Los Angeles Philharmonic Día de los Muertos with Dudamel
NOV 6
COLBURN CELEBRITY RECITAL Itzhak Perlman and Friends
BOOK II • NOVEMBER 8–17
NOV 8–10
Los Angeles Philharmonic Strauss’ Heroic Journey
NOV 13
COLBURN CELEBRITY RECITAL Behzod Abduraimov
NOV 14–17
Los Angeles Philharmonic Hisaishi Leads Pictures at an Exhibition
BOOK III • NOVEMBER 16–24
NOV 16
GREEN UMBRELLA
Noon to Midnight Festival: Doug Aitken’s Lightscape
NOV 19
CHAMBER MUSIC
Celebrating 30 Years with Martin Chalifour
NOV 21–24
JOHN WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHT
Los Angeles Philharmonic Star Wars in Concert
cover images, clockwise from top left: Sarah Hicks, Behzod Abduraimov, Doug Aitken’s Lightscape, Joe Hisaishi, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Itzhak Perlman. center: Gustavo Dudamel
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Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “These are the principles for the development of a complete mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science.… Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
More than 500 years after the great thinker’s death, the LA Phil is among more than 70 Southern Californiabased institutions collaborating in PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a contemporary realization of da Vinci’s idea spearheaded by Getty. As part of PST ART, the LA Phil will present Noon to Midnight, featuring 12 hours of new music and art installations in and around Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 16. Curated by Ellen Reid around the theme of “Field Recordings,” these concerts also demonstrate how music—with a boost from technology—allows us to hear more deeply and engage more profoundly with the world around us.
Anchoring this incredible marathon is artist Doug Aitken’s multimedia artwork Lightscape, which will be presented with a live musical performance by the LA Phil New Music Group and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. “Lightscape explores the idea of the future—where we are now and where we could be going,” Aitken has said, following in the line of notable artists who have envisioned what could be, helping to turn science fiction into reality.
Projects such as Noon to Midnight would not be possible without the LA Phil Insight initiative. Each season, Insight presents concert offerings as a springboard for guestcurator-driven festivals, multidisciplinary art projects, publications, and digital initiatives. This year it will take us inside the worlds of Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, the Korean diaspora, gospel music, and much more. I hope you’ll join us on this fascinating journey.
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Kim Noltemy
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VICE CHAIRS
Thomas L. Beckmen*
Reveta Bowers*
Jane B. Eisner*
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Diane Paul*
Jay Rasulo*
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Gregory A. Adams
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Andrea Chao-Kharma*
R. Martin Chavez
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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*
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Darioush Khaledi
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Winnie Kho
Matt McIntyre
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Margaret Morgan
Leith O’Leary
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Jay Stein*
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Irwin Winkler
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Lenore S. Greenberg
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From the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 24, 2003, to present
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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.
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 popculture 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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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—among them a 2024 Best Orchestral Performance Grammy for the latter’s Dante
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929), Artur Rodziński (1929-1933), O tto 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).
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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
Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Mark Kashper
Associate Principal
Isabella Brown
Assistant Principal
Kristine Whitson
Johnny Lee
Dale Breidenthal
Mark Houston Dalzell and James DaoDalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community
Ingrid Chun
Jin-Shan Dai
Chao-Hua Jin
Jung Eun Kang
Vivian Kukiel
Nickolai Kurganov
Varty Manouelian
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
L A 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*
BASSES
Christopher Hanulik
Principal
Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller Chair
Kaelan Decman
Associate Principal
Oscar M. Meza
Assistant Principal
David Allen Moore
Ted Botsford
Jack Cousin
Jory Herman
Brian Johnson
Peter Rofé
Nicholas Arredondo*
FLUTES
Denis Bouriakov
Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Catherine
Ransom Karoly
Associate Principal
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Russell Smith Chair
Elise Shope Henry
Mari L. Danihel Chair
Sarah Jackson
Piccolo
Sarah Jackson
OBOES
[Position vacant]
Principal
Carol Colburn Grigor Chair
Marion Arthur Kuszyk
Associate Principal
Anne Marie Gabriele
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
HORNS
Andrew Bain
Principal
John Cecil Bessell Chair
David Cooper
Associate Principal
Gregory Roosa
Alan Scott Klee Chair
Amy Jo Rhine
Loring Charitable Trust Chair
Elyse Lauzon
Reese and Doris Gothie Chair
Ethan Bearman
Assistant
Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
Elizabeth Linares Montero*
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 Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.
The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.
Listen Deeply
On November 16, the LA Phil presents its 12-hour new-music marathon, Noon to Midnight, with a focus on the theme “Field Recordings.” Sadie Sartini Garner explores how these captured sounds of our everyday world find new context.
In Frankfurt, Germany, 135 years ago, an 8-year-old boy named Ludwig Koch was given an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders by his father. It was the latest in technology, allowing anyone to record sound easily and somewhat permanently for the first time. Young Ludwig did what any 8-year-old might do with such a gift: He recorded the chirps of his pet bird. And with that call, a domesticated white-rumped shama inaugurated an artistic tradition that has changed the way people hear and understand the world around them.
What Koch captured that day is widely believed to be the first-ever field recording. While the term conjures up images of the natural world—and, to be sure, many field recordings feature the sounds of birds, running water, wind whistling through trees, and insects humming—the term “field recording” applies to any kind of recording made outside of a studio. That means that Stuart Hyatt’s The Fair State, which includes everything from mooing livestock and clanging machinery to murmuring voices in an attempt to re-create the feeling of the Indiana State Fair, is just as much a field recording as Smithsonian Folkways’ selfexplanatory Sounds of North American Frogs.
It didn’t take long for composers to begin integrating field recordings into music for orchestras and other ensembles. In his 1924 piece Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi calls for a recording of a nightingale to be played on a phonograph in the third movement, marking the
first time a recording was used in conjunction with a live orchestra. John Cage, who would dramatically push the boundaries of music thanks in part to his use of nontraditional sounds, was working with field recordings as early as 1942, when he included street scenes in his score for the radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat
Cage’s ideas broadened the musical possibilities for field recordings. In his deeply influential 1952 piece 4’33”, which famously features no actual performance by the musician but instead comprises whatever sounds happen to occur within the piece’s duration, he suggested that we’re surrounded by fascinating sounds—or rather, that all sound has the potential to be fascinating. Early recordist and electroacoustic musician Luc Ferrari took Cage to heart, recording sounds he heard from his window on the Dalmatian island of Korčula for his 1970 composition Presque rien no. 1. The piece captures both the vast emptiness of the ocean and the low-key bustle of small-town life. Ferrari’s careful layering of sounds—he places roosters and donkeys at varying distances, introduces murmured speech, sends an ancient truck rumbling through, and more—feels every bit as much a pocket symphony as “Good Vibrations.”
The Beach Boys themselves were no strangers to field recordings, having famously taped barnyard animals for their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Field recordings have played a major role in non-orchestral music for decades, from
the Gulf Coast samples of electronic group
The KLF’s Chill Out to the work of UK musician Burial, who uses the crackle of vinyl records and the static of steady rain to keep his soulinfluenced dance music just out of reach—his way of re-creating his feeling that he’d missed out on the rave scene’s brightest moments.
Frequently, field recordings function in this way, enriching, deepening, and completing traditionally composed pieces of music. It’s difficult to imagine The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” having such a strong effect without the quotidian chatter that expertly bridges the ennui of John Lennon’s verses with the playful morning routine of Paul McCartney’s. Steve Reich’s 1988 work Different Trains is made more poignant by his using recordings of people discussing their experiences in World War II as a melodic base, while the sound of whistles adds to the sense of anticipation, drama, and foreboding carried by the locomotive chug of the string quartet.
