Los Angeles Philharmonic Zubin Mehta Conducts Gurrelieder
BOOK II • DECK THE HALL • DECEMBER 14 & 17–31
DEC 14 Holiday Sing-Along
DEC 21–22
Home Alone in Concert
DEC 23
Arturo Sandoval Swinging Holiday
DEC 31
New Year’s Eve with D-Nice & Friends
MELISSA PETERMAN
JENNIFER HUDSON
HOME ALONE IN CONCERT
ARTURO SANDOVAL
book i cover images, clockwise from top left: Leslie Odom, Jr.; Leonidas Kavakos; Zubin Mehta; Christine Goerke; Brandon Jovanovich; and Violeta Urmana (center)
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SEASON’S GREETINGS!
It’s a pleasure to welcome you all to Walt Disney Concert Hall at this festive time of year. There is nothing better than coming together with family and friends around the holidays to enjoy extraordinary music, whether it’s classic carols from Chanticleer, new spins on favorite standards from Leslie Odom, Jr., Jennifer Hudson, and Arturo Sandoval, or John Williams’ magical score to Home Alone
We are also grateful for visits from old friends like Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta, who leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the exquisite violinist Leonidas Kavakos for a program of Brahms before diving into two monumental performances of one of his signature pieces, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. We are thrilled that D-Nice returns to help us ring in the New Year as only he can, with an abundance of special guests and irresistible beats.
I am looking forward to my first December at Walt Disney Concert Hall, when our spectacular home is dressed up for the annual Deck the Hall fest, and experiencing my first holiday sing-along with all of you.
As we look back at 2024, I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who supported live performance over the past year. From our incredible musicians who inspire us every day, to the audiences who give us purpose, to our YOLA students and parents who are paving the way for a new generation of music lovers, we are thankful for our LA Phil family.
Happy holidays and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2025!
Warmly,
Kim Noltemy President & Chief Executive Officer
David C. Bohnett Presidential
Chair Los Angeles Philharmonic
Association
Board of Directors
CHAIR
Jason Subotky*
PRESIDENT & CEO
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
Kim Noltemy
VICE CHAIRS
Thomas L. Beckmen*
Reveta Bowers*
Jane B. Eisner*
David Meline*
Diane Paul*
Jay Rasulo*
DIRECTORS
Nancy L. Abell
Gregory A. Adams
Julie Andrews
Camilo Esteban
Becdach
Linda Brittan
Jennifer Broder
Kawanna Brown
Andrea Chao-Kharma*
R. Martin Chavez
Christian D. Chivaroli
Jonathan L. Congdon
Donald P. de Brier*
Louise D. Edgerton
Lisa Field
David A. Ford
Alfred Fraijo Jr.
Hilary Garland
Jennifer Miller Goff*
Tamara Golihew
Carol Colburn Grigor
Marian L. Hall
Antonia Hernández*
Teena Hostovich
Jonathan Kagan*
Darioush Khaledi
Winnie Kho
Matt McIntyre
Francois Mobasser
Margaret Morgan
Leith O’Leary
Andy S. Park
Sandy Pressman
Richard Raffetto
Geoff Rich
Laura Rosenwald
Richard Schirtzer
G. Gabrielle Starr
Jay Stein*
Christian Stracke*
Ronald D. Sugar*
Vikki Sung
Jack Suzar
Keith Terasaki
Sue Tsao
Jon Vein
Megan Watanabe
Regina Weingarten
Jenny Williams
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
Irwin Winkler
Debra Wong Yang
HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS
David C. Bohnett
Frank Gehry
Lenore S. Greenberg
Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy
PAST CHAIRS**
Thomas L. Beckmen
Jay Rasulo
Diane B. Paul
David C. Bohnett
Jerrold L. Eberhardt
John F. Hotchkis†
In Memoriam * Executive Committee Member as of September 27, 2024 ** From the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 24, 2003, to present
Kaiser Permanente cares for all that is you
Because you’re more than one note — you’re a symphony.
Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.
Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic Director
Walt
and Lilly Disney Chair
Gustavo Dudamel is committed to creating a better world through music. Guided by an unwavering belief in the power of art to inspire and transform lives, he has worked tirelessly to expand education and access for underserved communities around the world and to broaden the impact of classical music to new and ever-larger audiences. His rise, from humble beginnings as a child in Venezuela to an unparalleled career of artistic and social achievements, offers living proof that culture can bring meaning to the life of an individual and greater harmony to the world at large. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein.
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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Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. Both at home and abroad, the LA Phil—recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras—is leading the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming, onstage and in the community, that reflects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. The 2024/25 season is the orchestra’s 106th.
Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. The Ford, situated in a 32-acre park and
under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.
The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purpose-built facility: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Frank Gehry.
The orchestra also undertakes tours, both domestically and internationally, including regular visits to New York, London (where the orchestra is the Barbican Centre’s International Orchestral Partner), Paris, and Tokyo. As part of its global Centennial activities, the
orchestra visited Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Boston, and New York. The LA Phil’s first tour was in 1921, and the orchestra has made annual tours since the 1969/70 season.
The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy Awardwinning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, Andrew Norman, and Thomas Adès—whose Dante won the 2024 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929), Artur Rodziński (1929-1933), 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).
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel
Music & Artistic
Director
Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Zubin Mehta
Conductor Emeritus
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate
Rodolfo Barráez
Assistant Conductor
Ann Ronus Chair
John Adams
John and Samantha Williams
Creative Chair
Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz
FIRST VIOLINS
Martin Chalifour
Principal
Concertmaster
Marjorie Connell
Wilson Chair
Nathan Cole
First Associate
Concertmaster
Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang
Associate
Concertmaster
Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair
Akiko Tarumoto
Assistant
Concertmaster
Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Rebecca Reale
Deanie and Jay Stein Chair
Rochelle Abramson
Minyoung Chang
I.H. Albert
Sutnick Chair
Tianyun Jia
Jordan Koransky
Ashley Park
Justin Woo
Katherine Woo
Melody Ye Yuan
Weilu Zhang
SECOND VIOLINS
[Position vacant]
Principal
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.
A Lifetime of Music: Daisy Kim’s Deep Connection to the LA Phil
Daisietta Kim, known to friends and colleagues as Daisy, has enjoyed a remarkable journey with the LA Phil—first as a performer, then as a devoted subscriber, and today as a generous donor.
Kim’s relationship with the orchestra began in 1977, when she performed as the soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat at the Hollywood Bowl under Robert Shaw, followed by Mahler’s Fourth Symphony under Zubin Mehta in 1979. From her collaborations with other renowned conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Christopher Hogwood to her work with LA Phil percussionist Bill Kraft’s New Music Group in the 1980s, Kim’s soprano voice brought life to some of the most challenging and innovative music of the 20th century.
“I’ve known this orchestra for close to 50 years,” Kim reflects, thinking back on her numerous performances. “It’s thrilling to see [the musicians] now at the peak of their performance, playing in one of the world’s most perfect concert halls.” Her work with the LA Phil wasn’t limited to classical standards— she was deeply engaged in the contemporary-music scene, performing in avant-garde pieces like Robert Wilson’s the
CIVIL warS and Steve Reich’s Drumming. Kim also co-founded the chamber ensemble XTET, which specialized in contemporary music and performed regularly at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Monday Evening Concerts.
Though Kim may have retired from singing, her connection to music remains as strong as ever. As a subscriber, she makes the drive from her home in Thousand Oaks to Walt Disney Concert Hall, savoring each performance with as much excitement as when she was onstage. “If I could have sung at Disney Hall, it would have been such a thrill,” she says, admiring the concert hall’s near-perfect acoustics. Her deep appreciation for the space, combined with her history at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, underscores how much the LA Phil’s venues and music-making have meant to her over the years.
Beyond her role as an audience member, Kim has become a
generous donor to the LA Phil, supporting the institution’s artistic endeavors and its commitment to contemporary music—a passion she herself once championed. “I’m so proud of this orchestra,” she says. “It feels great to be connected in a way that supports the music I love.” Kim’s contributions, as both an artist and a patron, illustrate her deep connection to the LA Phil and her belief in the transformative power of music.
Her advice to young musicians today is simple: “Find the very best teachers you can and go to as many concerts as possible.” For Kim, the LA Phil is not only a place where great music is made, but it is also a source of inspiration, joy, and pride that she will carry with her always.
Join Daisy Kim in supporting the LA Phil by becoming a Friend of the LA Phil. Your donation to the LA Phil’s Annual Fund helps sustain our world-class programming and ensures that future generations can experience the power of live music. Learn more at laphil.com/friends.
Kim Noltemy
PRESIDENT & CEO
David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
Paula Michea
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Summer Bjork
CHIEF OF STAFF
Nora Brady
CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Glenn Briffa
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Margie Kim
CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER
Emanuel Maxwell
CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER
Mona Patel
GENERAL COUNSEL
Daniel Song
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Meghan Umber
CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER
SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Laura Connelly
GENERAL MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL; VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION
Cynthia Fuentes
DIRECTOR, THE FORD
Elsje Kibler-Vermaas
VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING
Sara Kim
VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY
Johanna Rees
VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMMING
Julia Ward
DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
ADMINISTRATION
Katie Kromelow
OFFICE MANAGER/ RECEPTIONIST
Stephanie Bates
CONTRACTS & RISK MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATOR
Michael Chang
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Sarita Eldridge
DIRECTOR OF SAFETY & SECURITY
Kevin Higa
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Dean Hughes
SYSTEM SUPPORT III
Charles Koo
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Kevin Ma
SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Jeff Matchan
DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Sergio Menendez
SYSTEM SUPPORT I
Edward Mesina
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Andrew Moreno
ASSISTANT, OFFICE SERVICES
Angela Morrell
TESSITURA SUPPORT
Marius Olteanu
IT SUPPORT ENG I
Sean Pinto
DATABASE APPLICATIONS
Miguel A. Ponce, Jr.
SYSTEM SUPPORT I
Christopher Prince
TESSITURA SUPPORT
Mark Quinto
DIRECTOR, IT SERVICES
Meredith Reese
SENIOR MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Aly Zacharias
DIRECTOR, LEGAL
PROGRAMMING
Linda Diaz
ARTIST LIAISON
Kristen Flock-Ritchie
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR
Brian Grohl
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING
Ljiljana Grubisic
ARCHIVES & MUSEUM
DIRECTOR
Rafael Mariño
PROGRAM MANAGER
Ray Melencio
PROGRAM MANAGER
Mark McNeill
CREATIVE PRODUCER
Stephanie Yoon
ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER
Rebeca Zepeda
ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
AUDIENCE SERVICES
Denise Alfred
REPRESENTATIVE
Brendan Broms
SUPERVISOR
Diego De La Torre
SUPERVISOR
Jacquie Ferger
REPRESENTATIVE
Linda Holloway
PATRON SERVICES MANAGER
Jennifer Hugus
PATRON SERVICES
REPRESENTATIVE
Bernie Keating
REPRESENTATIVE
Melissa Magana
REPRESENTATIVE
William Minor
REPRESENTATIVE
Rosa Ochoa
AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER
Karen O’Sullivan
REPRESENTATIVE
Eden Palomino
REPRESENTATIVE
Richard Ponce
SUPERVISOR
Diana Salazar
PATRON SERVICES
REPRESENTATIVE
Noé Sandoval
REPRESENTATIVE
Christopher Selland
PATRON SERVICES
REPRESENTATIVE
WALT DISNEY
CONCERT HALL
BOX OFFICE
Alejandra Depaz
TICKET SELLER
Christy Galasso
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Veronika Garcia
Alex Hennech
TICKET SELLER
Amy Lackow
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Elia Luna
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Page Messerly
TREASURER
Ariana Morales
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Carolina Orellana
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Cathy Ramos
TICKET SELLER
Elias Santos
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
John Tadena
TICKET SELLER
Carlie Tomasulo
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
FINANCE
Jyoti Aaron CONTROLLER
Adriana Aguilar
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Steven Cao
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Katherine Franklin
VENUE ACCOUNTING
SUPERVISOR
Lisa Hernandez
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER
Debbie Lang To
FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER
LaTonya Lindsey
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR
Luz Myrick
PAYROLL MANAGER
Kristine Nichols
PAYROLL COORDINATOR
Yuri Park
FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Nina Phay
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Lisa Renteria
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST
Sierra Shultz
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Robert Siegel
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
HOLLYWOOD BOWL & THE FORD
Steve Arredondo
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC MANAGER
Dreima Flores
OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR
Sienna Garcia
PARKING & TRAFFIC ASSISTANT
Charee Heard
EVENT MANAGER
Gaby Hernandez
COORDINATOR, THE FORD
Norm Kinard
PARKING MANAGER
Mark Ladd
DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Gina Leoni
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS, THE FORD
Megan Ly-Lim
EVENT MANAGER
Tom Waldron
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, HOLLYWOOD BOWL
HUMAN RESOURCES
Bessy Arizmendi
HR BUSINESS PARTNER
Monica Ly
HR REPRESENTATIVE
Bryan Namba
HR BUSINESS & EDI PARTNER
LEARNING
Jermaine Banks
ASSOCIATE OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, YOLA
DuMarkus Davis
PROGRAM MANAGER, YOLA AT TORRES
Camille Delaney-McNeil DIRECTOR, YOLA & BECKMEN YOLA CENTER
I always find a moment in every performance, so it’s hard to pick just one. Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion and Thomas Adès’ Dante—which we just recently got a Grammy for!
