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CONTENTS 12 Welcome 16 Board of Directors 18 Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel 20 Los Angeles Philharmonic 24 Live to Picture
Three Summer Programs Combine Film with Music
32 Opening Night
Journey Plays to Sell-Out Crowd
36 This Month 38 Dining
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CONTENTS 42 Endowment Donors 46 News from the LA Phil 48 Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation 52 Upcoming Concerts 60 Picnics and Wine P-1 Program Information (following page 64)
Weekly Programs • Program Notes • Artist Biographies
82 Annual Donors 95 Support the LA Phil
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96 General Information
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WELCOME
The start of the Bowl season marks the official beginning of summer for generations of music lovers across Los Angeles. This year, we celebrate the LA Phil’s 94th season and Gustavo Dudamel’s sixth as Music Director at the Bowl. The Hollywood Bowl holds special meaning for Dudamel, who made his U.S. debut at the venue ten years ago, at the tender age of 24, and marked his arrival as Music Director with ¡Bienvenido Gustavo!, a historic, daylong community concert. The Bowl has played host to his most beloved initiatives – from YOLA to Americas & Americans – ever since. This summer, Dudamel returns with Orff’s breathtaking Carmina Burana; an all-Mendelssohn program featuring the composer’s beloved Violin Concerto performed by Gil Shaham; and an all-Mozart outing with pianist Alice Sara Ott. Dudamel also takes his first-ever turn at the helm of our annual Tchaikovsky Spectacular – guaranteeing fireworks on and off the stage. We are also joined by old friends Yuja Wang, Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Bramwell Tovey. Following her stunning Bowl debut last season, LA Phil Assistant Conductor Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla returns with a program of Bernstein and Bizet. In the weeks that follow, Bernstein’s music will again be in the spotlight with a stunning program showcasing the talents of the American Ballet Theatre and six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. Joining a roster of classical music’s finest performers are critically acclaimed artists from the worlds of jazz, world music, Broadway, and pop. We are also thrilled to welcome back Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Thomas Wilkins, as well as legendary musician Herbie Hancock in his sixth season as Creative Chair for Jazz. There is a particular brand of alchemy at work at the Hollywood Bowl. Warm summer nights, the natural beauty of the setting, a rich history of musical performance stretching back nearly a century – these qualities combine to make the Bowl a truly magical place. Thank you for joining us this evening; we hope you will enjoy many more music-filled evenings with family and friends at the Hollywood Bowl.
This year, the Hollywood Bowl received its 11th consecutive Pollstar award for Best Major Outdoor Concert Venue and also received – for the first time – the Academy of Country Music Venue of the Year award. Never satisfied to rest on our laurels during the off-season, improvements to enhance your experience have continued in full force. Thanks to funding from Proposition A and the County of Los Angeles, renovations in the theater continued with the complete replacement of all of the boxes from the Pool Circle to the Terrace. As the seating area is one of the distinguishing historical elements of the Bowl, great attention is always paid to the architectural history. To that end, along with new aisle flooring and refurbished handrails, the concrete piers marking the seating aisles were rebuilt to their original 1950s form. As an added amenity the box tables and chairs have been replaced with newly designed furnishings for ease and comfort. These changes, along with new benches installed last season, mark the first complete renovation of the Hollywood Bowl seating area in its 94-year history. Behind the scenes, the newly designed and rebuilt Richard D. Colburn Orchestra Lounge creates a more comfortable and spacious environment for our orchestra members and guest artists. We offer our sincere thanks for envisioning and funding the creation of this wonderful space to Los Angeles Philharmonic Board member Carol Colburn Grigor and Dunard Fund USA. As always we extend our deep gratitude to all members of the County Board of Supervisors, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. We recognize our corporate, foundation, and media partners, who provide wide-ranging support throughout the summer to help make possible all of the brilliant performances you see and hear on the Bowl stage. Whether your Hollywood Bowl tradition is generations old, or your tradition starts today, we thank you, our patrons, for joining us. Your passion and devotion make it all worthwhile, and we invite you to experience it again and again. Welcome back, and enjoy the show!