Some composers position themselves as a kind of field recorder, capturing natural sound using staff paper as the recording apparatus and the orchestra as a playback device. At times, this music can be incredibly beautiful, as in Gabriella Smith’s evoking the wash of surf through violins in her Tumblebird Contrails. Olivier Messiaen was more direct in his approach, compiling hundreds of recordings of an individual bird species, then using them to compose what he saw as the ideal form of that bird’s song. His works don’t adhere to traditional Western musical notions of harmony, melody, or rhythm—but neither do the birds that sing them in the wild.
Even when they’re not combined with other music, field recordings can carry a surprisingly heavy emotional load. The environments series of albums made by Irv Teibel brought the insect drone of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp and “The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore” to tons of people looking to lose themselves in the natural world. The moans of whale song that Roger Payne captured on his album Songs
of the Humpback Whale can be intense and nearly human in their longing. Jean Ritchie and George Pickow’s Field Trip—England includes the sound of playground games, handbell choirs, pub songs, and more that the couple recorded on a 1952 trip to the UK, making it a nostalgic portrait of distinctly British life.
“THE MOST AFFECTING RECORDINGS OFFER A FOCUS THAT LAYS BEYOND THE EVERYDAY LISTENING WE EXPERIENCE. THEY REVEAL A DEPTH OF PRESENCE.” —Lawrence
English
It may seem unlikely that sounds you hear every day could possibly be as moving as the most banal piece of music. Surely a recording of a farm isn’t even as musical as “Old MacDonald,” you might say. This is a fair point, and one with an unsatisfying answer: You’re right. A field recording is unlikely to make you feel the way the “Ode to Joy” does. What it will give you, though, in a way that no other form of music can, is a new way of experiencing your surroundings. As composer Lawrence English puts it, “The most affecting recordings offer a focus that lays beyond the everyday listening we experience. They reveal a depth of presence.” In other words, field recordings bridge the distance between our subjectivities and the rest of the world. They draw the natural sonic background of life to the fore of our consciousness and remind us of the vibrancy of a world hidden in plain sight.
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The Moments That Move Me
with Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
Ann Ronus Chair
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT A PIECE OF MUSIC THAT MOVES YOU?
When you connect to a music piece, there are different layers of memory. “Le jardin féerique” (The Fairy Garden)—the last movement of Ravel’s Mother Goose—connects to my inner 6-year-old. My first connection with it was early on growing up in France, where I listened to it in this music-initiation course.
When you look at the way it’s composed, the melody is pretty simple, but inside of these chords, you can follow every voice. It’s going somewhere; the color changes, the chord changes—it just takes you places.
And then I must add another layer. I watched the movie Call Me by Your Name a few years back, and the comingout scene uses a piano duet recording of this part of Mother Goose. It’s a very emotional scene between Timothée Chalamet’s character and his dad, and not a lot of words are spoken. But it really resonated in me, because I am gay myself, and coming out is always very impactful.
YOU HAVE ANOTHER BIG MOMENT COMING UP IN JOE HISAISHI’S NEW HARP CONCERTO! HOW DID THIS COMMISSION COME ABOUT?
Well, it’s a very exciting project for me. To be honest, I started reaching out to Joe in 2010. At the time, I was still living in France, and I was the principal harp with the Paris Opera. I loved his film music and knew he had a taste for the harp in his orchestrations, so as
soon as I joined the LA Phil [in 2020], I knew the time had come.
Since the LA Phil is so prominent in commissioning works and very active on the new-music scene, I knew it would make a difference, so I crossed my fingers and waited.
Later, I had a virtual meeting with Joe Hisaishi and his team on Zoom, and he said, “Yes, I will do it!” —Piper Starnes
Ceysson will give the world premiere performances of Hisaishi’s Harp Concerto on November 14, 15, and 17.
photo: DANNY CLINCH, LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
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Claudia Choi and Ben Adrian: Steering Support Toward the Future of Music
Claudia Choi and Ben Adrian have woven their appreciation for the arts into the fabric of their lives, particularly through their support of the LA Phil as donors, subscribers, and friends.
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In 2023, they made the profoundly generous choice to join the William Andrews Clark Society, which recognizes individuals who have remembered the LA Phil in their estate plans through their wills or other planned gifts. Members of the William Andrews Clark Society receive special recognition and the opportunity to become involved in the ongoing life of the LA Phil through special donor events.
Residents of Echo Park, Claudia and Ben regularly commute by bicycle to attend performances, an activity that combines their love of music with their enjoyment of Los Angeles’ urban landscape.
Music has been central to Ben’s life since he was 14, when he first picked up a guitar—just two weeks after meeting Claudia. This period marked the beginning of his enduring passion for music, enhanced by his education in a school with a strong music program.
“Music has the power to transform lives, just as it transformed mine,” Ben said. “Supporting the LA Phil means investing in a future where everyone can have that experience.”
In recognition of their shared love of music, Claudia later gifted Ben with season tickets to the LA Phil, establishing a tradition of
attendance that continues to this day. The couple meticulously plan their travels to ensure they rarely miss a concert, underscoring their commitment to the music they cherish.
When planning their estate, Claudia and Ben made a thoughtful decision to prioritize the LA Phil as a primary beneficiary of their trust. Their decision was influenced by the organization’s commitment to educational programs that benefit young musicians (like the 14-year-old Ben) and its dedication to commissioning new musical works each year—guiding the way forward for orchestral music in the 21st century.
In addition to their own enjoyment, Claudia and Ben actively introduce friends and family to the LA Phil and the Hollywood Bowl, though they do not require them to travel by bicycle! Through sharing their story, Claudia and Ben aim to inspire other donors to invest in the future of music today by making a gift through their estate, will, or trust.
“Our passion for music and belief in its educational power drives us to ensure others can enjoy the same inspiring experiences we’ve had. It’s why we’ve chosen to support the LA Phil as donors— it’s our way of giving back to the art form that has given us so much joy.”
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.
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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
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s programs are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Nosferatu
Clark Wilson, organ
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922) (c. 94 minutes)
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Screenplay by Henrik Galeen after the novel by Bram Stoker
Photographed by Fritz Arno Wagner
Designs and Costumes by Albin Grau
Produced by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau
CAST
Count Orlok Max Schreck
Hutter Gustav von Wangenheim
Ellen Hutter, his wife Greta Schroeder
Knock, an estate agent Alexander Granach
Harding, Hutter’s friend G.H. Schnell
Ruth, his sister Ruth Landshoff
Professor Bulwer John Gottowt
Professor Sievers, town doctor Gustav Botz
Captain of the Demeter Max Nemetz
Tonight’s presentation of Nosferatu is by arrangement with Kino Lorber.
Tonight’s program is presented without intermission.
Programs and artists subject to change.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 2024 8PM
Michael Wilson is Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ Conservator.
Manuel Rosales and Morgan Byrd are principal technicians for the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ.
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A SYMPHONY IN SILENCE
Born in Germany in 1888, F.W. Murnau came to Hollywood in 1926 and quickly astonished the industry with the poetic and troubling Sunrise (which bore the subtitle A Symphony of Two Humans). Sunrise also earned an Oscar for its cinematography and a special Oscar in the short-lived category of Unusual and Artistic Picture. That description would serve well for most of Murnau’s pictures, including those he made in Germany between 1919 and 1925. In a career that spanned barely more than a decade (he died in 1931), Murnau profoundly expanded the language of cinema, using art direction, lighting, and camera placement and movement to create a distinctive style.