I remember those pieces because they were new works; no one had ever heard them, and when we finally put together those crazy productions somehow, I just felt like, ‘Wow, we really did something here.’ It felt like the juice was worth the squeeze.
…BRINGS YOU TO TEARS?
Sometimes I’m moved when we play E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in concert because the music is beautiful. When I get a moment to watch the audience members, I can see some people sitting in the audience crying— and I feel the same!
It’s some really moving music.
CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT A MOMENT YOU SHARED WITH AN AUDIENCE MEMBER?
There was one interaction I remember having with an older fellow who was sitting in the front row of the Hall.
I can’t remember the piece we were playing, but you know, most musicians are kind of ready to walk offstage after the performance, and I think he tried to wave me down. He almost tripped over his cane to say, “Hey, wait!” Then he took out the program and asked, “Which musician are you?” because he wanted to underline my name.
He said, “I was watching you during the performance, because I happened to be up front, and was just so moved.”
I guess he really enjoyed my performance—which wasn’t just my performance. I was part of the group, but somehow, I impacted it in some way, and so that was a nice feeling to know that every little thing we do matters, and to give that [experience] to someone is such a gift.
Every day there’s an unpredictable new thing here, and it’s always exciting and gives me purpose to be part of a community. We sort of feel like a community here, because we all come to, you know, share and experience every concert.
Everyone has a part to play, and bringing this—whatever it is—together is something great. —Piper Starnes
Schoenberg at 150
After revolutionizing the symphonic music world, the composer spent the last 17 years of his life in Los Angeles. Celebrations of his anniversary offer a chance to hear his compositions anew.
“I wonder sometimes who I am,” Arnold Schoenberg confessed in the opening of his “My Evolution” lecture to an audience at UCLA in late November 1949. “When the Committee on Lectures and Drama announced my lecture in the newspapers, someone was afraid the readers might not know who I am. So they informed them as follows: ‘famous theoretician and controversial musical figure, known for the influence he has brought to bear on modern music.’ Up to now, I thought I compose for different reasons.”
More than 75 years later, the recording of the speech, archived by the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, captures the towering musical revolutionary who emancipated dissonance and created the 12-tone technique as both self-deprecating and with an impeccable sense of comedic timing. Listen a bit more closely to his words, and undercurrents of bitter irony become apparent: Having devoted his entire life to composing, Schoenberg recognized that his theories, the subsequent controversies, and “the influence he has brought to bear” overshadowed what he cared about most, his actual music.
As the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s birth, that paradox remains. Schoenberg’s importance across symphonic,
chamber, and vocal music is unimpeachable. Every music theory student learns of his progression toward atonal music and the development of serialism and its 12-tone technique. Likewise, every composer since Schoenberg has had to address whether to incorporate tenets of serialism in their work. Still, many of his champions argue, Schoenberg’s music, a rich and varied catalog encompassing delicately crystalline chamber works to post-Romantic epics requiring hundreds of musicians, continues to be underperformed and underheard.
This month, the LA Phil kicks off the Schoenberg at 150 festival, celebrating the life and legacy of the composer who made Los Angeles his home over the last 17 years of his life. The series spotlights a selection of works that chart his evolution from the Romantic worlds of Wagner and Brahms toward 20thcentury modernism. A chamber program on December 3 features Verklärte Nacht and his First String Quartet. Next, LA Phil Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta leads more than 250 musicians in the feast that is Gurrelieder on December 13 and 15. In February, Paavo Järvi conducts the LA Phil in Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1, which was commissioned and premiered by the LA Phil under then-Music Director Otto Klemperer in 1937.
SCHOENBERG IN LOS ANGELES
Before Schoenberg set foot in California, his music had made its way into Los Angeles’ concert halls. Largely self-taught, he saw his output as an extension of 19th-century Austrian-Germanic traditions, not a rejection of them. His earliest works written around the turn of the century show his admiration for Wagner and Brahms, two rivals whose musical rift was ingeniously bridged by Schoenberg. He produced his first atonal work, the Five Pieces for Orchestra, in 1909, and it took a few more years for him to fully hone his 12-tone technique.
Schoenberg had risen to the top of his profession and held a prestigious professorship at the Academy of Arts in Berlin when the LA Phil first performed one of his works, Verklärte Nacht, in 1926 with Walter Henry Rothwell conducting the composer’s arrangement for string orchestra. Around the same time, American composer Henry Cowell founded the New Music Society of Los Angeles and began presenting performances of works by Schoenberg as well as fellow members of the European avant-garde at the Biltmore Hotel. Schoenberg’s introduction at the Hollywood Bowl came in 1929 with British conductor Eugene Goossens leading the seminal Five Pieces for Orchestra.
Five years later, in fall 1934, Schoenberg, along with his wife, Gertrud, and 2-year-old daughter, Dorothea Nuria, arrived in Los Angeles. They came after spending a year in New York and Boston following their flight from Europe in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power. The climate, he found divine: “It is Switzerland, the Riviera, the Vienna woods, the desert, the Salzkammergut, Spain, Italy—everything in one place,” he effused. The music scene, however, compared less favorably to Europe’s cultural capitals.
“He was this éminence grise, one of the most famous composers at the time,” says Randy Schoenberg, the composer’s grandson whose father, Ronald Schoenberg, still lives in the Brentwood house where the family settled in 1936. “And then he’s joined by a lot of other composers over the next decade as everyone is fleeing the Nazis—Korngold, Stravinsky, and really the top composers of Europe. They all end up here in Los Angeles, and none of them are getting the type of attention that they deserved.”
SCHOENBERG AT 150
Intimate Schoenberg
DECEMBER 3
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), completed in 1899, is often considered his earliest masterpiece, a sextet inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem that challenged bourgeois morals within lush, post-Romantic melodies. It is paired with his First String Quartet, written from 1904 to 1905. In the latter work, Schoenberg referred to Beethoven’s Third Symphony, “Eroica,” as a model, incorporating its essence into his singular musical language.
Gurrelieder
DECEMBER 13 & 15
“I call it the younger brother of Tristan,” says LA Phil Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta, who leads the orchestra and a cast of international opera stars including Christine Goerke, Violeta Urmana, and Brandon Jovanovich in Gurrelieder. This is the third time Mehta, who counts it among his signature works, is leading it in LA. Schoenberg incorporated Brahms’ melodic structure, a storyline and leitmotifs that invoke Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, as well as his own inventions, such as a speaking role that points toward the composer’s eventual hallmark of the pitched speech known as Sprechgesang. “It has more melodies than all the nine symphonies of Beethoven,” says Mehta.
Ravel & Brahms
FEBRUARY 13–16
Schoenberg wrote the following of his arrangement of Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1: “My intentions: to remain strictly in the style of Brahms and not to go further than he himself would have gone if he were still alive today.” Paavo Järvi leads what some jokingly call “Brahms’ Fifth Symphony” in a program that also includes Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra.
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Yet, Schoenberg found allies within the growing community of émigrés from Central Europe, among them Otto Klemperer, the newly appointed Music Director of the LA Phil. The two had known each other in Berlin, where Klemperer was director of the Kroll Opera. Klemperer hired Schoenberg to conduct a March 1935 LA Phil concert featuring Verklärte Nacht in between Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 and Bach transcriptions. The following December, Schoenberg also led the orchestra in a program of his own music at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.
Teaching became Schoenberg’s primary source of income, first at USC and from 1936 on at UCLA, where he became a professor emeritus and the main concert venue bears his name. Additionally, he offered private lessons at his Brentwood home to supplement his finances. “A lot of the people composing in Hollywood came to him for lessons, some for short periods of time, others for longer periods of time,” says Randy. “He taught at both universities. He had students of all different ranges and abilities. Some
of them became very famous, like John Cage. Others, of course, were just there to take a class at UCLA and weren’t prepared for it at all.”
Even though Schoenberg devoted more of his time to teaching in the US, he continued to compose throughout the rest of his life. One of the first pieces he completed after immigrating, the Suite in G for String Orchestra, premiered under Klemperer’s baton at an LA Phil Saturday Evening Concert in May 1935. The music director later asked Schoenberg to orchestrate Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor and led the 1938 world premiere. Ironically, Schoenberg’s first commission in Los Angeles came from neither an orchestra nor an ensemble but rather the Fairfax Temple, for which he composed his version of the traditional Jewish service, Kol Nidre, Op. 39, for Yom Kippur in 1938.
Additional masterworks that came out of the Brentwood home included the Violin and Piano concertos, A Survivor from Warsaw, the Fourth String Quartet, and Modern Psalm Other pieces nodded to his new
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r: Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Otto Klemperer, Prince Hubertus zu Lőwenstein of Germany, and composers Arnold Schoenberg and Ernst Toch, 1937 (Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria).
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The Fanfare for a Bowl Concert, based on themes from Gurrelieder, was commissioned by Leopold Stokowski for the 1945 Hollywood Bowl season (Schoenberg’s assistant Leonard Stein completed it posthumously and conducted its 1977 premiere at USC), and the Theme and Variations for Wind Band was a tonal work meant to capitalize on the popularity of wind bands around the country.
LISTENING TO SCHOENBERG
“One of the recommendations I have for listening to Schoenberg is to be willing to listen more than once,” says Lawrence, the younger of the composer’s two LA-based sons.
“Schoenberg doesn’t make it easy sometimes for the listener because he doesn’t repeat things over and over again. He’s constantly developing and presenting new ideas,” adds Randy. “But the result
of that is you always find something new in his music no matter how many times you listen to it.”
As celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Schoenberg bring renewed attention to his music, Randy and Lawrence hope audiences will take the opportunity to hear his music with open ears to find its richness of overflowing ideas and the beauty encoded within each score. “If a composer can’t write from the heart, he simply can’t write good music,” Schoenberg said.
In the closing remarks of his “My Evolution” lecture, Schoenberg stresses that his music is first and foremost his priority. “I am still more a composer than a theorist. And when I compose, I try to forget all theories, and I continue composing only after having freed my mind.”
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counterclockwise from top left: Los Angeles Philharmonic billboard advertisement, 1935, and program page, March 21-22, 1935; First page of Schoenberg’s Fanfare for a Bowl Concert on motifs from Die Gurrelieder, 1945 (Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria).
