monica Ly HR REPRESENTATIVE

Melissa Magdaleno

HR COORDINATOR

Bryan Namba

HR BUSINESS PARTNER

Frank Patano

HR MANAGER

LEARNING

Camille Delaney-McNeil

DIRECTOR, YOLA & BECKMEN

YOLA CENTER

Fabian Fuertes

SENIOR MANAGER, YOLA

Julie Hernandez FACILITIES MANAGER, BECKMEN YOLA CENTER

Lorenzo Johnson PROGRAM MANAGER, YOLA AT INGLEWOOD

Mariam Kaddoura MANAGER, LEARNING

Sarah Little ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LEARNING

Diana Melgar ASSISTANT MANAGER, YOLA

Michael Salas MANAGER, YOLA NATIONAL

Gaudy Sanchez YOLA ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Micaela Accardi-Krown MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA

Mary Allen

SENIOR MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA

Lushia Anson MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER

Scott Arenstein

SENIOR DIRECTOR, BRAND

Janice Bartczak DIRECTOR, RETAIL SERVICES

Lisa Burlingham

SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS

Charles Carroll MANAGER, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Joe Carter

SENIOR DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Elias Feghali

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE STRATEGIES & ANALYTICS

Justin Foo ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SALES & CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT

Caila Gale DIGITAL PRODUCER

Tara Gardner MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING

Karin Haule

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Annisha Hinkle SENIOR MANAGER, PROMOTIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Jennifer Hofner ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING

Sophie Jeferies

DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS

Alexis Kaneshiro SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Jordan Kaufman MANAGER, AUDIENCE GROWTH & ENGAGEMENT

Jediah McCourt

MANAGER, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Ino Mercado RETAIL MANAGER, MERCHANDISING

Ricky O’Bannon DIRECTOR, CONTENT

Erin Puckett

MARKETING COORDINATOR, PROMOTIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Andrew Radden DIRECTOR, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Anna Ress

SENIOR DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS

Tristan Rodman

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

Sadie Sartini Garner

CREATIVE COPYWRITER

Mary Smudde

ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Natalie Suarez

SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Kahler Suzuki

VIDEO PRODUCER

Jonathan Thomas MARKETING DATABASE SPECIALIST

Holly Wallace

PUBLICIST

Lauren Winn

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT & MEDIA INITIATIVES

Shana Bey DIRECTOR, ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

Kristie Chan

DIRECTOR, ORCHESTRA

PERSONNEL

Jessica Farber ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MEDIA INITIATIVES

Raymond Horwitz

PROJECT MANAGER, MEDIA INITIATIVES

Maren Slaughter

MANAGER, ORCHESTRA

PERSONNEL

PRODUCTION

Alex Grossman

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tina Kane

SCHEDULING MANAGER

Taylor Lockwood

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Kimberly Mitchell

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Christopher Slaughter

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Michael Vitale

DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION

Kelvin Vu

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Bill Williams

PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR

PHILANTHROPY

Robert Albini

DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Joshua Alvarenga

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Nancy Baxter

DIRECTOR OF GIFT PLANNING

Taylor Burrows

SENIOR COORDINATOR, GIFT PLANNING

Julia Cole

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Joel Fernandez

SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

Elan Fields

GIFT & DATA SPECIALIST

Clara Fuhrman

SENIOR COORDINATOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Freyja Glover ASSISTANT MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND

Genevieve Goetz

GIFT PLANNING OFFICER

Angelina Grego

SENIOR COORDINATOR OF AFFILIATES/ANNUAL FUND

Gerry Heise

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Ashley Helm ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS

Crystal K. Jones

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Julian Kehs

MANAGER, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Emily Lair

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Christina Magaña

DONOR RELATIONS ASSOCIATE

Allison Mitchell DIRECTOR, BOARD RELATIONS

Gisela Morales

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Ryan Murphy

ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS

Sophie Nelson

DONOR RELATIONS ASSISTANT

Ragan Reviere DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, SPECIAL EVENTS

Carina Sanchez

SENIOR MANAGER, RESEARCH & PROSPECT DEVELOPMENT

Dustin Seo

ASSISTANT MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND

Erica Sitko DIRECTOR, STEWARDSHIP & PRINCIPAL GIFT STRATEGY

Peter Szumlas

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS

Tyler Teich

SENIOR GIFT AND DATA SPECIALIST

Derek Traub MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY COMMUNICATIONS

Kevin Tsao ANNUAL GIVING OFFICER

Morgan Walton ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS AND AFFILIATES

Richard T. Watkins

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY

IATSE LOCAL 33

Kevin Brown MASTER CARPENTER

Eduardo Hernandez

CARPENTER

Andy Kassan MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Jesse Kolouch

PROPERTYMAN

Robert Naughton

PROJECTION

Donald Quick

MASTER PROPERTYMAN

Michael Sheppard

MASTER SOUNDMAN

Kevin Wapner

ASSISTANT MASTER SOUNDMAN

Andrew Webberley

ASSISTANT MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Center are stafed by members of IATSE Local 857, Treasurers and Ticket Sellers.

The Philharmonic Box Ofce and Audience Services

LIMITEDSEATINGACTNOW!

Michael Feinstein, conductor Clint Holmes, Matthew Johnson & Storm Large, soloists

Michael Feinstein, conductor Nicole Henry, Freda Payne & Catherine Russell, soloists

Michael Feinstein,conductor Christine Ebersole, soloist

Michael Feinstein, soloist Larry Blank, conductor

Out of This NEARBY

OPENING NIGHT

September 30

GRAHAM100

The First and the Future American Legacies

Rhiannon Giddens

Nathalie Stutzmann

Samara

Joy

Martha Graham Dance Company

Savion Glover

Vasily Petrenko

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Lisa Fischer

Eliades Ochoa

Ballet Folklórico de Los Ángeles

Tiler Peck

David Finckel & Wu Han

Lila Downs

THE FIRST YEARS OF MUSIC: 7-LP VINYL BOX SET

In its first century, the Hollywood Bowl hosted legendary performances from some of the biggest names in music history. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has called the Bowl home for decades and has made a tradition of presenting unparalleled artistry in a gorgeous setting.

