cover images: Courtesy of SUNWOOK KIM; Michael Poehn (PHILIPPE JORDAN); Sammy Hart (LISA BATIASHVILI); Courtesy of CODY FRY; Felix Brode (IGOR LEVIT); Kim Tae Hwan (EUN SUN LEE); and Alexandra Waespi (ARLO PARKS)
It’s a pleasure to kick off the new year with you at Walt Disney Concert Hall! I cannot think of a better way to enter 2025 than with beautiful music, and this month is bursting with gems. From the great violinist Lisa Batiashvili playing Beethoven to the poetically rendered worlds of Arlo Parks to a tantalizing evening of new works curated by Creative Chair John Adams, there are delights spanning the musical spectrum.
Along with setting resolutions, the start of a new year also offers us an opportunity to reexamine our relationship with music. In some ways, music has never been more present in our lives thanks to endless streams and earbuds. But music creates more than a mood; it can reframe our thoughts, unlock our emotions, help us feel more deeply, and forge stronger connections across communities. In the words of our Creative Chair for Jazz, Herbie Hancock: “Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference.”
As you settle into your seat at Walt Disney Concert Hall, I invite you to tune out the everyday chatter and listen in. When we open our ears and our hearts, we open ourselves to change and to making that difference.
Warmly,
Kim Noltemy
President
& Chief Executive Officer
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Board of Directors
CHAIR
Jason Subotky*
PRESIDENT & CEO
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
Kim Noltemy
VICE CHAIRS
Thomas L. Beckmen*
Reveta Bowers*
Jane B. Eisner*
David Meline*
Diane Paul*
Jay Rasulo*
DIRECTORS
Nancy L. Abell
Gregory A. Adams
Julie Andrews
Camilo Esteban
Becdach
Linda Brittan
Jennifer Broder Kawanna Brown
Andrea Chao-Kharma*
R. Martin Chavez
Christian D. Chivaroli
Jonathan L. Congdon
Donald P. de Brier*
Louise D. Edgerton
Lisa Field
David A. Ford
Alfred Fraijo Jr.
Hilary Garland
Jennifer Miller Goff*
Tamara Golihew
Carol Colburn Grigor
Marian L. Hall
Antonia Hernández*
Jonathan Kagan*
Darioush Khaledi
Winnie Kho
Joey Lee
Matt McIntyre
Francois Mobasser
Margaret Morgan
Leith O’Leary
Andy S. Park
Sandy Pressman
Geoff Rich*
Laura Rosenwald
Richard Schirtzer
John Sinnema
G. Gabrielle Starr
Jay Stein*
Christian Stracke*
Ronald D. Sugar*
Vikki Sung
Jack Suzar
Keith Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Jon Vein
Megan Watanabe
Regina Weingarten
Jenny Williams
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Irwin Winkler
Debra Wong Yang
HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS
David C. Bohnett
Frank Gehry
Lenore S. Greenberg
Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy
PAST CHAIRS**
Thomas L. Beckmen
Jay Rasulo
Diane B. Paul
David C. Bohnett
Jerrold L. Eberhardt
John F. Hotchkis†
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Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic Director
Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Gustavo Dudamel is committed to creating a better world through music. Guided by an unwavering belief in the power of art to inspire and transform lives, he has worked tirelessly to expand education and access for underserved communities around the world and to broaden the impact of classical music to new and ever-larger audiences. His rise, from humble beginnings as a child in Venezuela to an unparalleled career of artistic and social achievements, offers living proof that culture can bring meaning to the life of an individual and greater harmony to the world at large. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein. Throughout 2025, Dudamel will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of El Sistema, honoring the global impact of José Antonio Abreu’s visionary education program across five generations, and acknowledging the vital importance of arts education.
Dudamel’s advocacy for the power of music to unite, heal, and inspire is global in scope. In appearances from the United Nations to the White House to the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, Dudamel has served as a passionate advocate for music education and social integration through art, sharing his own transformative experience in Venezuela’s El Sistema program as an example of how music can give a sense of purpose and meaning to young people and help them rise
above challenging circumstances. In 2007, Dudamel, the LA Phil, and its community partners founded YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), which now provides more than 1,700 young people with free instruments, intensive music instruction, academic support, and leadership training. In 2012, Dudamel launched the Dudamel Foundation, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal of expanding access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.
As a conductor, Dudamel is one of the few classical musicians to become a bona fide pop-culture phenomenon and has worked tirelessly to ensure that music reaches an ever-greater audience. He was the first classical artist to participate in the Super Bowl halftime show and the youngest conductor ever to lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day Concert. He has performed at global mainstream events from the Academy Awards to the Olympics, and has worked with musical icons like Billie Eilish, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Gwen Stefani, Coldplay, and Nas. Dudamel conducted the score to Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Side Story, and at John Williams’ personal request, he guest conducted the opening and closing credits of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. His film and television appearances include Sesame Street, The Simpsons, Mozart in the Jungle, Trolls World Tour, and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and in 2019 Dudamel was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.
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 2024/25 season is the orchestra’s 106th.
Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. The Ford, situated in a 32-acre park and
under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, 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 Awardwinning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, Andrew Norman, and Thomas Adès—whose Dante won the 2024 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance.
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: 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).
The Moments That Move Me
with Joanne Pearce Martin, keyboards
Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
WHICH PIECE OF MUSIC…
…GIVES YOU CHILLS?
Stravinsky’s Petrushka has one of the best piano parts anybody ever wrote within the orchestra. There are a lot of heart-thumping moments in there. My first performance of it with the LA Phil was [in 2003] with Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Hollywood Bowl. That was a long time ago, and I’ve played it since many times with Gustavo and many other conductors, but the first time is one of those things that you’ll never forget. It was a real thrill.
I’m a total goose-bump person in general—it happens to me a lot! About two-thirds of the way through Petrushka, a lot of the themes that we’ve already heard come together in this incredible moment. It’s such a brilliant piece of writing.
Usually, I perform the piece with the piano right in the middle of the orchestra, with the tail of the piano kind of
right under the conductor’s baton. Right behind me are the woodwinds, and the flutes are playing the opening from the first section, “The Shrovetide Fair,” and it’s just “ba-dum, ba-ding!” And whenever that starts, I just get goose bumps like crazy! I’ve been doing this for 20-some years now and that part never fails.
…BRINGS YOU TO TEARS?
Almost anything by Ravel can do that to me—Daphnis and Chloé, the G-major Piano Concerto.
The slow movement of Brahms’ Violin Concerto— wrecks me every time.
Parts of West Side Story— I’m a puddle on the floor.
We’ve done John Williams’ E.T. the Extra Terrestrial live to picture, and there are multiple spots that destroy me also.
ALWAYS MAKES YOU SMILE?
The Mambo from West Side Story ! A lot of it has to do with the great percussion. And, I mean, those are my peeps, they’re the closest thing I have to a section, so anything that’s got a great beat, I’m always going to have a huge grin on my face.
There’s also “The Masque” movement from Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”—very jazzy. It’s just a raucous romp for all.
I find a lot of humor in music… and a lot of emotions in general. We’re pouring our hearts out all the time. We’re experiencing all these different emotions while we’re playing and still trying to execute things properly but get the music across at the same time.
Once you live with a piece for a while, sometimes it can start doing different things to you. Something that used to stress you out might make you smile 10 years later! —Piper Starnes
photo: DANNY CLINCH, LA PHIL
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic
Director
Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Zubin Mehta
Conductor Emeritus
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate
Rodolfo Barráez Assistant
Conductor
Ann Ronus Chair
John Adams
John and Samantha Williams
Creative Chair
Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz
FIRST VIOLINS
Martin Chalifour
Principal
Concertmaster
Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair
Nathan Cole First Associate
Concertmaster
Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang
Associate
Concertmaster
Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair
Akiko Tarumoto
Assistant Concertmaster
Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Rebecca Reale
Deanie and Jay Stein Chair
Rochelle Abramson
Minyoung Chang
I.H. Albert
Sutnick Chair
Tianyun Jia
Jordan Koransky
Ashley Park
Justin Woo
Katherine Woo
Melody Ye Yuan Weilu Zhang
SECOND VIOLINS
[Position vacant]
Principal
Mark Kashper
Associate Principal
Isabella Brown Assistant 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
Vivian Kukiel
Nickolai Kurganov
Varty Manouelian
Emily Shehi
Michelle Tseng
VIOLAS
[Position vacant]
Principal
John Connell Chair
Ben Ullery
Associate Principal
Jenni Seo
Assistant Principal
Dana Lawson
Richard Elegino
John Hayhurst
Ingrid Hutman
Michael Larco
Hui Liu
Meredith Snow
Leticia Oaks Strong
Minor L. Wetzel+
Bradley Parrimore*
* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen
LA Phil Resident Fellow
+ On sabbatical
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
Zachary Mowitz
Serge Oskotsky
Brent Samuel
Ismael Guerrero*
Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace LA Phil
Resident Fellow Chair
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*
Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair
FLUTES
Denis Bouriakov Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Catherine Ransom Karoly
Associate Principal
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Russell Smith Chair
Elise Shope Henry
Mari L. Danihel Chair
Sarah Jackson
Piccolo
Sarah Jackson
OBOES
[Position vacant]
Principal
Carol Colburn Grigor Chair
Marion Arthur Kuszyk
Associate Principal
Anne Marie Gabriele
English Horn [Position vacant]
CLARINETS
Boris Allakhverdyan
Principal
Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair
[Position vacant]
Associate Principal
Andrew Lowy
Taylor Eiffert
E-Flat Clarinet
Andrew Lowy
Bass Clarinet
Taylor Eiffert
BASSOONS
Whitney Crockett Principal
Shawn Mouser+
Associate Principal
Ann Ronus Chair
Michele Grego Evan Kuhlmann
Contrabassoon Evan Kuhlmann
The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.
HORNS
Andrew Bain
Principal
John Cecil Bessell Chair
David Cooper
Associate Principal
Gregory Roosa
Alan Scott Klee Chair
Amy Jo Rhine Loring Charitable Trust Chair
Elyse Lauzon
Ethan Bearman
Assistant
Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
Elizabeth Linares
Montero*
Nancy and Leslie Abell LA Phil Resident Fellow 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
Jeffrey Strong
TROMBONES
David Rejano Cantero
Principal Koni and Geoff Rich Chair
James Miller
Associate Principal
Judith and Thomas
L. Beckmen Chair
Paul Radke
Bass Trombone
John Lofton
Miller and Goff Family Chair
TUBA
Mason Soria
TIMPANI
Joseph Pereira
Principal
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair
David Riccobono
Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Matthew Howard Principal
James Babor
David Riccobono
KEYBOARDS
Joanne Pearce
Martin
Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
HARP
Emmanuel Ceysson Principal Ann Ronus Chair
LIBRARIANS
Stephen Biagini
Benjamin Picard
KT Somero
CONDUCTING FELLOWS
Luis Castillo-Briceño
Holly Hyun Choe
Dayner Tafur-Díaz
Molly Turner
The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.
Our New Year’s Resolutions
A new year calls for a new beginning! To help us get started on the right foot, we asked some of our musicians to share their goals and words of wisdom for 2025. Check out their ideas and discover more ways to feel empowered through our mind, body, and soul wellness tips. —Piper Starnes
WHAT IS YOUR MUSICAL RESOLUTION FOR 2025?
Joanne Pearce Martin, keyboards
Every year, around January, I think, “I’m going to stay ahead of everything that’s coming at me and make sure I get my music early enough,” because there’s always something that gets added or comes unexpectedly, and then it’s easy to get behind the eight ball. So, to keep in our top shape, we’ve got to stay ahead of the curve.
Lelie Resnick, oboe hollywood bowl orchestra
Make better oboe and English horn reeds.
David Cooper, horn
Do my long tones every day. They’re the basic building blocks of horn playing and breathing better. It teaches you control. They’re not fun, but they’re good for you—the vegetables of playing.
Barry Gold, cello Staying in good shape. It’s all about stretching, warming up, and keeping your body healthy because you can’t play well if you don’t feel well.
WHAT'S YOUR ADVICE FOR PEOPLE PICKING UP A NEW INSTRUMENT OR WANTING TO IMPROVE THEIR PLAYING IN 2025?