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FAIRYTALE MUSICAL COMEDY
Once Upon a Mattress, an update of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea, brings catchy melodies such as “Shy” and “In a Little While” and new delights to the Ahmanson Theatre Dec. 10-Jan. 5. The show comes direct from Broadway, where The New York Times variously described it as “zany,” “joyful” and “ebullient.” Sutton Foster, two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actress, stars as Princess Winnifred alongside Michael Urie as
Prince Dauntless and Ana Gasteyer as tyrannical Queen Aggravarian. Winnifred, who goes by Fred, is a free spirit loose in a repressed medieval kingdom, which she charms and transforms through willpower and honesty and a little help from her friends; legendary comedian Carol Burnett originated the role in 1959. The new adaptation by Amy ShermanPalladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is directed by Tony Award-nominated Encores! artistic director Lear deBessonet (Into the Woods). 135 N. Grand Ave, downtown, 213.628.2772, centertheatregroup.org
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Image: Olafur Eliasson, Kaleidoscope for plural perspectives, 2024; Installation
Tonight’s program is presented without intermission. Programs and artists subject to change.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 1, 2024 7:30PM
LESLIE ODOM, JR.
Leslie Odom, Jr., is a multifaceted Tony and Grammy Award-winning, three-time Emmy and two-time Academy Award-nominated vocalist, songwriter, and actor, as well as a New York Times-bestselling author. With a career that spans all performance genres, Odom has received recognition for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music.
Most recently, Odom made his long-awaited return to Broadway starring in, and co-producing, the new production of the classic American comedy Purlie Victorious: A NonConfederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by the legendary Ossie Davis, which
opened in September 2023 to widespread critical acclaim. Odom was nominated for a 2024 Tony for Lead Actor in a Play for his role, and the play received six Tony nominations in total. Purlie Victorious was also recorded and aired as part of PBS’ Great Performances. Additionally, he starred in the highly anticipated sequel to the original iconic film The Exorcist for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures.
Odom also starred in Rian Johnson’s 2022 Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which broke records for Netflix and is currently streaming worldwide. In 2020, he starred as legendary singer Sam Cooke in the award-winning Amazon film adaptation of One Night in Miami…, directed by Regina King. His critically acclaimed and highly lauded portrayal of the soul icon and musical performance of original song “Speak Now” earned him multiple awards and nominations. He also starred in The Many Saints of
Newark, a prequel to David Chase’s award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, released in October 2021. Well-known for his breakout role as Aaron Burr in the smash hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Odom hosted The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back! on CBS in September 2021 (2022 Emmy nomination). Additional film and television credits include Apple TV+’s Central Park (2020 Emmy nomination), Hamilton on Disney+ (2021 Emmy nomination), Abbott Elementary, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, Love in the Time of Corona, Harriet, and many more. Co-written with Nicolette Robinson, Odom’s first children’s book, I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know, was published by Feiwel & Friends on March 28, 2023. The book debuted on The New York Times bestseller list at No. 7 in its first week. Odom is a BMG recording artist and has released five full-length albums. His fifth studio album, When a Crooner Dies, was released November 17, 2023.
Sehr langsam—Breiter—Schwer betont— Sehr breit und langsam—Sehr ruhig
Johnny Lee, violin
Rebecca Reale, violin
Jenni Seo, viola
Dana Lawson, viola
Robert deMaine, cello
Jason Lippmann, cello
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SCHOENBERG String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (c. 40 minutes)
Nicht zu rasch—Kräftig—Mässig, langsame Viertel—Mässig, heiter
Bing Wang, violin
Emily Shehi, violin
Ben Ullery, viola
Dahae Kim, cello
Programs and artists subject to change.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2024 8PM
AT A GLANCE
This evening’s program offers listeners a chance to hear two of Schoenberg’s finest achievements for string ensembles. Schoenberg, whose name is synonymous with atonality, 12-tone, and musical modernism, saw enormous political and artistic change in his life. In his early career, around the turn of the 20th century, he was influenced primarily by Wagner and Brahms, but Schoenberg grasped for a new musical structure upon which music could evolve.
Composed for sextet in 1899, adapted for string orchestra in 1917, and altered again in 1943, Verklärte Nacht, or Transfigured Night, captures a moment of transformation. Inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name, Verklärte Nacht depicts two people walking through a chilly grove. Sins are revealed,
forgiven, and forgotten as they “pass through the exalted brightness of the night.” The first half of the piece showcases the destabilizing effects of Schoenberg’s post-Romantic language. The second half, with a creeping, almost unbelievable loveliness, depicts a radiant transfiguration.
The First String Quartet, composed between 1904 and 1905, was also a significant composition for Schoenberg. Untethered from a source text like Dehmel’s poem, the String Quartet stood on its own. The single-movement piece is like a hurricane, pulling in motifs and melodies out of thick air, swirling them, reusing them, laying them bare. The tonal center, D minor, might be the eye of the hurricane: a calm, elusive root.
—Tess Carges
VERKLÄRTE NACHT
(TRANSFIGURED NIGHT), OP. 4, FOR STRING SEXTET
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
In 1949, two years before his death, Schoenberg wrote: “It was not given to me to continue writing in the style of Verklärte Nacht…fate led me along a harder path. But the wish to return to the earlier style remained constantly within me, and from time to time I have given in to this desire....” The style referred to was, to state the case perhaps oversimply, that of Wagner, above all of his Tristan und Isolde, with lashings of Brahms. Schoenberg continues: “Nevertheless, I believe that a little bit of Schoenberg may also be found in it, particularly in the breadth of the melodies, in
contrapuntal and motivic developments, and in the quasi-contrapuntal movement of harmonies and harmonic basses against the melody. Finally, there are even passages… of indeterminate tonality, which doubtless may be portents for the future.”
It was Alexander Zemlinsky, Schoenberg’s first composition teacher (and later his brother-in-law), who had suggested to the Vienna Tonkünstlerverein in 1899 that it perform the justcompleted string sextet Verklärte Nacht. But the group was not impressed, one observer dismissing it as Tristan und Isolde “smudged over.” Three years later, the
augmented Rosé Quartet premiered the work at Vienna’s Musikverein.
Schoenberg, as noted, maintained a lifelong affection for his luscious early creation, arranging it for string orchestra in 1917 and again, with slight alterations, in 1943. The inspiration for the score came from the poem Verklärte Nacht, by the German writer Richard Dehmel (1863–1920), whose sensual lyrics represented an extreme reaction to the prevalent naturalism of his time. The five main sections of Schoenberg’s composition correspond to the five sections of Dehmel’s poem. —Herbert Glass
STRING QUARTET NO. 1 IN D MINOR, OP. 7
Arnold Schoenberg
The main subject of Schoenberg’s work as a composer in 1904 and 1905 was the D minor String Quartet. The first sketches were made in the summer of 1904, and in the following year he developed the work during his summer holidays in Gmunden on Lake Traun in Austria.
The premiere in Vienna’s Bösendorfer Hall by the Rosé Quartet on February 5, 1907, ended in tumult, as reported by Paul Stefan, an early chronicler of the circle around Schoenberg: “Many found the work impossible, and left the hall during the performance, one particularly humorously through the emergency exit. As the hissing continued afterward, Gustav Mahler, who was present, approached one of the unsatisfied and said, wonderfully emotionally and at the same time in defense of art deprived of its rights: ‘You should not hiss!’—The anonymous person, proudly in the face of great intellectuals (faced by the doorman at his house he would have collapsed): ‘I also hiss at your symphonies!’—Mahler was blamed for this scene.”
In a sketchbook of Schoenberg’s from 1904, some programmatic notes
have been preserved, probably referring to the music of the First Quartet: They range from “rejection, defiance” and “desperation” to “enthusiastic strength to fight, development of fantasy, energy” and “greatest intoxication of the senses” to “quiet happiness and the return of peace and harmony.” Unequivocally, Schoenberg made it clear in later years that although he had laid down such a “program,” it was however of a completely private nature and belonged to the genesis of the work, and not to its aesthetic substance. Instead, he always pointed out, not without pride, the constructive achievement of this generously dimensioned work, imprinted with widespanning melodies as well as with differentiated rhythms and counterpoint. Here, Schoenberg combines the individual elements of the sonata cycle (first movement, scherzo with trio, adagio and rondo-finale) in the movements of one single “double function form,” which has at its center a broad development section. He intended Beethoven’s Third Symphony to be recognized as the form model for his composition: “Alexander von Zemlinsky told me that Brahms had said that every time he faced difficult problems he would consult a significant work of Bach and one of
Robert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as “an artist who makes one hang on every note.” He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestra principal, recording artist, chamber musician, and composerarranger. In 2010, deMaine became a founding member of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet and completed several world tours and recordings with the ensemble. In 2012, he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. He collaborates often in a piano trio with violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Natalie Zhu. A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International String Competition. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Cello for over a decade. He recorded the John Williams Cello Concerto for Naxos and, for Leaf Music, both the Haydn Cello Concertos with the Moravian Philharmonic of the Czech Republic and
a recital CD of Grieg and Rachmaninoff sonatas with pianist Andrew Armstrong. His forthcoming recordings include the complete works of Beethoven for piano and cello with pianist Peter Takács. DeMaine studied at The Juilliard School, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Southern California, Yale University, and the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
DAHAE KIM
Cellist Dahae Kim joined the LA Phil as Assistant Principal in 2016. Previously, she served as Assistant Principal Cello of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She was featured as soloist with the DSO in the Benjamin Lees Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra led by Leonard Slatkin and with the Detroit Medical Orchestra performing the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in 2014. Kim completed her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2013 as a recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as a student of Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She also studied privately with famed cellist Bernard Greenhouse, a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio. She won first place in the 2010 Hudson Valley String Competition, returning the following year to perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. She was a participant at the Tanglewood Music Center for three years and served as
Principal Cello of the National Repertory Orchestra in the summer of 2012, performing as soloist in the Lalo Cello Concerto. As a chamber musician, she has performed on numerous occasions in Jordan Hall in Boston and Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood and coached with members of the Cleveland, Takács, Borromeo, and Juilliard string quartets. Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and first studied music with her mother, who taught her piano and violin. At age 8, she moved with her family to Rockland County, NY; there she took up cello studies with Irene Sharp and New York Philharmonic cellist Qiang Tu.
DANA LAWSON
Violist Dana Lawson is a Massachusetts native. She began violin studies at the age of 5 and took up the viola at 15. After graduating from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Modern European History, she attended The Juilliard School, where she received her Master’s degree in 2003. In Boston, she studied viola and chamber music with James Dunham and Robert Levin. At Juilliard, she studied with Misha Amory and Heidi Castleman. During her summers, she attended the Aspen, Taos, and Tanglewood music festivals. She was a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2004. She is the mother of three wonderful daughters.
JOHNNY LEE
Violinist Johnny Lee joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2005 under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Previously, he was Assistant Concertmaster of the Charlotte Symphony and Concertmaster of the Canton Symphony. He was also a member of the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago. Lee has been a featured soloist with the LA Phil twice, performing Vivaldi concertos at Walt Disney Concert Hall and at the Hollywood Bowl. An avid chamber musician, he appears frequently on the LA Phil’s Chamber Music series and serves as a founding member of Ensemble Ditto. Lee began playing the violin at age 5 and won his first competition three years later. An Ohio native, he spent his weekends taking lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM). After graduating from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in Economics, Lee realized that music was his true passion and returned to CIM, where he received his Master’s degree in 2003.
JASON LIPPMANN
Cellist Jason Lippmann joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 2004/05 season, after five years as a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Lippmann has also performed with the Baltimore Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Opera, the
New World Symphony, the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Along with his orchestral playing, Lippmann has been active as a chamber and solo musician, most recently on the LA Phil’s Chamber Music and Green Umbrella series.