As Nosferatu begins its horrific tale, estate agent Thomas Hutter is preparing for a journey from Bremen to Transylvania to sell a house to Count Orlok. He bids farewell to his bride and sets off for the Count’s remote castle. His client is frightening, mysterious, and quite strange-looking, and they end up talking well into the night. Before long, he comes to the realization that Orlok
is a vampire, the legendary Nosferatu. Unable to escape the castle, he is helpless as Nosferatu comes to his room at night to suck his blood. Back in Bremen, the agent’s wife, Ellen, is disturbed by a mysterious dream. She cries out to her husband in her sleep. Sensing from afar her link to Thomas, Orlok spares his intended victim, planning instead to travel to Bremen and possess the woman. Buried in one of a collection of coffins filled with soil, Orlok begins his journey to Germany by boat. Hutter, who has managed to escape from the castle, rushes to his wife, warning her
of Nosferatu’s intentions. Ellen is concerned that Nosferatu will return in pursuit of her husband, and she resolves to find a way of destroying the monster. From a book about vampires she learns that a woman who sacrifices herself freely to him and keeps the vampire in the room with her until dawn can bring an end to his power. Deciding that she must do this to save her husband, she lures the Count to her room; at dawn, he disappears in a puff of smoke. Her husband comes into the room, but it is too late. Ellen dies in his arms, but he and the town have been saved by her sacrifice.
CLARK WILSON
Clark Wilson is one of the most prominent and recognized scorers of silent photoplays in America today. He works exclusively with the organ in developing historically accurate musical accompaniments as they were performed in major picture palaces during the heyday of the silent film.
Wilson began his scoring career in 1980 and has successfully toured with hundreds of film presentations at schools and universities, concert halls and performing arts centers, theaters, film festivals, and conventions. He is the organist of choice for many of the American Theatre Organ Society’s international convention silent-film presentations, has performed at American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society
conventions and the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, and has scored pictures for Kino International for public DVD release. He currently enjoys creating scores for (and working with Suzanne Lloyd on the presentation of) classic Harold Lloyd comedies. His work has encompassed North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Wilson has been organ conservator and Resident Organist at the Ohio Theatre for the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts since 1992 and has also given performances at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the premiere of the restored silent classic Wings, in honor of Paramount Pictures’ 100th anniversary), Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, UCLA’s Royce Hall, and the Packard Foundation’s Stanford Theatre. Film-festival engagements have included Toronto, Cinequest, San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Conservancy. He has presented the annual Halloween-night film at Walt Disney Concert Hall since its opening. Wilson has also had the honor of scoring the pictures at the worldrenowned Riverside Church in New York City and at the
San Diego International Pipe Organ Festival at Balboa Park. Academic credits include introducing silent-film scoring at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music organ department and being named adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma, creating and teaching courses in silent-picture scoring and the history of the American theater organ, the first such accredited classes offered in the United States since 1929. He has lectured and written numerous articles for pipeorgan journals.
Wilson was presented with the American Theatre Organ Society’s Organist of the Year award in 1998. A successful organ technician, tonal finisher, and consultant, he runs his own organ shop and has been professionally involved with over 200 pipe-organ installations to date. Most recently, he headed projects to save and transplant a late AeolianSkinner instrument from Ohio State University and to install a large Wurlitzer organ at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus. He has also earned the ATOS Technician of Merit award, the first of only two people ever to receive both ATOS distinctions.
Día de los Muertos with Dudamel
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
VILLA-LOBOS Chôros No. 10, “Rasga o Coração” (c. 12 minutes)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Gabriela ORTIZ Yanga (c. 18 minutes)
(LA Phil commission with generous support from R. Martin Chavez)
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble
Los Angeles Master Chorale
INTERMISSION
REVUELTAS La noche de los Mayas (c. 31 minutes)
Noche de los Mayas (Night of the Maya) Noche de jaranas (Night of Revelry)
Noche de Yucatán (Yucatán Night) Noche de encantamiento (Night of Enchantment): Theme and variations
Programs and artists subject to change.
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 1, 2024 8PM
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 2 8PM
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3 2PM
Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall
These performances are generously supported by the Frank Gehry Fund for Creativity
AT A GLANCE
Central to any celebration of Día de los Muertos are ofrendas: altars containing symbols of and offerings to loved ones passed.
This year, the LA Phil celebrates Día de los Muertos with three sonic ofrendas. The first, Villa-Lobos’ Chôros No. 10, “Rasga o Coração,” pays homage to the street musicians of urban Brazil, whose distinct rhythm and frenzy VillaLobos blends seamlessly with the symphonic styles of early 20th-century French and Italian composers. Gabriela Ortiz’s Yanga, which honors escaped slave and revolutionary
CHÔROS NO. 10, “RASGA O CORAÇÃO”
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
Composed: 1926
Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, alto saxophone, 3 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trombones, timpani, percussion (grand tambourin de Provence, bass drum, caxambu [Brazilian tomtom], 2 puita [friction drums], reco-reco [scratcher, small and large], snare drum, tambour, large tam-tam, woodblocks, wood shaker, metal shaker), harp, piano, chorus, and strings
First LA Phil performance: May 23, 1997, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Heitor Villa-Lobos fashioned a music that relied on elements of his native Brazil through the prism of the Western orchestra. In doing so, he captured the
liberator Gaspar Yanga, follows. Commissioned in 2019 by Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil to pair with Beethoven’s Ninth and bolstered by bouncing African percussion, Yanga is an exuberant ode to Afro-Mexican music.
Silvestre Revueltas’ symphonic suite La noche de los Mayas also uses Native Mexican and African instruments to create a swelling score. Both a love letter to the state of Yucatán and an embittered plea for the preservation of indigenous Mexican music, La noche de los Mayas is a triumphant offering. —Tess Carges
essence, rather than the actual reality, of Brazilian folklore.
Two prominent sets of works stand out in Villa-Lobos’ output, both of which range in scale and scope from intimate miniatures for small combinations to orchestral tone poems of symphonic dimensions: the Bachianas Brasileiras and the Chôros. Both collections make use of indigenous Brazilian popular and folk elements, mixed with the European tradition. In the more explicitly titled Bachianas Brasileiras, Villa-Lobos ponders the possibility of Johann Sebastian Bach as a 20th-century Brazilian composer (much as Prokofiev imagined Haydn or Mozart as his contemporaries in his “Classical” Symphony).
The Chôros series, too, unites European formal and instrumental elements with instruments and materials native to Brazil.
The title Chôros refers instead to Brazil’s urban
street musicians. Chôros No. 10 is regarded by many as the masterpiece of the series; it calls not only for full orchestra but also for a large chorus and a supplemental battery of Brazilian percussion instruments. The work’s subtitle, “Rasga o Coração” (“Rend the Heart”), is derived from a poem by Catulo da Paixão Cearense that serves as the optional text. The composer specifies, “One may also vocalize on Ah! in place of the Portuguese text.” The words that are actually sung (at the chant-like entry of the chorus), Ja-ka-tá ka-ma-ra-já, do not appear in Cearense’s poem, but were chosen by the composer for their purely sonorous effect. The lyrical melody that soon emerges on Ah! is by Villa-Lobos’ older contemporary, the Brazilian composer Anacleto Augusto de Medeiros (1866–1907).
Villa-Lobos draws upon both the music of Brazil’s large
international cities, such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and that of the Brazilian interior. Urban dance rhythms and Villa-Lobos’ fanciful version of indigenous chant are synthesized on a massive symphonic scale.
Completed in Rio in 1926 (after Villa-Lobos had returned from Europe), Chôros No. 10 subtly betrays the influence of the European scene: the unvarnished surface and immediacy of fauvism, the clean-cut textures of Stravinskian neoclassicism, and even the motoric, mechanistic features of Italian futurism. The net result of the work is wholly unique, however. Most notable in its freshness is the hypnotically vigorous second half, in which a driving rhythmic foundation built on the crisp and deliberate patterns of Brazilian dance underlies the soaring lyricism of the chorus as it impersonates the spirit of indigenous chant. Through the clear delineation (or stratification) of melody and rhythm, the dichotomous worlds of song and dance, the rainforest and the city, spirituality and modernism all mutually coexist in a meaningful way. Through such a synthesis, Villa-Lobos succeeds in faithfully maintaining the spirit of Brazilian music in a truly symphonic manner, as well as in inventing a distinctly individual musical space.