Frank Sinatra caused a sensation when he became the first pop musician to sing with an orchestra on the Bowl stage. Rock artists brought the counterculture into one of LA’s most esteemed venues. Annual musicals, starstudded specials, titans of jazz—if it’s soul-stirring or foot-tapping, it’s happened at the Bowl.

And now, you can bring the Bowl’s history home with the Hollywood Bowl 100 vinyl box set. Beautifully designed to reflect the diversity of sounds that have made the Bowl one of LA’s richest cultural institutions, the set comprises seven LPs of recordings made live on the Bowl

stage—including some from as far back as 1928. The set captures the sonic heritage of the Bowl’s first century, with performances by everyone from the LA Phil—led by conductors including Eugene Goossens, Igor Stravinsky, Zubin Mehta, and Gustavo Dudamel—to The Doors to Audra McDonald, with frequent stops between. Order your copy now, available exclusively at the LA Phil Stores at the Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and online at laphilstore.com, and get ready to relive some of the greatest moments of the Hollywood Bowl’s first 100 years. Each purchase includes a limitededition tote bag.

For a complete track list, product images, and listening samples, please visit hollywoodbowl.com/vinyl.

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

Traci Park

Curren D. Price, Jr.

Nithya Raman

Monica Rodriguez

Hugo Soto-Martinez

Katy Young Yaroslavsky

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Daniel Tarica General Manager

CULTURAL AFFAIRS

COMMISSION

Thien Ho President

Evonne Gallardo Vice President

Ray Jimenez

Asantewa Olatunji

Eric Paquette

Cathy Unger

Robert Vinson

WALT DISNEY CONCERT

HALL HOUSE STAFF

Sergio Quintanar

Master Carpenter

Marcus Conroy

Master Electrician

Kevin F. Wapner

Master Audio/Video

Greg Flusty House Manager

The stage crew is represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada, Local No. 33.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Hilda L. Solis

Holly J. Mitchell

Lindsey P. Horvath

Janice K. Hahn Chair

Kathryn Barger

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE

Kristin Sakoda Director

COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION

Liane Weintraub President

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 longstanding 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.

Leticia Buckley

Vice President

Patrisse Cullors Secretary

Madeline Di Nonno

Executive Committee

Eric R. Eisenberg

Immediate Past President

Pamela Bright-Moon

Diana Diaz

Sandra Hahn

Helen Hernandez

Constance Jolcuvar

Alis Clausen Odenthal

Anita Ortiz

Jennifer Price-Letscher

Randi Tahara

Rosalind Wyman

Kathryn Barger FIFTH DISTRICT

Lindsey P. Horvath THIRD DISTRICT CHAIR PRO TEM

Holly J. Mitchell SECOND DISTRICT

Hilda L. Solis FIRST DISTRICT

Janice K. Hahn FOURTH DISTRICT CHAIR

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 March 31, 2023.

$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

$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999

Anonymous

Dunard Fund USA

Lenore S. and Bernard A.

Greenberg Fund

Carol Colburn Grigor

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Los Angeles

Philharmonic

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 MarchenaHuyke 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

MaddocksBrown Foundation

Ginny Mancini

Raulee Marcus

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Merle and Peter Mullin

William and Carolyn Powers

H. Russell Smith Foundation

Deanie and Jay Stein

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

Lee and Hope

Landis Warner

YOLA Student Fund

Edna Weiss

$250,000

TO $499,999

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

Family Foundation

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.

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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 jmccourt@laphil.org.

ANNUAL GIVING

From the concerts that take place onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 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 joining the LA Phil family. 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 afterschool 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, please call 213 972 7557.

PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Tifany Chivaroli, Co-Chairs

PARTNER

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.

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ANNUAL DONORS

The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $2,000 or more to the LA Phil, including special event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between April 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023.

$1,000,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (3) Ann and Robert Ronus

$500,000 TO $999,999

Ballmer Group

$200,000 TO $499,999

Anonymous (2)

Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen

Colburn Foundation

Dunard Fund USA

Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner

Lisa Field

Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

Gordon P. Getty

Max H. Gluck

Foundation

Jenny Miller Goff

$100,000 TO $199,999

Anonymous (3)

Nancy and Leslie Abell

Mr. Gregory A. Adams

Regina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg

Weingarten

The Blue Ribbon

R. Martin Chavez

Michael J. Connell Foundation

The Eisner Foundation

Ms. Erika J. Glazer

The Grand LA/ Related

$50,000 TO $99,999

Anonymous (2)

Mr. Robert J. Abernethy

Amgen Foundation

Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser

Aramont Charitable Foundation

David Bohnett Foundation

Linda and Maynard Brittan

Michele Brustin

Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow

Steven and Lori Bush

California

Arts Council

Chevron Products Company

Esther S.M. Chui

Chao and Andrea

Chao-Kharma

Dan Clivner

Donelle Dadigan

Nancy and Donald de Brier

The Rafael & Luisa de MarchenaHuyke Foundation

De MarchenaHuyke Foundation

Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt

Louise and Brad

Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation

$25,000 TO $49,999

Anonymous (7)

Anonymous in memory of Dr. Suzanne Gemmell

The Herb Alpert Foundation

Music Center Foundation

Hearthland Foundation

Tylie Jones

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Kaiser Permanente

Ms. Ursula C. Krummel

Linda May and Jack Suzar

John Mohme

Foundation

Maureen and Stanley Moore

Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation

William Kelly and Tomas Fuller

Mr. James Gleason

Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore

Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund

Yvonne Hessler

Mr. Philip Hettema

The Hillenburg Family

The Hirsh Family

Barbara and Amos Hostetter

County of Los Angeles

Anne Akiko

Meyers and Jason Subotky

The Music Man Foundation

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

M. David and Diane Paul

The Rauch Family Foundation

Koni and Geoff Rich

Rolex Watch USA, Inc.