A native of Cincinnati, OH, Lippmann began his music studies on the violin at the age of 3. He switched to the cello a year later and studied with Norman Johns, Assistant Principal Cello at the Cincinnati Symphony. Lippmann received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Peter Wiley, Alan Stepansky, Julia Lichten, and David Geber (whose father, Ed Geber, was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic cello section). Lippmann has performed at the Tanglewood Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Bard Festival, and the Bellingham Music Festival.
REBECCA REALE
Rebecca Reale, born in upstate New York, began studying the violin when she was just 2 1/2 years old. Her passion for music led her to Boston at an early age to attend boarding school for the arts. While she was there, she studied with Muir Quartet member and Boston University professor Peter Zazofsky. She went on to receive her
Bachelor’s degree from Rice University as a fullscholarship student, studying with Kathleen Winkler.
Reale was a fellow with the New World Symphony for its 2015/16 season. During her time with the orchestra, she won the concerto competition and performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 on a subscription concert. Her “flawless” performance was hailed by South Florida Classical Review for its “youthful freshness” and “effortless manner with expert bow control and dead-on intonation.”
Before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rebecca was Associate Principal Second Violin of the Houston Symphony and served as Acting Principal Second Violin for the 2016/17 season.
When not performing or fighting the never-ending battle to perfect her instrument (aka practicing), she can be found playing with her dog Mowgli, baking, or fishing.
JENNI SEO
Korean violist Jenni Seo is a compelling and versatile soloist and chamber and orchestral musician known for her rich sound and artistic integrity. Before joining the LA Phil, she was Assistant Principal Viola for the Minnesota Orchestra and a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she
is a frequent substitute violist with the New York Philharmonic and has toured with the orchestra internationally.
Seo has performed extensively across the world in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, David Geffen Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and she has made recurring appearances at international festivals including Music@Menlo, Mainly Mozart, Pro Musica, NDSU Chamber Music, Bridge Chamber Music, Bad Leonfelden Music, Lakes Area Music, and the Perlman Music Program.
As a recitalist, Seo has been presented by the WQXR Midday Masterpieces Series, the Harvard Club of New York, and the Neue Galerie, and she has appeared alongside Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, and David Finckel as well as members of the Cleveland, Takács, Emerson, and Juilliard string quartets.
EMILY SHEHI
Violinist Emily Shehi is a recipient of the Milka Violin Artist Prize, co-Laureate of the Senior Composer Award from the 2021 Yehudi Menuhin Competition, and has won top prizes at the Irving M. Klein International String
Competition, Doublestop Foundation’s Instrument Loan Competition, and the Kansas City Symphony Young Artist Competition.
Shehi has served as co-Concertmaster and Principal Second of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Curtis Chamber Orchestra, Curtis Opera Orchestra, and Academy Chamber Orchestra of the Music Academy of the West. As a chamber musician, she has appeared at festivals such as the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Taos School of Music, and Music from Angel Fire, and has collaborated with renowned musicians Jonathan Biss, Frans Helmerson, Ani Kavafian, Steve Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley.
Shehi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale School of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Augustin Hadelich, respectively. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic in October 2024, she spent a year in the Artist Diploma program at the Colburn Conservatory, where she studied with Martin Beaver. Previously, she studied with Alice Joy Lewis, Tiberius Klausner, and Noah Geller. Shehi enjoys performing and volunteering at retirement communities, especially in her hometown of Olathe, KS.
BEN ULLERY
Praised by the Chicago Tribune for his “febrile intensity,” violist Ben Ullery enjoys a multifaceted performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and educator.
In 2023, he was chosen by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel for the position of Associate Principal Viola of the LA Phil, where he had held the position of Assistant Principal since 2012. In addition to his appearances with the LA Phil, Ullery has performed across the country and abroad as guest Principal Viola with the Chicago Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Australian Chamber Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, he has been in high demand in the Los Angeles area and at festivals and concert series in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to having performed over 50 chamber works on the LA Phil’s Chamber Music series at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ullery has appeared at the Mozaic, Music in the Vineyards, Mainly Mozart, Emerald City, Music at Millford, Leksand, Grand Teton, and Aspen festivals, among others. He has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today as well as local broadcasts on KUSC in Los Angeles
and on Minnesota Public Radio. As a recording artist, he has been featured on releases on the Bridge and Albany record labels.
An enthusiastic teacher, Ullery is on the faculty at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles, where he teaches orchestral repertoire as well as coaching the Colburn Orchestra’s viola section.
A native of St. Paul, MN, Ullery earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and later studied violin at the New England Conservatory and viola at the Colburn School.
BING WANG
Violinist Bing Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1994. She previously held the position of Principal Second Violin of the Cincinnati Symphony and has served on the faculty and as concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2003. Since 2009, she has also been Guest Concertmaster of her hometown orchestra,
the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, where her tenure was highlighted by a televised New Year’s concert conducted by Riccardo Muti.
As a soloist, Wang has won critical praise for her appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In September 1997, during the Philharmonic’s celebration of the Brahms anniversary year, she performed the composer’s Double Concerto under Esa-Pekka Salonen’s direction at the Hollywood Bowl. She made her Walt Disney Concert Hall concerto debut in May 2005 and appears annually as both concertmaster and soloist at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of composer John Williams, performing his signature movie classics such as Schindler’s List and his arrangement of Fiddler on the Roof. Wang has appeared regularly with the American Youth Symphony since 1997, and she has also been featured as a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Manhattan Symphony, and other orchestras. In 2002, she gave her first performances in China since emigrating
to the U.S., touring as a soloist with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Active as a chamber musician, Wang has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Chamber music appearances include performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. She also performs regularly on the LA Phil’s Green Umbrella and Chamber Music series. Bing Wang began studying the violin with her parents at the age of 6. She entered the middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she was concertmaster of the school orchestra, and graduated with highest honors. After coming to the U.S. to study with Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory, she received her Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Glenn Dicterow. In 2012, Bing Wang was named an Adjunct Associate Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music.
Brahms with Zubin Mehta
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (c. 38 minutes)
Allegro non troppo
Adagio
Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace Leonidas Kavakos
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BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 (c. 43 minutes)
Allegro non troppo
Adagio non troppo
Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)— Presto ma non assai
Allegro con spirito
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These performances are generously supported by the Colburn Foundation and the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund
AT A GLANCE
Describing his summers spent on Lake Wörth (Wörthersee) in Pörtschach, Austria, Brahms once wrote, “The melodies fly so thick here that you have to be careful not to step on one.” Composed only a year apart in Pörtschach, both the Violin Concerto and the Second Symphony reflect an idyllic, prolific period in Brahms’ burgeoning career.
The Violin Concerto, written for one of Brahms’ earliest and closest musical confidants, Joseph Joachim, is a deft exercise. The soloist spends much of the concerto rousing the orchestra and injecting its counterpart with harmonic courage and rhythmic play through the concerto’s finale,
which ends in an invigorating and convincing return to theme.
The Second Symphony, with its lovely melodies, gnawing gloom, and elusive bounce, shows a winking, unsettled Brahms. Despite the sinking melancholy produced by the freefalling violins and eerie trombones and tubas in the opening movement, the symphony seems to cheer itself up, or more accurately, seems to insist it is already cheered. The work, like Brahms’ letters from Pörtschach, balances joy and pain and pivots when its listeners have settled into a groove. Heartened by his own mischief, Brahms wrote in a letter, “Whether I have a pretty symphony I don’t know; I must ask clever people sometime.” —Tess Carges
VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR, OP. 77
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Composed: 1878
Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, and solo violin
First LA Phil performance: March 28, 1929, Georg Schnéevoigt conducting, with Albert Spalding, soloist Brahms was a great pianist, but he would never have wanted to be identified with the armies of piano virtuosos who toured Europe and composed flashy variations on tunes from Mozart’s and Verdi’s operas. His two piano concertos are stern and serious works, and when it came to writing a violin concerto, his
model was unquestionably going to be Beethoven, not Paganini. He made that doubly plain by choosing Beethoven’s key, D major, and by following Beethoven’s precedent with a long, lyrical first movement in full classical sonata form. Perhaps we should be surprised that he composed a violin concerto at all. Joseph Joachim, for whom it was written, was the first important musician Brahms met when he left his Hamburg home at the age of 20 to seek fame and fortune. Joachim, only two years older, was already an international star at that time, and the two struck up a firm friendship that lasted over 40 years. In composing a concerto for Joachim 25
years after their first meeting, Brahms worked closely with him in fashioning the solo part; he clearly intended the concerto to be a test of the player’s technique and musicianship and to be free of any suspicion of unmotivated display. The concerto was first performed in Leipzig on New Year’s Day 1879 by Joachim, the dedicatee, who composed the cadenza that is still played by many violinists today. Never fond of waste, Brahms presents his first movement’s main theme as a bare unison at the very start of the work, based on a D-major triad. Eight measures later the oboe offers something nearer to a scale; eight measures further on, the full orchestra dwells
on leaping octaves. Gradually the thematic material finds its place, some presented by the orchestra, more provided by the soloist after he has flexed his muscles (46 measures of–yes–display). Eventually we reach a gloriously lyrical second subject, which seems to express the very soul of the violin. The finest moment is reserved for the coda, after the cadenza, when the soloist soars higher and higher in dreamy flight before a final resumption of the main tempo.
The slow movement, in F major, opens with a long theme for the oboe with wind accompaniment. When the soloist takes it up, the strings accompany, and the textures and harmonies become gradually more adventurous, brought back to earth only for the return of the main theme and the main key.
The finale’s boisterous lilt is a tribute to Joachim’s Hungarian birth. But as with Joachim himself, who never returned to Hungary or showed sympathy for its nationalist causes, other themes of a quite un-Hungarian character intervene, including a dynamic rising scale in octaves and a beautifully lyrical episode where the meter changes briefly from a stamping 2/4 to a gentle 3/4. The final switch to a 6/8 pulse with heavy offbeats is one of Brahms’ stranger inventions, and the dying decline of the last few bars is stranger still. —Hugh Macdonald
First LA Phil performance: August 17, 1923, Emil Oberhoffer conducting
Brahms composed his Second Symphony during the summer of 1877 at the village of Pörtschach on the Wörthersee, a picturesque Austrian lakeside retreat.
The symphony opens serenely enough, as Brahms gives horns, winds, and finally strings a melody that certainly qualifies as serene. This melody grows out of three notes sounded by the basses and cellos, three notes that are the thematic germ for the entire symphony, recurring in various incarnations over the duration of the work. The melody is followed by a muffled drumroll and a three-note dirge from the trombones and tuba—the storm already threatening Brahms’ pastoral idyll.
The second movement opens with one of the most
beautiful melodies Brahms ever composed, played by the cellos. The movement is remarkable for its passages of overwhelming despair, made possible by the tonal instability of the cello theme. Brahms plays on this instability, taking full advantage of the movement between major and minor modes—and the consequent contrast between repose and turmoil—it allows.
The oboe theme that begins the Allegretto grazioso is a transformation of those first three notes from the first movement, and it forms the basis of the A sections of this A-B-A-B-A movement. The B sections, marked at double the tempo of the Allegretto grazioso, provide a rambunctious rhythmic contrast to the country waltz flavor of the surrounding A sections.