Taylor Eiffert, bass clarinet/clarinet
Find a buddy to do it with you. I find that when you make goals, having someone else in the loop makes it a lot more likely that you’re going to stick with it.
Richard Elegino, viola
Michele Grego, bassoon
Pick an instrument you love and get a great teacher.
If you have a dream, it’s up to you. It’s how you want to practice, how much you want to study, and if you want to put in the effort. Keep at it. As I tell my YOLA students, “If I can do it, you can do it!”
INCORPORATE THE LA PHIL INTO YOUR NEW YEAR ROUTINE!
For the mind: Discover something new at an LA Phil Insight event, Upbeat Live, Music 101 with Alan Chapman, or our online Watch & Listen collection of articles, podcasts, videos, listening guides, and more.
For the body: Get your steps in! At Walt Disney Concert Hall you can climb from the street to the rooftop garden and explore the building’s winding paths—or try hiking the 168 stairs to the top of the Hollywood Bowl.
For the soul: Fill your spirit with the joy of fellowship, philanthropy, and live music by supporting the next generation of musicians at a YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) concert.
For more ways to bring music and the LA Phil into your life in 2025, visit laphil.com/resolutions.
New Year, New Music: Green Umbrella Echoes
During the 2023/24 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA Phil Insight invited five visual artists to attend a performance in the new music series Green Umbrella. The artists were asked to create an artwork in a medium of their choosing that echoed their experience in the concert hall. With inspirations from opera to trumpet translated into ink and oil, these canvases and works on paper show the beauty, curiosity, and inspiration that reverberate long after a performance has ended. The pieces, along with the artists’ statements, will be on display in Walt Disney Concert Hall at Green Umbrella concerts this season. —Tess Carges
ARTIST: Nora Berman
TITLES: Angel Fire Opening BB (TriStar Music 28), Humil Opening BB (TriStar Music 29), Opening BB (TriStar Music 30) MEDIUM: Oil pastel, pencil, and ink on paper
INSPIRATION: Oliver Leith and Matt Copson’s opera Last Days
ARTIST: Mtendere “Teebs” Mandowa
TITLE: Untitled
MEDIUM: Gouache, charcoal, and oil sticks on paper
INSPIRATION: Chaparral and Interstates, New Music from California
After attending a concert inspired by the geography and climate of California, Mandowa sought to combine and blend three visions of the vast state. By way of Dylan Mattingly’s Sunt Lacrimae Rerum, M.A. Tiesenga’s Sketches of Chaparral, and Samuel Adams’ Eden Interstates, the program wandered through San Francisco’s fog, along Interstate 5, and into the shrublands of Southern California. Mandowa traveled those same paths: “The painting was first meant to be landscape format, but since each composer’s works were so distinct, I thought it best to work vertically to perceive the hill-like mounds as if they each belonged to a composer.… Trying to bring these thoughts to paper was a gift of an idea, and I enjoyed the exercise almost as much as I enjoyed the concert.”
After attending Last Days, Nora Berman was inspired to create a triptych within her larger series, TriStar Music. Drawn onto memo pads, the series calls back to Berman’s godfather, Bob Buziak, a former executive at TriStar Music Group, and his stationery. “Unlike his memos,” Berman writes, “my work as an artist involves creating marks, symbols, images, and phrases—nonsense wrapped in beauty and delivered with confidence and style.” The process is fitting for Leith and Copson’s opera, Last Days, which deals with the torment of a musician’s final moments before his suicide. The opera, like Berman’s triptych, blends profundity and mundanity, piercing light and unavoidable dark. Of their similarities, Berman says, “I also thought there was an uncanny connection with the fact that these drawings were on a musiccompany memo pad, thinking of the scenes of Last Days where the music industry is portrayed almost like a villain.”
ARTIST: Lily Stockman
TITLE: Etudes for Piano
MEDIUM: Oil on linen
INSPIRATION: Philip Glass: The Complete Etudes, 1–20
Artist Lily Stockman began her painting not after the performances but as they were underway: “During the Etudes performance earlier this spring, I drew in the dark, transcendent heart of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall—my lines and marks responding to the shifting tempo and temperature of each piece—while experiencing the music in rapt communion with the audience around me.” Part of a larger series on display in New York, her oil reflects not only Glass’ etudes and their scope but also the experience of hearing five pianists in Gehry’s hall perform the 20 etudes. Like Glass, Stockman etches and reiterates thematic shapes and structures while somehow manipulating space and time. Echoing the architecture of the Hall, Stockman’s brushstrokes bounce and curve, making the reverberations visual.
ARTIST: Eamon Ore-Giron
TITLE: Tin-Tan
MEDIUM: Gouache on paper
ARTIST: Pearl C. Hsiung
TITLE: Untitled (I.Y.I.)
MEDIUM: Sumi ink, acrylic, and spray paint on watercolor paper
INSPIRATION: John Adams Conducts the LA Phil New Music Group
INSPIRATION: Pan-American New Music
Like Hsiung, Ore-Giron was particularly moved by one piece in a longer program: Gabriela Ortiz’s Tin-Tan-Fanfarria y Mambo. Inspired by a beloved Mexican comedian, Ortiz’s playful piece for solo trumpet is divided into two parts: a fanfare and a mambo. Ore-Giron’s gouache Tin-Tan is a reaction to the lone trumpeter; “the music seemed to fracture into a kaleidoscopic sound of horns, and my painting is a visual reflection of that sonic experience.” With an abstract style that frequently draws upon Native American and Amazonian art, Ore-Giron often repeats familiar images, mutating them slightly to transform their meaning. This iterative process was a perfect match for Ortiz’s prismatic explosion of sounds.
To see what’s coming up in our Green Umbrella series, visit laphil.com/greenumbrella.
Hsiung was stirred by Anthony Davis’ You Have the Right to Remain Silent, an autobiographical composition that Davis, a Black man, wrote after a particularly tense traffic stop. The clarinet in Davis’ piece stands in for his own voice, as the orchestra swells with interrogations and interruptions. Moved by the lonely clarinet and “how it conjures the vitality, autonomy, and persistence of an entity entangled within a system and structure,” Hsiung created a piece that screams, hushes, and runs. Using three distinct media that are not watercolor on watercolor paper, she creates friction. With each stroke of a brush and each spray of paint, Hsiung conjures the frenetic and emotional state of You Have the Right to Remain Silent LA Phil Insight is generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.
Kim Noltemy
PRESIDENT & CEO
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
Paula Michea
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Summer Bjork
CHIEF OF STAFF
Nora Brady
CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Glenn Briffa
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Emanuel Maxwell
CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER
Mona Patel
GENERAL COUNSEL
Daniel Song
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
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, PROGRAMMING
Julia Ward
DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
ADMINISTRATION
Stephanie Bates
CONTRACTS & RISK MANAGEMENT
ADMINISTRATOR
Michael Chang
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Sarita Eldridge
DIRECTOR OF SAFETY & SECURITY
Kevin Higa
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Dean Hughes
SYSTEM SUPPORT III
Charles Koo
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Katie Kromelow
OFFICE MANAGER/ RECEPTIONIST
Kevin Ma
SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Jeff 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
PROGRAMMING
Alan J. Benson
DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
Linda Diaz
ARTIST LIAISON
Kristen Flock-Ritchie
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR
Brian Grohl
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
Ljiljana Grubisic ARCHIVES & MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Rafael Mariño
PROGRAM MANAGER
Ray Melencio
PROGRAM MANAGER
Mark McNeill
CREATIVE PRODUCER
Stephanie Yoon
ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER
Rebeca Zepeda
ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
AUDIENCE SERVICES
Denise Alfred
REPRESENTATIVE
Brendan Broms
SUPERVISOR
Diego De La Torre
SUPERVISOR
Jacquie Ferger
REPRESENTATIVE
Linda Holloway
PATRON SERVICES MANAGER
Jennifer Hugus
PATRON SERVICES
REPRESENTATIVE
Bernie Keating
REPRESENTATIVE
Melissa Magana
REPRESENTATIVE
William Minor
REPRESENTATIVE
Rosa Ochoa
AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER
Karen O’Sullivan
REPRESENTATIVE
Eden Palomino
REPRESENTATIVE
Richard Ponce
SUPERVISOR
Diana Salazar
PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
Noé Sandoval
REPRESENTATIVE
Christopher Selland
PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
WALT DISNEY
CONCERT HALL
BOX OFFICE
Alejandra Depaz
TICKET SELLER
Christy Galasso
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Veronika Garcia
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Alex Hennech
TICKET SELLER
Amy Lackow
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Elia Luna 2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Page Messerly
TREASURER
Ariana Morales
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Carolina Orellana
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Cathy Ramos
TICKET SELLER
Elias Santos
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
John Tadena
TICKET SELLER
Carlie Tomasulo
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
FINANCE
Jyoti Aaron CONTROLLER
Adriana Aguilar
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Steven Cao
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Katherine Franklin
VENUE ACCOUNTING
SUPERVISOR
Lisa Hernandez
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER
Debbie Lang To
FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER
LaTonya Lindsey
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
COORDINATOR
Luz Myrick
PAYROLL MANAGER
Kristine Nichols
PAYROLL COORDINATOR
Yuri Park
FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Nina Phay
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Lisa Renteria
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST
Sierra Shultz
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Beethoven & Tchaikovsky
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Philippe Jordan, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, “Emperor” (c. 38 minutes)
Allegro
Adagio un poco mosso
Rondo: Allegro Yefim Bronfman
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique” (c. 46 minutes)
Adagio—Allegro non troppo
Allegro con grazia
Allegro molto vivace
Finale: Adagio lamentoso
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AT A GLANCE
Romantic Roles
“Romanticism” may be hard to pin down objectively in music, but we know it when we hear it, as we certainly do in this music. The term first came into common usage after E.T.A. Hoffmann applied it to heroic pieces of Beethoven’s middle period. Beethoven would probably have hated the nickname “Emperor” for his last piano concerto, but it fits music of such expansive achievement
and aspiration. At the other end of the 19th century, Tchaikovsky followed the Beethovenian arc of struggle to triumph in all of his symphonies but the last, the “Pathétique.” That nickname (which the composer may or may not have approved) suggests passion colored by suffering, and Tchaikovsky ends the symphony as he began it, in dark lamentation. —John Henken
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 73, “EMPEROR”
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Composed: 1809
Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, and solo piano
First LA Phil performance: December 15, 1922, Walter Henry Rothwell conducting, with Elly Ney, soloist
Beethoven’s last piano concerto dates from the beginning of May 1809, when Napoleon’s army besieged Vienna, causing the Austrian Imperial family and court, including Beethoven’s pupil, friend, and benefactor Archduke Rudolph, to flee the city. On May 11, the
French artillery, which commanded the heights of the surrounding countryside, was activated. Beethoven’s house stood perilously close to the line of fire.
Those who could not—or, like Beethoven, would not— leave home sought shelter underground. Beethoven found a temporary haven in the cellar of his brother’s house. Once the bombardment had ceased and the Austrian forces had surrendered, the composer described “a city filled with nothing but drums, cannon, marching men, and misery of all sorts.”
After the summer, Beethoven left the city and produced back-toback masterpieces in the “heroic” key of E-flat: the
Fifth Piano Concerto and the “Harp” Quartet, Op. 74. The grim experiences of the preceding months had not diminished his creative powers.
With the Treaty of Vienna signed in October 1809, life in the city returned to a semblance of normalcy, but there was no opportunity to present the new concerto. That had to wait two years, and not in Vienna but in Leipzig, with Friedrich Schneider as soloist. Beethoven, who had played the solo part in his four previous piano concertos, was now too deaf to perform with orchestra.
For the Vienna premiere in February 1812, the soloist was Beethoven’s prize pupil, Carl Czerny. At that concert, a French army
officer supposedly called the work “an emperor among concertos.” It is more likely that the “Emperor” moniker was the brainchild of an early publisher. Whatever its origin, the sobriquet seems apt for music of such grandeur.
In the concerto, Beethoven is no longer writing up to his own lofty standards as a performer but those of the following generation, personified by Czerny. Yet while the projection of power is among the composer’s aims, overt display is not, with nothing resembling a solo cadenza in sight. With the “Emperor,” Beethoven created a truly symphonic concerto.