The Rose Hills Foundation

Linda and David Shaheen

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

Richard and Ariane Raffetto

James D. Rigler/ Lloyd E. Rigler

- Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Ms. Teena

Hostovich and Mr. Doug Martinet Monique and Jonathan Kagan

W.M. Keck

Foundation

Ms. Sarah H. Ketterer

Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa

Dr. Ralph A. Korpman

Live Nation

Los Angeles County

Department of Arts and Culture

The Seth MacFarlane Foundation

James and Laura Rosenwald/Orinoco Foundation

Allyson Rubin

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Christian Stracke

Ms. Lois M. Tandy

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Margo and Irwin Winkler

Ellen and Arnold Zetcher

Alfred E. Mann

Charities

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Peninsula Committee

Ms. Linda L. Pierce

Sandy and Barry D. Pressman

Andrew M. Rosenfeld

Wendy and Ken Ruby

Marilyn and Eugene Stein

Antonia Hernández and Michael

L. Stern

Ronald and Valerie Sugar

Sue Tsao

Ellen GoldsmithVein and Jon Vein

Stasia and Michael Washington

Mr. Alex Weingarten

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation

Debra Wong Yang and John

W. Spiegel

Debra and Benjamin Ansell

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Becker

Samuel and Erin Biggs

Mr. and Mrs. Norris

J. Bishton, Jr.

Jill Black Zalben

Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation

Kawanna and Jay Brown

Oleg and Tatiana Butenko

Ying Cai and Wann S. Lee Foundation

Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli

Mr. Richard W. Colburn

Becca and Jonathan Congdon

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook

Lynette and Michael C. Davis

Nation-Hewitt Silva Concerts, LLC

Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust

Estate of Yates Keir

Orna and David Delrahim

The Walt Disney Company

Lauren Shuler Donner

Malsi DoyleForman and Michael Forman

Van and Francine Durrer

East West Bank

Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder

Geoff Emery

Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher

Foothill Philharmonic Committee

Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler

Goldman Sachs Gives

Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony

DeFrancesco

Mr. and Mrs.

Louis L. Gonda

Lucy S. Gonda MA, Creative Arts

Therapies

Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley

The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency

Liz and Peter Goulds

The Green Foundation

Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence

Jason Greenman and Jeanne Williams

$15,000 TO $24,999

Anonymous (7)

Drew and Susan Adams

Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler

Bank of America

Susan Baumgarten

Dr. William Benbassat

Miles and Joni Benickes

Susan and Adam Berger

Helen and Peter S. Bing

Mr. Ronald H. Bloom

Mr. and Mrs.

Wade Bourne

Thy Bui

California

Community Foundation

Campagna Family Trust

Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin

Andrea Chao-

Kharma and Kenneth Kharma

Sarah and Roger Chrisman

Mr. and Mrs.

Jonathan Cookler

Alison Moore Cotter

Mark Houston

Dalzell and James

Dao-Dalzell

Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver,

Carlton Seaver

Jennifer Diener

Renée and Paul Haas

Harman Family Foundation

Fritz Hoelscher

Mr. Tyler Holcomb

Thomas Dubois

Hormel Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hunter

Mr. and Mrs.

Joshua R. Kaplan

Terri and Michael Kaplan

Paul Kester

The Erich and Della

Koenig Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger

Ken Lemberger and Linda Sasson

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine

Marvin J. Levy

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

Renee and Meyer Luskin

Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen

Pam and Ron Mass

Matt Construction Corporation

Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker

Ms. Kim McCarthy and Mr. Ben Cheng

Ms. Irene Mecchi

Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.

Marc and Ashley Merrill

David and Margaret Mgrublian

Molly Munger and Stephen English

NBC Universal

Carrie Nery

Mr. Robert W. Olsen

Tye Ouzounian

Andy Park

Bruce and Aulana Peters

Nancy and Glenn Pittson

Mr. Bennett Rosenthal

Ross Endowment Fund

Katy and Michael S. Saei

Thomas Safran

Mr. Lee C. Samson

Ellen and Richard Sandler

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Gregory Slewett

Randy and Susan Snyder

Lisa and Wayne Stelmar

Mrs. Zenia Stept

Dwight Stuart Youth Fund

Frank Hu and Vikki Sung

Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin

Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima

Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer

Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker

The David William Upham Foundation

Nancy Valentine

Mindy and David Weiner

WHH Foundation

Zolla Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. William M. Duxler

Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice

LaMarche

Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation

Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra

Debra Frank

Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg

Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert

N. Braun, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman

Gary and Cindy Frischling

Dr. and Mrs. David Fung

Carrie and Rob Glicksteen

Goodman Family Foundation

Robert and Lori Goodman

Mr. Bill Grubman

Marnie and Dan Gruen

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Guerin

Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff

Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian

Dwight Hare and Stephanie

Bergsma

Stephen T. Hearst

Walter and Donna Helm

Diane Henderson, M.D.

Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray

Ms. Luanne Hernandez

Marion and Tod Hindin

Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin

Bob and Nita Hirsch

Family Foundation

Liz Levitt Hirsch

Ms. Michelle Horowitz

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel

Paul Horwitz

Meg and Bahram Jalali

Mr. Eugene Kapaloski

Marilee and Fred Karlsen

Tobe and Greg Karns

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kasirer

Sandi and Kevin Kayse

Cary and Jennifer Kleinman

Larry and Lisa Kohorn

Nickie and Marc Kubasak

Naomi and Fred Kurata

Vicki Lan

David Lee

Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine

Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr. Donna Richey

Ms. Agnes Lew

Ms. Judith W. Locke

Anita Lorber

Los Angeles

Philharmonic Affiliates

Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro

Law Firm

The Mailman Foundation

Raulee Marcus

Jonathan and Delia Matz

Liliane Quon McCain

Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie

Mr. and Mrs. David Meline

Marcy Miller

Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin

Joel and Joanne Mogy

Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc.

Deena and Edward Nahmias

Ms. Kari Nakama

Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Napier

Ms. Mary D. Nichols

Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero

Christine M. Ofiesh

Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel

Gregory Pickert and Beth Price

Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello

Barbara and Jay Rasulo

Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud

Cathleen and Scott Richland

Mimi Rotter

Linda and Tony Rubin

The SahanDaywi Foundation

Ron and Melissa Sanders

Dena and Irv Schechter/The Hyman Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR

Evy and Fred Scholder Family

Joan and Arnold Seidel

Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman

Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder

Mr. James J. Sepe

Mr. Steven Shapiro

Nina Shaw and Wallace Little

Jill and Neil Sheffield

Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas

Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer

The Specialty Family Foundation

Mr. Lev Spiro and Ms. Melissa Rosenberg

Jeremy Stark

Stein Family FundJudie Stein

Tom Strickler

Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz

Akio Tagawa

Elinor and Rubin Turner

Tom and Janet Unterman

Christine Upton

Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott

Tee Vo and Chester Wang

Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn

Wagner

Warner Bros. Discovery

Bryan D. Weissman and Jennifer Resnik

Mr. and Mrs. Steven White

John and Samantha Williams

Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi

Andre Young

Karl and Dian Zeile

Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan

David Zuckerman and Ellie Kanner

$10,000 TO $14,999

Anonymous (5)

B. Allen and Dorothy Lay

Art and Pat Antin

Andy Arica

Ms. Lisette

Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila

The Aversano

Family Trust

Lorrie and Dan Baldwin

Stephanie Barron

Mr. Joseph A. Bartush

Stiv Bators

Sondra Behrens

Phyllis and Sandy Beim

Mr. Mark and Pat Benjamin

Suzette and Monroe Berkman

Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien

Ms. Deborah Booth

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick

Mr. Ronald W. Burkle

Larison Clark

Mr. and Mrs. V. Shannon Clyne

Ms. Bernice Colman

Committee of Professional Women

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Connelly

Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Crowell

Dr. and Mrs. Nazareth E. Darakjian

Chaz Dean

Tim and Neda Disney

Tara Dollinger

Sean Dugan and Joe Custer

Anna Sanders Eigler

Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg

Emil Ellis Farrar and Bill Ramackers

Bonnie and Ronald Fein

Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang

E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman

Ella Fitzgerald

Charitable Foundation

Daniel and Maryann Fong

Mr. Michael Fox

Jane Fujishige

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Gainsley

Beth Gertmenian

Greg and Etty Goetzman

Harriett and Richard E. Gold

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Goldsmith

Nestor Gonzalez and Richard Rivera

Manuela Cerri Goren

$5,500 TO $9,999

Anonymous (5)

Alex Alben

Juan Carlos Albors

Adrienne S. Alpert

Bobken and Hasmik Amirian

Sandra Aronberg,

M.D. and Charles

Aronberg, M.D.

Ms. Judith A. Avery

Mr. Mustapha Baha

Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.

Mrs. Linda E. Barnes

Karen and Jonathan Bass

Mr. Barry Beitler

Logan Beitler

Maria and Bill Bell

Ms. Gail K. Bernstein

Denise Bevers

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Gottlieb

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gouw

Diane and Peter H. Gray

Alexia Grevious

Tricia and Richard Grey

Mrs. Judith Gurian

Mr. William Hair

Laurie and Chris Harbert

Gabrielle Starr and John Harpole

Lynette Hayde

Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Helford and Family

Carol Henry

Myrna and Uri Herscher Family Foundation

Arlene Hirschkowitz

Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth

Joyce and Fredric Horowitz

Ms. Julia Huang

Ms. Loretta Hung

Mr. Frank J. Intiso

Mr. Gregory Jackson and Mrs. Lenora Jackson

Kristi Jackson and William Newby

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Jackson

Robin and Gary Jacobs

Earvin Johnson Jr.

Barbara A. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Steaven K. Jones, Jr. Dr. William B. Jones

Linda and Donald Kaplan

Marty and Cari Kavinoky

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keller

Vicki King

Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth N. Klee

Alan S. Koenigsberg and John A. Dotto

Lee Kolodny

Ellie and Mark Lainer

Ms. Leerae Leaver

Leisure Group, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Levin

Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson

Vilma S.

Martinez, Esq.