In the sonata-form finale, Brahms withholds the trombones until the recapitulation, when they make their appearance bathed in light, united with the rest of the orchestra in sounding the movement’s exultant theme and then playing the finale’s final chords in their highest register. —John Mangum
ZUBIN MEHTA
Zubin Mehta was born in 1936 in Bombay and received his earliest musical education under the guidance of his father, Mehli Mehta, who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. After a short period of premedical studies in Bombay, Zubin in 1954 left for Vienna, where he eventually entered the conducting program under Hans Swarowsky at the Akademie für Musik. He won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in 1958 and was also a prize winner at the summer academy at Tanglewood. By 1961, he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin, and Israel philharmonic orchestras. Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to
1967 and also assumed the music directorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962, a post he retained until 1978. In October 2019, he celebrated his farewell with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which he had served for 50 years. On that occasion, he was named Music Director Emeritus of the IPO. In 1978, he took over the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, beginning a tenure that would last 13 years, the longest in the orchestra’s history. From 1985 to 2017, he was chief conductor of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. Mehta’s list of awards and honors is extensive and includes the “Nikisch-Ring” bequeathed to him by Karl Böhm. He is an honorary citizen of both Florence and Tel Aviv and was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera in 1997, of the Bavarian State Opera in 2006, and of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien in 2007. The title of Honorary Conductor was bestowed on him by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (2001), Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (2004), Los
Angeles Philharmonic (2006), Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2006), Staatskapelle Berlin (2014), and Bavarian State Orchestra (2006), with which Mehta performed in Srinagar, Kashmir, in September 2013. In 2016, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples appointed him Honorary Music Director, and in 2019 the Israel Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic named him Conductor Emeritus. In February 2019, the Berlin Philharmonic named him its Honorary Conductor. A particular honor was bestowed on him in 2022, when the new concert hall of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence was named after him. Zubin Mehta continues to support the discovery and furtherance of musical talents all over the world. Together with his brother Zarin, he is co-chairman of the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in Bombay, where more than 200 children are educated in Western classical music. The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv develops young talent in Israel and is closely associated with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
LEONIDAS KAVAKOS
Leonidas Kavakos is recognized across the world as a violinist and artist of rare quality, acclaimed for his matchless technique, his captivating artistry and superb musicianship, and the integrity of his playing. He works regularly with the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and plays as recitalist in the world’s premier recital halls and festivals. Kavakos has developed close relationships with major orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic,
Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Kavakos also works closely with the Dresden Staatskapelle, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Filarmonica della Scala, as well as the major US orchestras.
In recent years, Kavakos has built a strong profile as a conductor and has led the New York Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Filarmonica della Scala, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kavakos performed at the 2023 opening gala
of Carnegie Hall with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti. On the same visit to the US, he also performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Kavakos was featured throughout Europe on tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and returned to Staatskapelle Berlin, NDR Hamburg, the Bergen Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Kavakos toured with regular recital partners Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma to concert halls across Europe and the US and returned to China for a series of recitals and performances with the China Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony. He also performed Bach’s partitas and sonatas across Europe and Asia, following the release of his critically acclaimed album Bach: Sei Solo in 2022.
Schoenberg at 150 Zubin Mehta Conducts Gurrelieder
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Tove)
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor (Waldemar)
Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano (Waldtaube)
Gerhard Siegel, tenor ( Klaus-Narr)
Gabriel Manro, baritone (The Peasant)
Dietrich Henschel (Speaker)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
Jenny Wong, Associate Artistic Director
SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder (c. 99 minutes)
Part I
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Part II Part III
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Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall
First LA Phil performance: March 21, 1968, with Zubin Mehta conducting
Given the buttoned-up nature of classical music concerts today, it may be hard to believe that world-premiere performances in the first decades of the 20th century were sometimes riotous affairs. If audiences didn’t care for the music being performed, they were only too happy to convey their displeasure with catcalls, derisive laughter, and even bare-knuckle brawls. Such was the tense atmosphere Arnold Schoenberg expected during the premiere of his Gurrelieder (Songs of Gurre) in February 1913. Many of those who filed into the gilded halls of Vienna’s Musikverein— where the symphonies of
Austro-German titans like Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner received their first performances— were prepared to riot. After all, they considered Schoenberg to be a composer changing the face of classical music for the worse. With each new work, listeners had to confront icy sonorities, puzzling melodies, and jarring, unresolved dissonances that stood worlds apart from the lush harmonies and probing emotionality they adored in music of the Romantic era.
By the end of the evening, however, the audience wasn’t rioting— they were cheering, weeping, and chanting Schoenberg’s name with fevered ecstasy. The ovation lasted 15 minutes, and when the composer appeared onstage, he was crowned with a laurel wreath. But Schoenberg never once acknowledged this adoration. Instead, he stood with his back to the audience, restricting his bows of gratitude to the hundreds of musicians assembled onstage.
What was the reason for this supreme act of disdain? A deep-seated anger toward the concertgoing public had taken root in Schoenberg, a result of the hatred and condescension both he and his music
had received over the previous decade. Yes, the Gurrelieder premiere was an absolute triumph, but it was the only one he would experience over the course of his long career.
The irony is that Schoenberg had no desire for provocation and didn’t consider himself a musical revolutionary by any means. He idolized many Romantic composers, particularly Richard Wagner and Brahms, and his earliest compositions display many of the techniques those composers had applied to their own work. Schoenberg thought he was merely taking the tradition of tonality, which had ruled over classical music for centuries, to the next logical place in its evolution—a realm where harsh dissonances could stand on their own, and not merely serve as a passageway toward soothing resolution.
But Gurrelieder was different from the thorny modernism the public had come to expect from Schoenberg. An epic retelling of a medieval legend of love, death, and the healing power of nature, Schoenberg’s work for mammoth orchestral and vocal forces was firmly steeped in Romanticism’s grand, hyperemotional world.
So, had Schoenberg reverted back to the world of 19th-century tonality? Did the displeasure of Viennese audiences finally force the composer to change direction? Not at all—for although Gurrelieder received its premiere in 1913, Schoenberg had actually composed it 12 years prior. Flip the calendar back to 1900 and we encounter a very different Arnold Schoenberg—a 26-year-old, self-taught composer struggling to make a name for himself in Vienna, the musical capital of fin-desiècle Europe. The only public performances of his music had been a string quartet and a handful of songs; the controversial premiere of his first major work, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), was still two years away.
Hot on the heels of composing Verklärte Nacht—a brooding work for string sextet based on a poem of love and spiritual transcendence by Richard Dehmel—Schoenberg was inspired to begin a new vocal work after discovering a text swimming in a similar pool of emotion.
Gurresange (Songs of Gurre), an 1868 poem by the Danish writer and botanist Jens Peter Jacobsen, recounts the 14th-century tale of King Waldemar and his love for
the maiden Tove. Against the backdrop of Gurre Castle, at the shore of a silent lake shimmering with starlight, the pair meet under the cover of night to profess their love. But when Waldemar’s wife, Queen Helwig, discovers the affair, she has Tove murdered. Consumed with grief and punished by God for blasphemy, Waldemar is condemned each night to raise an army of the dead to join him in his quest to find Tove. Only with the arrival of the first warm winds of summer, as nature itself is born anew, are the souls of Waldemar and Tove reunited. Schoenberg first envisioned his new work as a set of songs for tenor, soprano, and piano that follow the opening section of Jacobsen’s poem, in which the lovers meet on the castle grounds. The impetus for composing the work was a songwriting competition hosted by Vienna’s Musical Artists’ Society, but Schoenberg never submitted the score for consideration. Instead, based on encouraging words from his mentor Alexander Zemlinsky, the composer greatly expanded Gurrelieder ’s scope. By the end of 1901, Schoenberg had largely completed a 90-minute, three-part spectacle requiring a 150-piece orchestra,
four men’s choirs, a large mixed choir, five vocal soloists, and narrator.
Although the only tasks left to complete were the choral ending and some final orchestrations, Schoenberg stepped away from his sprawling score for nearly 10 years. He recognized how challenging it would be to mount such a massive work by a young composer, and given his need for regular income to support his growing family, he had to focus his efforts on paid work arranging other composers’ music for cabaret companies. As the years went by and Schoenberg began to explore music’s future without a strict allegiance to tonality, he was hardly compelled to return to Gurre.
Schoenberg decided to finish Gurrelieder in 1910 after a private performance of Part I, presented in an arrangement for two pianos and two singers by his student Alban Berg. With the score finally complete in late 1911, Gurrelieder was ready for performance, a work that to this day defies categorization—part song cycle, part poetic fantasy, part opera of the imagination, brought to life with forces that eclipsed even the largest works of Schoenberg’s most famous contemporaries, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler.
Part I transports us to Gurre Castle, where Waldemar and Tove sing nine songs joined seamlessly by orchestral transitions that amplify the scene’s passionate atmosphere. Voiced alternately by tenor and soprano, these songs move from Waldemar’s excitement as he makes his way to the castle grounds to the ecstasy of the lovers’ reunion and the king’s fear that the two will one day be parted. Tove responds with words of comfort and consolation, assuring him that death cannot prevent the eternity they’re destined to spend together. Waldemar’s nightmare comes true, however, as we learn in the “Song of the Wood Dove,” which recounts Tove’s death at the hands of Waldemar’s wife: “Helwig’s falcon it was that cruelly tore apart the dove of Gurre!”
In the brief Part II, Waldemar curses God and threatens to invade Heaven himself should he not be reunited with Tove. As fragments from the lovers’ songs heard in Part I return in the orchestra, the king’s anger boils over. “Lord, You ought to blush for shame,” he rails, “to kill a beggar’s only lamb!”
Part III greatly expands the scope of the story. After Waldemar beckons his army of zombies—voiced by four men’s choirs—to join him in a ride through the night
sky in search of Tove, we meet two characters who act as witnesses to the scene: a village peasant who expresses his fear witnessing the ghostly army’s nightly flight; and the king’s jester, Klaus, whose riddle-laced monologue adds a touch of sardonic humor to the horrors taking place around him.
Finally, as night gives way to day, Waldemar’s henchmen return to their graves and a narrator enters to recite “The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind.” Using Schoenberg’s technique of Sprechstimme— in which the speaker delivers the text using specifically notated rhythmic patterns— the narrator’s poetry praises the enduring power of rebirth and renewal found in the natural world. Just as nature’s majesty has swept away death and tragedy with the sunrise of a new day, the narrator exclaims, so too can Waldemar and Tove be reunited in an act of spiritual transfiguration.
With a final call to “Awaken to bliss, you flowers,” the narrator’s voice gives way to the dawn—and the first entrance of the mixed choir, whose praise of the sun’s rapturous glory brings Gurrelieder to its earth-shaking conclusion: “It rises smiling / from the ocean of night, / letting the splendor of its radiant tresses / fly from its bright brow!”
It’s no wonder Gurrelieder ’s ending, with its life-affirming message of love and renewal, brought people to their feet at the work’s premiere. But with each passing minute of the audience’s ovation, resentment festered underneath Schoenberg’s chilly exterior. “I stood alone against a world of enemies,” he later recalled.
In the unrestrained applause that filled the Musikverein that night, Schoenberg knew the audience was praising not only a work that no longer represented his artistic ideals, but also a style of music that wasn’t long for the world. Schoenberg heard only echoes of the past in his Gurrelieder—its breathtaking sunrise was, in fact, a sunset for Romanticism and classical music’s tonal tradition.
But Schoenberg never lost hope that all of his music would eventually be embraced. At the close of a 1937 speech titled “How One Becomes Lonely,” he wrote: “All my music [has] been found to be ugly at first; and yet…there might be a sunrise such as is depicted in the final chorus of my Gurrelieder. There might come the promise of a new day of sunlight in music such as I would like to offer the world.”