Deborah Borda President and Chief Executive Officer Los Angeles Philharmonic Association David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
Gail Samuel Executive Director Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
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WELCOME
A MESSAGE FROM SUPERVISOR SHEILA J. KUEHL This is my first opportunity as your new County Supervisor for the Third District to welcome you to our wonderful Hollywood Bowl and the Summer 2015 concert season, and I am so happy to do so. From the first moment of my election last year, I was privileged to assume the stewardship of the County’s many public facilities in my District. With a proud lineage and rich history stretching back to the early 1920s, the beautiful and iconic Hollywood Bowl is, without question, one of the jewels in our renowned collection of unique and celebrated arts venues. The Bowl we enjoy today includes a state-of-the-art shell that preserves and honors the historic Art Deco styling of its predecessors and adds the most up-to-date acoustic, lighting, and video technology. Whether, like me, you’ve been coming to the Bowl every summer for decades or it’s your first time, what can possibly compare to enjoying music under the California skies on a balmy summer evening? So, add to your storehouse of great Bowl memories by making some new ones tonight. And return for more and more of the rich, varied, and excellent programs here at the Bowl this summer. Thank you so much for your support. I am so proud and happy to join you here and grateful to have been given the opportunity to represent the District that contains your great Hollywood Bowl. Enjoy the program!
Sheila Kuehl Supervisor, Third District County of Los Angeles
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION CHAIR Diane B. Paul* PRESIDENT and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Deborah Borda David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
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VICE CHAIRS David C. Bohnett* Jerrold L. Eberhardt* Jane B. Eisner* David I. Gindler* Jay Rasulo* DIRECTORS Julie Andrews Wallis Annenberg David N. Barry, III Thomas L. Beckmen Lynn A. Booth Linda Brittan Adriana Cisneros David Clark Mark Houston Dalzell* Mari L. Danihel Kelvin L. Davis Donald P. de Brier* Kenneth M. Doran Louise D. Edgerton Lawrence N. Field* Joshua Friedman Timothy F. Gallagher Cecilia Aguilera Glassman Jennifer Miller Goff Lenore S. Greenberg Carol Colburn Grigor Pierre Habis Teena Hostovich John F. Hotchkis* Jonathan Kagan Kenneth Kamins Darioush Khaledi Ronald Litzinger Kevin MacCarthy
John V. Mallory* Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy Margaret Morgan Younes Nazarian Leith O’Leary William C. Powers* Barry D. Pressman, M.D.* Dudley A. Rauch* Ann Ronus Jennifer Rosenfeld Laura Rosenwald Nancy S. Sanders* Eric L. Small Christian Stracke Ronald D. Sugar* Jack Suzar Sue Tsao Katherine Watkins Jonathan Weedman Alyce de Roulet Williamson Irwin Winkler Marilyn Ziering *Executive Committee Member
HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS Royce Diener Frank Gehry Bram Goldsmith Ginny Mancini Rocco C. Siciliano
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José Iturbi and Frank Sinatra ...Together Again at the Hollywood Bowl
José Iturbi and Frank Sinatra relaxing in a private moment before the evening’s performance at the Hollywood Bowl (August 14, 1946). They began their lifelong friendship on the set of MGM’s, Anchors Aweigh (1945). Both famous artists, Iturbi and Sinatra, enjoyed playing practical jokes. They shared a great friendship and camaraderie for more than thirty years, until Iturbi’s death in 1980.
The José Iturbi Foundation José Iturbi, the world renowned concert pianist and conductor, performed before sold-out audiences from the 1930’s through the 1970’s. The José Iturbi Foundation honors Iturbi’s passion for classical music and celebrates his legacy.