Lisa and Willem Mesdag

Cynthia Miscikowski

Marc and Jessica Mitchell

Mr. John Monahan

Carmen Morgan

Wendy Stark

Morrissey

Mr. Brian R. Morrow

Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson

Sujata Murthy

Anthony and Olivia Neece

Dick and Chris Newman / C & R

Newman Family Foundation

Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris

Foundation

Mr. John Nuckols

Steve and Gail Orens

Ellen Pansky

Cynthia Patton

Chris Pine

Audrey Prins

William “Mito” Rafert

Lee Ramer

Hon. Vicki Reynolds and Mr. Murray Pepper

William F. Rodriguez

Murphy and Ed Romano and Family

Robyn and Steven Ross

Jesse Russo and

Alicia Hirsch

Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk

Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich Schelbert

Mr. Alan M. Schwartz

Mr. Walter Sebring

Samantha and Marc Sedaka

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Julie and Bradley Shames

Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro

Gloria Sherwood

The Sikand Foundation

Mr. George Sponhaltz

Joseph and Suzanne Sposato

Mr. Adrian B. Stern

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stern

James C. Stewart

Charitable Foundation

Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin

Michael Frazier Thompson

Gabrielle Union

Terry and Ann Marie Volk

Nancy Voorhees

Rachel Wagman

Emory Walton

Bob and Dorothy Webb

Abby and Ray Weiss

Kimberly K. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zelikow

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Birnholz

Dr. Andrew C.

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Mr. Michael Blea Mitchell Bloom

Roz and Peter Bonerz

Greg Borrud

The Hon. Bob Bowers and Mrs. Reveta Bowers

Mr. David F. Bowman

Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard

Mr. Donald M.

Briggs and Mrs. Deborah J. Briggs

Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Brown

Business and Professional Committee

Mr. and Mrs. Tom R. Camp

Mara and Joseph Carieri

CBS Entertainment

Dr. Kirk Y. Chang

Chien Family

Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green

Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald Clements

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Cohen

Mr. David Colburn

Susan Cole-Hill

Jay and Nadege Conger

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook

Victoria Cook

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Corben

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin

Lloyd Eric Cotsen

Dr. Carey Cullinane

Mrs. Nancy A.

Cypert

Mr. Howard M. Davine

Ms. Rosette Delug

Ms. Nancy L. Dennis

The Randee and Ken Devlin

Foundation

Mark Dorner

Julie and Stan Dorobek

Shaun D’Souza

The Duane Wilder Foundation, Inc

Bob Ducsay

Mr. and Mrs.

Brack W. Duker

Drs. Ray Duncan and Lauren Crosby

Cameron Dunn

Kristen Engle

Dr. Annette

Ermshar and Dan Monahan

Jennifer Feeley

The Hon. Michael

W. Fitzgerald and Mr. Arturo Vargas

Ms. Penelope Foley

Mrs. Diane Forester

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Franke Family Trust

Ms. Kimberly Friedman

Jason Gilbert

Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie

The Gillis Family

Tina Warsaw

Gittelson

Mr. Daniel Goldman

Lori G. Gordon

Lee Graff Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.

Paul E. Griffin III

Cornelia HaagMolkenteller, M.D.

Ms. Marian L. Hall

Christy Haubegger

Stephen and Hope Heaney

Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust

Janice and Laurence Hoffmann

Roberta and Burt Horwitch

Dr. and Mrs.

Mel Hoshiko

Rif and Bridget Hutton

Harry and Judy Isaacs

Michele and James Jackoway

Ms. Melinda

Johnstone

Randi and Richard B. Jones

Lawrence Kalantari

Katherine Kang

Leigha Kemmett

Bradley Keywell

Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee

Mr. and Mrs. Jon Kirchner

Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Kornwasser

Barry Kraus

Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krivis

Dr. and Mrs.

Mark Labowe

Mr. Richard W. Labowe

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald B. Labowe

Katherine Lance

Mr. and Mrs.

Jack D. Lantz

Mr. Jason Larian

Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz

Mr. George Lee

Mr. Randall Lee and Ms.

Stella M. Jeong

Mary Beth and John Leonard

Randi Levine

Saul Levine

David and Rebecca Lindberg

Devon Lipe

Ms. Diana Longarzo

Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord

Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr. James

Kelley

Ruth and Roger MacFarlane

Susan MacLaurin

Douglas MacLennan

Nedda Mahrou

Sandra Cumings

Malamed and Kenneth D.

Malamed

Todd Marshall

Areva Martin

Mr. Arthur

Maruyama

Kaavya Matatova

Leslie and Ray Mathiasen

Mr. Gary J. Matus

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. McCarthy

$3,500 TO $5,499

Anonymous (3)

Dr. and Mrs. Frank Agrama

Ms. Rose Ahrens

Edgar Aleman

Mr. James P. Alstad

James Alva

Mrs. Betty Anderson

Mr. Peter Anderson and Ms. Valerie Goo

Dr. Philip Anthony

Victor and Iris Antola

Chukwuma

Anyaoku

Dr. Mehrdad Ariani

Cheryl Atienza

Pamela and Jeffrey Balton

Ms. Catherine McClenahan

Cathy and John McMullen

Mr. Sheldon and Dr. Linda Mehr

Lawry Meister

Mr. and Mrs.

Dana Messina

Ms. Marlane Meyer

Rachel Miller

Mr. Weston F. Milliken

Wesley Mizutani

Heidi and Jon Monkarsh

Mr. David S. Moromisato

Gregory and Jennifer Morrison

Mrs. Lillian Mueller

Sheila Muller

Craig and Lisa Murray

Mr. Emory R. Myrick

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Nathan

Mrs. Cynthia Nelson

David T. Netto

Mr. and Mrs. Randy Newman

Ms. Kimberly Nicholas

Ms. Margo Leonetti

O’Connell

Irene and Edward Ojdana

Mr. Ralph Page and Patty Lesh

Ms. Melissa Papp-Green

Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon Johannessen

Alyssa Phaneuf

Carolyn Phillips

Julie and Marc Platt

Lyle and Lisi Poncher

Robert J. Posek, M.D.

John Powell

Debbie and Rick Powell

James S. Pratty, M.D.