As the daughter of two founders of the group Los Folkloristas, Gabriela Ortiz grew up immersed in the sounds of Mexican vernacular music. Yet she was also highly trained at some of Mexico’s and Europe’s most esteemed music schools, ultimately obtaining a doctorate from London’s City University. The interaction of street and academy, of improvised traditional music and rigorous electronic formulas, has been crucial in much of her work.
Yanga originated when Alejandro Escuer, a Mexican flutist who has recorded an album of music by Ortiz, presented her with the idea of an opera about Gaspar Yanga. Yanga was the African-born leader of a band of formerly enslaved people who successfully resisted recapture by the Spanish in the early 17th century. They established the free town of San Lorenzo de los Negros, near Veracruz, renamed Yanga in 1932.
The Spanish playwright and critic Santiago Martín Bermúdez created a libretto for the prospective opera, which is still pending. When Ortiz received the commission for this piece, to be a companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy,” she was at first uncertain about what text to use. Aware of the opera project, her friends Jan Karlin and Jeff von der Schmidt (founding directors of Southwest Chamber Music in Los Angeles) suggested something based on Yanga’s inspirational story. Martín Bermúdez wrote a new poem for the text, to which Ortiz added traditional chant texts of Congo origin.
“Yanga is divided into four rhythmic and slow contrasting sections,” Ortiz writes. “One of the most important features of the work is the use of African instruments that arrived in Latin America, such as the batás, guiros, shekeres, and cabasas, among others. My idea was to add the unique color of these instruments into a musical discourse from my imaginary sound world, without trying to directly emulate AfroLatin American rhythms. The choir is often used rhythmically, creating various polyphonic textures and thus in dialogue with the solo percussion parts and the orchestra.
“To me, Yanga is a work about an immense expressive force that speaks of the greatness of humanity when in search of equality and the universal right to enjoy freedom to the fullest.” —John Henken
First LA Phil performance: March 5, 1998, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting
“There is inside me a very peculiar understanding of nature: Everything is rhythm,” Revueltas wrote. “The poet’s language is everyday language. Everyone understands it or feels it. Music alone has to perfect its own language. All of that together is what music is to me. My rhythms are booming, dynamic, tactile, visual. I think in images that are melodic strains, that move dynamically.”
Thinking in dynamic images is a productive quality in a film composer, so it is fitting that films became the mainstay of perennial outsider Silvestre Revueltas’ career. After
his first score, for the film Redes (1936), Revueltas scored or contributed music to eight more films before he died in October 1940. One of the last of these was La noche de los Mayas, adapted by the director Chano Urueta from a story by Antonio Mediz Bolio, who was born in the state of Yucatán and became an important advocate for Mayan culture. Shot on location in the Yucatán jungles, the film concerns a tribe of Mayans still living in traditional ways and their meeting with the modern world in the form of an Indiana Jones-type explorer. Tragedy ensues, of course, romantic as well as cultural.
Although it received some appreciative reviews in Mexico, the film has been generally neglected, if not scorned. Its music, however, has long attracted notice. In 1960 the composer and conductor José Yves Limantour arranged music from the 36 cues of Revueltas’ score into a four-movement suite. (Paul Hindemith made a two-movement suite of his own, and the composer and conductor Enrique Diemecke later wrote a percussion cadenza—based on motifs from various Revueltas scores—to fill the indicated moment
in the final movement of Limantour’s suite.)
This suite has the shape of a symphony. The first movement opens as a powerful ritual, a brooding evocation of rooted history with a gently awakening middle section. The second movement is a dancing scherzo, genial rusticity interrupted by urban sass. (“Jarana” indicates both uproarious partying and a type of Mexican dance.)
Following is an almost Mahlerian nocturne, with a central interlude for flute and light percussion based on a traditional Yucatán evening song. Following a foreboding introduction, the finale (Night of Enchantment) is a fluid theme and variations, a sacrificial frenzy that exhausts itself in an orgy of percussion. “All his music seems preceded by something that is not joy and exhilaration, as some believe, or satire and irony, as others believe,” the poet Octavio Paz wrote. “That element, better and more pure…is his deep-felt but also joyful concern for man, animal, and things. It is the profound empathy with his surroundings which makes the works of this man, so naked, so defenseless, so hurt by the heavens and the people, more significant than those of many of his contemporaries.”
—John Henken
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
To read about Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 9
TAMBUCO PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
With over 31 years of an international concert trajectory and a distinguished body of original repertoire, Tambuco Percussion Ensemble has earned global acclaim, firmly establishing itself as one of the premier percussion quartets of our time. Audiences around the world have been captivated by Tambuco’s artistry, as it presents programs that explore the vast and dynamic world of percussion music.
As a four-time Grammy and Latin Grammy nominee— including nominations for Best Classical Album and Best Small Ensemble Performance— Tambuco is celebrated as a Mexican national treasure and as one of the most innovative chamber ensembles worldwide. The quartet’s members are known for their refusal to be confined by a single style, consistently pursuing perfection and delivering unique, virtuosic performances. Among its many distinctions, Tambuco has received the prestigious Japan Foundation Award for Arts and Culture, Japan’s highest honor bestowed upon an artist.
The ensemble has performed across five continents, with standout appearances at esteemed venues such as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in the United States; Iino Hall, Toppan Hall, and Tsuda Hall in Tokyo; the Barbican Centre in London; and at the Festival de Radio France in Paris and Montpellier. Tambuco’s tours have also included performances in Germany (Berliner Festspiele) and Australia (Queensland and Canberra music festivals), as well as concerts across Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
To date, Tambuco has recorded 12 albums, garnering, in addition to Grammy nominations, two Record Geijutsu nominations in Japan. Tambuco also performed and recorded music for the James Bond film Spectre Upcoming engagements include performances at Carnegie Hall, at the Tanglewood Festival, and on South American tours, as well as educational projects aimed at fostering the next generation of composers and performers.
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE
The Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Master Chorale is the “the finest-by-far major chorus in America” (Los Angeles Times) and a vibrant cultural treasure. Hailed for its powerful performances, technical precision, and artistic daring, the Chorale is led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director; Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong; and President & CEO Scott Altman. Its Swan Family Artist-in-Residence is Reena Esmail. Created by legendary conductor Roger Wagner in 1964, the Chorale is a founding resident company of The Music Center and choir-in-residence at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Chorale reaches over 175,000 people a year through performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, its international touring of innovative works, and its collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and others.
The Chorale’s discography includes the LA Phil’s Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, for which the Chorale won a Best Choral Performance Grammy with the National Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and Pacific Chorale. The Chorale released The Sacred Veil by Eric Whitacre in 2020. Under Gershon’s direction, the Chorale has released eight commercial recordings and is featured on the soundtracks of many major motion pictures, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.
The Chorale toured its productions of Lagrime di San Pietro and Heinrich Schütz’s Music to Accompany a Departure, both directed by Peter Sellars, earning rave reviews across the globe that cited the Chorale’s performances as “painfully beautiful” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “transcendent” and “incomparably moving” (Los Angeles Times).
