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Thank you, as always, for your dedication to the LA Phil. We are pleased and honored to welcome you back to Walt Disney Concert Hall tonight.
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Tonight, they join forces, along with special guests, to kick off the LA Phil’s extraordinary 2022/23 season—a year of unforgettable concerts and music learning initiatives that are made possible, in no small part, by the incredible generosity of donors and patrons like you.
Since his arrival in Los Angeles in 2009, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel has built a strong bond with Maestro Williams, which has been deeply meaningful for both legendary artists.
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We would also like to pay tribute tonight to the memory of Ann Ronus, who passed away earlier this year. In addition to being a committed LA Phil board member and a generous benefactor of countless galas, Ann was a dear friend to us all.
Thank you for your support of tonight’s LA Phil Gala: John Williams Celebration. As Co-Chairs of the Gala Committee, we are thrilled to share this special evening with you, as we honor Maestro Williams on the occasion of his 90th birthday and celebrate his 45-year partnership with the Los Angeles
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relationship with the LA Phil began when he first conducted the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl half a century ago. His connection to us grew deeper when he conducted his composition Soundings at the inaugural Walt Disney Concert Hall Gala in 2003. An experimental piece, Soundings’ colorful sonorities mirror the Hall’s environment, which Williams called “the most inspiring subject for music that can be imagined.”
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This past summer, we celebrated the first century of the Hollywood Bowl. That occasion offered us a chance to look back and reflect upon how many people have helped shape the history of the venue and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic itself. Tonight, we honor an artist who is a part of that story.
Summarizing John Williams’ impact as an artist is an impossible task. He’s shown the enduring emotional power of orchestral music, and in the words of Gustavo Dudamel, John has composed “a soundtrack for our lives.” While it is just one chapter of his incredible legacy, he has been a valued friend of our orchestra and demonstrates the positive force, if you’ll indulge the pun, individuals can have on our organization—from the artists and musicians on our stage to the administrators behind the scenes to you in the audience who help support our work. Thank you for being here tonight, and enjoy this special concert.
The first-ever collaboration between John Williams and the LA Phil was unadvertised and little known. In the late 1950s, John performed as an orchestral substitute pianist at the Hollywood Bowl. In 1968—after being convinced by then-LA Phil Executive Director Ernest Fleischmann—he conducted in public for the first time, stepping in for an ailing Arthur Fiedler to lead the LA Phil. Since then, we have been blessed to share countless memorable moments with John in this concert hall, at the Bowl, and with world premieres and recordings of his music.
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Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel has put together a wide-ranging program featuring just a handful of musical selections from the exceptionally moving and instantly recognizable compositions of one of the greatest generative artists of our time: the one and only John Williams!
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I am proud to be here tonight as we celebrate Maestro Williams, while we also raise critical funds to support the LA Phil and its music learning and community engagement programs, which reach tens of thousands of young people and their families every year.
I have spent most of my life in the music business, and, through my work, I have seen firsthand the difference that music can make in our lives and especially in the lives of young people. What better way to celebrate music education than by honoring the composer whose scores have inspired young listeners for generations?
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Dactyls , a borrowed word from the Greeks, which we use to describe a threesyllable effect in poetry, as well as the digit with its three bones, may serve to describe the next movement. It is our third movement, in a three meter, and features a short cadenza for violin, harp, and timpani… yet another triad. The violin provides an aggressive virtuosity that produces a rough, waltzlike energy that is both bawdy and impertinent.
she recorded the theme from the film Cinderella Liberty, demonstrating a surprising and remarkable feeling for jazz. So, after a short introduction, I opened the Prologue of this concerto with a circular,motionmurmursectionparticularlyrhythmicherwhileinisaffinitysuggestingquasi-improvisation,herveryevidentforthisidiom.Therealsomuchfastermusicthismovement,whichwriting,Irecalledflairforaninfectiousswaggerthatisherown.Inthebeginningofthenextormovement,aquietiscreatedbyagentlethatIthinkofasbeinghencethesubtitle
Rounds . At one point you will hear harmonies reminiscent of Debussy, but I ask you to reflect on another Claude… in this case, Thornhill: a very early hero of mine who, it can be justly said, was the musical godfather of the Gil Evans/ Miles Davis collaboration. It is also in this movement that a leitmotif or theme appears, later restated in the Epilogue .