Mr. Albert Praw

Joyce and David Primes

Mr. Eduardo

Repetto

Christopher

Reynolds

Jhamal Robinson

Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren

Rosenthal

Amy and William Roth

Ms. Rita Rothman

Dr. Michael Rudolph

Miles Rutkowski

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rutter

Thomas C. Sadler and Dr.

Eila C. Skinner

Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Salick

Mrs. Elizabeth

Loucks Samson

San MarinoPasadena

Philharmonic Committee

Jason Sanford

Santa MonicaWestside Philharmonic Committee

Mark and Valerie Sawicki

Ms. Maryanne Sawoski

Dr. Marlene M. Schultz and Philip M. Walent

Schwab Charitable Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Hervey Segall

Claire and Charlie Shaeffer

Ms. Julie Shaperman

Ranada Shepard

Pamela and Russ Shimizu

Mr. Adam Sidy

Kenneth and Renata Simril

Bryan Sims

Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Skinner

Brandi Slayton

Mr. Douglas H. Smith

Michael Soloman and Steven Good

Mr. Charles P. Souw

William Spiller

Lael Stabler and Jerone English

Hilde StephensLevonian

Rose and Mark Sturza

Ron Sweet

Jennifer Taguchi

Mr. and Mrs.

Randall Tamura

Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann

Weyman

Mrs. Elayne

Techentin

Keith and Cecelia Terasaki

Richard Turkanis and Wendy Kirshner

Charles and Nicole Uhlmann

Jon Van Sluyters

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Vickers

Mr. Nate Walker

Lisa and Tim Wallender

Shirley Wangl

Scott Ward

Westside Committee

Robert and Penny White

Ms. Jill Wickert

Mr. Robert E. Willett

Denita Willoughby

David and Michele Wilson

Mr. Steve Winfield

Karen and Rick Wolfen

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wynne

Mrs. Lillian Zacky

Michael Zells

Rudolf H. Ziesenhenne

Catherine and Joseph Battaglia

Kay and Joe Baumbach

Reed Baumgarten

Newton and Rochelle Becker

Charitable Trust

Benjamin Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bennett

Peter Benudiz

Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein

Nitin Bhatia

D Bichir

Eileen Bigelow and Brien J. Bigelow

Aaron Blackburn

Thomas J. Blumenthal

Joan N. Borinstein

Ms. Leslie Botnick

Mr. Ray Boucher

Mr. Matthew C. Bousquette and Mr. John Jacobs

Mrs. Susan Bowey

Anita and

Joel Boxer

Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler

Resheida Brady

Mrs. William Brand and Ms.

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Ms. Marie Brazil

Robert Brichacek

Drs. Maryam and Iman Brivanlou

Kevin Brockman and Daniel Berendsen

Abbott Brown

Diana Buckhantz

Diane Caliva

Gwen E. Campbell

Victor Carabello

Steve and Indy Carey

Peter Cartmell

Lorena Castro

Roberta Castro

Mr. Jon C. Chambers

Jami Chang

Adam Chase

Mr. Louis Chertkow

Carla Christofferson

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Ms. Ina Coleman

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Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez

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Corena De Klerk

Ann Deal

Nathan Dean

Ms. Mary Denove

Nikki Depaola

Christopher DeRosa

Mr. Kevin Dill

Julia Stearns

Dockweiler

Charitable Foundation

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Glendale Philharmonic Committee

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Cheryl Goldring

Dr. Patricia Goldring

Elliot Gordon and Carol Schwartz

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Janet Levin

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Ahjalia Hall

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Hansen

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Kim Hershman

Ms. Gail Hershowitz

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G Hogan

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In and Ki Hong

Douglas and Carolyn Honig

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Sean Horton

Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Hudnut

Brennan Hughes

Lori Hutcherson

Andrei and Luiza Iancu

International Committee

Rock River

Libby and Arthur Jacobson

Mr. Sean Johnson

Arnold Jones

John Jones

Robin and Craig Justice

Gary Kading

Jessica Kang

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Karton

Dr. and Mrs. David Kawanishi

Kayne, Anderson and Rudnick

Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W.

Kearney

Mrs. Judith G. Kelly

Richard Kelton

Kim-Narita and Shuda Family

Richard and Lauren King

Remembering

Lynn Wheeler

Kinikin

Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel

Stephanie and Randy Klopfleisch

Michael and Patricia Klowden

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Konheim

Elaine Kramer and Al Latham

Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean

Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo

Thomas and Gloria Lang

Joan and Chris Larkin

James D. Laur

Craig Lawson and Terry Peters

Mr. Les Lazar

Mr. Tom Leanse

Mr. Robert Leevan

Brittany Lemon

Mr. Donald S. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Levine

Lydia and Charles Levy

Niceole Levy

David and Meghan Licata

Alison Lifland

Emmanuel Lim, M.D.

