Performances Magazine | Hollywood Bowl, September 2023

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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.

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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

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NORMA EDITH GARCÍA-GONZALEZ

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION A MESSAGE FROM

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.

KATHRYN BARGER

NORMA EDITH GARCÍA-GONZALEZ

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

Gustavo Dudamel is driven by the belief that music has the power to transform lives, to inspire, and to change the world. Through his dynamic presence on the podium and his tireless advocacy for arts education, Dudamel has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped to provide access to the arts for countless people in under-resourced communities. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair, of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.

Dudamel’s bold programming and expansive vision led The New York Times to herald the LA Phil as “the most important orchestra in America—period.” In the 2022/23 season, Dudamel and the LA Phil continued their visionary, multiyear Pan-American Music Initiative and celebrated the 90th birthday of legendary film composer John Williams with a Gala event. Further highlights with the LA Phil included a fall tour with performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston, and Mexico City and Guanajuato as part of the Cervantino Festival; a multi-week exploration of the piano/orchestral works of Rachmaninof with Yuja Wang; and the return of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars, with video by Bill Viola.

Following his inaugural season as Music Director of the Paris Opera, the 2022/23 season featured Dudamel leading productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, a new production of John Adams’ Nixon in China, and Thomas Adès’ Dante Project, choreographed by Wayne McGregor. Dudamel has led over 30 staged and semi-staged operas as well as concert productions across the world’s major stages, including five 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.

SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

From our annual Sing-A-Long Sound of Music to the spectacular Fireworks Finale, here are the memorable movie nights, legendary performers, and timeless classics you’ll want to put on your calendar this month.

NICHOLAS McGEGAN, SEPT 5

BOMSORI KIM, SEPT 5

BUDDY GUY, SEPT 6

CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM, SEPT 6

MASAAKI SUZUKI, SEPT 7

MARTIN CHALIFOUR, SEPT 7

DAVID NEWMAN, SEPT 1–2 AIR SUPPLY, SEPT 3

MICHAEL BOLTON, SEPT 3

SING-A-LONG SOUND OF MUSIC, SEPT 16

PROMISES, FT. FLOATING POINTS, SEPT 20

LOS AUTÉNTICOS DECADENTES, SEPT 24

LOS

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FABULOSOS CADILLACS, SEPT

PIXIES, SEPT 17

CAT POWER, SEPT 17

MODEST MOUSE, SEPT 17

KAREN KAMENSEK, SEPT 12

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS, SEPT 12

JACOB COLLIER, SEPT 13

THOMAS WILKINS, SEPT 13

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.

To learn more about YOLA, please visit laphil.com/yola

Thanks to generous support from 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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Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.

NOW ON SOUND/STAGE: RACHMANINOFF WITH YUJA WANG

Last February, Yuja Wang joined Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic to perform all four of Rachmaninof’s Piano Concertos as well as the unofcial Fifth—Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini—at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Wang describes Rachmaninof’s writing as “the most sensuous and passionate thing” and says that playing his music is a gift. This month, recordings of the entire Rachmaninof cycle from those concerts come to Sound/Stage, the LA Phil’s free digital concert platform. In connection with those performances, Wang sat down with Dudamel to talk about Rachmaninof’s music; their conversation is excerpted below. Watch all six episodes at laphil.com/soundstage starting September 8.

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL: You have been studying Rachmaninoff since you were 15, or something like that.

YUJA WANG: I learned the [Third Concerto] because I’m a huge fan of Horowitz, and I heard a recording with Zubin Mehta. (I actually got to perform it with Zubin at one point.) He told me last time he conducted it, it was Horowitz. And then I was frozen.

GD: Everybody loves the Second and Third Concertos and the [Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini ].

YW: We did Number 3 in Caracas. It’s just so beastly and so satisfying. It’s been programmed a lot for me since I graduated at 21. The Number 1, though, I learned it during the pandemic. Number 2 is actually, to be honest, my least favorite because it’s just been [played] so much. But it’s funny. It was also the first piece I played after the pandemic. And every time that music comes, you’re just like, “OK, there’s a reason why it’s so popular and so, so moving.”

Number 4—we’re going to see. It’s going to be very tricky.

It’s such a fabulous work, but it’s not played very often. It’s harder to get the colors of that work. It’s just so amazing. It’s all the language of Rachmaninof, but each concerto [was written in] its own decade.

GD: That is very important because you have the chance to play all of them. He’s an amazing composer, but he was a pianist [performing these pieces]. It is one thing to be 18 and another to be 40 or 50. So, how do you see that evolution in there?

YW: [With the First Concerto] it was just so fresh. He wrote it for his own exam as a composer and pianist at 18, and then his model was the Grieg concerto. So you hear a little bit of copying [of that] and a little bit of Tchaikovsky. But also, it foreshadows even the Paganini [Rhapsody] that comes four decades later. It’s all there and all the chromaticism. And the melodies are just so…well, with Rachmaninof, words are so inefcient [to describe] what the music can do.

[About the Fourth Concerto, written many decades later,] some people say it’s the one you want to forget. But it’s really hard for the orchestra. Everything is ofbeat and syncopated [and nobody has] a full phrase. That also makes it so ghostly and interesting. And the last movement—it sounds like Tom and Jerry. But it’s much more than that. It’s kind of like looking at old Hollywood movies, actually, or [an] old book that was part of the golden age. But with age, it’s faded. It has a little bit of that sentiment. And I love the Paganini. It’s such a gem. Complex but beautiful piece.

GD: We have played Number 3 a lot. We recorded it, even. But that concerto has [a mystique] or an aura of unplayability. Some people get afraid of it.

YW: I think it’s just the scope of things. It’s kind of like the first time I was in Moscow. Even a drugstore is just huge. With Rachmaninof, there’s always the structure. There’s always one big moment. But with this one, you kind of felt like there were lots of big moments until you actually get to the biggest moment.

But in terms of music, it’s so diferent [in each concerto]. It’s almost like I’m not playing just one composer. The world is so rich. There is the young, ardent, passionate love. There is a dark

Number 2 and the breakthrough [that was for him] and the world of Hollywood in LA. And then, I think Number 3—he wrote in Dresden in Europe. So I have been traveling a lot myself, and that makes you think about how influenced the piece is being written.

GD: One question that I think a lot of people who see you want to know is, just before the concert, what is happening in your mind? What are you thinking about? We can always rehearse it one way, but then in concert it happens another way.

YW: I wish I had the answer. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t, but after the pandemic, everything is about mental health. I have heard a few meditations [that I try], and I think about how to center myself or take a few deep breaths, all so we can just create [anew] in the moment.

I’m trying to make it fresh each time. Sometimes, I’m trying to think about pretending I never heard this melody before and thinking about the shape.

AN ODE TO P-22

In 2012, a mountain lion set off on a 50-mile journey from the Santa Monica Mountains, crossing two major freeways and eventually making a home in Griffith Park.

the resilience of nature in a world redesigned for people. The Guardian dubbed him “the Brad Pitt of mountain lions” for the celebrity he unknowingly gained.

In 2017, his story was turned into a permanent exhibit at the Natural History Museum of LA County (whose staf graciously shared images for this story). Following his death in 2022, P-22 received an overwhelming outpouring of remembrances and admiration.

LA’s most famous mountain lion also inspired composer Adam Schoenberg, whose piece Cool Cat is scheduled to be premiered by the LA Phil on September 12. The following interview with the composer has been edited for space.

ABOUT P-22?