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Composing program notes has always been challenging for me. These descriptions always seem to try to answer the question “what is this music about?” And while music has many purposes and functions, I’ve always believed that in the end, the music ought to be free to be interpreted through the prism of every listener’s own personal history, prior exposures, and cultural background. One man’s sunken cathedral might be another woman’s mist at the dawning. The meaning must therefore reside, if you’ll forgive me, in the “ear of the beholder.”
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I can only think of this piece as being about AnneSophie Mutter, and the violin itself—an instrument that is the unsurpassed product of the luthier’s art. With so much great music already written for the instrument, much of it recently for AnneSophie herself, I wondered what further contribution I could possibly make. But I took my inspiration and energy directly from this great artist herself. We’d recently collaborated on an album of film music for which
Few have had an impact on music and culture as great as John Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this year. His iconic themes and masterful orchestrations have epitomized the enduring emotional power of symphonic music, even as trends and tastes have changed in Hollywood across his hearinstitutions.orchestras,artists,toinimportanceatcareer,throughoutthechildrendiscoveredGustavoandgenerationsmusicalcareer.many-decades-longWhat’smore,hisvoicehasinspiredofcomposersartists—includingDudamel—whoJohn’smusicasandhavecarriedloveofhismusictheiradultlives.AthroughlineinWilliams’whichisondisplaythisconcert,istheofrelationshipshismusicallife,linkinghimadiversityofperformingfilmdirectors,andmusicalUpfirst,weabriefworktitled
this summer to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hollywood RelationshipsBowl.arealso at the heart of the Violin Concerto No. 2 , which Williams composed for the renowned virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter as a tribute to their many years of friendship and collaboration. In his note for the concerto, Williams writes:
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Just Down West Street. Williams wrote this piece as a gift to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center, where he has spent many summers performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. The name offers literal directions to the venue from downtown Lenox, Massachusetts, and allows each section of the orchestra to have a moment in the spotlight. The work is an example of a growing subgenre of celebratory music Williams has composed for special occasions that also includes a fanfare premiered
The final movement is approached “attacca” by the violin and harp, where
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the two instruments reverse their relative balances in a kind of “sound dissolve.” In this way, they transport us to the Epilogue . It is in this final movement that the motif introduced in Rounds returns in the form of a duet for violin and harp, closing the piece with a gentle resolution in
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One of the most fruitful relationships in Hollywood history began as something of a blind date when a young Steven Spielberg asked the help of a Universal Studios executive in arranging a
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lunch meeting with John Williams. The composer, who was in his 40s at the time, would later recall to the Los Angeles Times, “It was like having lunch with a teenager who had never ordered wine before and didn’t quite know what to do with the silver. He was so young, a little older
Spielberg was instrumental in another of Williams’ most important artistic
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the brass players not to worry, as this would be a “nice, quiet, gentle number.” Cripps said, “and then he looked at me with a smile and said, ‘David, I’ve written a little horn solo for you.’”
relationships when he introduced the composer to his friend George Lucas. The young filmmaker later showed Williams an early cut of Star Wars that used preexisting classical music as temporary score tracks. Williams would later write in the liner notes for the soundtrack album that those “temp tracks” showed that the otherworldly nature of the film’s setting could be grounded by familiarsounding music, which in turn would bring home the film’s universal themes. He also tapped into the fantasy— rather than the sci-fi—nature of Star Wars, as he sought to write Wagnerianmelody-drivenleitmotifsfor the film’s various characters and thematic concepts.
“Princess Leia’s Theme” is a fairy-tale melody, beautifully orchestrated, which also showcases Williams’ affinity for the solo horn. David Cripps, principal horn with the London Symphony Orchestra, who recorded the original score, recently told the story of how this piece first came to life. As Cripps recalled, the brass players were thoroughly exhausted at the end of the session, and Williams asked them for another half hour to record just one more piece. The composer told
The 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial offered another seismic success in the relationship between Williams and Spielberg, and a decision the latter made during the recording process demonstrates the respect each man had for the contributions of the other. Williams was recording the lengthy and complex music for the finale of the film, and he was having difficulty synching the orchestra’s performance to the many precise cuts and beats of the picture edit. After several takes, Spielberg offered to turn off the film and allow Williams to record the music on its own, with exactly the tempi and phrasing he felt the music required. When it was recorded to Williams’ satisfaction, Spielberg then re-cut the end of the film to match this musical performance. The result was one of the most iconic sequences in movie history, and “Adventures on Earth” Williams’ concert adaptation of this music—provides a fitting conclusion to this evening’s gala program.