—Michael Cirigliano II
ZUBIN MEHTA
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CHRISTINE GOERKE
Soprano Christine Goerke (Tove) has appeared in major opera houses around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera,
Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, and Teatro Real in Madrid, as well as the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now earning critical acclaim for the dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has received praise for her portrayals of the title roles in Elektra, Turandot, and Ariadne auf Naxos, Brünnhilde in the Ring cycle, Kundry in Parsifal, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Leonora in Fidelio, Eboli in Don Carlos, The Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Marie in Wozzeck, Cassandre in Les Troyens, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Alice in Falstaff, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites Goerke has also appeared with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic , Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and the Hallé Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival. She has also toured Europe with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Goerke’s recording of Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. Her close association with Robert Shaw yielded several recordings, including Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, and the Grammy-nominated recording of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Other recordings include the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride and Britten’s War Requiem, which won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. This season, Goerke returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and as Marie in concert performances of Die tote Stadt, and the Washington National Opera for an evening of Wagner highlights at the Kennedy Center. She also sings Marie in Wozzeck at the Hamburg State Opera and appears in concert with the New World Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Goerke has served as Associate Artistic Director of the Detroit Opera and was the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 Musical America Vocalist of the Year Award, and the 2017 Opera News Award.
BRANDON JOVANOVICH
Praised by The Wall Street Journal for his “ardent, heroic tenor and strong acting,” Brandon Jovanovich (Waldemar) appears regularly at the world’s leading opera companies in passionate stage portrayals of leading roles in French, Italian, German, and Slavic opera. In the 2024/25 season, Jovanovich returns to Opernhaus Zürich to reprise the role of Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos. Later in the season he stars as Captain Ahab in composer Jake Heggie’s adaptation of the Herman Melville epic Moby Dick at the Metropolitan Opera. In Munich, Jovanovich performs in the house premiere of Pénélope by Fauré at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Jovanovich opened the 2023/24 season
returning to Teatro alla Scala in the title role in Peter Grimes, followed by performances as Gherman in a new production of The Queen of Spades opposite Asmik Grigorian and later Lise Davidsen at Bayerische Staatsoper. Jovanovich reprised Don José in Carmen for his return to Covent Garden and returned to Staatsoper Berlin as Dick Johnson in Lydia Steier’s production of La Fanciulla del West. On the concert stage, he sang Siegmund in a concert performance of Die Walküre with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic in Baden-Baden.
Jovanovich has had much success with concert work throughout Europe and the US in works including Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and Das Lied von der Erde. He has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at venues across the US and Europe with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the St. Louis Symphony.
VIOLETA URMANA
Lithuanian artist Violeta Urmana (Waldtaube) is one of the most renowned opera singers working today and has an exceptionally broad opera, concert, and song repertory. She began her career appearing in dramatic mezzosoprano roles, later switching to soprano and performing roles including Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta ( Don Carlo), Leonora ( La forza del destino), Lady Macbeth ( Macbeth), Odabella ( Attila), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Sieglinde ( Die Walküre), Brünnhilde (Siegfried ), and the title roles in La Gioconda, Médée, Aida, Tosca, Norma, La Wally, and Ariadne auf Naxos Since 2015, she has returned to mezzo-soprano repertory, appearing in roles that include Klytämnestra ( Elektra), Herodias (Salome), and the Princess (Suor Angelica). Urmana performs regularly at leading opera houses
such as La Scala, the State Opera and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; the Teatro Real in Madrid; the Vienna State Opera; the Paris Opéra; the Metropolitan Opera; the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the BBC Proms; and the Bayreuth, Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Edinburgh festivals.
She has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, James Levine, Jesús López Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, and Christian Thielemann. Urmana has received the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award, the Order of the Star of Italy, and an honorary doctorate from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is also an Austrian Kammersängerin and since 2016 a UNESCO Artist for Peace. She received the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas and the Commander’s Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for services to Lithuania.
GERHARD SIEGEL
Born in Germany, tenor Gerhard Siegel (Klaus-Narr) won the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1995. From 1999 to 2006, he was a member of the Nuremberg company, where he sang Bacchus ( Ariadne auf Naxos), Herodes (Salome), Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress), Florestan (Fidelio), Laca (Jenůfa), and the title roles in Parsifal and Siegfried He sang Max (Der Freischütz) at the Komische Oper in Berlin; Parsifal in Kassel; the title role in Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist at the Bregenz Festival; Hauptmann (Wozzeck) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Lyric Opera in Chicago, and the Salzburg Festival; Sellem (The Rake’s Progress) at the Theater an der Wien; Shuisky (Boris Godounov) in Munich; Alwa (Lulu) at the Grand Théâtre
de Genève; Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) in Augsburg; Herodes at the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, and the Verbier Festival; Midas (Die Liebe der Danae) at the Salzburg Festival; the Emperor (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Verbier Festival 2019; and Piet (Le Grand Macabre) in Dresden.
He performed the role of Mime in Wagner’s Ring for his debuts at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Bayreuth Festival, as well as in Cologne, Tokyo’s New National Theatre, London’s Royal Opera House, and Budapest’s Müpa. He composed the music for a stage version of Heinrich Heine’s Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen, premiered in Trier.
GABRIEL MANRO
Multiple Grammy winner
Gabriel Manro (The Peasant) has been called “a new kind of baritone…a
knock-down baritone” (SF Classical Voice). Manro made his operatic debut as Third Inmate in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Opera Pacific) with Frederica von Stade. He has created roles in numerous contemporary operas and musicals: Muscovite Trader in LA Opera’s The Ghosts of Versailles (Grammy for Best Opera Recording), the Mousling in the LA Phil’s Alice in Wonderland, and the Commentator in the West Coast premiere of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg Additionally, he was in the original off-Broadway cast of Line Tjørnhøj’s Orations and the original cast of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz. He portrayed Joel Lynch/Father Jackson in the European premiere telecast and tour of William Mayer’s A Death in the Family (Hungarian National Theater, Center for Contemporary Opera, Opéra Grand Avignon) and the Computer in LA Opera’s The Fly by film composer Howard Shore, directed by David Cronenberg. Manro was also in the original cast of LA Opera’s Il Postino and performed the roles of President Lincoln in Golden Gate Opera’s world premiere of Lincoln and Booth and Jafar in Disney’s
original Francesca Zambello production of Aladdin Manro is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and lives in Los Angeles with his screenwriter/opera director wife, Justine Prado, and his beautiful children Mays and Bernadette.
DIETRICH HENSCHEL
Baritone Dietrich Henschel (Speaker) is known at major opera houses, as a valued interpreter of song and oratorio, and as an inventor and protagonist of a wide range of multimedia projects. His repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to the avant-garde.
Henschel began his international career with a co-production between Opéra de Lyon and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in the title role of Busoni’s opera Doktor Faust, for which he
won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
The singer’s leading roles include Figaro in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Dr. Schön in Berg’s Lulu, Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, as well as the title roles in Monteverdi’s Ulisse and L’Orfeo, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Berg’s Wozzeck. Contemporary opera composers such as Peter Eötvös, Detlev Glanert, Manfred Trojahn, Peter Ruzicka, and Chaja Czernowin have entrusted Henschel with important roles in the premieres of their works.
In orchestral concerts, Henschel regularly works with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Kazushi Ono, Cornelius Meister, and Vladimir Jurowski. Recordings with John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Colin Davis document his oratorio work. He has performed staged versions of Schubert song cycles at La Monnaie in Brussels, Theater an der Wien, the Oslo Opera House, and the Komische Oper Berlin, among others.
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-inResidence 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).
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE
Soprano
Tamara Bevard
Christina Bristow
Lauren Doyel
Harriet Fraser
Savannah Greene
Ayana Haviv
Tiffany Ho
Karen Hogle Brown
Elissa Johnston
JuHye Kim
Youngjoo Lee
Caroline McKenzie
Lika Miyake
Claire Pegram
Alina Roitstein
Anna Schubert
Holly Sedillos
Sunmi Shin
Kathryn Shuman
Courtney Taylor
Nicole Taylor
Janet Todd
Suzanne Waters
Alto
Danielle Adair
Elizabeth Anderson
Garineh Avakian
Sarabeth Belon
Monika Bruckner
Anna Caplan
Clara Chung
Carmen Edano
Amy Fogerson
Michele Hemmings
Emily Kerrigan
Sarah Lynch
Cynthia Marty
Kathleen Moriarty
Alice Kirwan Murray
Theresa Patten-Koeckert
Lindsay Patterson Abdou
Laura Smith Roethe
Jane Shim
Jessie Shulman
Ilana Summers
Tracy Van Fleet
Elyse Willis
Tenor
Casey Breves
Matthew Brown
James Callon
Sam Capella
Nolan Carter
Bradley Chapman
Christopher Craig
Omar Crook
Adam Faruqi
Tim Gonzales
William Grundler
Kion Heidari
Todd Honeycutt
Dermot Kiernan
Charlie Kim
Sung Bong Kim
Joey Krumbein
Charles Lane
Kyuyoung Lee
Michael Lichtenauer
JJ Lopez
Francis Lucaric
Sal Malaki
Aaron McDermid
David Morales
Josh Munnell
Robert Norman
David Rakita
Krishna Raman
Daniel Ramon
Solomon Reynolds
Evan Roberts
Todd Strange
Daniel Suk
Pierre Tang
A.J. Teshin
Matt Thomas
Patrick Tsoi-A-Sue
Hugo Vera
Greg Whipple Bass
Derrell Acon
Michael Bannett
Mark Beasom
Michael Blanchard
John Buffett
Tim Campbell
David Castillo
Ralph Cato
Kevin Dalbey
Dominic Delzompo
Will Goldman
Abdiel Gonzalez
Brandon Guzman
James Hayden
Robert Hovencamp
Mark Kelley
Luc Kleiner
Chung Uk Lee
Scott Lehmkuhl
Scott Levin
Matthew Lewis
Connor Licharz
Ben Lin
Brett McDermid
Ron Mitchell
Anthony Moreno
Steve Pence
Braden Pontoli
Raphael Poon
Jim Raycroft
Adrien Redford
James Martin Schaefer
Douglas Shabe
Mark Edward Smith
Tim Smith
Sean Stanton
Christopher Walters
Michael Washington
David Williams
Lorenzo Zapata
Shuo Zhai
Lucas Zuehl
The Artists of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, James Hayden, AGMA Delegate.
New Faces at the LA Phil
In October, two new musicians joined the Orchestra: Assistant Principal Second Violin Isabella Brown and Second Violin Emily Shehi.
ISABELLA BROWN
EMILY SHEHI
Isabella Brown studied at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and made her debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2019 at the age of 16. Her performance of the Dvořák Violin Concerto was described by the critics as “intensely lyrical and scintillating.” She made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2022. She has been featured on Chicago’s WFMT, appeared in the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, the Ravinia Festival’s Bennett Gordon Hall, and Chicago’s Symphony Center. Brown performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin, generously on loan to her from the Colburn School.
Violinist Emily Shehi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale School of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Augustin Hadelich, respectively. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Shehi spent a year in the Artist Diploma program at the Colburn Conservatory, where she studied with Martin Beaver. As a chamber musician, she has appeared at festivals including the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Taos School of Music, and Music from Angel Fire, and she has collaborated with renowned musicians Jonathan Biss, Frans Helmerson, Ani Kavafian, Steve Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. Emily enjoys performing and volunteering at retirement communities, especially in her hometown of Olathe, KS.
below, top: “Community Christmas Tree” at the Hollywood Bowl, 1921. bottom: Second Hollywood Community Sing, Hugo Kirchhofer conducting, c. 1921 (The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections).
Of Light and Height
ARTISTS HAVE FOR CENTURIES explored the interaction of paper and light. Paper and Light, an exhibition of drawings at the Getty through Jan. 19, charts innovative ways in which the two media were creatively used together. Works include the Museum’s extraordinary 12-footlong transparency by Carmontelle— essentially an 18th-century motion picture—which will be shown lit from behind as originally intended. Drawings by more contemporary artists including Vija Celmins will
join sheets by Tiepolo, Delacroix, Seurat, and Manet to explore representations of light and themes of translucency. Opening Nov. 12 at the Getty: Exploring the Alps. Giovanni Segantini’s monumental pastel study for “La Vita,” depicting the peaks that ringed his home in the Engadine Valley in Switzerland, highlights different ways in which later 19th-century artists depicted the region. 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A., 310.440.7300, getty.edu
Edgar Degas, Après le bain (Femme s’essuyant), pastel on paper on board, about 1886. Top: Bisson Frères, Ascent of Mont Blanc, albumen silver print 1860.