Adam Schoenberg: I first learned of P-22 several years ago when my wife and I used to hike quite a bit in Griffith Park. I couldn’t believe his story! Here was a creature who had defied all odds. Who inhabited a space that was entirely too small for him to survive in for years. Let alone cross the 405 and 101 freeways without getting injured.

WHY DO YOU THINK HIS STORY RESONATED WITH ANGELENOS?

AS: I think many people come to Los Angeles because it’s a place where you can will yourself into a diferent type of existence. Whether you’re chasing stardom or a new beginning, this is a city where you can make anything happen. But it takes grit, determination, perseverance, and a lot of luck. P-22 embodied all of that. And I believe he willed his survival. His existence reminded us of the power of nature even within a vast city where trees are a rare commodity. His story feels distinctly LA because it sounds almost like a myth. Larger than life.

YOUR PIECES HAVE TOPICS RANGING FROM MARK ROTHKO’S EXPRESSIONISM TO CLIMATE CHANGE. HOW DID YOU DECIDE THIS WAS A TOPIC YOU WANTED TO EXPLORE?

AS: I always try to write from a place of passion, so I tend to choose subjects that I’m inspired and moved by. Like many Angelenos,

I was very taken with P-22’s story. And when I was approached to write this piece, I was dealing with severe health issues. I felt that there was a strange parallel between P-22’s life and his ability to defy the odds and my life, as I nearly died. I was in a very fragile state while writing this piece and not sleeping. I would go into the studio at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, and the music seemed to just pour out of me. It was the only comfort I had during that time. I honestly believe that writing this piece gave me the strength to keep on going.

HOW DID YOU TRY TO MUSICALLY REPRESENT P-22 IN COOL CAT ?

AS: Pumas can live in a wide variety of habitats, from mountains to tropical rainforests because of their ability to adapt to their surroundings. My goal was to juxtapose the idea of P-22’s original lush habitat with the urban landscape that he ultimately was forced to live in. And I wanted to capture his journey in one sonic experience. There is heavy use of percussion, such as congas and bongos, as well as some junkyard percussion like trash metals. I also wanted to create a theme that would be memorable and could be hummed back. Since P-22 became a local celebrity, this was also an opportunity for me to write something more cinematic for the concert stage.

NEW FACES AT THE LA PHIL

The Los Angeles Philharmonic recently announced RODOLFO BARRÁEZ as Assistant Conductor, Ann Ronus Chair, for the 2023/24 season. As part of the position, Barráez will serve as the cover conductor for Gustavo Dudamel and guest conductors throughout the orchestra’s subscription season and on tour, helping in rehearsal and stepping in to lead the orchestra should any conductor fall ill. He will also make his Hollywood Bowl debut in 2024.

The LA Phil also announced its newest group of Dudamel Fellows for the 2023/24 season: ANNA HANDLER (Colombia/Germany), ROSS JAMIE COLLINS (Finland/United Kingdom), CARLOS ÁGREDA (Colombia), and MICHELLE DI RUSSO (Argentina). The four Dudamel Fellows selected for this year’s class are rising international conductors chosen by Dudamel and the LA Phil who will work with the LA Phil artistic family and visiting artists to hone their skills, mentor young musicians in YOLA, and debut as featured conductors in upcoming learning concerts.

RODOLFO BARRÁEZ

ANNA HANDLER

ROSS JAMIE COLLINS

CARLOS ÁGREDA MICHELLE DI RUSSO

VIOLINIST ANNE AKIKO MEYERS INSPIRES MUSICAL JOURNEYS

Renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has a remarkable connection to the Hollywood Bowl. It was here that her professional musical dream began at the age of seven while enjoying a bento-box dinner at a concert. Inspired by the venue and captivating performances she witnessed under the stars, Anne found her passion for music further ignited, motivating her studies and leading her to become the extraordinary soloist she is today.

Not only is Meyers a remarkable musician, but she and her husband, LA Phil Board Member Jason Subotky, are also devoted philanthropists and ardent supporters of the LA Phil and its YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) program. In 2021, they established the Jason Subotky and Anne Akiko Meyers YOLA Ticket Fund, an uplifting initiative aimed at providing free tickets to YOLA musicians and their families for concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall and

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the Hollywood Bowl. This year marks the second consecutive year of their support for the YOLA Ticket Fund.

YOLA provides young people ages five through 18 with free instruments, intensive music instruction, and opportunities to perform on stages in their communities and around the world. The program brings incomparable and equitable access to a high-quality and intensive music education for young people in diverse and vibrant communities across Los Angeles and beyond.

Recognizing the importance of concerts as an integral part of the YOLA experience, Meyers and Subotky go above and beyond to ensure that the entire family can partake in the musical festivities. To make the concerts as accessible as possible, the evening includes complimentary food and parking. The seat locations designated for YOLA musicians and their families are carefully

chosen, offering them the opportunity to enjoy the performances from the front benches, providing an upclose-and-personal experience.

For Subotky and Meyers, “Music under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl has been a family tradition which we are excited to share with aspiring musicians and their families. We are honored to support YOLA students and hope to create magical moments that energize them as they embrace their own musical journeys.”

Meyers and Subotky’s commitment to supporting YOLA has inspired other donors to contribute to a YOLA ticket fund of their own, ensuring that more young musicians can experience the joy of attending concerts with their loved ones.

The LA Phil is deeply grateful to Margo and Irwin Winkler, Marc and Ashley Merrill, Linda May and Jack Suzar, and the Friars Charitable Foundation for their support of the Fund as well.

Your contribution can make a significant difference in the lives of young musicians and their families, fostering a lifelong love of music and creating lasting memories at the Hollywood Bowl.

you’d like to learn more about the way you can support the YOLA Ticket Fund or become involved in the LA Phil’s music learning programs, please contact friends@laphil.org.

A Stellar Season:

Start your summer on a high note by visiting the Hollywood Bowl and enjoying a gourmet meal from Gelson’s Kitchen.

Choose from freshly made, restaurant-quality fare, including hors d’oeuvres, salads, shrimp, salmon, crab cakes, chicken, and beef. Vegetarian options are also available. And our scrumptious desserts are legendary.

Just stop by Gelson’s Kitchen or order online. When it comes to a season of summer fun at the Bowl, think of Gelson’s as your ticket to stress-free, superb dining!

Hollywood Bowl Ticket Ofer: Purchase any two gourmet picnic meals or lunch bags and receive a complimentary voucher to select performances at Hollywood Bowl. See store for details. Voucher redeemable in-store only.

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

* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen LA Phil Resident Fellow

The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.

The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.

HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA

Thomas Wilkins

Principal

Conductor

John Mauceri

Founding Director

FIRST VIOLINS

Kathryn Eberle

Concertmaster

Marisa Sorajja

Principal

Grace Oh

Associate Principal

Rebecca Bunnell

Chloe Szu-Yun Chiu

Christine Frank

Yen-Ping Lai

Radu Pieptea

Adrianne Pope

Yutong Sharp

Shelly Shi

Mari Tsumura

SECOND VIOLINS

[position vacant]

Principal

Cheryl Norman Brick

Associate Principal

Pam Gates

Natalie Leggett

Carolyn Osborn

Robert Schumitzky

Kathleen Sloan

Olivia Tsui

Vivian Wolf

VIOLAS

Erik Rynearson

Principal

[position vacant]

Associate Principal

Carrie Holzman-Little

Carole

Kleister-Castillo

Adam Neely

Stefan L. Smith

Phillip Triggs

Hyeree Yu

CELLOS

Dennis Karmazyn

Principal

Armen Ksajikian

Associate Principal

Giovanna Moraga

Clayton

Trevor Handy

Julie Jung

Erin Breene Schumitzky

BASSES

[position vacant] Principal

Denise Briesé

Associate Principal

Paul Macres

Barry Newton

FLUTES

Heather Clark Principal

Lawrence Kaplan Piccolo [position vacant]

OBOES

Lelie Resnick

Principal

English Horn

Catherine

Del Russo

CLARINETS

Gary Bovyer Principal

Bass Clarinet

Ralph Williams

BASSOONS

Elliott Moreau Principal

Contrabassoon

Allen Savedof

HORNS

Dylan Hart Principal

Allen Fogle Associate Principal

Todd Miller

TRUMPETS

Robert Schaer Principal

Robert Frear

TROMBONES

William Booth Principal

Alexander Iles

Bass Trombone

Todd Eames

TUBA

Jim Self Principal

TIMPANI

Tyler Stell Principal

DRUMS

Brian Miller Principal

PERCUSSION

Wade Culbreath Principal

Gregory Goodall

HARP [position vacant] Principal

KEYBOARDS

Alan Steinberger Principal

SAXOPHONE [position vacant]

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Scott Dunn

PERSONNEL MANAGERS

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 and 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

2023–24 SEASON

Andrew von Oeyen

piano

Animaniacs in Concert

Chad Lawson

Cirque Mechanics in Zephyr: A Whirlwind of Circus

Diana Adamyan

violin

Leo Kottke

MOMIX: Alice

Richie Furay

The Righteous Brothers: Bill Medley & Bucky Heard

Sheena Easton

Veronica Swift

Versa-Style Dance Company

When You Wish Upon a Star: A Jazz Tribute to 100 Years of Disney & MORE

HOLLYWOOD BOWL BROADCASTS ON CLASSICAL KUSC

Ten Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts from the current Hollywood Bowl season are now being broadcast on Classical California

KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night series, the station’s weekly spotlight on local concerts, beginning Sunday, August 20, 2023, at 7PM.

This marks the 16th year of the orchestra’s summer partnership with Southern California’s listener-sponsored classical music radio station. The broadcast series allows hundreds of thousands of KUSC listeners across Southern California to experience Hollywood Bowl performances each week.

The concerts are recorded live on select nights at the Hollywood Bowl and feature the Los Angeles Philharmonic with a stellar roster of artists and conductors. Hosted and produced by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen, the programs air weekly at 7PM on Sundays from August 20 through October 22 and are also streamed online, on demand at the KUSC website, for one week immediately following the broadcast. For complete details, please visit laphil.com/radio

UPCOMING BROADCASTS

SoCal Sunday Nights at 7PM on Classical California KUSC

SEPTEMBER 3

Leonard Slatkin, conductor Makoto Ozone, piano

Cindy McTEE Timepiece

GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue DVOŘ ÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

SEPTEMBER 10

Ryan Bancroft, conductor Eric Lu, piano

Caroline SHAW Entr’acte BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 ELGAR Enigma Variations

SEPTEMBER 17

Louis Langrée, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

SEPTEMBER 24

Anna Rakitina, conductor Sterling Elliott, cello

DVOŘ ÁK Cello Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

Programs and artists subject to change.

RYAN BANCROFT

ANNA RAKITINA

LEONARD SLATKIN

JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET

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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.

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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

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INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Paula Michea

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Summer Bjork

CHIEF OF STAFF

Nora Brady

CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Glenn Brifa CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Margie Kim

CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER

Emanuel Maxwell

CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER

Mona Patel

GENERAL COUNSEL

Meghan Umber

CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER

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

SENIOR MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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

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ENDOWMENT DONORS

We are honored to recognize our endowment donors, whose generosity ensures the long-term health of our organization. The following list represents cumulative contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Endowment Fund as of 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

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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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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.

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MOZART UNDER THE STARS

TUESDAY

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Bomsori Kim, violin

MOZART

Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527 (c. 6 minutes)

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 (“Turkish”) in A major, K. 219 (c. 31 minutes)

Allegro aperto

Adagio

Rondo: Tempo di menuetto Bomsori Kim

INTERMISSION

MOZART Sy mphony No. 38 (“Prague”) in D major, K. 504 (c. 23 minutes)

Adagio—Allegro Andante Presto

Programs and artists subject to change.

This performance is generously supported in part by the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund

Official Bank of the Hollywood Bowl

OVERTURE TO DON GIOVANNI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

The plot of Don Giovanni adapted by Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte was already centuries old in 1786; its elements—a ghostly statue and an unrepentant libertine—were even older. The opera is animated by the dramatic tension between comedy and tragedy: where they are opposed, where they overlap, and where it is impossible to distinguish between them. Mozart makes full use of this tension in the overture, which, in a departure from the standard practice of the day, plays a dramatic function.

Opening D-minor chords immediately set the tone and, indeed, will announce the appearance of the vengeful statue in the opera’s finale. Thus, even as the ominous beginning gives way to a more conventional sonata form, the listener’s consciousness has already been formed, and the subsequent vivacious themes acquire added depth and texture. —Susan Key

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 5 (“TURKISH”) IN A MAJOR, K. 219

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto presents dramatic proof of the kind of advancement the composer made in this genre in a matter of months. It is an expansive composition with a solo part more virtuosic than the others and a design that is highly imaginative. To substantiate the latter, one need only mention the violin’s slow, dreamy entry in the first movement after the orchestra’s expansive, alternately buoyant and tender opening and, in the last movement, the quasiexotic minor-key episode that has given the Concerto its nickname—the “Turkish.”

The Concerto’s splendors are hardly confined to these two events, distinctive though they are. For example, the orchestra’s first measures do not detail the movement’s main theme but rather,

the accompaniment to the main theme, as it is at last presented by the violin after its rhapsodic entry on the scene. Here is an imaginative approach such as only a supremely confident youth would take. Confident too are the minor-key excursions Mozart takes in this movement. The Concerto’s slow movement is off of that Mozartean vine on which blossomed lyricism of the most insinuatingly tender and ultimately poignant kind. And the finale is blessed with all manner of rondo niceties, only one of which is that extended Turkish section that supplies brilliance, surprise, and humor to an already splendid structure consisting of minuet grace (main theme), whimsy (the figure that trips by way of grace notes up the clef on several occasions, including the Concerto’s blithe ending), and Hungarian flavor (the minor-key third theme).

—Orrin Howard

SYMPHONY NO. 38 “PRAGUE” IN D MAJOR, K. 504

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart was all the rage in Prague at the end of 1786. His latest opera, The Marriage of Figaro, had thrilled music lovers there and won rave reviews. Rumors began to circulate that Mozart himself would come to the city to give concerts and maybe even lead a performance of his hit opera. He did both in a visit that was among the most satisfying and successful of his career.

Mozart traveled to Prague in style, with a retinue that included his wife, Constanze, several fellow musicians, a servant, and even his dog Gauckerl. The Mozarts stayed in the palace of Count Franz Joseph Thun, a patron whose relationship with the composer dated back to his Salzburg days. (It was for a concert at Thun’s other palace, in Linz, that Mozart had composed his Symphony No. 36.) Mozart et al. enjoyed sumptuous meals, extravagant musical entertainments, and lavish balls and parties.