In “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Williams shows his inherent knack for matching the tone and emotional language of Spielberg’s images. As the titular protagonist (Harrison Ford) and his father (Sean Connery) try to escape a gang of scherzothethecharacteristicNazis—whilemotorbike-ridingtradingafewquipsalongway—Williamsinvokessymphonicformofthe(Italianfor“joke”) to imbue what otherwise would be a tense escape with a feel of lighthearted adventure and even humor. That humor extends to the title of this concert arrangement, which Williams added to describe “the participation of the unmelodious vehicle” in this sequence in the film.
than my children but not a whole lot. However, he seemed to know more about my music than I did.” That last remark betrays Williams’ characteristic humility, and what grew out of that initial lunch was a legendary artistic partnership that continues to this day and has resulted in many of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films of all time.
The LA Phil also released its groundbreaking Sound/ Stage digital media initiative, featuring artists like Billie Eilish, Father John Misty,
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Following his inaugural season as Music Director of the Paris Opera, the 2022/23 season features Dudamel leading productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner’s
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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dudamel has committed even more time and energy to his mission of bringing music to people across the globe, firm in his conviction that the arts play an essential role in creating a more just, peaceful, and integrated society. A landmark event was the highly anticipated launch of Symphony, a state-of-the-art immersive VR film experience designed as both a permanent exhibition in Barcelona and a touring exhibition in two mobile pop-up cinemas that traveled to hundreds of towns across Spain and Portugal, allowing tens of thousands of people to have access to the power of symphonic music.
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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 underserved communities. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair, of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Opéra National de Paris and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
Dudamel’s programmingboldand 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 continue their visionary, multi-year PanAmerican Music Initiative, extolling the explosive creativity of the Americas, and they celebrate the 90th birthday of legendary film composer John Williams with a Gala event. Further highlights with the LA Phil include a fall tour with performances at Carnegie Hall, Boston, and Mexico City and Guanajuato, as part of the Cervantino Festival, a 10-day exploration of the piano/orchestral works of Rachmaninoff with Yuja Wang, and the return of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars, with video by Bill Viola.
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
Dudamel’s advocacy for the power of music to unite, heal, and inspire is global in scope. Shaped by his transformative experience as a youth in Venezuela’s immersive musical training program El Sistema, Dudamel with the LA Phil and its community partners founded YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) in 2007, now providing 1,500 young people with free instruments, intensive music instruction, academic support, and leadership training. In October 2021, YOLA opened its first permanent, purposebuilt facility: The Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by architect Frank Gehry. Dudamel also created The Dudamel Foundation in 2012, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal “to expand access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.” In 2017, he formed the “Orchestra of the
and closing credits of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and performed with the LA Phil at the 2019 Academy Awards®. His 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. He has made several acclaimed recordings with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, including the soundtrack to the feature film Libertador about the life of Simón Bolívar—for which Dudamel composed the score, as well as digital releases of all nine Beethoven symphonies.
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Future,” made up of young people representing five continents and over a dozen countries, around the Nobel Prize Concert in Sweden, where he also delivered a lecture on the unity of the arts and sciences. In 2021, The Dudamel Foundation presented its first European Encuentros in Spain as a way to explore cultural unity and celebrate harmony, equality, dignity, beauty, and respect through music.
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 such musical luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, and Arturo Toscanini. He conducted the score to Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of Bernstein’s West Side Story and starred as the subject of a documentary on his life, ¡Viva Maestro!, which was released by Participant Media. At John Williams’ personal request, he guest conducted the opening
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he received the Kennedy Center Honors, and, in 2009, he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. government. In 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute—the first time a composer was honored with this award. And, in 2020, he received Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, as well as the Gold Medal from the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society in the U.K.