Soprano
April Amante
Tamara Bevard
Christina Bristow
Natalie Buickians
Harriet Fraser
Graycen Gardner
Tiffany Ho
Michaela Kelly
JuHye Kim
Grace Laboy
Kyuyim Lee
Youngjoo Lee
Kyla McCarrel
Caroline McKenzie
Lika Miyake
Molly Pease
Alina Roitstein
Sunmi Shin
Nicole Taylor
Janet Todd
Chloé Vaught
Suzanne Waters
Andrea Zomorodian Alto
Danielle Adair
Garineh Avakian
Monika Bruckner
Anna Caplan
Amy Fogerson
Michele Hemmings
Shabnam Kalbasi
Emily Kerrigan
Hannah Little
Sarah Lynch
Cynthia Marty
Kathleen Moriarty
Alice Kirwan Murray
Lindsay Patterson Abdou
Laura Smith Roethe
Jessie Shulman
Niké St. Clair
Carrah Stamatakis
Nancy Sulahian
Ilana Summers
Kimberly Switzer
Kristen Toedtman
Elyse Willis
Tenor
Casey Breves
Matthew Brown
Sam Capella
Bradley Chapman
Michael Jones
Berj Karazian
Jon Lee Keenan
Dermot Kiernan
Charlie Kim
Bryan Lane
Kyuyoung Lee
Michael Lichtenauer
Matthew Miles
David Morales
Robert Norman
David Rakita
Krishan Raman
Rohan Ramanan
Evan Roberts
Matt Thomas
Ryan Townsend
Matthew Tresler
Patrick Tsoi-A-Sue
Bass
Derrell Acon
Michael Bannett
Michael Blanchard
Kevin Dalbey
Dominic Delzompo
Dylan Gentile
Will Goldman
Scott Graff
Brandon Guzman
Jared Jones
David Dong-Geun Kim
Chung Uk Lee
Matthew Lewis
Brett McDermid
Ron Mitchell
Jamal Moore
Anthony Moreno
Jim Raycroft
Adrien Redford
Malek Sammour
Mark Edward Smith
Christopher Walters
Lorenzo Zapata
The Artists of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, James Hayden, AGMA Delegate.
Itzhak Perlman and Friends
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Juilliard String Quartet
Areta Zhulla, violin
Ronald Copes, violin
Molly Carr, viola
Astrid Schween, cello
LECLAIR
MOZART
Sonata for Two Violins in E minor, Op. 3, No. 5 (c. 10 minutes)
Allegro ma poco
Gavotta gratioso: Andante Presto
Itzhak Perlman, Areta Zhulla
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493 (c. 30 minutes)
Allegro
Larghetto
Allegretto
Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Molly Carr, Astrid Schween
INTERMISSION
CHAUSSON Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet in D major, Op. 21 (c. 30 minutes)
This series is generously supported by the Colburn Foundation
AT A GLANCE
Proceeding chronologically and by addition (in terms of instrumentation), this striking program features masterful and novel explorations of sonority and texture. Trio sonatas were the default for Baroque chamber music, but Leclair untethers his two violins from earthy bass lines, giving them airy music of interlocking patterns and dance steps. Piano trios were ubiquitous
when Mozart added a viola to the mix, giving the strings the sonic heft to respond antiphonally to the brilliant piano, like a compact concerto. Chausson ran with that concept, creating a sort of double concerto, though that reductive characterization does an injustice to the imaginative variety of textures and roles he creates for his six instruments. —John Henken
SONATA FOR TWO VIOLINS IN E MINOR, OP. 3,
NO. 5
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764)
Composed: 1730
Jean-Marie Leclair was one of the most colorful musical figures of an era rich in them. Born in Lyon, France, to a musical and artistic family, he was first employed as a dancer with the opera in Lyon, where he married another member of the company. Widely traveled and employed throughout Western Europe, he became renowned as a violinist and composer. When his wife died, he married a skilled artisan, who engraved all of his
published music after his Op. 1. They separated around 1758, and six years later Leclair was stabbed to death after entering his home late at night.
The sensational crime was thoroughly investigated, with evidence clearly implicating a bitterly estranged nephew (also a violinist), but no one was ever charged.
Leclair composed a substantial body of chamber music and concertos for violin, as well as a number of ballets (all lost) and a single opera. As a composer, he was famous for his fusion of the French and Italian national styles, something readily apparent in his Op. 3, a set of six sonatas for two violins,
without the customary anchor of a bass part or accompaniment. They were published in Paris in 1730.
The Fifth Sonata of the set opens with a sprightly, rhythmically varied movement, full of imitative interaction for the two violinists and with rich sonorities in its second half from double-stopping (playing on multiple strings simultaneously) in both parts. The central Gavotte is as graceful as advertised and the most “French” of the three movements, though Leclair uses Italian nomenclature for all of them. The finale is a high-speed, high-spirits chase reveling in the sheer joy of musical dexterity. —John Henken
PIANO QUARTET NO. 2 IN E-FLAT MAJOR, K. 493
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Composed: 1786
Mozart’s first quartet for piano and strings, in G minor, K. 478, apparently the first work ever written for this combination, was to have been followed by two more compositions with the same scoring. However, when the publisher Hoffmeister complained that the public found the first quartet too difficult and wouldn’t buy it, Mozart released him from his contract. Even so, he went on to write a second piano quartet, in E flat, in 1786, some weeks after he completed Le nozze di Figaro. As badly as Mozart needed to be a commercial success at this difficult period of his life, when his Viennese celebrity was already beginning to fade, he still did not take to heart Hoffmeister’s complaint about the
G-minor quartet’s technical demands, particularly those in the piano part.
The present work’s keyboard scoring does not make any concessions, either: The piano is extremely active throughout, and the last movement has some distinctly concerto-like passages. This is not to say that the E-flat quartet is any less chamber-like than the G-minor. There is a splendid balance between the keyboard and the strings, and since Mozart had already expertly combined piano with a full complement of instruments in the approximately 20 piano concertos he had composed by this time, he was not confounded by wedding piano and string trio.
As they do in the first quartet, the four players begin together, but rather than open with the main theme, they begin with a succession of ideas whose purpose seems to be to lead to a brief, two-measure
thought in B-flat, given first in the piano’s treble, without accompaniment, and then imitated by the violin. Later this motif is singled out for a series of dramatic minor-key excursions in the development section. And it is this same motif that returns in the brief coda before the final cadential chords.
The main theme of the Larghetto second movement (containing a figure not unlike the prominent motif in the first movement) initiates music of the Romanza type that Mozart was so fond of. The lyricism here is equitably shared by strings and keyboard, with the latter sometimes cast as accompaniment. In the last movement the piano is the dominant force. The strings are not exactly neglected, but the keyboard is clearly the star of this multi-theme rondo that unfolds in such masterly fashion that one can only bask in the glow of Mozart’s genius. —Orrin Howard
CONCERT FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND STRING QUARTET IN D MAJOR, OP. 21
Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
Composed: 1898–1891
After the death of the stupendously talented Hector Berlioz in 1869, only one Frenchman remained to challenge the somewhat frivolous national taste. A Belgian-born Parisian, César Franck became the Pied Piper for serious-minded composers who sought to ennoble French music; of his followers, Ernest Chausson was as ardent as any.
Chausson was a rare breed of musician—the independently wealthy kind. This circumstance allowed him to change his life’s course, so after studying law, he came late to music, and to Professor Franck at age 26. In this dedicated, humble organist-teacher-composer, the younger man found a kindred artistic soul, and in Franck’s mystic, introspective, earnest music, a style with which he could identify. Such a work as the present one did not fall far from the master’s apple tree; from the core to the juices it is a thoroughly Franckian fruit.
That is to say, the harmonic texture is heavily chromatic, the lyrical expressiveness rhapsodic and expansive, and the dramatics naively bombastic. The piece is also most unusual, in that, as its title of concerto readily suggests, it is frankly showy in a way that chamber music rarely is.
Chausson treated the piece in a concerto grosso fashion with the violin and piano as de facto soloists and the string quartet taking an orchestral role. Bravura, particularly for the thoroughly concerto-like piano part, is hardly ever held in check. Even when the keyboard seems to accompany, its line is intricate and demanding. With all the brilliance of the writing, Chausson managed to maintain a chamber music framework in regard to textures and to the giveand-take between the two soloists and the quartet.
The first movement opens with a slow introduction that has the piano declaiming a three-note motif that becomes the basis for the main theme. The first statement of the main theme, made by the violin with piano in
busy attendance and then vice versa, is one of the countless duo passages throughout the work.
The quartet finally makes its grand entrance on the main theme, with low piano octaves lending sonorous support and high trills adding brilliance, and it is this kind of ensemble procedure that continues in various permutations throughout the entire work. The materials, which include a lyric second theme and a third idea, are developed extensively and brilliantly, but calmness brings the movement to a close.