The first movement opens with a grandiose E-flat chord for full orchestra, interrupted by a series of equally commanding arpeggios for the soloist, suggesting an early cadenza. Instead, Beethoven alternates mighty pronouncements for the orchestra and the piano. The introduction ended, the piano offers a broad, swaggering theme. The musicologist Donald Francis Tovey described this passage and the ensuing, more subdued second
theme: “The orchestra is not only symphonic, but is enabled by the very necessity of accompanying the solo lightly to produce ethereal orchestral effects that are in quite a different category from anything in the symphonies. On the other hand, the solo part develops the technique of its instrument with a freedom and brilliance for which Beethoven has no leisure in sonatas and chamber music.”
The second movement is one of the composer’s sublime inspirations. The muted strings play a theme of incomparable beauty and tenderness; the piano responds in hushed, descending triplets, creating a subtle tension until the theme is fully exposed. The nocturne-like character of the movement is furthered by a delicate balance of soft woodwinds, strings, and the soloist as the music mysteriously fades away. Then, over a sustained horn note, the piano introduces, softly and still andante, the theme of the Rondo finale. Suddenly, dramatically, the piano lunges into the final theme, a grandly exuberant allegro. —Herbert Glass
First LA Phil performance: March 19, 1920, Walter Henry Rothwell conducting
The emotional turbulence of Tchaikovsky’s mature masterpieces often suggests a confessional quality around which it’s tempting to construct a narrative. Compounding this tendency is the simple fact that Tchaikovsky was a favorite in the early days of radio and the recording industry. This is when classical music was first becoming available to a mass audience, and such narratives abounded as a marketing strategy. Nowadays it’s with bemused detachment that we come across the impossibly flowery commentaries (quite apart from Tchaikovsky’s own descriptions) to which the composer was subjected. They’re of the stereotypical “fickle finger of fate” variety, where melodies chastely pick themselves up despite bruised wings to
soar aloft, newly armed for spiritual victory.
Tchaikovsky’s popularity as a source for Hollywood scores and Tin Pan Alley tunes of that period is hardly coincidental.
All of this eventually led to an unfortunate critical backlash. Tchaikovsky became a whipping boy for the worst excesses of Romanticism: sentimental self-indulgence, emotional exposure, even an out-ofcontrol “hysteria.” But the court of popular opinion has proved more farsighted than the critics. Tchaikovsky has remained firmly entrenched in the repertoire because the music “says” something far richer, more passionate, and more profoundly moving than any dated characterization could convey.
Tchaikovsky himself showed ambivalence about the issue of program music. For his Fourth Symphony he supplied an elaborate program detailing the content of each movement, centered on the idea of Fate. The most programmatic of all his symphonies, the unnumbered Manfred Symphony of 1885, is based on Lord Byron’s poetic drama and its Faustian hero. The Fifth Symphony, for which
the composer supplied a minimal description, occupies a middle ground.
By the time of his final symphony, the Sixth, Tchaikovsky developed an esoteric and unpublished program. Nevertheless, he drew attention to it with the working subtitle “Program Symphony” and with the dedication to “Bob” Davydov, his nephew and confidant over his final decade. One of the many legends that surround the work is that Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest came up with the name “Pathétique”—suggesting “impassioned suffering.”
Whether or not the composer acquiesced to this christening before his sudden death just over a week after the October 28, 1893, world premiere in St. Petersburg, it is uncannily suitable for the devastating psychological drama the symphony lays bare.
The circumstances of Tchaikovsky’s death have further enshrouded the “Pathétique” in mystery: Was an accidental drink of cholera-contaminated water what killed him, or did the scandal of his homosexuality result in Tchaikovsky’s submitting to a kind of Socratic suicide? The debate rages on unresolved. Meanwhile, a
long series of commentators claiming to decipher the symphony’s internal musical codes have contributed to its aura of intrigue, ensuring that this remains the most controversial of all his works.
The first movement— around twice the length of each of the remaining three—immediately ushers us into a world of bleak despair that attains a crushing intensity. Tchaikovsky employs the mastery of his technical skill to give his emotional power resilient shape. He manages his traditional orchestral forces in unexpected ways, with brass chorales as rousing as Judgment Day and delicately sprung wind solos. Even the composer’s trademark roulades possess a shattering, nervous energy.
In the middle of the movement, the explosive rupturing of the pppppp called for in the score comes as a shock. This is just one of the formidable challenges that interpreters of the “Pathétique” face, along with establishing a coherence behind what seem such sharply marked-off, disparate sections (for example, the pause and tempo change before the indelibly lyrical second theme,
inspired by Don José’s “Flower Song” in Carmen, a favorite opera of the fate-obsessed Tchaikovsky).
Two inner movements of entirely different character turn out to be interludes rather than actual shifts of direction. The second movement’s flowing, dance-like charm is given a subtle displacement through the use of 5/4 meter (two beats followed by the triple pattern of the waltz). In the third movement, Tchaikovsky presents a blazing but hollowly triumphant,
brass-reinforced march that revels in aggressive, swaggering rhythms.
It’s often been pointed out that had Tchaikovsky simply switched the order of the final two movements, he would have preserved the optimistic, Beethovenian model of light over darkness. Yet by reversing that model and ending with the nihilistic, dying fall of the Adagio (the same tempo with which the symphony began), he introduces a radically new concept of the symphonic journey (Mahler would
follow a similar pattern in his Ninth). Tchaikovsky writes about his novel approach to form here as an aspect that excited his creative fancy. The valedictory plunge into silence from a sustained B-minor chord deep in the strings sets the stage for a new century of bleak requiems. Tchaikovsky declared that he had put his “whole soul into this work.” And there it remains— beyond all attempts at reductive explanations—for us to encounter anew. —Thomas May
PHILIPPE JORDAN
Coming from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan has established a career that has taken him to all the world’s major opera houses, festivals, and orchestras, and he is regarded as one of the most established and important conductors of our time.
In November 2024, Jordan was announced as the next Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, a role he will assume in September 2027. He has been Music Director
of the Wiener Staatsoper since September 2020. In the 2024/25 season, he leads new productions of Don Carlo and Tannhäuser, as well as revivals of the Mozart-Da Ponte cycle and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Also in the 2024/25 season, Jordan conducts Parsifal at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and returns to the Salzburger Festspiele for a revival of Macbeth. His symphonic appearances this season include a return to the Wiener Symphoniker for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, followed by returns to the Orchestre National de France, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Münchner Philharmoniker, and Israel Philharmonic, as well as debuts with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.
Jordan’s career on the podium began as Kapellmeister at Germany’s
Theater Ulm and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. From 2001 to 2004, he was Principal Conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. In summer 2012, he debuted at the Bayreuth Festival with Parsifal, returning again in 2017 with Bayreuth’s new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Jordan was Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris between 2009 and 2021, conducting numerous premieres and revivals, including Moses und Aron, La damnation de Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, Don Carlos (in its original French version), Les Troyens, Don Giovanni, a new production of Borodin’s Prince Igor, and Wagner’s Ring cycle in a concert version. From 2014 to 2020, Philippe Jordan served as Principal Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker.
YEFIM BRONFMAN
Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors, and recital series. His commanding technique, power, and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.
A frequent touring partner with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, Bronfman begins the 2024/25 season with the Pittsburgh and NDR Hamburg symphonies on tour in Europe, followed by China and Japan with the Vienna Philharmonic. With orchestras in the US, he returns to Cleveland, New York, Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, Sarasota, and Pittsburgh, and in Europe, he returns to Hamburg, Helsinki, Berlin, Lyon, and Vienna. In advance of a spring Carnegie Hall recital, his program can be heard in Austin; St. Louis; Stillwater, OK; San Francisco; Santa Barbara; Washington, DC; Amsterdam; Rome; Lisbon; and Spain. Two special projects are scheduled this season: duos with flutist
Emmanuel Pahud in Europe in the fall and trios with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández in the US. Born in Tashkent in the former Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated with his family in 1973 to Israel, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, he was further honored in 2010 as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.
Rachmaninoff & Muhly
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Alexandre Kantorow, piano
Denis Bouriakov, flute
David Rejano Cantero, trombone
Matthew Howard, percussion
Robert deMaine, cello
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 (c. 36 minutes) Lento—Allegro moderato Adagio ma non troppo Allegro
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Nico MUHLY Concerto Grosso (c. 20 minutes) (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund)
Parallel Play
For Small Ensemble Side by Each
Denis Bouriakov, David Rejano Cantero, Matthew Howard, Robert deMaine
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (c. 22 minutes)
Introduction: Allegro vivace—Variation I (Precedente)
Tema: L’istesso tempo
Variation II: L’istesso tempo
Variation III: L’istesso tempo
Variation IV: Più vivo
Variation V: Tempo precedente
Variation VI: L’istesso tempo
Variation VII: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato
Variation VIII: Tempo I
Variation IX: L’istesso tempo
Variation X: L’istesso tempo
Variation XI: Moderato
Variation XII: Tempo di minuetto
Variation XIII: Allegro
Variation XIV: L’istesso tempo
Variation XV: Più vivo scherzando
Variation XVI: Allegretto
Variation XVII: Allegretto
Variation XVIII: Andante cantabile
Variation XIX: A tempo vivace
Variation XX: Un poco più vivo
Variation XXI: Un poco più vivo
Variation XXII: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)
Variation XXIII: L’istesso tempo
Variation XXIV: A tempo un poco meno mosso
Alexandre Kantorow
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JANUARY 25 2PM
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JANUARY 26 2PM
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AT A GLANCE
Rachmaninoff Twins
Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini are both darkly turbulent and intense works from the mid-1930s, inventively scored in the composer’s lean late style, and premiered by his favorite band, The Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. The symphony was neglected almost from the start, while the Rhapsody was an instant hit, thanks in no small measure to the
swooning glory of its 18th variation and the championing of its creator, one of the greatest pianists of the era. The genrecrossing American composer Nico Muhly is a similarly imaginative orchestrator and a frequent collaborator with the LA Phil, factors apparent in his latest orchestral work, a concerto grosso featuring a small group of soloists from the orchestra.
First LA Phil performance: August 14, 1973, Edo de Waart conducting
A year before George Gershwin’s death at the age of 37, the latest opus by another celebrated pianist-composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s third and last symphony, was
completed and premiered on November 6, 1936, by The Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. Except for the occasional revival by Stokowski and his Philadelphia successor, Eugene Ormandy, it failed to get many hearings elsewhere, as its composer continued to prosper and gain accolades as a pianist, often performing his own works.
It had been nearly 30 years since Rachmaninoff’s previous symphony, in E minor. But whereas the latter is a grandly scaled, meandering work—an hour in length—the new symphony was a relatively concise 40 minutes and less of an emotional steam bath. Then, too, the orchestration of the A-minor` Symphony is more transparent and its
trajectory straighter than that of its elder, more often performed predecessor. One can wonder then at the relative neglect of the Third Symphony, with Rachmaninoff’s popularity. It’s hard to imagine that for much of the 20th century a critical fraternity regarded the composer as too overtly emotional, too conservative, too much of a throwback to the hyperemotionalism of the 1800s...to Tchaikovsky in particular, although it would be difficult to point out thematic and technical similarities. But the two Russians do share the same (dark) emotional world. There are of course resemblances between Rachmaninoff’s Second and Third symphonies: the Third, like its predecessor, opens with a “motto” that
will be heard again in subsequent movements and is initially sounded by clarinet, muted horn, and the cellos. It takes a while for the principal theme to make its presence felt, but when it does appear it hardly disappoints as purest Rachmaninoffian palpitating. The motto and the new theme are simultaneously developed and expanded, with the motto returning on its own—trumpet, bass trombone, pizzicato strings—having the final, dolorous say. Movement two also begins with the motto, inverted and played by two horns accompanied by harp chords, ushering in a pair of themes—the first, announced by the solo violin in triplets, the second less expansive, by solo flute, subsequently joined by bass clarinet. The central scherzo section— marked allegro vivace—is sufficiently distinct from the surrounding material as to be regarded as a de facto third movement of a four-movement symphony; it distantly evokes the
eeriness of the finale of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a score of which Rachmaninoff was particularly fond. The scherzo’s striking climax suddenly turns into a forceful march, followed by upward and downward scurrying chords, after which the harp offers a brief recollection of the Adagio’s opening. The motto theme, in inversion, brings the movement to a close in harp and pizzicato strings.