The visit culminated in two public appearances by Mozart, leading a concert at the National Theater on January 19, 1787, and a performance of Figaro there three days later. Mozart’s early biographer Franz Niemetschek remembered the concert, which he had attended: “We did not, in fact, know what to admire most, whether the extraordinary compositions or his extraordinary playing; together they made such an overwhelming impression on us that we felt we had been bewitched.” One of those extraordinary compositions was the “Prague” Symphony, which was receiving its first performance. Mozart had brought the symphony with him from Vienna—the manuscript is dated December 6, 1786 —and it reflects his symphonic style at its most sophisticated. He had composed a full-blown, four-movement symphony three years earlier—the aforementioned “Linz”—but this time around, he omitted the minuet, which actually

strengthens the symphony’s dramatic argument. The extra musical heft is almost immediately apparent, with the abrupt move into the minor mode during the symphony’s slow introduction. The ensuing allegro is one of the most complex Mozart ever wrote—unusually, sketches survive showing him working through possible thematic combinations. The andante, whose sonata-form layout is another example of the symphony’s sophistication, contrasts its inward, lyrical first theme with tenser material prefaced by a series of woodwind chords. The finale covers a remarkable emotional spectrum, something readily apparent in its opening moments, as Mozart calls the celebratory atmosphere into question with a purple patch for winds alone that develops into something almost violent. It is music where darkness lurks just beneath the light, where equivocation calls every seemingly joyous outburst into question. —John

Mangum

NICHOLAS M cGEGAN

In his sixth decade on the podium, Nic McGegan is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. Following a 34year tenure as Music Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, he is now Music Director Laureate. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of Hungary’s Capella Savaria. At home in opera houses, McGegan shone new light on close to 20 Handel operas as the Artistic Director and conductor at Germany’s Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years (1991–2011) and the Mozart canon as Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s.

Highlights of his 2022/23 guest bookings in North America include his return to the Hollywood Bowl and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performing the Mendelssohn Walpurgisnacht (in English) and selections from Beethoven’s Egmont. In Europe, he appears with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a program that brings together Bach’s Magnificat in D major and Caroline Shaw’s Is a Rose, performed

by singers from the Samling Institute for Young Artists. McGegan’s prolific discography includes more than 100 releases spanning five decades. Having recorded over 50 albums of Handel, McGegan has explored the depths of the composer’s output with a dozen oratorios and close to 20 of his operas. His extensive discography with Philharmonia Baroque includes two Grammy nominees, Handel’s Susanna and Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 104, 88, and 101. McGegan’s recent disc of Mozart violin concertos

with Gil Shaham (SWR Music) was released to great acclaim. English-born, Nic McGegan was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to music overseas.” Other awards include the Halle Handel Prize, the Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony (Germany), the Medal of Honor of the City of Göttingen, and a declaration of Nicholas McGegan Day by the mayor of San Francisco in recognition of his work with Philharmonia.

NICHOLAS M cGEGAN

BOMSORI KIM

Violinist Bomsori Kim signed an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon label in Berlin in February 2021.

Highlights of her 2022/23 season include appearances with the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden, a tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Lahav Shani, concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft, and debuts with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Bomsori returns to the Danish National Symphony with Fabio Luisi and to the San Francisco Symphony with a recital. She performs in Germany with the Basel Chamber Orchestra in Stuttgart and Freiburg, with the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Munich, and in recital in Baden-Baden.

Bomsori made her BBC Proms debut in July with the BBC

Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier, performing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She makes her Hollywood Bowl debut performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Bomsori has also had the privilege of performing under the direction of conductors including Marin Alsop, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, John Storgårds, Andrey Boreyko, and Giancarlo Guerrero, and has appeared with leading orchestras such as New York Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and Basel Chamber Orchestra. Bomsori has appeared at venues worldwide, such as Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Philharmonic

Hall in Saint Petersburg, Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague, and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.

In addition to winning the 62nd ARD International Music Competition, Bomsori is a prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition, International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Montreal International Musical Competition, Sendai International Music Competition, and the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Bomsori received the 2018 Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, and the Korean Music Association’s 2019 Young Artist Award.

In June 2021, Bomsori released her first Deutsche Grammophon solo album, Violin on Stage, with NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and Giancarlo Guerrero. A duet album with pianist Rafał Blechacz, featuring works by Fauré, Debussy, Szymanowski, and Chopin, came out in February 2019 and won the Fryderyk Music Award for “Best Polish Album Abroad.”

Born in South Korea, Bomsori received a bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University, where she studied with Young Uck Kim. She also earned her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.

She performs on the Guarnerius del Gesù violin “ex-Moller” (Cremona, 1725), on extended loan through the generous efforts of the Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea and the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

BOMSORI KIM

BUDDY GUY

CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 8PM

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

INTERMISSION

Buddy Guy

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BUDDY GUY

At age 87, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received eight Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

In 2019, Buddy Guy won his eighth and most recent Grammy Award for his 18th solo LP, The Blues Is Alive and Well. In July 2021, in honor of his 85th birthday, PBS American Masters released Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away, a documentary following his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential guitar players in history. The documentary features new interviews with Guy, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr., and more. Though Buddy Guy will forever be associated with Chicago, his story begins in Louisiana. One of five children, he was born in 1936 to a sharecropper’s family and raised on a plantation near the small town of Lettsworth, some

140 miles northwest of New Orleans. Buddy was just seven years old when he fashioned his first makeshift “guitar”—a twostring contraption attached to a piece of wood and secured with his mother’s hairpins.

In 1957, he took his guitar to Chicago, where he would permanently alter the direction of the instrument, first on numerous sessions for Chess Records playing alongside Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest of the label’s legendary roster, and then on recordings of his own. His incendiary style left its mark on guitarists from Jimmy Page to John Mayer.

“He was for me what Elvis was probably like for other people,” said Eric Clapton at Buddy Guy’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2005. “My course was set, and he was my pilot.”

Seven years later, 2012 proved to be one of Buddy Guy’s most remarkable years ever. In July, he was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime contribution to American culture; earlier in the year, at a performance at the White House, he even persuaded President Obama to join him on a chorus of “Sweet Home Chicago.” Also in 2012, he published his long-awaited memoir, When I Left Home

These many years later, Buddy Guy remains a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to a historic era in the country’s musical evolution.

BUDDY GUY

CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM

Since the release of Kingfish, his Grammy-nominated 2019 Alligator Records debut, and 662, his 2021 Grammy-winning sophomore album, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has become the defining blues voice of his generation. From his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi, to stages around the world, Ingram has headlined U.S. tours, performed at

Australia’s largest music festival, amazed fans across Europe and the U.K., and was selected to open for the Rolling Stones in London’s Hyde Park. Kingfish has also performed with friends including Vampire Weekend, Jason Isbell, and Buddy Guy, with whom he appeared on Austin City Limits In April 2022, Kingfish made his national television debut on CBS Saturday Morning, performing three songs as well as being featured in an in-depth interview segment. Kingfish debuted on the Billboard Blues

Chart in the No. 1 position and remained on the chart for an astonishing 91 weeks. In addition to receiving a Grammy nomination, Kingfish was named the Best Blues Album of the Year by MOJO magazine. Ingram’s journey began in the city of Clarksdale, in Coahoma County, Mississippi, just 10 miles from the legendary crossroads of highways 61 and 49. Born to a talented family, he fell in love with music as a child, initially playing drums and then bass. At a young age, he got his first guitar and quickly soaked up music from Robert Johnson to Lightnin’ Hopkins, from B.B. King to Muddy Waters, from Jimi Hendrix to Prince. Sparked by his nonstop touring, writing, and recording schedule, Kingfish’s natural talent just keeps growing. With his eye-popping guitar playing and his reach-outand-grab-you-by-the-collar vocals, he performs every song with unmatched passion and precision. While his songs tell personal stories, they also tell of shared human experiences. With both Kingfish and 662, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram creates contemporary blues music that speaks to his generation and beyond, delivering the full healing power of the blues.

CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM

BACH AND MENDELSSOHN

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Martin Chalifour, violin

J.S. BACH

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (c. 20 minutes)

Overture

Air

Gavotte I & II

Bourrée

Gigue

J.S. BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042 (c. 20 minutes)

Allegro

Adagio

Allegro assai

Ma rtin Chalifour

INTERMISSION

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”) in A major, Op. 90 (c. 26 minutes)

Allegro vivace

Andante con moto

Con moto moderato

Saltarello: Presto

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ORCHESTRAL SUITE NO. 3

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Whereas Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos for a prince, he composed his four Orchestral Suites for the wealthy burghers of Leipzig. The Suite No. 3 in D major most likely premiered at Zimmermann’s Coffee House either in 1730 or 1731 at one of the composer’s Collegium Musicum concerts there. Bach had assumed responsibility for the concerts in 1729, and the programs required him to renew his efforts in the field of instrumental composition. (Since taking up his position at St. Thomas’ in 1723, Bach had been responsible primarily for vocal religious music for services there and in Leipzig's other churches.)

The Suite No. 3 opens with an imposing French overture, so called because of its slow–fast–slow structure and the rhythm of its opening. What follows is perhaps one of Bach’s bestloved instrumental works, the glorious and serene Air. A group of dances—the French gavotte and bourrée followed by the gigue, a dance derived from the late 16thcentury Irish jig—brings the Suite to a spirited close. —John Mangum

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2

Johann Sebastian Bach

Location. Location. Location. That, as we know, is the watchword of real estate agents. It was also the defining element in the career of Johann Sebastian Bach, who never set foot outside of his native Germany but found several locations in which he developed his magnificent talent to genius level. In fact, Bach has rightly been described by the redoubtable musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky as a “master comparable in greatness of stature with Aristotle in philosophy and Leonardo da Vinci in art.”

The first stop on his journey was Ohrdruf, where he learned much about organs in his brother’s church. Next, Lüneberg and the discovery of French music from a student of Lully, whose opera overtures were a kind of blueprint for the overtures to his four orchestral suites. As his virtuosity on the organ flourished, Bach settled in Weimar, where most of his important works for the instrument were written. Perhaps of greatest interest to the general public, because of frequency of performance in our concert halls, is the concerto

repertoire, which emerged in the important location of Cöthen. Bach’s concerto output includes the six Brandenburgs and several harpsichord concertos, most of the latter being transcriptions of his own violin concertos (selfplagiarism has never been a crime in the composer fraternity). As for the violin concertos themselves, only three of the many he was known to have written remain, two for single violin and one for two violins.

During the Cöthen period, from 1717 to 1723, Bach had to satisfy the requirements of his boss, Prince Leopold, by turning out large numbers of secular works.

He was well prepared. Earlier, in Weimar, the hopelessly provincial Bach took a “grand tour” of Italy by spending countless hours at his writing table copying out the music of the Italian masters Vivaldi, Corelli, and others. With his genius working at warp speed, he was able to put to marvelous practical use this hard-gained knowledge of Italian string writing, which was so far in advance of any other kind. The Cöthen works are striking evidence of Bach’s ability to assimilate and create.

The E-major Violin Concerto is a creation of purest Bachian

splendor. Opening with three aggressive chords, built on an E-major triad, that form the beginning of the main subject, the first movement unfolds in a fashion characteristic of the composer, but with some surprises. Two serious episodes in minor provide sharp contrast to the ebullience of the main material. And before the return to the main subject, the violin has a tiny solo followed by an unexpected pause before those three opening chords announce the final full exposition of the movement’s main substance.

The minor-keyed slow movement opens the floodgates of a kind of exquisitely controlled poignancy that is Bach’s inimitable version of Baroque romanticism. The form is chaconne-like, which is to say there is a persistent figure in the orchestra above which the violin, after entering on a long-held note, spins seemingly improvisatory strands of serene expressiveness. Bach at his most exalted.

The exuberant final movement is calculated to be give-and-take between orchestra and soloist—the group refrain appears five times with the soloist’s episodes in between. In the final solo episode, Bach gives the soloist a brief but telling bit of virtuosity. —Orrin

Howard

SYMPHONY NO. 4, “ITALIAN” Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Mendelssohn went to Italy in October 1830. The trip lasted 10 months—he started in Venice and worked his way south to Rome, stopping in Bologna and Florence along the way. During his stay in Rome, he witnessed the coronation of Pope Pius VIII and the city’s festivities during Holy Week (the week leading up to Easter). From Rome, he went on to Naples and visited Pompeii before returning to Germany through Genoa and Milan. His impressions of the trip were recorded in a series of watercolors and sketches— Mendelssohn was a decent amateur artist—and in the present Symphony. There is nothing particularly Italian about the symphony until its final movement. Rather, the work strives more to convey a series of impressions of Italy—Mediterranean sunshine, religious solemnity, monumental art and architecture, and open countryside.

The symphony opens with a burst of sound—woodwinds and pizzicato strings—whose irrepressible eighth notes become the accompaniment to a jubilant string melody. The winds play an especially prominent role in this movement, with Mendelssohn treating them with a great degree of freedom that gives the movement a transparent, airy texture. It’s like a musical rendition of the Italian blue sky that impressed Mendelssohn (he once described the Symphony as “blue sky in A major”). The movement is in sonata form, but it also uniquely includes a transitional passage between the exposition and its repeat whose material is developed later on. The turbulent minorkey development section also may remind the listener that Mendelssohn was working on his storm-cloud-riddled “Scottish” Symphony (in A minor) at the same time he was composing the “Italian.”

In the second movement, an Andante con moto in D minor, Mendelssohn recalls the impressive processions he had witnessed during

his time in Rome. He evokes these with a dusky melody (oboes, clarinets, and violas) that unfolds over an ambling bass line. This alternates with two contrasting, relaxed, major-key sections.

The flowing minuet (Con moto moderato), with its legato writing for strings and winds, offers a musical equivalent of the symmetrical forms and restrained beauty of some of the architecture Mendelssohn saw during his Italian sojourn. The trio sounds vaguely militaristic, with its fanfare-like melodic

figure for horns and bassoons.

In the finale, Mendelssohn uses another dance, the raucous Neapolitan saltarello, as the basis of the movement. He never relaxes the tension during the movement, which hurtles to a close with a minorkey reiteration of the first movement’s opening theme.

Mendelssohn completed the Symphony on March 13, 1833, in partial fulfillment of a commission from the Philharmonic Society of London. He conducted the premiere exactly two

months later, on May 13—it was a great success, and the work was repeated in June. Mendelssohn, however, was never entirely satisfied with the Symphony. He revised it twice, in 1837 and again before he died in 1847, but it was never published during his lifetime. This final version premiered in Leipzig on November 1, 1849, with Julius Rietz conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra. It is this version that was published in 1851 and is regularly performed today.

—J ohn Mangum

MASAAKI SUZUKI

Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach. He has remained the group’s Music Director ever since, taking them regularly to major venues and festivals in Europe and the U.S. and building up an outstanding reputation for the expressive refinement and truth of his performances.

In addition to working with renowned period ensembles, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Suzuki is invited to conduct diverse repertoire encompassing Brahms, Britten, Fauré, Mahler, Mendelssohn, and Stravinsky with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

Suzuki’s impressive discography on the BIS label, featuring all of Bach’s major choral works as well as complete works for harpsichord, has brought him many critical plaudits. The year 2018 marked the triumphant conclusion of Bach Collegium Japan’s epic recording of the complete sacred and secular cantatas initiated in 1995 and comprising 65 volumes.