The brief Sicilienne that follows is the kind of music that we find in Debussy’s early piano pieces—piquant, charming, and possessed of a hauteur that is uniquely French.
In contrast, the third movement delves into melancholy, beginning with a dirge-like violin-piano duo. Only faint rays of sunshine pierce through this aggressively morose music.
The energetic finale is, expectedly, elaborately virtuosic and brilliant, realizing the work’s title to the ultimate degree. —Notes from the LA Phil’s archive
ITZHAK PERLMAN
Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for making music.
Having performed with every major orchestra and at concert halls around the globe, Perlman was granted a Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor—by President Obama in 2015, a National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 2000, and a Medal of Liberty by President Reagan in 1986. Perlman has been honored with 16 Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Genesis Prize. In the 2024/25 season, Perlman celebrates the 30th anniversary of his iconic PBS
special In the Fiddler’s House with performances across the country alongside today’s klezmer stars including Hankus Netsky, Andy Statman, and members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He is joined by an illustrious group of collaborators— Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the Juilliard String Quartet—in a special Itzhak Perlman and Friends program appearing in select West Coast venues. He continues touring An Evening with Itzhak Perlman, which captures highlights of his career through narrative and multimedia elements intertwined with performance, and plays recitals across North America with pianist Rohan De Silva in their 25th-anniversary season.
Over the past 30 years, Perlman has been devoted to music education, mentoring, alongside his wife Toby, gifted young string players in the Perlman Music Program. With close to 800 alumni, PMP is shaping the future landscape of classical music worldwide.
Perlman has an exclusive series of classes with MasterClass, the premier online education company that enables access to the world’s most brilliant minds, as the company’s first classical music presenter.
EMANUEL AX
Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.
The 2024/25 season begins with a continuation of the Beethoven for Three touring and recording project, with partners Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma, that takes him to European festivals including BBC Proms, Dresden, Hamburg, Vienna, and Luxembourg. As guest soloist, he appears during the New York Philharmonic’s opening week, marking his 47th annual visit to the orchestra. During the season he returns to the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; National, San Diego, Nashville, and Pittsburgh symphonies; and Rochester Philharmonic. A fall recital tour from Toronto and Boston moves west to include San Francisco, Seattle, and
Los Angeles, culminating in the spring in Chicago and his annual Carnegie Hall appearance. A special project with clarinetist Anthony McGill travels from the West Coast through the Midwest to Georgia and Carnegie Hall, and he joins the Itzhak Perlman and Friends chamber music program in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco. An extensive European tour includes concerts in Paris, Oslo, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Warsaw, and Israel.
Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987, and following the success of the Brahms trios with Kavakos and Ma, the three launched an ambitious, multiyear project to record all the Beethoven trios and symphonies arranged for trio, of which the first three discs have been released. He has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammywinning recordings with Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. In the 2004/05 season Ax contributed to an International Emmy Award-winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2013, Ax’s recording Variations received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).
Ax is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary Doctor of Music degrees from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University.
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET
Through elegant musicality and an insightful approach to both contemporary and established repertoire, Jean-Yves Thibaudet has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest pianists. He is especially known for his diverse interests beyond the classical world; in addition to his many forays into jazz and opera—including works that he transcribed himself for the piano—Thibaudet has forged profound friendships around the globe, leading to fruitful collaborations in film, fashion, and visual art. A recording powerhouse, Thibaudet appears on more than 70 albums and six film scores. He is a devoted educator and is the firstever Artist-in-Residence at the Colburn School, which awards several scholarships in his name.
Thibaudet began the 2023/24 season with a tour of Europe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, performing two of his signature works: Gershwin’s
Concerto in F and SaintSaëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5. He went on to play the Gershwin concerto in season-opening engagements with the Toronto and Baltimore symphony orchestras, as well as concerts with the Nashville and Indianapolis symphony orchestras; further performances of the Saint-Saëns concerto included dates with the North Carolina Symphony and the Pittsburgh and Chicago symphony orchestras.
Thibaudet joined Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Khachaturian’s Piano Concerto in November 2023, recorded for release on Decca. He then performed Ravel’s Concerto in G major with the Houston Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bern Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. A renowned interpreter of Messiaen’s TurangalîlaSymphonie, Thibaudet performed the piece with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in December. He joined Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris in Debussy’s Fantaisie; he and Salonen reunited, with the San Francisco Symphony, for a synesthetic performance of Scriabin’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire—a piece he also performed with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement with the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. Each performance of the Juilliard String Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment, and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature. Adding to its celebrated discography, an album of
works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Dvořák was released by Sony Classical in April 2021 to critical acclaim. Additionally, Sony issued a JSQ catalog release, Juilliard String Quartet: The Early Columbia Recordings 1949–56, in June 2021. In the fall of 2018, the JSQ released an album on Sony featuring the world premiere recording of Mario Davidovsky’s Fragments (2016), together with Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 95 and Bartók’s Quartet No. 1. Sony Classical’s 2014 reissue of the Quartet’s landmark recordings of the first four Elliott Carter String Quartets along with the 2013 recording of Carter’s fifth quartet traces a remarkable period in the evolution of both the composer and the ensemble. The Quartet’s recordings of the Bartók and Schoenberg quartets, as well as those of Debussy, Ravel and Beethoven, have won Grammy Awards, and in 2011 the JSQ became the first classical music ensemble to receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Devoted master teachers, the members of the Juilliard String Quartet offer classes and open rehearsals when on tour. The JSQ is String Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School, and its members—Areta Zhulla, Molly Carr, Astrid Schween, and Ronald Copes (pictured above)—are all sought-after teachers on the string and chamber music faculties. Each May, they host the five-day, internationally recognized Juilliard String Quartet Seminar.
New Faces at the LA Phil
As the 2024/25 season starts, the Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomes several new musicians to the orchestra. Katherine Woo, Melody Ye Yuan, Weilu Zhang, and Vivian Kukiel join the ranks of the LA Phil violins, while Zachary Mowitz joins the cello section. Violist Bradley Parrimore has been named a Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen LA Phil Resident Fellow this season.
KATHERINE WOO, First Violin Section
Katherine made her Kennedy Center solo debut at the age of 11 and made her Carnegie Hall solo debut at 14, but music was not her only interest. Two years into the dual ColumbiaJuilliard Program in college, she was on the pre-health track with a major in neuroscience and behavior. Ultimately, Katherine pursued music, studying with Sylvia Rosenberg, Masao Kawasaki, and Sheryl Staples at Juilliard. She entered competitions from Salzburg to Auckland, and she won the concerto competition at the 2017 and 2018 Aspen Music Festival and was a finalist for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
MELODY YE YUAN, First Violin Section
Canadian violinist Melody Ye Yuan comes to the LA Phil most recently from the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. She started playing violin at age 5, going on to make her solo debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra led by Bramwell Tovey before earning degrees at the New England Conservatory and the Colburn Conservatory. Melody was named to the CBC’s “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30” in 2020, and she has earned numerous other accolades including first prize at the Yuri Yankelevich International Violin Competition in Omsk, Russia.
WEILU ZHANG, First Violin Section
Coming to Los Angeles from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Weilu began studying violin at age 6 in her native home of Wuhan, China. She studied at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as well as the New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, and University of Southern California. She has competed in the Menuhin Competition for Young Violinists, Washington International Competition, and Sendai International Competition, and she will reunite with one of her teachers in the LA Phil’s First Violin section: Associate Concertmaster Bing Wang.
VIVIAN KUKIEL, Second Violin Section
One of two distinguished Canadian violinists to join the LA Phil this fall, Vivian is from Toronto and studied at the Colburn Conservatory with Martin Beaver. Vivian earned first prize at the 2022 CANIMEX Stepping Stone Competition, first prize at the 2018 Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition in Budapest, and multiple first-prize awards at the Canadian Music Competition. As a soloist, Vivian has performed with the Toronto Sinfonietta, the Niagara Symphony, the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, and the Colburn Conservatory Orchestra, among others.