The finale begins with some flavorfully Russian marching strings. The main theme’s contrapuntal development is a technical tour de force, making one wish that counterpoint were more extensively employed elsewhere in the symphony. Several loud climaxes ensue, interrupted by a gently soulful flute solo set against the omnipresent motto, before Rachmaninoff continues on his triumphantly thunderous celebratory conclusion, all dark thoughts banished.
—Herbert Glass
CONCERTO GROSSO
Nico Muhly (b. 1981)
Composed: 2024
Orchestration: 2 flutes (2nd= piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd=bass clarinet), bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, tenor trombone, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (crotales [with bow], xylophone, vibraphone, chimes, tuned gongs, snare drum, bass drum, tam-tam), harp, piano (=celesta), strings, and solo flute, solo trombone, solo percussion (glockenspiel, almglocken, singing bowls, vibraphone [with bow], kick drum), and solo cello
First LA Phil performances.
This Concerto Grosso is organized in three parts, played without pause. The four soloists comprise an odd quartet: flute, trombone, percussion, and cello. I wanted to explore the different dynamics of this unexpected partnership, giving each player a chance to play athletically and lyrically on their own, as well as in conversation with their colleagues. I like the idea of complicated teamwork with unexpected alliances
occasionally disrupted into little squabbles and reconciliations.
The first movement, “Parallel Play,” sees the four soloists playing very different material at the same time, occasionally lining up in furious, almost coerced, unison. Occasionally two of them will pair up to play a little canon, and then split up again. The orchestra antagonizes and interrupts them. Midway through, the texture begins to shift quite often: First, the quartet plays long lines at various speeds; from this, a very high, delicate, bell-heavy dance emerges; from this, a lower, slightly slower version of the same material, followed by a recapitulation of the original violent unisons.
These outbursts are interrupted by a very slow cycle of hymn-like chords that govern the harmonic language of the second movement, “For Small Ensemble.” I wanted this to function like four simultaneous versions of a traditional slow movement of a concerto: long, lyrical solos from the flute, then adding cello, then a vibraphone
played with a bow, then all four soloists at once.
The third movement, “Side by Each,” comprises four cadenzas. They are not unaccompanied, as would be traditional, but re-link the soloists with their colleagues in the orchestra, creating a homophonic texture. First, the solo flute (accompanied by two flutes, harp, and celesta) plays an acrobatic, hyper passage. The trombone (accompanied by the brass section, with the orchestral trombone taking a coequal role) plays a slow chorale. The cello, first accompanied by the first four cellists in the orchestra and then other strings, plays music that grows ever more ecstatic, giving way to an orchestral interlude that in turn ushers in the solo percussionist—playing tuned bowls—accompanied by tuned percussion in the orchestra, harp, and piano. The piece ends in a state of suspended animation: The orchestra seems frozen, immovable, and severe. The four soloists play in perfect unison, forcing the piece to an enigmatic last few gestures. —Nico Muhly
RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI, OP. 43
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Composed: 1934
Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, orchestra bells, snare drum, triangle), harp, strings, and solo piano
First LA Phil performance: February 12, 1942, Bruno Walter conducting, with Sergei Rachmaninoff, soloist
Rachmaninoff summed up his life as a composer shortly before his death (in Beverly Hills, his final home): “In my own compositions, no conscious effort has been made to be original, or Romantic, or Nationalistic, or anything else. I write down on paper the music I hear within me, as naturally as possible. I am a Russian composer, and the land of my birth has influenced my temperament and outlook. My music is the product of my temperament, and so it is Russian music….I
have been strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; but I have never, to the best of my knowledge, imitated anyone. What I try to do, when writing down my music, is to make it say simply and directly that which is in my heart when I am composing. If there is love there, or bitterness, or sadness, or religion, these moods become part of my music, and it becomes either beautiful or bitter or sad or religious.”
The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is one of his least sentimental pieces—with the exception of the swooning 18th variation, a tour de force in which the minor-key Paganini theme is inverted to become a major-key, inescapably Russian theme.
The score was written in 1934, by which time Rachmaninoff could look back on three decades of fame as a virtuoso pianist, admired for performing his own works, as well as those of Beethoven and Chopin, and alongside distinguished violinists, chief among them Fritz Kreisler.
His own music had by the early 1930s become leaner and meaner than the sprawling, yearning pre-World War I scores on which his reputation rested. In the later works— beginning with the Fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 40, continuing with the Three Russian Songs, Op. 41, the Variations on a Theme of Corelli for solo piano, Op. 42, and culminating with the Rhapsody—the level of dissonance is higher,
while rhythms are more angular than in the past.
The Rhapsody—though there is nothing rhapsodic about its tightly focused structure—comprises an introduction followed by 24 variations on the last of Nicolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (a set of variations in itself).
The theme was a favorite subject of 19th-century composers for large-scale variation works, among them Robert Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. Rachmaninoff applied his own, highly original thoughts on the subject, his grandest inspiration being combining the theme by the “devilish” violinist with the hellish medieval liturgical Dies irae theme, which is heard in the seventh, 10th, and 24th variations. —Herbert Glass
EUN SUN KIM
Following “a company debut of astonishing vibrancy and assurance” (San Francisco Chronicle) in Rusalka, Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim was named the Caroline H. Hume Music Director of San Francisco Opera, where she began her tenure in 2021. She is a regular guest conductor at the world’s most important opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra national de Paris, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
On the heels of her Met debut, noted for an “assured technical command, subtlety and imagination,” The New York Times recognized her as classical music’s breakout star.
In the 2024/25 season, Kim makes her much-anticipated Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut with performances of Tosca, before returning to Staatsoper Berlin for Simon Boccanegra. At San Francisco Opera, she leads performances of Un ballo in maschera, Tristan und Isolde, Idomeneo, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Further appearances include return engagements with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.
Kim’s major orchestral engagements include the
Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Gothenburg Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic, among others. In North America, her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic was quickly followed by engagements with The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Kim’s tenure at San Francisco Opera heralds a new vision for its second century, with Kim on the podium for Il trovatore, Lohengrin, Dialogues of the Carmelites, La traviata, Fidelio, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra. She has enjoyed operatic successes at Lyric Opera of Chicago, LA Opera, Washington National Opera, and Houston Grand Opera, where she is the company’s first Principal Guest Conductor in 25 years.
Kim studied composition and conducting in her hometown of Seoul before continuing her studies in Stuttgart, where she graduated with distinction. Directly after graduation, she was awarded First Prize in the International Jesús López-Cobos Opera Conducting Competition at the Teatro Real Madrid.
ALEXANDRE KANTOROW
Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as the “young tsar of the piano” (Classica) and “Liszt reincarnated” (Fanfare). He has performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony, and Budapest Festival orchestras, and with conductors including Klaus Mäkelä, Manfred Honeck, Jaap van Zweden, Iván Fischer, Vasily Petrenko, and Antonio Pappano. In 2019, at the age of 22, he was the first French pianist to win the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition as well as the Grand Prix, awarded only three times before in the competition’s history. In 2024 he received the Gilmore Artist Award.
In recital, Kantorow appears at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Bozar in Brussels, and Tokyo Opera City, and festivals such as Edinburgh, Salzburg, La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Verbier, Rheingau, and Klavierfest Ruhr. Chamber music is one his great pleasures, and he performs regularly with artists such as Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovich, and Matthias Goerne.
Highlights of Kantorow’s 2024/25 season include his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and in recital
at Chicago’s Symphony Center, a European tour with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms’ Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and a tour of Europe with the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He also performs solo recitals across Europe and Asia.
Kantorow records exclusively with BIS, and his recordings have received numerous awards, including Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Choc de l’Année (Classica), Trophée Radio Classique, and Victoires de la Musique Classique Recording of the Year. His new recording of works by Brahms and Schubert was released on November 1, 2024.
Kantorow is a laureate of the Safran Foundation and Banque Populaire. In 2020 and 2024 he was named the Victoires de la Musique Classique Instrumental Soloist of the Year. In 2022, he received the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, and in 2024 he was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by French President Emmanuel Macron. Born in France and of French-British heritage, Kantorow studied with Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Frank Braley, and Rena Shereshevskaya.
DENIS BOURIAKOV
Denis Bouriakov has been Principal Flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2015. Before joining the LA Phil, he was Principal Flute of the Metropolitan Opera from 2009. Bouriakov has in recent years established himself as one of the most active and sought-after flute soloists in the world. He has won prizes in many of the most important international competitions, including the Munich ARD, Jean-Pierre Rampal, the Prague Spring, the Carl Nielsen, and the Kobe competitions, to name a few.
Bouriakov looks outside the standard flute repertoire for works that allow the instrument to shine. In addition to having a phenomenal virtuoso technique and musicianship, he is continually transcribing and performing violin concertos and sonatas, including those of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Sibelius.
He has performed as a soloist with many orchestras worldwide, including the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble of Tokyo, Hiroshima Philharmonic, Odense Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble de Paris, and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He makes annual solo recital tours in Japan and gives frequent recital and concerto performances all over the world.
Bouriakov was born in the Crimea in 1981. When he turned 18, he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London (RAM), studying with William Bennett, OBE.
He plays on an Altus PS model flute and a Miguel S. Arista headjoint.
DAVID REJANO CANTERO
David Rejano Cantero has been Principal Trombone of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2016. Before that, he served as Principal Trombone with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra from 2002 to 2007, Principal Trombone with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona (Barcelona Opera House) from 2007 to 2010, and Principal Trombone with the Münchner Philharmoniker from 2010 to 2016.
He has performed as a guest with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de France, Seoul Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris.
Rejano Cantero appears frequently as a soloist at the Sapporo Festival, Summer Brass Festival, and the International Trombone Festival. He frequently works with Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, and Zubin Mehta. His solo album Everything but Trombone was released in 2018.
As a sought-after teacher, Rejano Cantero gives master
classes and coaches youth orchestras all over the world.
Rejano Cantero was born in Badajoz, Spain, in 1982, and initially studied music at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. Then he moved to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he graduated with the distinction of “Mention très bien à l’unanimité” and the “Prix Spécial du Jury.” He was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.
He is a member of the trombone faculty at the Colburn Conservatory and founder of Rejano Mutes, a practice-mute company.
Rejano Cantero is a Shires performing artist and plays on his own “Rejano” artist model, designed by him in collaboration with S.E. Shires.
ROBERT deMAINE
Robert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as “an artist who makes one hang on every note.” He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestra principal, recording artist, chamber musician, and composerarranger. In 2010, deMaine became a founding member
of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet and completed several world tours and recordings with the ensemble. In 2012, he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. He collaborates often in a piano trio with violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Natalie Zhu.
A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International String Competition. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Cello for over a decade.
He recorded the John Williams Cello Concerto for Naxos and both the Haydn Cello Concertos with the Moravian Philharmonic of the Czech Republic and a recital CD of Grieg and Rachmaninoff sonatas with pianist Andrew Armstrong for Leaf Music. He recently released the complete works of Beethoven for piano and cello with pianist Peter Takács.
DeMaine studied at The Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Southern California, Yale University, and the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
MATTHEW HOWARD
An LA native, Matthew Howard is Principal Percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the same orchestra he grew up watching. Previously, he was a Fellow with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. He has performed with such groups as the San Francisco Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, and Boston Ballet. He also has been a member in the National Repertory Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Howard began playing a drum set at the age of 15 and played in his high school jazz band. By 18, he found himself enthralled with the world of percussion and started studying with local percussionist John Magnussen. While studying with Magnussen, he also studied with recording legend Emil Richards on jazz vibraphone, Judy Chilnick on timpani, and Jerry Steinholtz on hand percussion. After a year of community college, he transferred to the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with Erik Forrester. The following year, Joseph Pereira and Jim Babor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic took over as faculty at USC. After graduating, Howard studied with Will Hudgins of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the New England Conservatory.