Suzuki combines his conducting career with his work as an organist and harpsichordist; he recently recorded Bach’s solo works for these instruments. Born in Kobe, Japan, he graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition and organ performance and went on to study at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam under Ton Koopman and Piet Kee. Founder and Professor Emeritus of the early-music department at

the Tokyo University of the Arts, he was on the choral conducting faculty at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music from 2009 until 2013, and he remains affiliated as principal guest conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum.

In 2012, Suzuki was awarded the Leipzig Bach Medal and, in 2013, the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize. In April 2001, he was decorated with the Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik from Germany.

MASAAKI SUZUKI

MARTIN CHALIFOUR

Martin Chalifour has been Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1995. He graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to the United States to continue studies at the famed Curtis Institute of Music.

Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and is also a laureate of the prestigious Montreal International Competition. Apart from his LA Phil duties, he maintains an active solo career, playing a diverse repertoire of more than 60 concertos.

Chalifour has appeared as soloist with conductors Pierre

Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Neville Marriner, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Outside the U.S., he has played solos with the Auckland Philharmonia, the Montreal Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, and the Malaysian Philharmonic, among others.

Chalifour began his orchestral career with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as Associate Concertmaster for six years. Subsequently, for five years he occupied the same position in the Cleveland Orchestra, where he also served as Acting Concertmaster under Christoph von Dohnányi. While in Cleveland, Chalifour taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a founding member of the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio.

Chalifour is a frequent guest at summer music festivals, including the Mainly Mozart Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.

Maintaining close ties with his native country, he has returned there often to teach and perform as soloist with various Canadian orchestras, most recently in Vancouver and in Hamilton.

Chalifour has recorded solo and chamber music for the Telarc, Northstar, and Yarlung labels. He teaches at Caltech and at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music.

MARTIN CHALIFOUR

THE PLANETS

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Karen Kamensek, conductor

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

Pacific Chorale

Rob ert Istad, Artistic Director

Kibsaim Escárcega, Chorusmaster

Adam SCHOENBERG Co ol Cat (world premiere, LA Phil commission) (c. 5 minutes)

Philip GLASS

Violin Concerto No. 1 (c. 30 minutes)

I II III

Anne Akiko Meyers

INTERMISSION

HOLST The Planets (c. 48 minutes)

Mars, the Bringer of War Venus, the Bringer of Peace Mercury, the Winged Messenger Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Uranus, the Magician Neptune, the Mystic

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This performance is generously supported by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts and the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund

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COOL CAT Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980)

Cool Cat is inspired by the extraordinary life of P-22, the mountain lion that captured the heart of Los Angeles and beyond. This playful and celebratory concert-opener, aka fanfare, is meant to get the party started.

We knew that this work would be premiered on September 12, 2023. Serendipitously, that date falls exactly 10 years to the day when the orchestra premiered my first commission for the LA Phil. At the time, I was asked to write a children’s ballet, which I titled Bounce That work was dedicated to my then one-month-old, Luca. My youngest son, Leo, had yet to have a piece solely dedicated to him, so I knew it was only fitting. He is fierce and determined, just like P-22! This new piece is dedicated to Leo, our very own cool cat.

—Adam Schoenberg

Please turn to page 28 to read an interview with composer ADAM SCHOENBERG

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 Philip Glass (b. 1937)

Glass had composed a large and pioneering body of ensemble pieces since 1965, but the Violin Concerto from 1987 was his first major work for a conventional symphony orchestra. (As a student he had composed many pieces, including another violin concerto that he worked on with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival in 1960.) “This piece explores what an orchestra can do for me,” Glass said. “In it, I’m more interested in my own sound than in the capability of particular orchestral instruments. It is tailored to my musical needs.” The concerto was written for Glass’ friend and former Juilliard schoolmate Paul Zukofsky, who gave the premiere with Dennis Russell Davies and the American Composers Orchestra in April 1987. It is cast in the familiar threemovement, fast–slow–fast form of concerto tradition, and the agile, energetic, idiomatic solo figuration of the first movement suggests a sort of punk Vivaldi. The slow movement, with its floating cantilena over a passacaglia bass line, also recalls Baroque textures. The main body of the finale is again fast and florid, goaded to a darker, more urgent edge than the opening by aggressive percussion. Zukofsky had wanted a slow, high ending, and Glass closes the concerto with a long coda that reflects on the previous movements. —John Henken

THE PLANETS

Gustav Holst (1874–1934)

Holst began composing The Planets in 1914, yet, in spite of the first section’s title, “Mars, the Bringer of War,” it is not a war piece, for Holst was well into it before World War I started. The composer, a man of intellect and wide-ranging interests, found musical inspiration in diverse places. “As a rule,” he said, “I only study things that suggest music to me. That’s why I worried at Sanskrit.” (When he became interested in Hindu literature through translations, he proceeded to learn the original Sanskrit and wrote several Hinduinspired works, including two operas.) “And then,” he concluded, “recently, the character of each planet suggested lots to me.”

In his preface to The Planets, Holst advised that there was no program in the pieces and that the subtitles should be sufficient to guide the imagination of the listener. Holst’s own imagination had been stimulated by many things, not the least of which was the great literature of English folk songs, introduced to him by his lifelong friend Ralph Vaughan Williams. Another influence was that of Stravinsky, whose music

had greatly impressed Holst before he took on the universe, the effects of which in The Planets can be seen in the very large Firebird and Petrushka kind of orchestration, in insistent rhythms, and also in striding rhythmic shifts. Holst’s musico-spatial explorations may not be cosmic, but they are brilliant, dramatic, and picturesque enough to fit into almost anyone’s concert hall horoscope.

Mars, the Bringer of War opens in ominous quiet, with the portent of a fierce martial confrontation. Brass fanfares blare contemptuously while timpani provide support. A sudden cessation of the activity is only a pause before an even more violent onslaught, with rhythmic punctuation throbbing mercilessly.

Venus, the Bringer of Peace is a tranquil scene cooled by flutes and an austere solo violin. A suggestion of sensuality evolves as the music gathers strength, but it is tempered by serene dissipation.

Mercury, the Winged Messenger, a dashing, stunning orchestral scherzo, features harps, celesta, and a solo violin dancing to an ephemeral tune. The fuller orchestral textures invest Mercury with a decidedly French Impressionistic character.

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity is the most thoroughly English section of the work, with Jupiter’s high spirits projected through a broad, infectiously energetic melody. A stately, more serious processional theme then enters, its royal dignity fully intact, after which the vigorous melody returns.

In Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age, the aching despair of youth lost fills the section, first with solemnity, then with outrage as bells clang wildly. But the protest is futile, and the inevitable journey continues, this time ending in transfigured peacefulness.

Uranus, the Magician:

Here, Holst unleashes diabolical energy, some of it reminiscent of some earlier conjurings by Dukas, Saint-Saëns, Mussorgsky—i.e., Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Danse macabre, Bald Mountain

Neptune, the Mystic: A pure otherworldliness, an aura of lost-in-space, permeates this final section. The transparency of the scoring is intensified by the disembodied sound of a wordless women’s chorus, the combination casting a spell that is wondrously mystic, transcendental. —Orrin Howard

KAREN KAMENSEK

Karen Kamensek, born in Chicago, is equally at home on the opera and concert stages. Her broad range of interests and her varied work extend from classical to modern, including many world premieres, film music, and crossover projects (jazz and world music). A specialist in contemporary music, she regularly works with the American composer Philip Glass, whose Orphée she conducted in New York and Germany, as well as Glass’

world premiere of Les Enfants Terribles at the Spoleto Festival USA. A further Glass premiere to take place under Kamensek’s baton was the first-ever live performance of Passages in collaboration with Anoushka Shankar, which marked her debut at the BBC Proms, where she returned in summer 2022. In recent years, Kamensek has also made Glass’ opera Akhnaten a core part of her repertoire and was honored with a Grammy Award for her recorded performance of the work at the Metropolitan Opera in 2019.