In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than 100 films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone, and The Book Thief. His nearly 50year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, The BFG, and The Post
John Williams has composed themes for four Olympic Games. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 14 seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the
concert stage, including two symphonies and concertos commissioned by many of America’s most prominent orchestras. John Williams has received five Academy Awards and 52 Oscar nominations (making him the most-nominatedsecond-person in the history of the Oscars), seven British Academy Awards, 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. In 2004,
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In March 2022, the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow bestowed an honorary doctorate upon her. In October 2019, Mutter was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in the music category; in June, she received the Polar Music Prize. In February 2018, she was named an Honorary Member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In November 2017, France named her a Commander of the French Order of the Arts and Literature. In December 2016, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports awarded her the Medalla de oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. In October 2013, she became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, after winning the medal of the Lutosławski Society (Warsaw) in January. In 2011, she received the Brahms Prize as well as the Erich Fromm Prize and the Gustav Adolf Prize for her social activism. The violinist has also been awarded the German Grand Order of Merit, the French Medal of the Legion of Honor, the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical phenomenon: For 46 years now, the virtuoso has been a fixture in all the world’s major concert halls, making her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor, and visionary.
The four-time Grammy® Award winner is equally committed to the performance of standard repertoire as to the future of music: so far, she has given world premieres of 31 works—Thomas Adès, Unsuk Chin, Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutosławski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann, and John Williams have all composed for her. Mutter dedicates herself to supporting tomorrow’s musical elite and numerous benefit projects. Since January 2022, she has served on the foundation board of the Lucerne Festival. In 1997, she founded the “Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation,” to which the AnneSophie Mutter Foundation was added in 2008. These two charitable institutions provide support for the scholarship recipients, tailoring it to the fellows’ individual needs. Since 2011, Mutter has regularly shared the spotlight on stage with her ensemble of fellows, Mutter’s Virtuosi.
Chamber music programs include violin sonatas and Mozart piano trios with Lambert Orkis and the cellists Maximilian Hornung and Lionel Martin. Further recitals with her longstanding piano partner feature works by Beethoven, Franck, and Mozart. On tour with active and former fellows of her foundation, she will perform Beethoven and Haydn String Quartets and Jörg Widmann’s Studie über
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Mutter’s concert calendar for 2022 once again reflects her musical versatility and outstanding position in the classical music world: At the Lucerne Festival, she gives the world premiere of Thomas Adès’ Air for Violin and Orchestra, which she co-commissioned, and also performs Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She is performing Anne-Sophie, the violin concerto that André Previn dedicated to her, in several German cities, with the New York Philharmonic led by Jaap van Zweden. Mutter is also performing the Brahms Double Concerto alongside cellist Pablo Ferrández and the Czech Philharmonic led by Manfred Honeck as well as the
London Philharmonic Orchestra led by Ed Gardner. She performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in the U.S. with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra led by Andrew Davis and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Riccardo Muti, and in Germany with the Pittsburgh Orchestra under Manfred Honeck. Another musical focus in 2022 is on John Williams: In Vienna and the U.S., Mutter performs his Violin Concerto No. 2, of which she is the dedicatee, and a selection of virtuoso film score adaptations Williams created especially for her. These performances are conducted by the composer.
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER
In response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Anne-Sophie Mutter has given four benefit concerts for its victims in March and April 2022—and several more are to follow.
Beethoven, the world premiere of which she gave in Tokyo in 2020.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity. Their names are: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929); Artur Rodziński (1929-1933); Otto Klemperer (1933-1939); Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956); Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959); Zubin Mehta (1962-1978); Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984); André Previn (1985-1989); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009); and Gustavo (2009-present).Dudamel
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, on stage and in the community, that reflects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. 2022/23 marks the orchestra’s 104th 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® Awardwinning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, and Andrew Norman. Deutsche Grammophon has released a comprehensive box set in honor of the orchestra’s Centennial.
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The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues, with wide-ranging performances in the schools, churches, and neighborhood centers of a vastly diverse community. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth
More than 250 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehrydesigned 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 world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. Situated in a 32-acre park and under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, The Ford presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.