Elements and Energy with John Adams
LA Phil New Music Group
John Adams, conductor
Eliza McCarthy, piano
Christopher Hanulik, bass
Ben Ullery, viola
David Rejano Cantero, trombone
Robert deMaine, cello
Marion Arthur Kuszyk, oboe
LA Phil Etudes: Book 2, Part 1 (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund) (c. 8 minutes)
Gabriella SMITH
Francisco COLL
Quantum Ptarmigan (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Ben Ullery, viola
Partita I (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
David Rejano Cantero, trombone
Noah JENKINS Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard (c. 15 minutes) (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Missy MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright (c. 14 minutes)
Christopher Hanulik, bass
INTERMISSION
LA Phil Etudes: Book 2, Part 2 (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund) (c. 8 minutes)
Dylan MATTINGLY a study of some of the terrible ways I love to play the cello (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Robert deMaine, cello
Samy MOUSSA
Jocelyn Morlock in memoriam (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Marion Arthur Kuszyk, oboe
Donnacha DENNEHY Limina (c. 28 minutes)
Eliza McCarthy, piano
To read about the program and the performers, please turn to the enclosed insert.
TUESDAY
JANUARY 28, 2025 8PM
Programs and artists subject to change.
LA Phil at the Grammys
In November, Music & Artistic
Director Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil won their first-ever Latin Grammys for the album Fandango.
The recent release features Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia and the world-premiere recording of Arturo Márquez’s mariachi-inspired violin concerto Fandango, which was performed by violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and captured live at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2022. Márquez’s concerto earned the 2024 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and the album garnered the Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album.
“This recording speaks to the heart of the LA Phil and of Latin America,” said Dudamel. “I am indebted to two of our greatest composing talents: Alberto Ginastera and Arturo Márquez. I’m grateful to the incredible musicians of the LA Phil for joining me in this marvelous musical dance, channeling both rhythm and soul.”
November also saw a total of six LA Phil nominations across two albums for the 67th Grammy Awards, to be held February 2 at Crypto.com Arena and broadcast on CBS. Dudamel and the LA Phil received four nominations for Revolución diamantina. The first album of orchestral music entirely by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz includes her new violin concerto, Altar de cuerda, performed by violinist María Dueñas, as well as the titular Revolución diamantina—a powerful new ballet score inspired by Mexico’s 2019 “Glitter Revolution,” the feminist uprising protesting the country’s epidemic of violence against women. The album received nominations for Best Classical Compendium, Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Orchestral Performance, and Best Engineered Album, Classical. Girls of the Golden West, which features the LA Phil and Los Angeles Master Chorale performing John Adams’ California Gold Rush-inspired opera, was nominated for Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album, Classical. In addition, Dmitriy Lipay, who oversaw the production of both albums, was nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical.
Composer Arturo Márquez and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers attended the 2024 Latin Grammys, where the LA Phil’s recording Fandango received two awards.
Thank You to Our Donor Community:
You made this, and so much more, possible in 2024
MUSIC
The LA Phil’s work to make music accessible to everyone in our community reached new heights in 2024, thanks to the enduring support of our donors. This year, we brought thrilling performances to Southern California and beyond, inviting audiences to experience the joy of music and music learning in fresh and transformative ways.
Our Noon to Midnight festival, an all-day, low-cost event curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, offered Los Angeles a vibrant display of contemporary works by more than 35 composers, with the world premiere of Doug Aitken’s Lightscape as the capstone performance.
From international tours to unique collaborations, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel’s vision for the LA Phil extended far beyond Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2024. With Fidelio, the LA Phil worked with Deaf West Theatre to create a powerful, inclusive interpretation, opening this classic opera to both hearing and Deaf audiences in Los Angeles and on tour to Barcelona, Paris, and London.
VENUES
At home, we focused on broadening access to the LA Phil’s beloved venues including the Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. Thanks to a record 36% increase in bus ridership to the Bowl, we cleared Highland Avenue of more than 115,000 cars, making it easier than ever for Angelenos to enjoy our iconic summer concerts.
COMMUNITY
Meanwhile, The Ford, nestled in the heart of Los Angeles, brought so much of the city’s cultural community to its stage through the FordLab program. Designed to support and elevate local artists, FordLab provided technical assistance, rehearsal space, and performance opportunities, nurturing creativity and fostering a thriving arts community.
LEARNING
In addition to facilitating thousands of hours of music learning all year long, last summer we celebrated the next generation of musicians through the Citizens of the World Youth Festival, where over 300 young artists, including musicians from our YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) program, performed under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
To explore more about this extraordinary year, visit laphil.com/yearinreview. We are grateful for your support and look forward to making 2025 another banner year in music, art, and community for all.
The Wallis and Los Angeles Ballet Present
Memoryhouse
Jan 30-Feb 1, 2025
“A past we must never forget, a moment in history etched in time, never to be forgotten.”
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Principal Sponsor of the world premiere: The David and Janet Polak Foundation
2024/2025 Season
Corporate Partners
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is honored to recognize our corporate partners, whose generosity supports the LA Phil’s mission of bringing music in its varied forms to audiences at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. To learn more about becoming a partner, email corporatepartnerships@laphil.org.
ANNUAL GIVING
From the concerts that take place onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford to the learning programs that fill our community with music, it is the consistent support of Annual Donors that sustains and propels our work. We hope you, too, will consider making a gift today. Your contribution will enable the LA Phil to build on a long history of artistic excellence and civic engagement. Through your patronage, you become a part of the music—sharing in its power to uplift, unite, and transform the lives of its listeners. Your participation, at any level, is critical to our success.
FRIENDS OF THE LA PHIL
Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil share a deep love of music and are committed to ensuring that great musical performance thrives in Los Angeles. As a Friend or Patron, you will be supporting the LA Phil’s critically acclaimed artistic programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford, as well as groundbreaking learning initiatives such as YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), which provides free after-school music instruction to children in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil. For more information, or to learn about membership benefits, please call 213 972 7557 or email friends@laphil.org.
PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL
Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Tiffany Chivaroli, Co-Chairs
The Philharmonic Council is a vital leadership group whose members provide critical resources in support of the LA Phil’s general operations. Their vision and generosity enable the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, invest in groundbreaking learning initiatives, and stage innovative artistic programs, heralded worldwide for the quality of their artistry and imagination. We invite you to consider joining the Philharmonic Council as a major donor. For more information, please call 213 972 7209 or email patrons@laphil.org.
LA’s PREMIER WINTER JAZZ FESTIVAL RETURNS!
Pacific Jazz Orchestra with Eva Noblezada
$55 - $158
Lakecia Benjamin, saxophone & Phoenix
JAZZ CLUB
$59 - $79
Christian McBride, bass & Ursa Major
JAZZ CLUB
$59 - $79
Jason Moran, piano Plays Duke Ellington with CSUN Jazz “A” Band
$39 - $89
Kurt Elling Celebrates Weather Report
with Special Guest Peter Erskine
Featuring Yellowjackets
$44 - $109
Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50 with Special Guest Arturo Sandoval
$44 - $109
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 October 31, 2024.
$25,000,000 AND ABOVE
Walt and Lilly
Disney Foundation
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch
$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999
David Bohnett Foundation
$10,000,000 TO $19,999,999
The Annenberg Foundation
Colburn Foundation
Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999
Anonymous Dunard Fund USA
Carol Colburn Grigor
Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Affiliates
Diane and Ron Miller
Charitable Fund
M. David and Diane Paul
Ann and Robert Ronus
Ronus Foundation
John and Samantha Williams
$2,500,000 TO $4,999,999
Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann
Lynn Booth/Otis Booth Foundation
Elaine and Bram Goldsmith
Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation
Karl H. Loring
Alfred E. Mann
Elise Mudd
Marvin Trust
Barbara and Jay Rasulo
Flora L. Thornton
$1,000,000 TO $2,499,999
Linda and Robert Attiyeh
Judith and Thomas Beckmen
Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty
Helen and Peter Bing
William H. Brady, III
Linda and Maynard Brittan
Richard and Norma Camp
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael J. Connell
Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell
Mari L. Danihel
Nancy and Donald de Brier
The Rafael & Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation
The Walt Disney Company
Fairchild-Martindale Foundation
Eris and Larry Field
Max H. Gluck Foundation
Reese and Doris Gothie
Joan and John Hotchkis
Janeway Foundation
Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey
Carrie and Stuart Ketchum
Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee
B. Allen and Dorothy Lay
Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee
Estate of Judith Lynne
Maddocks-Brown Foundation
Ginny Mancini
Raulee Marcus
Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Merle and Peter Mullin
William Powers and Carolyn Powers
Koni and Geoff Rich
H. Russell Smith Foundation
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust
Ronald and Valerie Sugar
I.H. Sutnick
$500,000 TO $999,999
Ann and Martin Albert
Abbott Brown
Mr. George L. Cassat
Kathleen and Jerrold L. Eberhardt
Valerie Franklin
Yvonne and Gordon Hessler
Barbara Leidenfrost
Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis
Mr. and Mrs. David Meline
Sandy and Barry D. Pressman
Earl and Victoria Pushee
William and Sally Rutter
Nancy and Barry Sanders
Richard and Bradley Seeley
Christian Stracke
Donna Swayze
Judy Ungar and Adrienne Fritz
Lee and Hope
Landis Warner
YOLA Student Fund
Edna Weiss
$250,000 TO $499,999
Nancy and Leslie Abell
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
Baker Family Trust
Veronica and Robert Egelston
Gordon Family Foundation
Ms. Kay Harland
Joan Green Harris Trust
Bud and Barbara Hellman
Gerald L. Katell
Norma Kayser
Joyce and Kent Kresa
Raymond Lieberman
Mr. Kevin MacCarthy and Ms. Lauren Lexton
Alfred E. Mann Charities
Glenn Miya and Steven Llanusa
Jane and Marc B. Nathanson
Miguel A. Navarro
Y & S Nazarian
Family Foundation
Nancy and Sidney Petersen
Rice Family Foundation
Robert Robinson
Kenneth D. Sanson
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
Freya and Mark Ivener
Ruth Jacobson
Estate of Mary Calfas Janos
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
Ms. Gloria Lothrop
Vicki and Kerry McCluggage
Heidi and Steve McLean in memory of Katharine Lamb
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 & 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
B. and Lonis Liverman
Sarah and Ira R. Manson
Carole McCormac
Meitus Marital Trust
Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.
John Millard
National Endowment for the Arts
Alfred and Arlene Noreen
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Dr. M. Lee Pearce
Lois Rosen
Anne and James Rothenberg
Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust
The SahanDaywi Foundation
Mrs. Nancie Schneider
William and Luiginia Sheridan
Virginia Skinner
Living Trust
Nancy and Richard Spelke
Mary H. Statham
Ms. Fran H. Tuchman
Tom and Janet Unterman
Rhio H. Weir
Mrs. Joseph F. Westheimer
Jean Willingham
Winnick Family Foundation
Cheryl and Peter Ziegler
Lynn and Roger Zino
LA PHIL MUSICIANS
Anonymous Kenneth Bonebrake
Nancy and Martin Chalifour
Brian Drake
Perry Dreiman
Barry Gold
Christopher Hanulik
John Hayhurst
Jory and Selina Herman
Ingrid Hutman
Andrew Lowy
Gloria Lum
Joanne Pearce Martin
Kazue Asawa McGregor
Oscar and Diane Meza
Mitchell Newman
Peter Rofé
Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski
Barry Socher
Paul Stein
Leticia Oaks Strong
Lyndon and Beth Johnston Taylor
Dennis Trembly
Allison and Jim Wilt
Suli Xue
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org. Thank you.
by the cult status of Gustav Mahler among Angeleno symphonic fans in the ’70s, Gustavo Dudamel leads an exploration of Mahler’s monumental music and his inner world.
Annual Donors
The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $3,500 or more to the LA Phil, including special event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between November 1, 2023, and October 31, 2024.
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous (2)
$500,000 TO $999,999
Ballmer Group
$200,000 TO $499,999
Anonymous (2)
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen
Colburn Foundation
Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner
Lisa Field/Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll
The Getty Foundation
Gordon P. Getty
Jennifer Miller Goff
$100,000 TO $199,999
Anonymous (4)
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
Regina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg
Weingarten
R. Martin Chavez
Becca and Jonathan Congdon
Donelle Dadigan
Dunard Fund USA
The Eisner Foundation
Ms. Erika J. Glazer
Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore
Peggy Grauman
$50,000 TO $99,999
Anonymous
Nancy and Leslie Abell
Alfred E. Mann Charities
Amgen Foundation
Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser
Aramont Foundation
Samuel and Erin Biggs
David Bohnett Foundation
Linda and Maynard Brittan
Thy Bui
Canon Insurance Service
Andrea Chao-Kharma and Kenneth Kharma
David William Upham Foundation
Nancy and Donald de Brier
De Marchena-Huyke Foundation
The Walt Disney Company
Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation
Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg
Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll
Mr. James Gleason
Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony DeFrancesco
Tamara Golihew
$25,000 TO $49,999
Anonymous (10)
The Herb Alpert Foundation
Dr. William Benbassat
Susan and Adam Berger
Mr. and Mrs.