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.
JOY FOR ALL
Nochebuena: A Christmas Spectacular
Featuring Ballet Folkórico de Los Ángeles and Mariachi Espectacular with Special Guest Camila Fernández
$43–$138
Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, arrangement
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, composer
$48–$118
The World Famous
Glenn Miller Orchestra
In the Holiday Mood
$43–$95
Lea Salonga: Sounding Joy
The Holiday Tour
$52–$157
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®
50th Anniversary Tour
Celebrating the HolyDays
$43–$95
Dorrance Dance
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
Miguel A. Navarro
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
National Endowment for the Arts
Alfred and Arlene Noreen
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Dr. M. Lee Pearce
Lois Rosen
Anne and James Rothenberg
Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust
The SahanDaywi Foundation
Mrs. Nancie Schneider
William and Luiginia Sheridan
Virginia Skinner
Living Trust
Nancy and Richard Spelke
Mary H. Statham
Ms. Fran H. Tuchman
Tom and Janet Unterman
Rhio H. Weir
Mrs. Joseph F. Westheimer
Jean Willingham
Winnick Family Foundation
Cheryl and Peter Ziegler
Lynn and Roger Zino
LA PHIL MUSICIANS
Anonymous Kenneth Bonebrake
Nancy and Martin Chalifour
Brian Drake
Perry Dreiman
Barry Gold
Christopher Hanulik
John Hayhurst
Jory and Selina Herman
Ingrid Hutman
Andrew Lowy
Gloria Lum
Joanne Pearce Martin
Kazue Asawa McGregor
Oscar and Diane Meza
Mitchell Newman
Peter Rofé
Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski
Barry Socher
Paul Stein
Leticia Oaks Strong
Lyndon and Beth Johnston Taylor
Dennis Trembly
Allison and Jim Wilt
Suli Xue
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org. Thank you.
Annual Donors
The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $2,000 or more to the LA Phil, including special event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between 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
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
Andrea Chao-Kharma and Kenneth Kharma
Chevron Products Company
Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli
Mr. Richard W. Colburn
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Cook
Orna and David Delrahim
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
Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Dr. LuAnn Wilkerson
Malsi and Johnny Doyle
Michael Dreyer
Dr. and Mrs.
William M. Duxler
East West Bank
Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg
Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher
Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation
Debra Frank
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
Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler
Francis Goelet
Charitable Lead
Trusts
Goldman Sachs Co.
LLC
Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley
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
Kate Good
Liz and Peter Goulds
The Green Foundation
Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence
Renée and Paul Haas
Harman Family Foundation
Lynette Maria
Carlucci Hayde
Stephen T. Hearst
Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen
Yvonne Hessler
Photo: Ensemble of Sweeney Todd by Craig Schwartz.
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.
James L. Hunter
Robin and Gary Jacobs
Estate of Mary Calfas Janos
Terri and Michael Kaplan
Paul Kester
Mr. and Mrs.
Simon K.C. Li
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles
Philharmonic Affiliates
The Seth MacFarlane Foundation
Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker
Ms. Kim McCarthy and Mr. Ben Cheng
Heidi and Steve McLean
$15,000 TO $24,999
Anonymous (5)
Mrs. Lisette
Ackerberg
Drew and Susan Adams
Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler
B. Allen and Dorothy Lay
The Aversano Family Trust
Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli
Stephanie Barron Camilo Esteban Becdach
Dr. William Benbassat
Robert and Joan Blackman
Family Foundation
Mr. Ronald H. Bloom
Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin
Otis Booth Foundation
Business and Professional Committee
California Community Foundation Campagna Family Trust
Sarah and Roger Chrisman
Larison Clark Faith and Jonathan Cookler
Zoe Cosgrove
Dr. and Mrs.
Nazareth E. Darakjian
Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie
Lynette and Michael C. Davis
Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver
Jennifer Diener and Eric Small
Michael Dillon
Van and Francine Durrer
Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt
Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder
Edison International
Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche
Geoff Emery
Bonnie and Ronald Fein
Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation
Max Factor Family Foundation
E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman
Ella Fitzgerald
Charitable Foundation
Foothill Philharmonic Committee
Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo
Becerra-Fraijo
Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg
Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N. Braun, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs.
Josh Friedman
Ms. Kimberly Friedman
Gary and Cindy Frischling
$10,000 TO $14,999
Anonymous (4)
ABC Entertainment
Affiliates of the Desert
Javi Arango
Tichina Arnold
Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila
Terence Balagia
Pamela and Jeffrey Balton
Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.
Mr. Joseph A. Bartush
Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John
Swanson
Molly Munger and Stephen English
Anthony and Olivia Neece
Mr. and Mrs.
Randy Newman
Mr. Robert W. Olsen
Tye Ouzounian
Bruce and Aulana Peters
Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello
Madeline and Bruce Ramer
Mr. Bennett Rosenthal
Jane Fujishige
Beth Gertmenian
Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Gertz
Carrie and Rob Glicksteen
Greg and Etty Goetzman
Goodman Family Foundation
Robert and Lori Goodman
Lori Greene Gordon and Neil Gordon
The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency
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Jackson
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Ross Endowment Fund
Bill and Amy Roth
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Michael S. Saei
Mr. Lee C. Samson
San Marino-Pasadena
Philharmonic Committee
Ellen and Richard Sandler
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Philip Bellomy
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Hal Borthwick
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Steven Bristing
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Krummel
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Keith and Nanette Leonard
Allyn and
Jeffrey L. Levine
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Los Angeles
Philharmonic Committee
The Mailman Foundation
Raulee Marcus
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Phillip and Stephanie Martineau
Pam and Ron Mass
Matt Construction Corporation
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Eleanor Congdon
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NBC Universal
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Melissa Sanders
Santa MonicaWestside Philharmonic Committee
Gary Satin
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David Fung
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Nina Shaw and Wallace Little
Jill and Neil Sheffield
Gloria Sherwood
Lauren Shuler Donner
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer
Jeremy and Luanne Stark
Stein Family FundJudie Stein
Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson
Eva and Marc Stern
Tom Strickler
Akio Tagawa
Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin
Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker
Elinor and Rubin Turner
Tom and Janet Unterman
Nancy Valentine
Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott
Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn
Wagner
Warner Bros. Discovery Stasia and Michael Washington
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Steele Gelles
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Louis L. Gonda
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Daniel M. Gottlieb
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Randi Levine
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Lisa and Willem Mesdag
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Carrie Nery
Dick and Chris Newman / C & R Newman Family Foundation
Kenneth T. & Eileen L.
Norris Foundation
Irene and Edward Ojdana
Steve and Gail Orens
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Loren Pannier
Ellen Pansky
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pearlston
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Chris Pine
Mark Proksch and Amelie Gillette
William “Mito” Rafert
Lee Ramer
Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud
Risk Placement Services
Hon. Ernest M. Robles
Ernesto Rocco
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Ann M. Ryder
Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk
Dr. and Mrs.
Heinrich Schelbert
Samantha and Marc Sedaka
Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann
Jane Semel
Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro
The Sikand Foundation
Angelina and Mark Speare
Jennifer Speers
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Mr. Robert C. Anderson
Debra and Benjamin Ansell
Art and Pat Antin
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Sandra Aronberg, M.D.
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Reed Baumgarten
Logan Beitler
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Mr. Robert Cox
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Richard Birnholz
Mitchell Bloom
Steven Blum
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Greg Borrud
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Mrs. Susan Bowey
Ms. Marie Brazil
Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard
Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel
Mrs. Linda L. Brown
Tanille Carter
CBS Entertainment
Dr. Kirk Y. Chang
Chien Family
Arthur and Katheryn Chinski
Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Clements
Mr. David Colburn
David Conney, M.D.
Mr. Michael Corben and Ms. Linda Covette
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin
Lloyd Eric Cotsen
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Crowell
Gloria De Olarte
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Nancy and Patrick Dennis
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de Souza
Steven Duffy
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Brack W. Duker
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Irwin S. Field
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The Franke
Family Trust
Linda and James Freund
Ruchika Garga
Susan and David Gersh
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Glaser
Jory Goldman
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Russell Goldsmith
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Lee Graff Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Griffin III
Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Guerin
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Beth Fishbein Hansen
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$3,500 TO $5,499
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Frank Agrama
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Ty Ahmad-Taylor
Ms. Rose Ahrens
Cary Albertsone
Adrienne S. Alpert
Mr. Peter Anderson
and Ms. Valerie Goo
Carlo and Amy Baghoomian
Joseph and Suzanne Sposato
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Stern
James C. Stewart
Charitable Foundation
Stephen and Hope Heaney
Myrna and Uri Herscher
Family Foundation
Tina and Ivan Hindshaw
Janice and Laurence Hoffmann
In Hong
Jill Hopper
Dr. and Mrs.
Mel Hoshiko
Andrei and Luiza Iancu
Libby and Arthur Jacobson
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Jaffe
Barbara A. Jones
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Dr. William B. Jones
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Meredith Jury
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Craig Justice
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Stephen Keller
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Jon Kirchner
Molly Kirk
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Lee Kolodny
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Scott Krivis
Lori Kunkel
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Jack D. Lantz
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Rose and Mark Sturza
Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz
Michael Frazier
Thompson
Jeremy Thurswell
Kathy Valentino
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Mr. Benjamin Lench
Mary Beth and John Leonard
Saul Levine
Marie and Edward Lewis
David and
Rebecca Lindberg
Mr. Greg Lipstone
Lynn Loeb
Julie and Ron Long
Ms. Diana Longarzo
Scott Lord
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Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro
Law Firm
Ruth and Roger MacFarlane
Mr. and Mrs.
John V. Mallory
Mona and Frank Mapel
Paul Martin
Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson
Stephen Martinez
Mr. Gary J. Matus
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Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas E. McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs.
William F. McDonald
Jeffrey and Tracy McEvoy
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Lawry Meister
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Coco Miller
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Sheila Muller
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Rachel Wagman
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Ms. Margo
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John C. Orr
Cynthia Patton
Alyssa Phaneuf
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Julie and Marc Platt
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James S. Pratty, M.D.
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Dr. Susan F. Rice
Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Roen
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Paul Rutter
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Abby Sher
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Peter R. Skinner
Professor Judy and Dr. William Sloan
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Michael G. Smooke
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Howard Banchik
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Newton and Rochelle Becker
Charitable Trust
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Ellis N. Beesley, Jr.
M.D.
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Elliot S. Berkowitz
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Mr. Alan N. Berro
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Dan Biles
Lisa Biscaichipy
Michael Blake
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Thomas J. Blumenthal
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Anita and Joel Boxer
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SouthWest Heights Philharmonic Committee
William Spiller
Lael Stabler and Jerone English
Ms. Margaret Stevens and Mr.