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In addition to being frequent collaborators, John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel have become close friends who admire each other’s work. As part of the LA Phil’s free digital concert series Sound/Stage, Dudamel interviewed Williams about his legacy and the many places each of them finds inspiration—from family and cooking to contemplating nature. The following is an excerpt of that interview, which has been edited for length.
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GD: You have created the soundtrack of our lives. I know that you told me that music is our inspiration, of course, but what keeps you inspired to keep writing this beautiful music?
I have in the film world probably has to do with my career overlapping the change from analog recording to digital recording, from the acoustic orchestra sound to electronics and computers creating a sound world for contemporary films. I think my legacy probably has to do with sitting on the top of this transition. I don’t know where it’s going, but I look forward to it.
GD: What goals do you have?
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I’d be very interested in what goals you have … perhaps to conduct The Ring … this kind of thing?
GD: I think there are some simple things in life that you think are simple but are very important—cooking, for example, is something that inspires me. I love it. It’s like [conducting to make] a balance of flavors. If you ask me [about] a goal, I would love to really cook better and better and better.
JW: That’s fantastic! Now I have a goal—to be your guest. When you cook, I will come!
JW: One of my goals is to continue to work with people that I derive such inspiration from. I just worked with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the German violinist, and that was a fantastic dream. She’s a muse. I’m also thinking of writing a piano concerto … I don’t know exactly for whom. There are many great piano concertos in the repertoire, so already it’s
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL: It’s always such a privilege to have a conversation with you, to have the chance to share life. I feel that it is a gift for me to have you as a friend and as a model. You [turned 90 this year]. If you look back, what do you think is your legacy?
GD: What you are saying is very powerful, too, because it’s about contemplation. Having the chance to contemplate nature. Sometimes, in the world that we live [in], we don’t have the chance to sit in a garden and to really contemplate.
One of the things about becoming older is that you see not so much man’s work, but God’s work in a way: a butterfly, a leaf, a sky. It is inspiring to be here.
JOHN WILLIAMS: Well, first of all, Gustavo, being 90 is a new experience, but I can tell you it’s no different than 70 or 80. If you feel good—mental wholeness, physical health—you know you can work. I am very lucky in that respect. Many people my age don’t have music to be intoxicated by all the time. I always say that it is our oxygen. It’s how we live and breathe. I’m very Whateverlucky.legacy
a bit of an impertinence to think that I can contribute to that repertoire, but it certainly can be a Gustavo,goal.
JW: Inspiration is very difficult to grab, but I think the biggest one is nature. You know, I have written a lot of pieces about trees because I find them to be dignified witnesses to our crazy lives and to our follies. They look at us and smile, and they’re at peace, and they give us shelter and fuel.
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JW: Yes, we need that. I think inspiration can be found in your children, in your parents, and, in our case, in the work of Beethoven. For example, E.T.—Steven’s film about children—the film is now 40 years old, and the children in it are all grown up to be parents themselves. But their performances are so pure. And whenever you see the film and you look at these kids, their faces are exactly what you want to see for that moment. Scoring a film like that is a great inspiration. I was on a high the whole time.
JW: I think there are always people who do as well as we do, and maybe even better, and I don’t know how much justice there is in the process of giving awards. But I think as a species we want to win, and that can be a very good impulse if it’s directed in the right way. It sets up a series of goals for us, and sometimes, we actually can accomplish such goals. Even for an old person like me, if you give me an Oscar, I’m happy, and maybe I will try to do better.
GD: But this is not about me. This is about you. And 50 years ago, you received your first Academy Award.
OCT 13-16
Members of the LA Phil take center stage as soloists in two sublime Mozart works. Plus, Dudamel leads Cuban composer Julián Orbón’s grand orchestral showpiece.
Mozart and Orbón with Dudamel
Tristan und Isolde
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Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite is paired with Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s swinging re-imagination of the original.
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Each season, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a wide range of programs showcasing the timeless and timely power of symphonic music. Don’t miss Dudamel conducting Mahler, exciting new music from the Pan-American Music Initiative, the dynamic Tristan Project, and a holiday classic in The Nutcracker.