The 2022/23 season brings Kamensek back to the Norwegian National Opera to conduct Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, to the English National Opera for Akhnaten, and to the Welsh National Opera for Candide. Her symphonic engagements this season include concerts with the Brussels Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Pacific Symphony, RBB Ultraschall Festival, Tiroler Sinfonieorchester, and Vancouver Symphony. Kamensek was First Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper from 2000 to 2002 and Music Director at the Theater Freiburg from 2003 to 2006, after which she took on the position of interim Chief Conductor of the Slovenian National Theater in Maribor in the 2007/08 season. Beginning in 2008, Kamensek served as deputy Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera before becoming Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hanover State Opera in 2011. She led the opera in Hanover until 2016, and during her tenure she conducted numerous new productions, including Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Puccini’s Il trittico, Detlev Glanert’s Caligula, and Janáček’s Jenůfa.

KAREN KAMENSEK

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS

Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the world’s most esteemed violinists. She regularly performs around the world as soloist with leading orchestras and in recital and is a prolific recording artist, with over 40 recordings. A muse and champion of living composers, she recently premiered and performed Fandango by Arturo Márquez with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall,

Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City to great critical acclaim. Her 2022/23 season includes appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National, Albany, Detroit, Nashville, Princeton, San Diego, San Jose, Tucson, and Wichita symphony orchestras. She also released her latest recording, Mysterium, of newly imagined violin/choral music by J.S. Bach and Morten Lauridsen, with Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, on Avie Records.

Meyers’ many television appearances include The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Evening at Pops with John Williams, CBS Sunday Morning, Great Performances, Countdown with Keith Olbermann (in a segment that was the third-most-popular story of that year), the Emmy Awards, and The View. John Williams personally chose Anne to perform “Schindler’s List” for a Great Performances PBS telecast, and Arvo Pärt invited her to perform at the opening-ceremony concerts of his new center and concert hall in Estonia.

Meyers has been featured in commercials and advertising campaigns including Anne Klein, shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz; J.Jill; Northwest Airlines; DDI Japan; and TDK, and she was the inspiration for the main character’s career path in the

J. Courtney Sullivan novel The Engagements. Outside of the classical-music sphere, Meyers has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including jazz icons Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis, avant-garde musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita, pop-era act Il Divo, and singer Michael Bolton. Meyers was born in San Diego and grew up in Southern California, where she and her mother traveled eight hours roundtrip from the Mojave Desert to Pasadena for lessons with Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. At the invitation of legendary teacher Dorothy DeLay, Meyers moved to New York at the age of 14 to study with her, Felix Galimir, and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School. She signed with management at 16, recording her debut album of the Barber and Bruch violin concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios at 18. Meyers has received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Distinguished Alumna Award and honorary doctorate from the Colburn School. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Juilliard School.

Meyers endorses Larsen Strings and performs on the Ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, dated 1741, considered by many to be the finestsounding violin in existence.

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS

PACIFIC CHORALE

The Grammy Award-winning Pacific Chorale, an Orange County “treasure” with a “fresh viewpoint” that “can sing anything you put in front of it with polish, poise, and tonal splendor” (Orange County Register), has “risen to national prominence” (Los Angeles Times) since its inception in 1968. Hailed for delivering “thrilling entertainment” (Voice of OC), the resident choir at Segerstrom Center for the Arts is noted for its artistic innovation and commitment to expanding the choral repertoire. It has given the world, U.S., and West Coast premieres of more than 35 works, including numerous commissions, by such lauded composers as John Adams, Jake Heggie, James Hopkins, David Lang, Morten Lauridsen, Tarik O’Regan, Karen Thomas, Frank Ticheli, András Gábor Virágh, and Eric Whitacre.

In addition to presenting its own concert series each season, Pacific Chorale enjoys a long-standing partnership with Pacific Symphony, with which the choir made its highly anticipated Carnegie Hall debut in 2018. The chorus also regularly appears with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with which it won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album, Classical, for its contribution to the live recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the National Children’s Chorus as well as Pacific Chorale. The choir has also performed with such leading orchestras as the Boston Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Musica Angelica, among others.

Pacific Chorale has garnered international acclaim as well, having toured extensively to more than 19 countries in Europe, South America, and Asia, and through collaborations with the London Symphony, Munich Symphony, Orchestre Lamoureux and Orchestre de l’Académie de l’île Saint-Louis of Paris, National Orchestra of Belgium, China National Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Estonian National Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Argentina, among others.

Deeply committed to making choral music accessible to people of all ages, the organization has a discography of 14 self-produced recordings and an extensive collection of exceptional free digital offerings. The choir’s critically acclaimed original concert film The Wayfaring Project, broadcast on PBS SoCal and KCET in 2021, features Pacific Chorale, members of Pacific Symphony, and soloists performing J.S. Bach’s motet Jesu meine Freude, interwoven with contemporary works by Moira Smiley, Dolly Parton, Samuel Barber, and others. Currently streaming on pbssocal.org, kcet.org, and the PBS app, it follows Pacific Chorale’s progression through the COVID-19 pandemic: from complete social distancing with each singer performing in isolation through the choir’s return 17 months later to live music-making at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Pacific Chorale also places a significant emphasis on choral music education, providing after-school vocal programs for elementary school students, a choral summer camp for high school students, and an annual community-wide singing event at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. pacificchorale.org

WOMEN OF PACIFIC CHORALE

Robert Istad

Artistic Director & Conductor

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

Ar tistic Director Chair

Kibsaim Escárcega

Assistant Conductor & Chorusmaster

Andrew Brown President & CEO

SOPRANO

Rebecca Hasquet

Section Leader

Lauren Adaska

Andria Nuñez Cabrera

Ariana Celeste

Chelsea Chaves

Katy Compton

Adrien Gonzalez

Brooke Lea Jackson

Saousan Jarjour

Sarah Lonsert

Anne McClintic

Shannon A. Miller

Hien Nguyen

Laura Pluth

Libby Quam

Sarah Schaffner-Pepe

Amelia H. Thompson

Rachel Van Skike

Anne Williams

ALTO

Jane Hyun-Jung Shim

Section Leader

Shinaie Ahn

Hannah Black

Emily Border

Mary Clark

Denean R. Dyson

I-Chin Betty Feinblatt

Erin Girard

Kathleen Thomsen Gremillion

Brandon Harris

Allison Hieger

Even Johnson

Kathleen Preston

Kaleigh Sanchez

Laurel Sanders

Lauren Shafer

Stephanie Shepson

Marijke van Niekerk

Mayuri Vasan

Emily Weinberg

JACOB COLLIER WITH THE LA PHIL

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 8PM

Programs and artists subject to change.

Official Hotel of the Hollywood Bowl

Jacob Collier Los Angeles Philharmonic Thomas Wilkins, conductor

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

Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

JACOB COLLIER

Recognized by audiences, critics, and fellow musicians alike as one of the most gifted young artists of modern times, 28-year-old Jacob Collier already has a seemingly endless list of achievements. He has received five Grammy wins along with 11 Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year nominations in 2021 and 2023.