Ms. Elisabeth

Lipsman

Mr. Greg Lipstone

Long Beach

Auxiliary

Julie Long

Robert and Susan Long

Los Angeles

Philharmonic Committee

Kristine and David Losito

Mr. and Mrs. Boutie Lucas

Crystal and Elwood Lui

Luppe and Paula Luppen

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Madden

Constance Mann

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Manzani

Mona and Frank Mapel

Mr. Allan Marks and Dr. Mara Cohen

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Maron

Phillip and Stephanie

Martineau

Dr. and Mrs. Allen W. Mathies

Dr. and Mrs. Gene Matzkin

Lisa Mazzocco and Andrew Silver

Mr. William McCune

Mr. Martin

McDermut

Mr. and Mrs. William F. McDonald

Mr. David McGowan

Mr. and Mrs. John

P. McNicholas

Robert L. Mendow

Marcia Bonner

Meudell and Mike Merrigan

Linda and David Michaelson

Dr. Gary Milan

Ms. Joanna Miller

Linda and Kenneth Millman

Mr. and Mrs. Simon Mills

Janet Minami

Mr. and Mrs. William Mingst

Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch

Maria and Marzi Mistry

Ms. Roxanne

Modjallal

Robert and Claudia Modlin

Linda and John Moore

Mr. Alexander Moradi

Mr. Buddy Morra

Gretl and Arnold Mulder

Beverly Murray

Mr. James A. Nadal and Amelia Nadal

S W and Stuart Needleman

Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Neely

Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff

Bill and Mary Newbold

Mr. Richard Newcome and Mr. Mark Enos

Steven A. Nissen

Ms. Becky Novy

Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen

Lourdes Ochoa-Marquez

Mr. Dale Okuno

David Olson and Ruth Stevens

D. Orenstein and J. Lu

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Orkand

January

Parkos-Arnall

Mr. and Mrs.

Robert D. Paster

Thomas Payne

Paul Pelligrino

Martin Perez

Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Perttula

Natasha Phan

Mrs. Charlotte

Pinsky

Mr. Jeff Polak and Mrs. Lauren Reisman Polak

Ms. Virginia Pollack

Mrs. Ruth S. Popkin

Ms. Eleanor Pott

Michael Praw

Ms. Marci Proietto

Patrick Ragen

Ms. Miriam Rain

Julie Ramirez

Andrew Rankin

Marcia and Roger Rashman

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ratkovich

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ray

Rita and Norton Reamer

David and Mary Beth Redding

Resource Direct

Dr. Susan F. Rice

Mr. Ronald Ridgeway

Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Roberts

Robinson Family Foundation

Hon. Ernest M. Robles

Ernesto Rocco

Mrs. Laura H. Rockwell

In memory of RJ and JK Roe

Jody Rogers

Diep Romano

Lois Rosen

Peter and Marla Rosen

Mr. Lee N. Rosenbaum and Mrs. Corinna

Cotsen

Kevin and Marguerite Ross

Mr. Michael Rouse

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Rowland

Bill Rowland

Luis Ruiz

Ann M. Ryder

Payam Saadai

Jessica Saintfort

Valerie Salkin

Mr. and Mrs.

Charles M. Sarff

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Sattler

Jessica Savage

Kevin Savage and Britta Lindgren

Cori Schnieber

Carol (Jackie) and Charles Schwartz

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Schwartz

Mr. Alan Scolamieri

Michael Sedrak

Mrs. Barbara Segal

Dr. and Mrs. Hooshang

Semnani

Ms. Amy J.

Shadur-Stein

Ms. Avantika Shahi

Shamban Family

Emmanuel Sharef

Ms. Martha

Shen-Urquidez

Samuel Shepard III

Abby Sher

Kevin and Eileen Shields

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shoenman

Mr. Murray Siegel

Scott Silver

June Simmons

Ms. Ruth M. Simon

David Singer

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sinskey

Leah R. Sklar

Eric Small and Dorothy Waugh

Linda Smith

Mr. Steven Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Michael G.

Smooke

Harold Snedcof

Ms. Katherine Sohigian

Michael and Mildred Sondermann

Dr. Michael Sopher and Dr. Debra Vilinsky

SouthWest Heights

Philharmonic Committee

Shondell and Ed Spiegel

Ms. Angelika Stauffer

Jessica Steelberg

Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Steele

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stein

Jeff and Peg Stephens

Mr. Scott Stephens

Cliff Stephenson

Samuel Suchowiecky

Maia and Richard Suckle and The Anna & Benjamin Suckle Foundation

The Sugimoto Family

Susan Sullivan

Ted Suzuki and Deborah May

Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Swanson

Mr. Bradley Tabach-Bank

Mr. Marc A. Tamaroff

Brent Taravella

Judith Taylor

Mr. Nick Teeter

Ms. Jennifer

Cannon Terry

Suzanne Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. Harlan H. Thompson

Ms. Evangeline M. Thomson

Mr. and Mrs. Harris Toibb

Tpc Inc Steve Lang

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Unger

Ingrid Urich-Sass

Kathy Valentino

David H. Vena

Perry Vidalakis

Jenny Vogel

Elliott and Felise Wachtel

Christopher V. Walker

Mr. Eldridge Walker

John Ward

Matthew Warshauer

Mr. Darryl Wash

David Webster

Ms. Diane C. Weil and

Mr. Leslie R. Horowitz

Dr. Arthur Weinstein

Mr. and Mrs.

Doug M. Weitman

Ms. Iris Whiting

Mr. Kirk Wickstrom and Mrs. Shannon

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Carla Williams

Lori Williams and Stephen Schulte

Mr. Lee Winkelman and Ms.

Wendey Stanzler

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Wiseman

Ms. Eileen Wong

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wong

Linda and John Woodall

$2,000 TO $3,499

Anonymous (9)

Alisa Abecssis

Mr. Alan Abramson

Allan Abshez

Lena and David Adishian

Alyson Adler

Lelah Adler

Mr. Robert A. Ahdoot

Dr. and Mrs. David Aizuss

Alicyn, Jason and Bodhi

Rus Allen

Ms. Lynn Allen

Mr. Robert C. Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Andes

Ms. Bostani Anoosheh

Barbara Aran

Carol L. Archie Linda and Robert Attiyeh

Leon Avery

Tawney Bains and Zachary Roberts

Mr. Barry Baker

Terence Balagia

Mr. and Mrs. Ken and Renee Ballard

Howard Banchik

Kathleen Barchick

Isaac Barinholtz and Erica Hanson

Jason Barmore

Ken and Lisa Baronsky

Mr. Michael Barr

Mr. Richard Bayer

George and Karen Bayz

Ms. Nettie Becker

Ms. Karen S.