John ADAMS I Still Dance MOZART Concerto for Flute and Harp MOZART Serenade No. 6, “Serenata
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Copland’s heroic Third Symphony contrasts with Arturo Márquez’ danceinspired violin concerto and Gabriela Ortiz’ kaleidoscopic Kauyumari
The Nutcracker: Tchaikovsky & Ellington
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Gustavo Dudamel conducts the return of this remarkable production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars, with video by Bill Viola, featuring a globally celebrated cast that is headlined by Michael Weinius and Miina-Liisa Värelä. When the Tristan Project was first performed in 2004, The New York Times hailed it as “a multimedia conception that promised to be so ingenious that listeners traveled long distances to catch it and talked about it for months.”
Pan-American Music Initiative Denis Bouriakov, flute Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
Ortiz and Mahler
Copland and Márquez
The Nutcracker Suite
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Dudamel revisits a personal passion with Mahler’s First and reprises Gabriela Ortiz’ electrifying new concerto with star Spanish violinist María Dueñas.
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The Tristan Project
Pan-American Music Initiative María Dueñas, violin
Under the leadership of Gustavo Dudamel, the LA Phil continues an expansive, five-year undertaking celebrating the explosive creativity of the Americas through new commissions, collaborations, and performances.
Gabriela ORTIZ Kauyumari (LA Phil commission) Arturo MÁRQUEZ Fandango COPLAND Symphony No. 3
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Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon, Artistic Director Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic
Curated by Julia Bullock, the Rock MySoul festival celebrates the collaboration and community formed by Black woman-identifying artists.
Chaka Khan is a force of nature as a live performer, and an exceptional songwriter and collaborator. The voice of hits “Sweet Thing,” “You Got the Love,” “I Feel For You,” and the triumphant “I’m Every Woman” leads off the Rock My Soul festival.
NOV 5-6
BRYAN, BONDS & PRICE
From art songs to solo showpieces and symphonic excerpts, Julia Bullock curates an evening showcasing the enduring musical voices of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds.
Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor Julia Bullock, curator Michelle Bradley, soprano Jasmin White, mezzo-soprano Michelle Cann, piano Nathaniel Gumbs, organ
NOV 12
Celebrating Black Women Artists in andCollaborationCommunity
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RHIANNON GIDDENS
NOV 11
Courtney BRYAN Sanctum PRICE/BONDS Selected Songs PRICE Symphony No. 3
PRICE Retrospection for Organ • The Oak • Mvt II & III from Symphony No. 4 • Selected Songs • Selected Works for Solo Piano PRICE (arr. Michael-Thomas FOUMAI) new work after Price’s Fantasie nègre No. 1 (world premiere, LA Phil commission) BONDS (arr. by Jannina NORPOTH) Selected Songs BONDS Selections from Montgomery Variations PRICE Organ Suite No. 1
CHAKA KHAN
A MUSICAL PORTRAIT: PRICE AND BONDS
Jeri Lynne Johnson, conductor Julia Bullock, curator
Jeri Lynne Johnson leads a program that brings a historic fight for acceptance and dignity by Bonds and Price into conversation with the modern day.
It is also evidence of the sheer diversity and expansiveness of what those identifiers might mean with respect to history, liberation, selfempowerment, and collective accountability.
The phrase itself—Rock My Soul—is drawn both from the world of Black American spirituals and its repurposing by philosopher and educator bell hooks, who communicated the importance of love and community. The sentiment behind it is not, writes festival curator Julia Bullock, “an ethereal, intangible endeavor. It is a call to express yourself, engage with everything within and around you, and find enjoyment while doing it.”
Both with The Carolina Chocolate Drops and in her own solo work, Rhiannon Giddens has used her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present.
The Rock My Soul festival is generously supported in part by Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa.
OCT 30
Jeri Lynne Johnson, conductor Resistance Revival Chorus
About the Festival
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We provide leadership, services, and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations, countywide arts education initiatives, commissioning and care for civic art collections, research and evaluation, access to creative pathways, professional development, free community programs, and cross sector creative strategies that address civic issues. All of this work is framed by our longstanding commitment to fostering access to the arts, and the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative.
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Hilda L. Solis
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Eric R. Eisenberg President
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Holly Mitchell Chair
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The Los Angeles County Arts Commission supports and advocates for the mission, vision and values of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. The Commission is an advisory group to the Board of Supervisors, with three appointees for each District.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s programs are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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