As a result, his roster of collaborators is astoundingly varied and vibrant. Jacob’s voice has been featured on recent songs from the likes of Coldplay, SZA, Stormzy, and Kehlani. In his own projects, Collier has worked with an unpredictable cast of artistic powerhouses, from Malian singer Oumou Sangaré to John Mayer, T-Pain, Ty Dolla $ign, Daniel Caesar, and Tori Kelly (to name a few).

Collier has left such a mark on the artistic landscape already that he has been profiled by

the most prolific media outlets, has recorded two NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, has spoken at the renowned TED conference, and has performed on multiple national late-night TV shows.

Exploding onto the global stage with the viral success of his multi-frame, multiinstrumental YouTube covers, Collier caught the attention of Quincy Jones and under his mentorship released his debut album, In My Room, in 2016. Recorded, produced, and played entirely by Collier, In My Room heralded the arrival of a staggering musical mind.

Djesse (his most recent album project) has been a natural progression from the one-man process of In My Room, expanding to include collaborators from all over the world. In what has been defined as a four-album epic, the resulting volumes of Djesse have delivered on Collier’s ambitious promise, featuring an incredible array of artistic

peers and musical themes that encompass everything from orchestral composition to folk songwriting, R&B, rap, and pop. Although Collier has already achieved more than most artists could hope for in a lifetime, he is still restlessly creative. Alongside the upcoming release of Djesse Vol. 4, he has plans for future projects centered on solo piano, orchestras, and film scoring, and he has written for a forthcoming West End musical on the life of legendary opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. With such an ineffable and unpredictable career to date, the only certainty is that Collier will continue to surprise and delight, no matter which avenue he explores next.

THOMAS WILKINS

To read about conductor

THOMAS WILKINS, please tu rn to page 16

JACOB COLLIER

THOMAS WILKINS

PROMISES

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 8PM

Floating Points

With Shabaka Hutchings

Conducted by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Featuring Kara-Lis Coverdale

John Escreet

Kieran Hebden (Four Tet)

Jeffrey Makinson

Hinako Omori

Lara Serafin

Dan Snaith (Caribou)

The Los Angeles Studio Orchestra

And a special performance by Sun Ra Arkestra

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Sun Ra Arkestra

INTERMISSION

Promises

Programs and artists subject to change.

Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

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

PROMISES

In 2019, the composer Floating Points (Sam Shepherd) converged with spiritual jazz icon Pharoah Sanders to create Promises, a breathtaking album-length composition and mesmerizing journey also featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Issued two years later, the recording has become one of the most acclaimed releases of our time.

Tonight, Floating Points is premiering Promises in full

live at the Hollywood Bowl. The performance brings to life a recording that capped Sanders’ profoundly influential six decades in music.

Shepherd began working with Sanders after the tenor saxophonist heard Floating Points’ debut album, Elaenia, in 2015. The two reconnected often, and as Shepherd gained further attention and success for the sublime Floating Points electronic albums Reflections: Mojave Desert (2017) and Crush (2019), his bond with

Sanders grew into a creative partnership that brought forth the meditative Promises. Upon its release, critics lined up to sing its praises, with NPR jazz critic Nate Chinen calling it “grand in scale but startlingly intimate in its effect.”

The pair were developing this Hollywood Bowl debut in the months before the tenor saxophonist died in 2022, and now Shepherd fulfills this wish with orchestra and an all-star lineup handpicked, in part, by Sanders himself.

PHAROAH SANDERS AND SAM SHEPHERD

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Dr. Carey Cullinane

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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.

Carla B. Breitner

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

Susan and David Cole

Ms. Ina Coleman

Mr. Garrett Collins and Mr. Matthew McIntyre

Nathan Cork

Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch

Mr. and Mrs. Leo David

Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez

Eric Gutshall and Felicia Davis

Corena De Klerk

Ann Deal

Nathan Dean

Ms. Mary Denove

Nikki Depaola

Christopher DeRosa

Mr. Kevin Dill

Julia Stearns

Dockweiler

Charitable Foundation

Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms. Georgia Archer

Mr. Gregory C. Drapac

Mrs. Eva Elkins

Ismail Elshareef

John B. Emerson and Kimberly

Marteau Emerson

Joyce and David Evans

Dominique Faes

Ms. Janet Fahey

Jen and Ted Fentin

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin S. Field

A.B. Fischer

Dr. and Mrs. Arthur

A. Fleisher, II

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael M. Flynn

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Janet Franklin

Lynn Franklin

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Freeland

Linda and James Freund

Alison Fried

Ian and Meredith Fried

Steven Friednam

Brian Gallivan

Dr. Tim A. Gault, Sr.

Ms. Jane Gavens

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Gertz

Mr. and Mrs.

David A. Gill

Mr. and Mrs.

Lawrence D. Gilson

William and Phyllis Glantz

Glendale Philharmonic Committee

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce S. Glickfeld

Cheryl Goldring

Dr. Patricia Goldring

Elliot Gordon and Carol Schwartz

Dr. Ellen Smith Graff

Sue and Jim Gragg

Ms. Linda Graul

Mr. Frank Gruber and Ms.

Janet Levin

Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk

Mr. and Mrs. Pierre and Rubina Habis

Mr. Stephen E. Haddad

Ashleigh Hairston

Ahjalia Hall

Leslie E. Fishbein

Hansen

Mr. Robert T. Harkins

Kerri Harper-Howie

Tiffany Harrington

Mr. Rick Harrison and Ms.

Susan Hammer

Mr. and Mrs.

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Stacy Harvey

Jon Hawk

Byron and DeAnne Hayes

Mr. Donald V. Hayes

Nicolette F. Hebert

Vince Bertoni and Damon Hein

Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge Margaret

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Dryden and Brian Helgoe

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Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Hernandez, Jr.

Lonnie Herring

Kim Hershman

Ms. Gail Hershowitz

The Hill Family

Dr. and Mrs. Hank Hilty

David and Martha Ho

Greg and Jill Hoenes

Laura Fox, M.D., and John

Hofbauer, M.D.

G Hogan

Eugene and Katinka Holt

In and Ki Hong

Douglas and Carolyn Honig

Jill Hopper

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.

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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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Ray Dollete

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Michael Dreyer

Evelyn Dreyfuss

James and Andrea Drollinger

Alicia Dumas

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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

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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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Rita and William Griffin

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Gustafson

Lesley Gwam

Rod Hagenbuch

Judith and Robert D. Hall

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Kristina M Hernandez

Jim Herzfeld

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Illig Construction Company

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Mrs. Janet P. Wright

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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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AROOJ AFTAB • VIJAY IYER • SHAHZAD ISMAILY, SEPT 20

NOCHE DE CUMBIA, SEPT 1 ¡VIVA LA TRADICIÓN!, SEPT 8

LAUFEY WITH THE LA PHIL, SEPT 16

CELEBRATING SAMBA WITH VIVER BRASIL, SEPT 17

HERMANOS GUTIÉRREZ, SEPT 28

OS MUTANTES, SEPT 3

FLYPOET: SUMMER CLASSIC, SEPT 9 RYAN BEATTY, SEPT 14

SELENA, SEPT 23

CANCIONES DE MI MADRE, SEPT 30

ASH & THE LEAPING LIZARDS, OCT 1 LOS ANGELES FOLK FESTIVAL, OCT 7-8

SERPENTWITHFEET: HEART OF BRICK, OCT 21 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, OCT 28

AL SUR DE LA FRONTERA, OCT 6

AÑOS DE GRANDEZA MEXICANA, OCT 14

UN VIAJE POR BUENOS AIRES WITH GD TANGO, OCT 15

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.

LEGEND

ATM

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