Bell and

Mr. Robert Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bellomy

Mr. Stephen Bergens

Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Berke

Ms. Marjorie A. Berkel

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot S. Berkowitz

Robert Wu and Merry Sui Yuan

Robert Wyman

Mark Yesayian

Mr. Kevin Yoder

Susan Young

Katiana and Tom Zimmerman

Mr. Sanford Zisman and Ms. Janis Frame

Marci Zuniga

Dr. and Mrs. Dean Berkus

Mr. Alan N. Berro

Camille

Bethune-Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Biles

Lisa Biscaichipy

Michael Blake

Mr. Larry Blivas

Sarah and David Bottjer

John Paul Bowden

Mr. Benjamin Brand

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Brandler

Barbara and Richard Braun

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bristing

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Brod

Charles Brown

Mr. Tad Brown and Mr. Jonathan Daillak

Sue and Barry Brucker

Mrs. Lupe P. Burson

Lois and Rene Cailliet

Dexter Cannon and Lee Hendrix

Grace Ford

Salvatori

Foundation and Wanda Cannon

Nolan and Marlene Charbonnet

Kendyl Cherry

Mr. Raymond Y.

Chinn

Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Chitea

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Colby

David Conney, M.D.

Kevin and Katie Cordano

Cox FamilyPernell, Keila, and Harper Q.

Jon Cuevas

Ginny and John Cushman

Jessica and James Dabney

Antonio and Hanna Damasio

Andrew and Helen D’Ambrosio

Mr. and Mrs.

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Ms. Cynthia Davis

Dennis de Tray

Wanda DensonLow and Ronald Low

Roxanne Christ

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Michael Dreyer

Evelyn Dreyfuss

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Alicia Dumas

Mr. Kevin Dunbar

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Diane Dykema and Fred Noble

Dr. David Eisenberg

Timothy Emerson

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Ms. Anita Famili

Joycelyn Fawaz

Janice Feldman, JANUS et cie

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Rachel Fine

Ms. Melanie

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Mr. and Mrs.

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Seymour Fletcher

Foley & Lardner LLP

Burt and Nanette Forester

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Freilich

Friars Charitable Foundation

Mr. Jerry Friedman

Ms. Sybil Garry

Bob and Mimi Gazzale

Dr. and Mrs.

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Susan and David Gersh

Susan and Jaime

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Jon M. Gibson

Mr. and Mrs.

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David Goldstein

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Linda Gordon

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Mr. James Granger

Dr. Stuart and Adrienne Green

Victor and Trudy Green

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Rita and William Griffin

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Gustafson

Lesley Gwam

Rod Hagenbuch

Judith and Robert D. Hall

Cynthia D. Hallett, MPH

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Julie and Mark Harrison

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Mr. and Mrs. Lewis K. Hashimoto

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Jim Herzfeld

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Illig Construction Company

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Mrs. Elise Sinay Spilker

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Lynn F. Sipe

Atiya Slaughter

Donna Slavik

Professor Judy and Dr. William Sloan

Cynthia and John Smet

Barbara and Hugh Smith

Ms. Roberta Smith

Mr. Hamid Soroudi

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spelke

David and Michelle Spiegel

Timothy Steele

Herbert Stein

Ms. Margaret Stevens

Ms. Diane R. Stewart

Kimberly Stirling

Mr. Max Stolz, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Sullivan

Mr. Ed and Peggy Summers

Laura Svienty

Ms. Randi Tahara

Joanne Takahashi

Owen Tan

Dr. Agne Taraseviciute

Mr. Stephen S. Taylor

Ms. Amy Thomas

Scott Thomas

Jeremy Thurswell

Tichenor & Thorp

Architects, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Tinkley

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tokashiki

John Tootle

Bonnie K. Trapp

Judith and Dr. John Uphold

Urban Compass

Mr. Bob Uyetani

Maurice Vanegas

Vargo Physical Therapy

Dorrit and Jerome Vered

Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Waldman

Donald Walters

Kathy S. Walton

Dr. and Mrs. Ken Waltzer

Marilene Wang

SUPER DOCTOR HALL OF FAME

Steven Warheit and Jean Christensen

Mr. Robert Waters and Ms. Catherine Waters

Mr. William A. Weber

Brian and Maxine Weinstock

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Weiss

Max and Diane Weissberg

Chris and Paola Werstler

Mr. William A. White

Mr. Steve Whitsitt

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams

Mr. William Wishner

Delores M. Komar and Susan M. Wolford

Scott Lee and Karen Wong

Mrs. Janet P. Wright

Jami Xu

Marcia S. Yaross

Mr. Lawrence Yeatman

Mr. William Zak

Zamora and Hoffmeier

Dr. and Mrs. Martin Zane

Marshall S. Zolla

Rachel and Michael Zugsmith

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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, on-site transportation, assistive listening devices, or any further information, please request the Map of the Hollywood Bowl for Patrons with Disabilities by phoning 323 850 2125. Please ask for Accessible Services or visit hollywoodbowl.com/accessible.

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Accessible Facilities

Accessible Cart Path

Accessible Facilities

The Bowl Store Box Ofce, Info, & Accessibility Dept

Cushion Rental

Elevator

Entrance Gate

Escalator / Moving Sidewalk

First Aid

Park & Ride / Shuttle

Parking

Food + Wine

Picnic Box Pick-Up

Restrooms

Rideshare

Chao’s Popcorn

Picnic Areas

Zev Yaroslavsky Main Gate / Lawrence N. Field Gate / Monique & Jonathan Kagan Patio Norman & Sadie Lee Foundation Pool Circle / Margo & Irwin Winkler Promenade