ZACHARY MOWITZ, Cello Section
A native of Princeton, NJ, Zachary graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2018 and made his solo debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra
that same year as winner of the Greenfield Competition.
Zachary is an artist who wears many hats, serving as Artistic Director of ensemble132 (which he co-founded) and Nodality Music, an associated artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium), and co-founder of Trio St. Bernard. Zachary believes strongly in using his artistry for social good, and he has organized and participated in concerts benefiting causes ranging from climate change and helping immigrant families to dementia and education residencies.
BRADLEY PARRIMORE, Viola Section, Resident Fellow
A native of Houston, TX, Bradley graduated from Manhattan School of Music. He has won top prize in competitions including the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition and National YoungArts Foundation, and he has been featured on WQXR and HBO broadcasts. Bradley performed on the 2015 recording Bloch, Glinka, Bowen: Viola Works, released by Soundset Recordings, and he attended Heifetz International Music Institute, Domaine Forget Académie Internationale de Musique et Danse, National Arts Centre’s Young Artists Program, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Recent Retirements
CAROLYN HOVE, English Horn
Carolyn retired this October after joining the LA Phil in 1988. Among the highlights of her 36 seasons in Los Angeles was giving the world premiere of William Kraft’s 2003 Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra, which was commissioned by the LA Phil and written expressly for her, under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen. As a passionate new-music advocate and solo artist, Carolyn recorded three albums with Crystal Records, which feature premiere recordings of works by Salonen, Kraft, Gerhard Samuel, Paul Turok, Richard Lane, Patricia Morehead, Jeffrey Rathbun, Rolf Rudin, and John Steinmetz.
PERRY DREIMAN, Percussion
Also retiring this October, Perry joined the LA Phil in 1985. A native of Oakland, he started on the drum set and was a professional drummer when he attended California State University at Hayward, where he began to study orchestral percussion. He split his time equally between the worlds of drumming and percussion before joining the LA Phil, performing with the Oakland Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony, Opera, and Ballet orchestras. Perry also founded the percussion quartet XYLO, which recorded the appropriately titled album People Who Hit Things
Rising to the Podium
Four up-and-coming conductors from around the world are working alongside Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as members of the 2024/25 class of Dudamel Fellows. Now in its 14th year, the program has helped dozens of young conductors launch international careers and boasts an impressive list of alumni including SanttuMatias Rouvali, Rafael Payare, Gemma New, and Elim Chan. “Watching these young conductors learn and grow with us, and then go out into the world with their expanded vision, is a source of endless joy for me,” Dudamel said. “Through their talent and hard work, we are building a new future where the orchestra is a source of profound artistry as well as a force for social good.”
2024/25 DUDAMEL FELLOWS
LUIS CASTILLO-BRICEÑO
MOLLY TURNER
DAYNER TAFUR-DÍAZ
HOLLY HYUN CHOE
LUIS CASTILLO-BRICEÑO
Born: Costa Rica
Currently lives: Zurich
Instruments: Violin, flute, piano, organ
Growing up among a family of musicians, Luis Castillo-Briceño began playing the violin at age 5 at the National Conservatory of Music of Costa Rica. He eventually gravitated to keyboard instruments, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in piano from the Zurich University of the Arts before focusing on conducting.
What are you most looking forward to about living in LA?
I have heard the food is amazing! That there are so many different cultures living together here and I am very excited to experience a bit of everything. Also, I would love to go to the beach! Maybe even learn how to surf?
HOLLY HYUN CHOE
Born: South Korea
Raised: Los Angeles by way of Florida, Texas, and Georgia
Instrument: Clarinet
Largely self-taught, Holly Hyun Choe didn’t take a formal music lesson until she was 19 but has quickly ascended to the top of a new generation of conductors. She served as an assistant conductor for Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi and is principal conductor of the progressive German chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor.
When was the moment you knew you wanted to become a professional musician?
I never had a single light-bulb moment; I actually wanted to become a high school marchingband director. While training for it, I took conducting courses in undergraduate studies and step by step became more intrigued. My professors were encouraging me to become a professional conductor. While studying wind-band conducting, I was scouted to study orchestral conducting in Zurich, Switzerland. That was seven years ago, and here I am now working at the LA Phil—a dream come true!
DAYNER TAFUR-DÍAZ
Born: Chimbote, Peru
Currently lives: Germany Instrument: Trumpet
Dayner Tafur-Díaz began conducting as part of the Arpegio Perú program, which uses music to promote children’s cultural and academic development. In 2017, he moved to Germany to continue his musical education and worked with professional ensembles in Cologne, Baden-Baden, and Stuttgart.
What are you most looking forward to about living in LA?
Every time I visit a new city or country, I try to imagine what my life would be like living there permanently. This will be my first time in the United States, so I’m excited to see what life is like on the other side of the world and what new things I can learn from their culture, and if I could see myself living in such a city in the future.
MOLLY TURNER
Born: China
Raised: Tacoma, WA
Instruments: Violin, viola, piano
Though Molly Turner began playing piano in the first grade, she entered her freshman year at Rice University planning to be a doctor. But inspired by the conductor of the university orchestra, Turner turned her focus to composition and eventually conducting, lured by her interest in dissecting musical scores.
What does “The Moments That Move Us” mean to you?
Right before a piece starts, there is an intense silence that only the conductor can control. For me, this is the “Moment That Moves Us.” At this moment, we are all intensely aware that there are about 100 musicians onstage and maybe thousands are in the audience... all waiting to experience this invisible art form we call music.
To learn more about this year’s class, visit laphil.com/about/dudamel-fellows
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 July 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
Y & S Nazarian
Family Foundation
Nancy and Sidney Petersen
Rice Family Foundation
Robert Robinson
Katharine and Thomas Stoever
Sue Tsao
Alyce and Warren Williamson
$100,000 TO $249,999
Mr. Robert J. Abernethy
William A. Allison
Rachel and Lee Ault
W. Lee Bailey, M.D.
Angela Bardowell
Deborah Borda
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Jane Carruthers
Pei-yuan Chia and Katherine Shen
James and Paula Coburn Foundation
The Geraldine P. Coombs Trust in memory of Gerie P. Coombs
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox
Silvia and Kevin Dretzka
Allan and Diane Eisenman
Christine and Daniel Ewell
Arnold Gilberg, M.D., Ph.D.
David and Paige Glickman
Nicholas T. Goldsborough
Gonda Family Foundation
Margaret Grauman
Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green
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
Alfred and Arlene Noreen
National Endowment for the Arts
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Dr. M. Lee Pearce
Lois Rosen
Anne and James Rothenberg
The SahanDaywi Foundation
Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust
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.
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 August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2024.
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous (2)
Ann and Robert Ronus
$500,000 TO $999,999
Ballmer GroupDunard Fund USAJennifer Miller GoffMusic Center Foundation
$200,000 TO $499,999
Anonymous
Regina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg
Weingarten
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen
Colburn Foundation
Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner
The Getty Foundation
Gordon P. Getty
Max H. Gluck Foundation
$100,000 TO $199,999
Anonymous (4)
Mr. Gregory A. Adams
The Blue Ribbon
R. Martin Chavez
Becca and Jonathan Congdon
Michael J. Connell Foundation
Donelle Dadigan
Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation
The Eisner Foundation
Breck and Georgia Eisner
Lisa Field
Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll
Ms. Erika J. Glazer
$50,000 TO $99,999
Anonymous (3)
Nancy and Leslie Abell
Amgen Foundation
Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser
Aramont Charitable Foundation
Antonieta Arango, in memory of Javier Arango
Linda and Maynard Brittan
Canon Insurance Service
Esther S.M. Chui
Chao & Andrea
Chao-Kharma
Dan Clivner
Nancy and Donald de Brier
De Marchena-Huyke Foundation
The Walt Disney Company
Berta and Frank Gehry
Mr. James Gleason
Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony DeFrancesco
Mr. Philip Hettema
The Hillenburg Family
David Z. & Young
O. Hong Family Foundation
Cindy and Alan Horn
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
$25,000 TO $49,999
Anonymous (7)
The Herb Alpert Foundation
Amazon
Mr. and Mrs.