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL is defined by his untiring advocacy of access to music for all. As a symphonic and operatic conductor, his music making on four continents continues to inspire audiences of all ages. Currently serving as Music Director of both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the impact of his musical leadership is felt internationally. While his commitment to these posts accounts for the major portion of his yearly schedule, Dudamel also guest conducts with some of the world’s greatest musical institutions. This season he returns to the Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Staatskapelle, Gothenburg Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, and to the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna and Salzburg as well as on tour through Europe and Asia. Dudamel made his first foray into composing for film with the major feature The Liberator / Libertador (the life of Simón Bolívar), for which he wrote the score and recorded it with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The worldwide film release was in October 2014, with the soundtrack release in summer 2014.
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Gustavo Dudamel is in his sixth season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his contract has been newly extended through 2021/22. In recognition of Dudamel’s deepened commitment to the institution, Artistic Director was added to his current title, making him Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Under his leadership the Los Angeles Philharmonic has expanded its diversified outreach through many notable projects, including Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), influenced by Venezuela’s widely successful El Sistema. With YOLA, Gustavo brings music to children in the underserved communities of Los Angeles, and also serves as an inspiration for similar efforts throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Now in his 16th season as Music Director of the entire El Sistema project in Venezuela and ushering this institution into its 40th anniversary season, Dudamel continues to lead the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, in Venezuela as well as on tour.
An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2005, Grammy-winner Gustavo Dudamel has numerous recordings on the label, as well as many video/DVD releases that capture the excitement of significant moments of his musical life. One of the most decorated conductors of his generation, recent distinctions include the 2014 Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society from the Longy School, 2013 Musical America’s Musician of the Year and induction into Gramophone Hall of Fame, 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, 2009 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people, 2008 “Q” Prize from Harvard, along with several honorary doctorates. Gustavo Dudamel was born in Venezuela in 1981. Access to music for all has been the cornerstone of Gustavo’s philosophy both professionally and philanthropically.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
The LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, is re-inventing the concept of the 21st-century orchestra. Both at home and abroad, the Philharmonic – recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras – is leading the way in innovative programming, both on stage and in the community, offering a diverse range of presentations that reflect the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrate its vision. 2014/15 marks the orchestra’s 96th season. More than 240 concerts are either performed or presented by the Philharmonic at its two iconic venues, the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, representing a breadth and depth unrivaled by other orchestras or cultural institutions. During its 30-week winter subscription season of more than 170 performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Philharmonic creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the symphonic music experience and delve further into an artist’s or composer’s work. The LA Phil’s commitment to the music of our time is also evident throughout the season programming, as well in the exhilarating Green Umbrella series and the LA Phil’s extensive commissioning initiatives. Praise for both the design and the acoustics of Walt Disney Concert Hall has been effusive, and the building embodies the energy, imagination, and creative spirit of the city of Los Angeles and its orchestra. As Time magazine noted, “With its curvaceous exterior and acoustically adroit interior, Gehry’s building bestowed on the city an important architectural landmark and proved that L.A. residents actually do go to the symphony,” while The Washington Post stated, “At last this orchestra has a hall worthy of its stature.” The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles also extends far beyond symphony concerts in a concert hall, with performances in schools, churches, and neighborhood centers of a vastly diverse community. Among its wide-ranging education initiatives is Youth Orchestra LA