Robin Meadow
Fran Sweeney
Jennifer Taguchi
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Mary Tong
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Kathy S. Walton
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Robert Weingarten
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Ms. Jill Wickert
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Hearst Wickstrom
Mr. Robert E. Willett
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Bill Wishner
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Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wong
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Mr. Kevin Yoder
Mr. Nabih Youssef
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Ronald Brot
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Diana Buckhantz
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Michael Chait
Mr. Jon C. Chambers
Nolan and Marlene Charbonnet
Adam Chase
Mr. Louis Chertkow
Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Chitea
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Colby
Susan and David Cole
Ms. Ina Coleman
Committee of Professional Women
Kevin and Katie Cordano
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Mrs. Nancy A. Cypert
Jessica and James Dabney
Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch
Mr. and Mrs. Leo David
Mr. Howard M. Davine
Tim and Neda Disney
R. Stephen Doan and Donna E. Doan
Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms. Georgia Archer
Mr. Gregory C. Drapac
Dr. David Eisenberg
Mrs. Eva Elkins
Susan Entin
Ms. Anita Famili
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Lyn and Bruce Ferber
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Mr. Michael A. Firestein
A.B. Fischer
Steven Fishman
Ms. Melanie Salata Fitch
Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Flynn
Mrs. Diane Forester
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Lynn Franklin
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Dr. and Mrs. Robert Freilich
Ms. Alisa J. Freundlich
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Jon M. Gibson
Jason Gilbert
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The Gillis Family
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Glendale Philharmonic Committee
Madelyn and Bruce S. Glickfeld
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Goldberg
The Honorable and Mrs. Allan J. Goodman
Edith Gould
Mr. James Granger
Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Gregory
Rita and William Griffin
Barrie Grobstein
Mr. Frank Gruber and Ms. Janet Levin
Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre and Rubina Habis
CELESTIALS: MOBLEY + VIVALDI
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Michelle DeYoung
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Rod Hagenbuch
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Charles F. Hanes
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Brian L. Harvey
Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis K. Hashimoto
Mr. David R. Hatcher
Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk
Byron and DeAnne Hayes
Nicolette F. Hebert
Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge
Margaret Nagle
Gail and Murray E. Heltzer
Betsydiane and Larry Hendrickson
Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Jim Herzfeld
The Hill Family
Dr. and Mrs.
Hank Hilty
Greg and Jill Hoenes
Glenn Hogan
Mrs. Cathy Hong
Douglas and Carolyn Honig
Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale
Francis Hung Jr.
International Committee
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Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore W. Jackson
Mr. Channing
Johnson
Gordon M. Johnson and Barbara A. Schnell
Mr. Sean Johnson
Mireya Asturias
Jones and Lawrence Jones
Mr. Ken Kahan
Lawrence Kalantari
Catherine and Harry Kane
Karen and Don Karl
Mr. and Mrs.
David S. Karton
Aleksey Katmissky
Dr. and Mrs.
David Kawanishi
Kayne, Anderson and Rudnick
Mr. Stephen Keck
Richard Kelton
Ms. Sharon Kerson
Nona Khodai
Jason King
Richard and Lauren King
Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel
Michael and Patricia Klowden
Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Konheim
Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald
Sharon and Joel Krischer
Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean
Mr. and Mrs.
Howard A. Kroll
Carole and Norm La Caze
Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo
Thomas and
Gloria Lang
Joan and Chris Larkin
James Laur and Peter Kongkasem
Craig Lawson and Terry Peters
Mr. Les Lazar
Mr. Robert Leevan
Dr. Bob Leibowitz
Mr. Donald S. Levin
Mr. and Mrs.
Edward B. Levine
Benjamin Bear Levy
Mr. Jeff Levy
David and Meghan Licata
Dr. and Mrs.
Mark Lipian
Ms. Elisabeth Lipsman
Ms. Bonnie Lockrem and Mr.
Steven Ravaglioli
Robert and Susan Long
Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Lucas
Mr. and Mrs. Boutie Lucas
Crystal and Elwood Lui
Dr. Jamshid Maddahi
Konstantina Mahlia
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Manzani
Dorrie and Paul Markovits
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Stanley Maron
Areva Martin
Dr. and Mrs. Gene Matzkin
$2,000 TO $3,499
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Mechelle and Joe Adams
Yemi Adeyanju
Lena and David Adishian
Dr. and Mrs.
David Aizuss
Edgar Aleman
Rus Allen
Lynne Alschuler
Mr. James P. Alstad
Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Andes
Lisa Mazzocco and Andrew Silver
Courtney McKeown
Carlos Melich
Robert L. Mendow
Mr. Robert Merz
Marcia Bonner
Meudell and Mike Merrigan
Linda and David Michaelson
Larry and Mary Anne Mielke
Dr. Gary Milan
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael D. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Mills
Janet Minami
Mr. and Mrs. William Mingst
Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch
Maria and Marzi Mistry
Robert and Claudia Modlin
Linda and John Moore
Toni Hollander Morse and Lawrence Morse
William Morton Munger, Tolles & Olson
Mr. Ron Myrick
Mr. James A. Nadal and Amelia Nadal
Rachel Nass
Stuart and Bruce Needleman
Robert and Sally Neely
Mr. Liron Nelik
Mr. Jerold B. Neuman
Mr. John M. Nisley
Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen
Deborah Nucatola
Mr. and Mrs. Oberfeld
Ms. Margaret R.
O’Donnell
Mr. Dale Okuno
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Olinski
David Olson and Ruth Stevens
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Orkand
Adriana Ortiz
Kim and P.F. James Overton
Alicyn Packard and Jason Friedman
January Parkos-Arnall
Nicholas Pepper
Mrs. Ethel Phipps
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Nancy Pine
Victor and Iris Antola
Ms. Barbara Aran
Carol L. Archie
Ms. Michelle Ashford and Mr.
Greg Walker
Linda and
Robert Attiyeh
Danilo and Margaret Bach
Ms. Corinne
Baldassano
Mr. & Mrs. Ken and Renee Ballard
Mr. Kenneth Ballard
Mr. Jeff Polak and Mrs. Lauren Reisman Polak
Mrs. Ruth S. Popkin
Mr. Joseph S. Powe
Debbie and Rick Powell
Mr. Albert Praw
John R. Privitelli
Ms. Marci Proietto
Ms. Miriam Rain
Bradley Ramberg
Marcia and Roger Rashman
Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Ratkovich
Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Ray
David and Mary
Beth Redding
Resource Direct
Mr. Ronald Ridgeway
Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Riley
Mr. and Mrs.
Norman L. Roberts
Mr. Jed Robinson
Rock River
Mrs. Laura H. Rockwell
Ms. Kristina Rodgers
In memory of RJ and JK Roe
Mr. Lee N. Rosenbaum and Mrs. Corinna Cotsen
Michelle and Mark Rosenblatt
Mr. Richard Rosenthal and Ms.
Katherine Spillar
Mr. Bradley Ross and Ms. Linda McDonough
Joshua Roth and Amy Klimek
Mr. Michael Rouse
Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew Rowland
Ms. Karen
Roxborough
Mr. Andrew E. Rubin
Betty J Saidel
Valerie Salkin
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Curtis Sanchez
Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Sanders
Mr. and Mrs.
Charles M. Sarff
Ms. Maryanne Sawoski
Sue and Don Schuster
Carol (Jackie) and Charles Schwartz
Mr. Alan Scolamieri
Michael Sedrak
John L. Segal
Mr. Michael Barr
Mr. and Mrs.
David J. Barton
Mr. Richard Bayer
Mr. Stephen Bergens
Dr. and Mrs.
Gerald Berke
Dr. and Mrs.
Dean Berkus
Malcolm Bersohn and Shelley Shapiro
Timothy Bigelow
Ms. Marjorie Blatt
Debra Bonseigneur
Leni I. Boorstin
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Segal
Dr. and Mrs.
Hooshang Semnani
Ms. Amy J. Shadur-Stein
Ms. Avantika Shahi
Dr. Ava Shamban
Hope and Richard N. Shaw
Dr. Alexis M. Sheehy
Ms. Martha Shen-Urquidez
Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas
Mr. Chris Sheridan
Pamela and Russ Shimizu
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shoenman
Mr. Murray Siegel
Scott Silver
June Simmons
Loraine Sinskey
Leah R. Sklar
Mr. Steven Smith
Virginia Sogomonian and Rich Weiss
Michael Soloman and Steven Good
Michael and Mildred Sondermann
Dr. Michael Sopher and Dr.
Debra Vilinsky
Mr. Hamid Soroudi
Shondell and Ed Spiegel
Ian and Pamela Spiszman
Ms. Angelika Stauffer
Mr. and Mrs.
Pierre Steele
Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Stein
Jeff and Peg Stephens
Mr. Scott Stephens
Hilde
Stephens-Levonian
The Sugimoto Family
Ed and
Peggy Summers
Deborah May and Ted Suzuki
Mr. and Mrs.
Larry W. Swanson
Mr. Marc A. Tamaroff
Judith Taylor
Mrs. Elayne Techentin
Mr. Nick Teeter
Mr. Todd H. Temanson
Lauren Tempest
Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Thanos
Suzanne Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan H. Thompson
Ms. Evangeline M. Thomson
Tichenor & Thorp
Architects, Inc.
Tina Gittelson
John Tootle
Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Unger
Ingrid Urich-Sass
The Valley Committees for the Los Angeles
Philharmonic
Mr. and Mrs.
Peter J. Van Haften
Vargo Physical Therapy
David H. Vena
Dorrit Vered and Jerome Vered
Elliott and Felise Wachtel
Christopher V. Walker
Mr. Eldridge Walker
Mr. Darryl Wash
Craig R. Webb and Melinda Taylor
Ms. Diane C. Weil and Mr. Leslie R. Horowitz
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Tours are offered daily. Check the schedule to plan a fun-filled day in Downtown L.A.!
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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
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Riley Etheridge, Jr.
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Jeffrey M. Hill
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Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen
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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.
Kent Kresa
Mattie McFaddenLawson
Fredric M. Roberts
Richard K. Roeder
Claire L. Rothman
Joni J. Smith
Lisa Specht **
Cynthia A. Telles
James A. Thomas
Andrea L. Van de Kamp **
Thomas R. Weinberger
Alyce de Roulet
Williamson
** Chair Emeritus
Current as of 9/30/24
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Yannick Lebrun.
Photo by Dario Calmese.
Photo by Will Tee Yang for The Music Center.
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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
DECEMBER 2024
SUN 1 DEC / 7:30 p.m.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
The Christmas Tour
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
MON 2 DEC / 5:00 p.m.
L.A. County Tree Lighting Ceremony
THE MUSIC CENTER
@Jerry Moss Plaza
TUE 3 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Intimate Schoenberg
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
FRI 6 DEC / 11:00 a.m.
Brahms with Zubin Mehta
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thru 12/8/2024
SAT 7 DEC / 2:00 p.m.
Festival of Carols
LOS ANGELES
MASTER CHORALE
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 10 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Once Upon a Mattress
CENTER THEATRE GROUP
@ Ahmanson Theatre
Thru 1/5/2025
FRI 13 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Zubin Mehta Conducts
Gurrelieder
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Also 12/15/2024
SAT 14 DEC / 7:30 p.m.
Kristin Chenoweth
Holiday Concert
LA OPERA
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
SAT 14 DEC /
11:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
Holiday Sing-Along
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
SUN 15 DEC / 7:00 p.m.
Handel-Mozart Messiah
LOS ANGELES
MASTER CHORALE
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
MON 16 DEC / 6:00 p.m.
Carols on the Plaza
LOS ANGELES
MASTER CHORALE
@Jerry Moss Plaza
MON 16 DEC / 7:30 p.m.
Messiah Sing-Along
LOS ANGELES
MASTER CHORALE
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 17 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Chanticleer
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
WED 18 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Jennifer Hudson: The Gift of Love
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
SAT 21 DEC / 2:00 p.m.
“Home Alone” in Concert
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 12/22/2024
MON 23 DEC / 8:00 p.m.
Arturo Sandoval
Swinging Holiday
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
TUE 24 DEC / 3:00 p.m.
L.A. County Holiday Celebration
THE MUSIC CENTER/ TMC ARTS
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
TUE 31 DEC / 7:00 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
New Year's Eve with D-Nice & Friends
LA PHIL
@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/16/24
TUE DEC 31 / 8:00 P.M.
Gloria Molina Grand Park’s NYELA
THE MUSIC CENTER / TMC ARTS
@Gloria Molina Grand Park
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