Norris J. Bishton, Jr.
Jill Black Zalben
Kawanna and Jay Brown
Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow
Steven and Lori Bush
Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation
Chevron Products Company
Esther S.M. Chui
Chao & Andrea
Chao-Kharma
Dan Clivner
Mr. Richard W. Colburn
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cook
Orna and David Delrahim
Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Dr. LuAnn Wilkerson
Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky
Max H. Gluck Foundation
The Hearthland Foundation
Tylie Jones
Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Daniel Huh
Kaiser Permanente
Winnie Kho and Chris Testa
Linda May and Jack Suzar
John Mohme Foundation
Lori Greene Gordon and Neil Gordon
Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen
Yvonne Hessler
Mr. Philip Hettema
The Hillenburg Family
David Z. & Young
O. Hong Family Foundation
Cindy and Alan Horn
Ms. Michelle Horowitz
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Frank Hu and Vikki Sung
The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation
Monique and Jonathan Kagan
Malsi and Johnny Doyle
Michael Dreyer
Van and Francine Durrer
East West Bank
Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt
Edison International
Marianna J. Fisher
and David Fisher
Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation
Debra Frank
Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg
M. David and Diane Paul
Barbara and Jay Rasulo
The Rauch Family Foundation
Maureen and Stanley Moore
Michael J. Connell Foundation
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Koni and Geoff Rich
Rosenthal Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs.
Joshua R. Kaplan
Linda and Donald Kaplan
W.M. Keck Foundation
Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi
Dr. Ralph A. Korpman
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
Live Nation-Hewitt
Silva Concerts, LLC
Renee and Meyer Luskin
Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen
Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler
Francis Goelet
Charitable
Lead Trusts
Greg and Etty Goetzman
Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley
Kate Good
Music Center Foundation
James D. Rigler/Lloyd
E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch
Foundation
Rolex Watch USA, Inc.
Linda and David Shaheen
James and Laura Rosenwald/Orinoco Foundation
Maria Seferian
Elizabeth and Henry T. Segerstrom
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust
Christian Stracke
Ms. Irene Mecchi
Mr. and Mrs. David Meline
Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Peninsula Committee
Ms. Linda L. Pierce
Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello
Sandy and Barry D. Pressman
Wendy and Ken Ruby
Richard and Diane Schirtzer
Howard and Stephanie Sherwood
The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency
Liz and Peter Goulds
The Green Foundation
Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence
Renée and Paul Haas
Harman Family Foundation
Lynette Maria
Carlucci Hayde
Stephen T. Hearst
Walter and Donna Helm
David and Martha Ho
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Margo and Irwin Winkler
Ellen and Arnold Zetcher
Marilyn and Eugene Stein
Ronald and Valerie Sugar
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jon Vein
Barbara and Robert Veir
Mr. Alex Weingarten
John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation
Jenny Williams
Debra Wong Yang and John W. Spiegel
Lynn and Roger Zino
Fritz Hoelscher
Mr. Tyler Holcomb
Thomas Dubois
Hormel Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Paul Horwitz
Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Hunter
Rif & Bridget Hutton
Robin and Gary Jacobs
Estate of Mary Calfas Janos
Joseph Drown
Foundation
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Hilda L. Solis
Holly J. Mitchell
Lindsey P. Horvath Chair
Janice K. Hahn
Kathryn Barger
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE
Kristin Sakoda Director COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
Leticia Buckley
President
Randi Tahara
Vice President
Rogerio V. Carvalheiro
Secretary
Sandra P. Hahn
Executive Committee
Member
Liane Weintraub
Immediate Past President
Pamela Bright-Moon
Patrice Cullors
Diana Diaz
Eric R. Eisenberg
Brad Gluckstein
Helen Hernandez
Constance Jolcuvar
Alis Clausen Odenthal
Anita Ortiz
Jennifer Price-Letscher
Terri and Michael Kaplan
Tobe and Greg Karns
Paul Kester
Elizabeth Kolawa
Delores M. Komar and Susan M. Wolford
David Lee
Mr. and Mrs.
Simon K.C. Li
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates
The Seth MacFarlane Foundation
Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury
Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker
Ms. Kim McCarthy and Mr. Ben Cheng
Heidi and Steve McLean
Coco Miller
Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc.
Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson
$15,000 TO $24,999
Anonymous (3)
Mrs. Lisette
Ackerberg
Drew and Susan Adams
Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler
The Aversano Family Trust
Mrs. Stella Balesh
Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli
Camilo Esteban
Becdach
Miles and Joni Benickes
Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs.
Geoff C. Bland
Mr. Ronald H. Bloom
Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin
Otis Booth Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bristing
Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel
Business and Professional Committee
Campagna Family Trust
Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli
Sarah and Roger Chrisman
Larison Clark
Mr. and Mrs. V.
Shannon Clyne
Faith and Jonathan Cookler
Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie
Lynette and Michael C. Davis
Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver
Jennifer Diener and Eric Small
Michael Dillon
Dr. and Mrs.
William M. Duxler
Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder
Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche
Geoff Emery
Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation
Max Factor Family Foundation
E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman
Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
Daniel and Maryann Fong
Foothill Philharmonic Committee
Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo
Becerra-Fraijo
Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N. Braun, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs.
Josh Friedman
Ms. Kimberly Friedman
Gary and Cindy Frischling
Jane Fujishige
Beth Gertmenian
$10,000 TO $14,999
Anonymous (4)
Affiliates of the Desert
B. Allen and Dorothy Lay
Dr. Mehrdad Ariani
Tichina Arnold
Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila
Pamela and Jeffrey Balton
Molly Munger and Stephen English
Deena and Edward Nahmias
Mr. and Mrs.
Randy Newman
Mr. Robert W. Olsen
Tye Ouzounian
Laura Owens
Bruce and Aulana Peters
Gregory Pickert and Beth Price
Madeline and Bruce Ramer
Mr. Bennett Rosenthal
Ross Endowment Fund
Bill and Amy Roth
Katy and
Michael S. Saei
Mr. Lee C. Samson
San MarinoPasadena
Philharmonic Committee
Ellen and
Richard Sandler
Miguel Santana
Dena and Irv Schechter/The Hyman Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Gertz
Carrie and Rob Glicksteen
Goldman Sachs Co.
LLC
Mr. and Mrs.
Louis L. Gonda
Goodman Family Foundation
Robert and Lori Goodman
Rob and Jan Graner
Mr. Bill Grubman
Marnie and Dan Gruen
Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian
Ms. Marian L. Hall
Laurie and Chris Harbert and Family
Lyndsay Harding
Mr. Sam Harris
Diane Henderson MD
Jackson N. Henry
Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray
Carol Henry California Community Foundation
Stephen F. Hinchliffe
Marion and Tod Hindin
Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin
Jessica and Elliot Hirsch
Arlene Hirschkowitz
Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust
K. Hohman Family
Deedie and Tom Hudnut
James Jackoway
Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.
Judy and Leigh Bardugo
Stephanie Barron
Mr. Joseph A. Bartush
Susan Baumgarten
Sondra Behrens
Phyllis and Sandy Beim
Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Bellomy
Mark and Pat Benjamin
Suzette and Monroe Berkman
Ms. Gail K. Bernstein
Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien
Mr. and Mrs.
Hal Borthwick
The Hon. Bob Bowers and Mrs. Reveta Bowers
Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting
Melanie and Harold Snedcof
Randy and Susan Snyder
Jeremy and Luanne Stark
Lisa and Wayne Stelmar
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima
Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer
Mr. Gregory Jackson and Mrs. Lenora
Jackson
Meredith Jackson and Jan Voboril
Meg and Bahram Jalali
Mr. Eugene Kapaloski
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kasirer
Sandi and Kevin Kayse
Vicki King
Jennifer and Cary Kleinman
Larry and Lisa Kohorn
Ms. Ursula C. Krummel
Naomi and Fred Kurata
Mr. and Mrs.
Jack D. Lantz
Mr. and Mrs.
Norman A. Levin
Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine
Ms. Agnes Lew
Karen and Clark Linstone
Ms. Judith W. Locke
Los Angeles
Philharmonic Committee
The Mailman Foundation
Raulee Marcus
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Marlowe
Matt Construction Corporation
Jonathan and Delia Matz
Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie
David and Margaret Mgrublian
Oleg and Tatiana Butenko
Garrett Camp
Mara and Joseph Carieri
Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin
Chien Family
Chivaroli and Associates
Insurance Services
Dr. and Mrs.
Lawrence J. Cohen
Michael Frazier
Thompson
Michael Tyler
Charles Urban
Nancy Valentine
Jennifer and Dr. Ken Waltzer
Walter and Shirley Wang
Debra and John Warfel
Mindy and David Weiner
Libby Wilson, MD Zolla Family Foundation
Marcy Miller
Cynthia Miscikowski
Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin
Mr. John Monahan
Mr. Brian R. Morrow
Ms. Kari Nakama
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Napier
NBC Universal
Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero
Christine M. Ofiesh
Steve and Gail Orens
Melissa Papp-Green and Jeff Green
Andy S. Park
Nancy and Glenn Pittson
Cathleen and Scott Richland
Ms. Anne Rimer
John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson
Linda and Tony Rubin
Mr. David Rudy
Thomas Safran
Ron and Melissa Sanders
Santa MonicaWestside
Philharmonic Committee
Gary Satin
Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk
Evy and Fred Scholder Family
Joan and Arnold Seidel
Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman
Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder
Jane Semel
Mr. James J. Sepe
Susan Colvin
Jay and Nadege Conger
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard W. Cook
Hillary and Weston Cookler
Alison Moore Cotter
Katie Danois
Dr. and Mrs. Nazareth
E. Darakjian
Steven Duffy
Julie and Bradley Shames
Mr. Steven Shapiro
Jill and Neil Sheffield
Lauren Shuler
Donner
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer
Angelina and Mark Speare
Terry and Karey Spidell
Stein Family Fund -
Judie Stein
Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson
Eva and Marc Stern
Tom Strickler
Akio Tagawa
Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin
Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker
Elinor and Rubin Turner
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Unger
Tom and Janet Unterman
Noralisa Villarreal and John
Matthew Trott
Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn
Wagner
Warner Bros. Discovery Stasia and Michael Washington
Alana L. Wray
Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi
Karl and Dian Zeile
Emil Ellis Farrar and Bill Ramackers
Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang
Mr. Michael Fox
Bernard H. Friedman and Lesley Hyatt
Dr. and Mrs.
David Fung
Roberta and Conrad Furlong
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Gainsley
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Karen Bass Mayor
Hydee Feldstein Soto
City Attorney
Kenneth Mejia Controller
CITY COUNCIL
Bob Blumenfield
Marqueece Harris-Dawson
President
Eunisses Hernandez
Heather Hutt
Ysabel J. Jurado
John S. Lee
Tim McOsker
Adrin Nazarian
Imelda Padilla
Traci Park
Curren D. Price, Jr.
Nithya Raman
Monica Rodriguez
Hugo Soto-Martínez
Katy Young Yaroslavsky
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Daniel Tarica
General Manager
CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION
Robert Vinson President
Natasha Case Vice President
Thien Ho
Ray Jimenez
Asantewa Olatunji
Christina Tung
Tria Blu Wakpa
WALT DISNEY
CONCERT HALL HOUSE STAFF
Marcus Conroy
Master Electrician, Steward
Charles Miledi
Master Props
Sergio Quintanar
Master Carpenter
Kevin F. Wapner
Master Audio/Video
The stage crew is represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine
Operators of the United States and Canada, Local No. 33.