Phil Becker
Miles and Joni Benickes
Susan and Adam Berger
Samuel and Erin Biggs
Mr. and Mrs. Norris J. Bishton, Jr.
Jill Black Zalben
David Bohnett
Foundation
Kawanna and Jay Brown
Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow
Thy Bui
Steven and Lori Bush
Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation
California Arts Council
California Office of the Small Business Advocate
Andrea Chao-Kharma and Kenneth Kharma
Chevron Products Company
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
The Hearthland Foundation
Tylie Jones
Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore
Peggy Grauman
Daniel Huh
Kaiser Permanente
Winnie Kho and Chris Testa
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
Ms. Teena Hostovich and Mr. Doug
Martinet
Frank Hu and Vikki Sung
Rif and Bridget Hutton
Monique and Jonathan Kagan
Mr. and Mrs.
Joshua R. Kaplan
Linda and Donald Kaplan
W.M. Keck Foundation
Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi
Dr. Ralph A. Korpman
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger
Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli
Mr. Richard W. Colburn
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cook
Orna and David Delrahim
Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Dr. LuAnn Wilkerson
Malsi and Johnny Doyle
Michael Dreyer
Dr. and Mrs.
William M. Duxler
Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky
The Music Man Foundation
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Mr. and Mrs.
David Meline
John Mohme Foundation
Maureen and Stanley Moore
The Ralph M.
Parsons Foundation
Richard and Ariane Raffetto
Koni and Geoff Rich
Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation
Live Nation-Hewitt Silva Concerts, LLC
County of Los Angeles
Renee and Meyer Luskin
Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen
Alfred E. Mann
Charities
Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury
Linda May and Jack Suzar
Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Ms. Irene Mecchi
East West Bank
Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg
Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher
Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation
Debra Frank
Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler
Barbara and Jay Rasulo
The Rauch Family Foundation
James D. Rigler/ Lloyd E. RiglerLawrence E. Deutsch Foundation
Rolex Watch USA, Inc.
Linda and David Shaheen
Alyce de Roulet Williamson
Rosenthal Family Foundation
James and Laura Rosenwald/Orinoco Foundation
Estate of Kenneth D. Sanson, Jr.
Elizabeth and Henry T. Segerstrom
Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust
Michael and Lori Milken
Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
M. David and Diane Paul
Peninsula Committee
Ms. Linda L. Pierce
Sandy and Barry D. Pressman
Wendy and Ken Ruby
Thomas Safran
Richard and Diane Schirtzer
Marilyn and Eugene Stein
Ronald and Valerie Sugar
Francis Goelet
Charitable Lead Trusts
Goldman Sachs Co.
LLC
Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley
Kate Good
Liz and Peter Goulds
The Green Foundation
Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence
Renée and Paul Haas
Harman Family Foundation
Christian Stracke
Margo and Irwin Winkler
Kristin and Jeff Worthe
Ellen and Arnold Zetcher
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Michael Tyler
David William Upham Foundation
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
Lynette Maria
Carlucci Hayde
Stephen T. Hearst
Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen
Yvonne Hessler
Andrew Hewitt
Liz Levitt Hirsch
David and Martha Ho
Fritz Hoelscher
Mr. Tyler Holcomb
Thomas Dubois
Hormel Foundation
Ms. Michelle Horowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Paul Horwitz
Mr. and Mrs.
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Los Angeles
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Davila
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If your name has been misspelled or omitted from the list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org Thank you.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Karen Bass Mayor
Hydee Feldstein Soto
City Attorney
Kenneth Mejia Controller
CITY COUNCIL
Bob Blumenfield
Kevin de León
Marqueece Harris-Dawson President
Eunisses Hernandez
Heather Hutt
Paul Krekorian
John S. Lee
Tim McOsker
Imelda Padilla
Traci Park
Curren D. Price, Jr.
Nithya Raman
Monica Rodriguez
Hugo Soto-Martínez
Katy Young Yaroslavsky
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Daniel Tarica
General Manager
CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION
Robert Vinson President
Natasha Case
V ice President
Thien Ho
Ray Jimenez
Asantewa Olatunji
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
Welcome to The Music Center!
Thank you for joining us.
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.
We promise to provide you the best, safest experience possible on our campus.
Be sure to visit musiccenter.org to learn about upcoming events and performances. Enjoy the show!
#BeAPartOfIt
@musiccenterla
General Information (213) 972-7211 | musiccenter.org
Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 | musiccenter.org/support
TAKE A TOUR OF THE MUSIC CENTER
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.
Tours are offered daily. Check the schedule to plan a fun-filled day in Downtown L.A.!
Visit musiccenter.org for additional information.
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
Thomas L. Beckmen
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
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.
Glen A. Holden
Kent Kresa
Edward J. McAniff
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 9/20/24
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Yannick Lebrun.
Photo by Dario Calmese.
Photo by Will Tee 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.
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.
Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District
Hilda L. Solis Supervisor, First District
Lindsey P. Horvath Chair, Third District
Kathryn Barger Chair Pro Tem, Fifth District
Holly J. Mitchell Supervisor, Second District
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
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Happening at The Music Center
NOVEMBER 2024
FRI 1 NOV / 4:30 p.m.
A More Than Human Tongue THE MUSIC CENTER/ TMC ARTS
@ Jerry Moss Plaza Thru 11/3/24
FRI 1 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Green Day's American Idiot CENTER THEATRE GROUP in collaboration with DEAF WEST THEATRE
@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 11/10/2024
FRI 1 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Día de Los Muertos with Dudamel LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/3/2024
SAT 2 NOV / 7:30 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet LA OPERA
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 11/23/24
SAT 2 NOV / 11:00 a.m.
Symphonies for Youth LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 11/9/24
WED 6 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Itzhak Perlman and Friends
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
FRI 8 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Strauss’ Heroic Journey
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/10/24
SUN 10 NOV / 7:00 p.m.
All You Need Is Love LA MASTER CHORALE
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
WED 13 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Behzod Abduraimov LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
THU 14 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Hisaishi Leads Pictures at an Exhibition LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/17/24
FRI 15 NOV / 6:00 p.m.
Night Games
THE MUSIC CENTER/ TMC ARTS
@ Jerry Moss Plaza Thru 11/16/24
SAT 16 NOV / 12:00 p.m.
Noon to Midnight Festival: Field Recordings
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
SAT 16 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Noon to Midnight Festival: Green Umbrella: Doug Aitken’s “Lightscape”
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 19 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Celebrating 30 Years with Martin Chalifour
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
THU 21 NOV / 8:00 p.m.
Star Wars in Concert
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/24/24
FRI 22 NOV / 7:30 p.m.
Urban Bush Women
THE MUSIC CENTER/ TMC ARTS
Presented in association with CENTER THEATRE GROUP
@ Mark Taper Forum Thru 11/24/24
Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events.
@musiccenterla
Photo by Michelle Shiers for The Music Center.
LATEST CHEF
Currently serving as the Chef-inResidence at Abernethy's, Chef Pyet DeSpain brings a vibrant fusion of Native American and Mexican cuisines to the table. As the only restaurant in L.A. specializing in Native American fusion cuisine, Abernethy's invites you to discover these bold, unique flavors. Come experience Chef Pyet’s story!
Discover something fresh at Kendall's Brasserie, now featuring an all-new menu that blends French cuisine with California's vibrant flavors. Be among the first to savor this exciting culinary journey -- a new chapter at Kendall's!
VIEW THE NEW MENU
November 22–24, 2024
Urban Bush Women’s SCAT! Featuring Symara Sarai, Keola Jones, Mikaila Ware. Photo by Maria Baranova for the Fisher Center at Bard.
Presented in association with Center Theatre Group.