CELESTIALS: MOBLEY + VIVALDI
JAN 11 | 7:30 PM | The Wallis
JAN 12 | 4 PM | The Huntington
Margaret Batjer LEADER
Reginald Mobley COUNTERTENOR
David Washburn + Paul Merkelo TRUMPETS
IMPRESSIONISTS:
PINTSCHER + DEBUSSY + DeYOUNG
FEB 15 | 7:30 PM | Alex Theatre
FEB 16 | 4 PM | The Wallis
Matthias Pintscher CONDUCTOR
Michelle DeYoung MEZZO
BOURGEOISIE:
MOZART + HAYDN + HANDEL
MAR 15 | 7:30 PM | Alex Theatre
Jeannette Sorrell CONDUCTOR
Awadagin Pratt PIANO
Reginald Mobley COUNTERTENOR
Michelle DeYoung MEZZO
Awadagin Pratt PIANO
Mr. Peter A. Gelles and Mrs. Eve
Steele Gelles
Harriett and Richard E. Gold
Jory Goldman
Manuela Cerri Goren
Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel M. Gottlieb
Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Gouw
Tricia and Richard Grey
Beverly and Felix Grossman
Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff
Beth Fishbein
Hansen
Ms. Deborah Harkness
Mr. Rick Harrison and Ms. Susan Hammar
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
Helford and Family
Linda Joyce Hodge
Janice and Laurence Hoffmann
Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth
Joyce and Fredric Horowitz
Mr. Frank J. Intiso
Kristi Jackson and William Newby
Sharon and Alan Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Steaven
K. Jones, Jr.
Dr. William B. Jones
Marilee and Fred Karlsen
Rizwan and Hollee Kassim
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael C. Kelley
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth N. Klee
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krivis
Nickie and Marc Kubasak
Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren Rosenthal
Ellie and Mark Lainer
Mrs. Grace E. Latt
Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine
Randi Levine
Lydia and Charles Levy
$5,500 TO $9,999
Anonymous (9)
Ms. Rose Ahrens
Bobken and Hasmik Amirian
Mr. Robert C. Anderson
Debra and Benjamin Ansell
Art and Pat Antin
Javi Arango
Sandra Aronberg,
M.D.
Ms. Judith A. Avery
Mr. Mustapha Baha
Tawney Bains and Zachary Roberts
Mrs. Linda E. Barnes
Karen and Jonathan Bass
Catherine and Joseph Battaglia
Reed Baumgarten
George and Karen Bayz
Ms. Nettie Becker
Logan Beitler
Maria and Bill Bell
Helen and Peter S. Bing
Richard Birnholz
Mr. Larry Blivas and Ms. Julie Blivas
Mitchell Bloom
Leni I. Boorstin
Joan N. Borinstein
Greg Borrud
Mr. Ray Boucher
Mrs. Susan Bowey
Ms. Marie Brazil
Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard
Drs. Maryam and Iman Brivanlou
Mrs. Linda L. Brown
Diana Buckhantz
Tanille Carter
CBS Entertainment
Dr. Kirk Y. Chang
Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Clements
Marie and Edward Lewis
Maria and Matthew Lichtenberg
Anita Lorber
Kyle Lott
Sandra Cumings
Malamed and Kenneth D. Malamed
Mona and Frank Mapel
Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson
Vilma S. Martinez, Esq.
Leslie and Ray Mathiasen
Liliane Quon McCain
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
E. McCarthy
Cathy McMullen
Lisa and Willem Mesdag
Ms. Joanna Miller
Linda and Kenneth Millman
Marc and
Jessica Mitchell
Mr. Alexander Moradi
Wendy Stark Morrissey
Mr. David Colburn
Committee of Professional Women
Mr. Michael Corben and Ms. Linda Covette
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin
Lloyd Eric Cotsen
Mr. and Mrs.
Richard R. Crowell
Mr. and Mrs.
Leo David
Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez
Ms. Rosette Delug
Nancy and Patrick Dennis
Ms. Mary Denove
The Randee and Ken Devlin Foundation
Mr. Kevin Dill
Elizabeth and Kenneth M. Doran
Julie and Stan Dorobek
James and Andrea Drollinger
Bob Ducsay and Marina Pires de Souza
Mr. and Mrs.
Brack W. Duker
Victoria Dummer and Brion Allen
Anna Sanders Eigler
Alex Elias
John B. Emerson and Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Janice Feldman, JANUS et cie
Mr. Gregg Field and Ms. Monica Mancini
The Hon. Michael W. Fitzgerald and Mr. Arturo Vargas
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael M. Flynn
Carrie Nery
Dick and Chris Newman / C & R
Newman Family
Foundation
Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris
Foundation
Mr. John Nuckols
Irene and Edward Ojdana
Loren Pannier
Ellen Pansky
Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Pearlston
Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon
Johannessen
Chris Pine
Julie and Marc Platt
Mr. Jeff Polak and Mrs. Lauren Reisman Polak
Robert J. Posek, M.D.
Joyce and David Primes
Mark Proksch and Amelie Gillette
William “Mito” Rafert
Lee Ramer
The Franke Family Trust
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Freilich
Linda and James Freund
Ruchika Garga
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Glaser
Glendale
Philharmonic Committee
Carol Goldsmith
Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Goldsmith
Edith Gould
Lee Graff Foundation
Diane and Peter H. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Griffin III
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Guerin
Rod Hagenbuch
Mr. William Hair
Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma
Gail and Murray E. Heltzer
Myrna and Uri Herscher Family Foundation
William Hewes
Tina and Ivan Hindshaw
Eugene and Katinka Holt
Jill Hopper
Dr. and Mrs.
Mel Hoshiko
Andrei and Luiza Iancu
Libby and Arthur Jacobson
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Jaffe
Doug and Minda Johnstone
Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud
Eduardo Repetto and Carla Figueroa
Risk Placement Services
Hon. Ernest M. Robles
Murphy and Ed Romano and Family
Mr. Steven F. Roth
Ms. Rita Rothman
Mimi Rotter
Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Rubin
Dr. Michael Rudolph
Ann M. Ryder
Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich Schelbert
Samantha and Marc Sedaka
Michael Sedrak
Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann
Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro
Gloria Sherwood
The Sikand Foundation
Barbara A. Jones
Randi and Richard B. Jones
Mr. William Jordan
Meredith Jury
Robin and Craig Justice
Catherine and Harry Kane
Judith and Russell Kantor
Marty and Cari Kavinoky
Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Keller
Leigha Kemmett and Jacob Goldstein
Ms. Sharon Kerson
Daisietta Kim and Rudolf Marloth
Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee
Mr. and Mrs.
Jon Kirchner
Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.
Alan S. Koenigsberg and John A. Dotto
Lee Kolodny
Lori Kunkel
Dr. and Mrs. Kihong Kwon
Vicki Lan
Katherine Lance
Ms. Jeanne Lawson
Ms. Leerae Leaver
Mr. George Lee
Mr. Randall Lee and Ms. Stella M. Jeong
Mr. Stephen Leidner
Mr. Benjamin Lench
Mary Beth and John Leonard
Saul Levine
David and Rebecca Lindberg
Mr. Greg Lipstone
Lynn Loeb
Julie and Ron Long
Ms. Diana Longarzo
Scott Lord
Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr. James Kelley
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael G. Smooke
Jennifer Speers
Joseph and Suzanne Sposato
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Stern
James C. Stewart
Charitable Foundation
Rose and Mark Sturza
Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz
Jeremy Thurswell
Christine Upton
Kathy Valentino
Rachel Wagman
Sheila and Wally Weisman
Abby and Ray Weiss
Mr. and Mrs. Steven White
Mr. Kevin Yoder
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zelikow
Bobbi and Walter Zifkin
Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan
Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro
Law Firm
Ruth and Roger MacFarlane
Kevin MacLellan
Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Maron
Stephen Martinez
Pam and Ron Mass
Mr. Gary J. Matus
Andrew Silver
Kathleen McCarthy and Frank Kostlan
Mr. and Mrs. William F. McDonald
Jeffrey and Tracy McEvoy
Mr. David McGowan
Mr. Sheldon and Dr. Linda Mehr
Lawry Meister
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Messina
Ms. Marlane Meyer
Mr. Weston F. Milliken
Mrs. Lillian Mueller
Gretl and Arnold Mulder
Sheila Muller
Loretta Munoz
Craig and Lisa Murray
Ms. Yvonne Nam and Mr. David Sands
Mr. Jose Luis Nazar
Anthony and Olivia Neece
Mrs. Cynthia Nelson
Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff
Ms. Beatrice H. Nemlaha
Ms. Kimberly Nicholas
Ms. Mary D. Nichols
Steven A. Nissen
Amelia and Joe Norris
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ochoa
Ms. Margo Leonetti O’Connell
John C. Orr
Kim and P.F. James Overton
Cynthia Patton
Peggy Phillips
Lorena and R. Joseph Plascencia
Lyle and Lisi Poncher
Ms. Eleanor Pott
Mr. Joseph S. Powe
James S. Pratty, M.D.
Hon. Vicki Reynolds and Mr. Murray Pepper
Mrs. Laura H. Rockwell
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Roen
Peter and Marla Rosen
Mr. Lee N. Rosenbaum and Mrs. Corinna Cotsen
Mr. Andrew E. Rubin
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rutter
Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner
Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Salick
Mark and Valerie Sawicki
Dr. Marlene M. Schultz and Philip M. Walent
Sue and Don Schuster
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Segal
Dr. and Mrs. Hervey Segall
Laurie Selik
Ms. Amy J. Shadur-Stein
Ms. Avantika Shahi
Dr. Alexis M. Sheehy
Mr. Adam Sidy
Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Skinner
Professor Judy and Dr. William Sloan
Cynthia and John Smet
Mr. Douglas H. Smith
Mr. Steven Smith
SouthWest Heights
Philharmonic Committee
Shondell and Ed Spiegel
William Spiller
Lael Stabler and Jerone English
Mr. Adrian B. Stern
Ms. Margaret Stevens and Mr. Robin Meadow
Fran Sweeney
Jennifer Taguchi
Mr. Marc A. Tamaroff
Mr. and Mrs. Randall Tamura
Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann Weyman
Mr. Stephen S. Taylor
Mrs. Elayne Techentin
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Toibb
John Tootle
Richard Turkanis and Wendy Kirshner
Charles and Nicole Uhlmann
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Vickers
Kathleen and Louis Victorino
Terry and Ann Marie Volk
Mr. Nate Walker
Lisa and Tim Wallender
Kathy S. Walton
Bob and Dorothy Webb
Robert Weingarten
Doris Weitz and Alexander Williams
Ms. Jill Wickert
Mr. Robert E. Willett
David and Michele Wilson
Mr. Steve Winfield
Bill Wishner
Karen and Rick Wolfen
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wong
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wynne
Mr. Nabih Youssef
$3,500 TO $5,499
Anonymous (5)
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Agrama
Mr. Robert A. Ahdoot
Ty Ahmad-Taylor
Cary Albertsone
Edgar Aleman
Adrienne S. Alpert
Edna R.S. Alvarez
Mr. Peter Anderson and Ms. Valerie Goo
Betsy and Harold E. Applebaum
Carlo and Amy Baghoomian
Terence Balagia
Howard Banchik
Clare Baren and David Dwiggins
Isaac Barinholtz and Erica Hanson
Kay and Joe Baumbach
Newton and Rochelle Becker
Charitable Trust
Ellis N. Beesley, Jr. M.D.
Garrett Bell and Catherine Simms
Ms. Karen S. Bell and
Mr. Robert Cox
Mr. Richard Bemis
Benjamin Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot S. Berkowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein
Mr. Alan N. Berro
Vince Bertoni and Damon Hein
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Biles
Lisa Biscaichipy
Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh Lindsey
Michael Blake
Mr. Michael Blea
Ms. Judith Blumenthal
Ms. Leslie Botnick
Michael Boucher and Ashley Coats
Jemelia Bowie
Anita and Joel Boxer
Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler
Mrs. William Brand and Ms. Carla B. Breitner
Mr. Donald M. Briggs and Mrs. Deborah J. Briggs
Kevin Brockman and Dan Berendsen
Ronald Brot
Ryan and Michelle Brown
Mr. Tad Brown and Mr. Jonathan Daillak
Casey and Brea Brumels
Mrs. Lupe P. Burson
Dan and Catherine
Campbell
Dexter Cannon and Lee Hendrix
Michael Chait
Mr. Jon C. Chambers
Nolan and Marlene Charbonnet
Adam Chase
Mr. Louis Chertkow
Arthur and Katheryn Chinski
Mr. and Mrs.
Joel T. Chitea
Carla Christofferson
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Colby
Susan and David Cole
In Honor of Judge
John L. Cole and Mrs. Peggy S. Cole
Ms. Ina Coleman
Kevin and Katie Cordano
Cox FamilyPernell, Keila, and Harper Q.
Mrs. Nancy A. Cypert
Jessica and James Dabney
Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch
Mrs. Judi Davidson
Mr. Howard M. Davine
Wanda Denson-Low and Ronald Low
Tim and Neda Disney
R. Stephen Doan and Donna E. Doan
Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms.
Georgia Archer
Mr. Gregory C.
Drapac
Dr. David Eisenberg
Mrs. Eva Elkins
Douglas D Erenberg
Richard and Sara Evans
Ms. Anita Famili
Jen and Ted Fentin
Lyn and Bruce Ferber
Dr. Walter Fierson and Dr. Carolyn Fierson
Michael Firestein and Deborah Krakow
A.B. Fischer
Steven Fishman
Mrs. Diane Forester
Bruce Fortune and Elodie Keene
Laura Fox, M.D., and John Hofbauer, M.D.
Lynn Franklin
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Freeland
Ms. Alisa J. Freundlich
Friars Charitable
Foundation
Ian and Meredith Fried
Steven Friednam
David Fury
Mrs. Diane Futterman
Ms. Sybil Garry
Mr. and Mrs.
Alan M. Gasmer
Dr. Tim A. Gault, Sr.
Sara and Derek Geissler
Dr. and Mrs.
Anthony Gerber
Susan and David Gersh
Susan and Jaime Gesundheit
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Gibbs
Jon M. Gibson
Jason Gilbert
Mr. and Mrs.
David A. Gill
The Gillis Family
Stephen Gingold
William and Phyllis Glantz
The Jacqueline Glass Family
Madelyn and Bruce S. Glickfeld
Dr. and Mrs.
Steven Goldberg
The Honorable and Mrs. Allan J. Goodman
Elliot Gordon and Carol Schwartz
Mr. James Granger
Mr. and Mrs.
Carl C. Gregory
Rita and William Griffin
Barrie Grobstein
Mr. Frank Gruber and Ms. Janet Levin
Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk
Dr. and Mrs.
Charles Gustafson
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre and Rubina Habis
Judith and Robert D. Hall
Charles F. Hanes
Mr. Robert T. Harkins
Mr. and Mrs.
Brian L. Harvey
Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis K. Hashimoto
Mr. David R. Hatcher
Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk
Byron and
DeAnne Hayes
Mr. Donald V. Hayes
Peter and Nicolette Hebert
Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge
Margaret Nagle
Betsydiane and Larry Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Ms. Gail Herring
Jim Herzfeld
The Hill Family
Dr. and Mrs.
Hank Hilty
Greg and Jill Hoenes
Glenn Hogan
Mrs. Cathy Hong
In Hong
Douglas and Carolyn Honig
Jonathan Howard
Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale
Francis Hung Jr.
Harry and Judy Isaacs
Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore W. Jackson
Mr. Channing
Johnson
Gordon M. Johnson and Barbara A. Schnell
Mr. Sean Johnson
Mireya Asturias
Jones and Lawrence Jones
Mr. Ken Kahan
Lawrence Kalantari
Karen and Don Karl
Mr. and Mrs.
David S. Karton
Aleksey Katmissky
Dr. and Mrs.
David Kawanishi
Kayne, Anderson & Rudnick
Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W. Kearney
Mr. Stephen Keck
Richard Kelton
Nona Khodai
Jason King
Richard and Lauren King
Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel
Michael and Patricia Klowden
Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Konheim
Carla and Archy Kotoyantz
Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald
Sharon and Joel Krischer
Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean
Mr. and Mrs.
Howard A. Kroll
Carole and Norm La Caze
Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo
Thomas and Gloria Lang
Joan and Chris Larkin
James Laur and Peter Kongkasem
Craig Lawson and Terry Peters
Mr. Les Lazar
Mr. Robert Leevan
Dr. Bob Leibowitz
Mr. Donald S. Levin
Mr. and Mrs.
Edward B. Levine
Benjamin Bear Levy
Mr. Jeff Levy
David and Meghan Licata
Dr. and Mrs.
Mark Lipian
Ms. Elisabeth Lipsman
Ms. Bonnie Lockrem and Mr. Steven Ravaglioli
Robert and Susan Long
Jasmine Lord
Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord
Kristine and David Losito
Mr. and Mrs.
Boutie Lucas
Crystal and Elwood Lui
Dr. Jamshid Maddahi
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Manzani
Dorrie and Paul Markovits
Mr. Allan Marks and Dr. Mara Cohen
Areva Martin
Paul Martin
Dr. and Mrs.
Gene Matzkin
Courtney McKeown
Margaret Meehan and Joaquin Nunez
Michael and Jan Meisel
Carlos Melich
Robert L. Mendow
Mr. Robert Merz
Marcia Bonner
Meudell and Mike Merrigan
Ms. Janet G.
Michaels
Larry and Mary Anne Mielke
Dr. Gary Milan
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael D. Miller
Mr. and Mrs.
Simon Mills
Janet Minami
Mr. and Mrs.
William Mingst
Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch
Maria and Marzi Mistry
Robert and Claudia Modlin
Katherine Molloy
Toni Hollander
Morse and Lawrence Morse
William Morton
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Mr. Ron Myrick
Mr. James A. Nadal and Amelia Nadal
Rachel Nass
Stuart and Bruce
Needleman
Robert and Sally Neely
Mr. Liron Nelik
Mr. Jerold B. Neuman
Mr. John M. Nisley
Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen
Deborah Nucatola
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The Music Center is your place to experience all the arts have to offer, where you can express yourself, connect with others and enjoy incredible live performances and events in our four beautiful theatres, at Jerry Moss Plaza and in Gloria Molina Grand Park.
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Free 90-minute docent-led tours take you through the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall, along with Jerry Moss Plaza. You’ll learn about the history and architecture of the theatres along with The Music Center’s beautiful outdoor spaces along with the incredible selection of artwork located throughout the campus.
Tours are offered daily. Check the schedule to plan a fun-filled day in Downtown L.A.!
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2024/2025 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Cindy Miscikowski
Chair
Robert J. Abernethy
Vice Chair
Rachel S. Moore
President & CEO
Diane G. Medina
Secretary
Susan M. Wegleitner
Treasurer
William Taylor
Assistant Treasurer and Chief
Financial Officer
MEMBERS
AT LARGE
Charlene Achki-Repko
Charles F. Adams
William H. Ahmanson
Jill C. Baldauf
Susan Baumgarten
Phoebe Beasley
Kristin Burr
Dannielle Campos
Alberto M. Carvalho
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler
Riley Etheridge, Jr.
Amy R. Forbes
Greg T. Geyer
Joan E. Herman
Jeffrey M. Hill
Jonathan B. Hodge
Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen
Carl Jordan
Richard B. Kendall
Terri M. Kohl
Lily Lee
Cary J. Lefton
Keith R. Leonard, Jr.
Kelsey N. Martin
Susan M. Matt
Elizabeth Michelson
Darrell D. Miller
Teresita Notkin
Michael J. Pagano
Karen Kay Platt
Susan Erburu Reardon
Joseph J. Rice
Melissa Romain
Beverly P. Ryder
Maria S. Salinas
Corinne Jessie
Sanchez
Mimi Song
Johnese Spisso
Michael Stockton
Jason Subotky
Timothy S. Wahl
Jennifer M. Walske
Jay S. Wintrob
GENERAL COUNSEL
Rollin A. Ransom
DIRECTORS
EMERITI
Wallis Annenberg
Peter K. Barker
Judith Beckmen
Darrell R. Brown
Ronald W. Burkle
John B. Emerson **
Richard M. Ferry
Bernard A. Greenberg
Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.
Kent Kresa
Mattie McFaddenLawson
Fredric M. Roberts
Richard K. Roeder
Claire L. Rothman
Joni J. Smith
Lisa Specht **
Cynthia A. Telles
James A. Thomas
Andrea L. Van de Kamp **
Thomas R. Weinberger
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
** Chair Emeritus
Current as of 11/20/2024
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Yannick Lebrun.
Photo by Dario Calmese.
Will Yang for The Music Center.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.
Hilda L. Solis
Chair Pro Tem, First District
Holly
J. Mitchell
Supervisor, Second District
Lindsey P. Horvath Supervisor, Third District
Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District
Kathryn Barger Chair, Fifth District
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As a steward of The Music Center of Los Angeles County, we recognize that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands. We are dedicated to growing and sustaining relationships with Native peoples and local tribal governments, including (in no particular order) the:
• Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
• Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council
• Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians
• Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation
• San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
• San Fernando Band of Mission Indians
To learn more about the First Peoples of Los Angeles County, please visit the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission website at lanaic.lacounty.go
Happening at The Music Center
WED 1 JAN / 2:00 p.m.
IndieCade in Residence
THE MUSIC CENTER / TMC ARTS
@ Jerry Moss Plaza
Thru 2/23/2025
THU 2 JAN /
2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Once Upon a Mattress CENTER THEATRE GROUP
@ Ahmanson Theatre
Thru 1/5/2025
FRI 3 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Batiashvili Plays Beethoven
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 1/5/2025
SUN 5 JAN / 7:30 p.m.
Paul Jacobs
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 7 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Brahms, Beach, and the Piano
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
WED 8 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Igor Levit
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
THU 9 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Schumann & Brahms
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 1/12/2025
FRI 10 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Cody Fry with Orchestra
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 14 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Benavides' Neruda Songs
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
THU 16 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Beethoven & Tchaikovsky
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 1/19/2025
FRI 17 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Arlo Parks
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
SUN 19 JAN / 7:00 p.m.
Lift Every Voice
LOS ANGELES
MASTER CHORALE
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
JANUARY 2025
FRI 24 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Rachmaninoff & Muhly
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 1/26/2025
TUE 28 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Elements and Energy with John Adams
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
WED 29 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Fake It Until You Make It
CENTER THEATRE GROUP
@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 3/9/2025
THU 30 JAN / 8:00 p.m.
Schubert, Strauss & Saariaho
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 2/2/2025
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February 14–16, 2025 Discover
Batsheva Dance Company’s MOMO. Photo by Ascaf.
Boldy Restaged as one Magical Show
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling ended her epic sevenvolume series of novels with a tantalizing teaser: an epilogue titled “Nineteen Years Later,” in which Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron, now grown, are preparing to send their children off to school at Hogwarts. That brief chapter inspired the spectacular stage production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now embarking on its first national tour. Jack Thorne’s Tony Award-winning play, based on an original story by Rowling, Thorne, and director John Tiffany, takes audiences on an unforgettable adventure in which two generations travel through time to save the wizarding world.
The newly expanded Potter universe seamlessly blends movement, magic, and good old-fashioned storytelling, centering on Albus Potter (the middle child of Harry and his wife, Ginny) and Scorpius Malfoy (son of Harry’s rival Draco Malfoy). “I’ve always had the sense that Hogwarts was a world that belonged on stage,”
says Tiffany, a Tony winner for his direction.
“I could see suitcases floating and cloaks whirling; arches and columns that could become trees in the forbidden forest. What’s amazing about the fantasy world of Harry Potter is that it allows you to explore the human experience in a magnified and dramatic way.”
Indeed, as they crafted a magicfilled narrative with Rowling’s input and encouragement, Thorne and Tiffany never lost sight of the story’s humanity. “There were two things I was interested in conveying,” the playwright says. “The first was what it’s like to go to Hogwarts when you don’t fit in, because I was a person who struggled in school. I’m drawn
to outsiders, and so are John and Jo [Rowling]. The other was the notion of what it means to be put in a place you’re uncomfortable with. What would happen if one of Harry’s kids ended up in a house [at Hogwarts] where he thought he didn’t belong, and then discovered through friendship that he did?”
The touring production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child includes all the breathtaking effects and stunning staging that helped make the play an international hit, attracting enthusiastic theatergoers of all ages. “The magic is there,” promises Tiffany, “and we’re excited to bring the show to as many people as possible. We feel a responsibility to do justice not just to Harry Potter but to theater as an art form. We want this play to be like nothing anyone has ever experienced.”