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(YOLA). Inspired by Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 600 students from underserved neighborhoods, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In 2012, the LA Phil formed an innovative partnership with the Longy School of Music of Bard College. This bi-coastal alliance launched Take a Stand, a national initiative that supports social change through music by providing leaders with tools for growth through a series of conferences and workshops, as well as providing progressive and rigorous training for performing and teaching musicians. Always inspired to expand its cultural offerings, the LA Phil each season produces concerts featuring distinguished artists in recital, jazz, world music, songbook, and visiting orchestra performances, in addition to special holiday concerts and series of chamber music, organ recitals, and Baroque music. The Los Angeles Philharmonic continues to broaden its audience by touring worldwide, offering an extensive catalog of recorded music, and broadcasting concerts on radio and television. Thirteen concerts recorded during the 2014/15 season will also be syndicated nationwide, in partnership with the WFMT Radio Network. The 2014 series was nationally broadcast in 313 markets and reached over 3.8 million listeners. Through an ongoing partnership with Deutsche Grammophon, the orchestra also has a substantial catalog of concerts available online, including the first full-length classical music video released on iTunes. Rhapsody in Blue: Opening Night Concert and Gala was telecast as part of the PBS performing arts series Great Performances and garnered a 2012 Emmy nomination. In 2011, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel won a Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance for their recording of the Brahms Symphony No. 4. In 1974, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta won an Academy Award for “The Bolero,” a 30-minute short subject featuring Maurice Ravel’s famous orchestral work. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a millionaire and amateur musician, who established the city’s first permanent symphony orchestra in 1919. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, ten renowned conductors have served in that capacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929); Artur Rodzinski (1929-1933); Otto Klemperer (1933-1939); Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956); Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959); Zubin Mehta (1962-1978); Carlo Maria Giulini (19781984); André Previn (1985-1989); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009); and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director Walt and Lilly Disney Chair Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate Mirga Gražinyte˙ -Tyla Assistant Conductor John Adams Creative Chair Deborah Borda President and Chief Executive Officer David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair
FIRST VIOLINS Martin Chalifour Principal Concertmaster Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair Nathan Cole First Associate Concertmaster Ernest Fleischmann Chair Bing Wang Associate Concertmaster Mark Baranov Assistant Concertmaster Philharmonic Affiliates Chair Akiko Tarumoto Michele Bovyer Rochelle Abramson Camille Avellano Elizabeth Baker Minyoung Chang Vijay Gupta Edith Markman Judith Mass Mitchell Newman Barry Socher Stacy Wetzel
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Carrie Dennis Principal John Connell Chair Dale Hikawa Silverman Associate Principal Ben Ullery Assistant Principal
Ariana Ghez Principal Marion Arthur Kuszyk Associate Principal Anne Marie Gabriele Carolyn Hove
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Richard Elegino Dana Hansen John Hayhurst Ingrid Hutman Michael Larco Hui Liu Meredith Snow Leticia Oaks Strong Minor L. Wetzel
CELLOS Robert deMaine Principal Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair Associate Principal (Vacant) Sadie and Norman Lee Chair Ben Hong Assistant Principal Jonathan Karoly David Garrett Barry Gold Jason Lippmann Gloria Lum Tao Ni Serge Oskotsky Brent Samuel
BASSES Dennis Trembly Principal Christopher Hanulik Principal Oscar M. Meza Assistant Principal David Allen Moore
Lyndon Johnston Taylor Principal Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair Mark Kashper Associate Principal Kristine Whitson Johnny Lee
Jack Cousin Brian Johnson Peter Rofé Frederick Tinsley
Dale Breidenthal Ingrid Kuo Chun Jin-Shan Dai Chao-Hua Jin Nickolai Kurganov Guido Lamell Varty Manouelian Paul Stein Yun Tang Suli Xue
FLUTES Principal (Vacant) Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair Catherine Ransom Karoly Associate Principal Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair Elise Shope Henry Sarah Jackson
CLARINETS Michele Zukovsky Principal Burt Hara Associate Principal Andrew Lowy Mauk/Nunis Chair David Howard
E-FLAT CLARINET Andrew Lowy
BASS CLARINET David Howard
BASSOONS Whitney Crockett Principal Shawn Mouser Associate Principal Michele Grego Patricia Kindel
CONTRABASSOON Patricia Kindel
HORNS Andrew Bain Principal John Cecil Bessell Chair Associate Principal (Vacant) Gregory Roosa William and Sally Rutter Chair Amy Jo Rhine Loring Charitable Trust Chair Brian Drake Reese and Doris Gothie Chair Ethan Bearman Assistant Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
TRUMPETS Thomas Hooten Principal James Wilt Associate Principal Christopher Still Stéphane Beaulac
TROMBONES PICCOLO Sarah Jackson
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Principal (Vacant) James Miller Associate Principal Abbott and Linda Brown Chair Herbert Ausman
TUBA Norman Pearson
Joseph Pereira Principal Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair
PERCUSSION Raynor Carroll* Principal James Babor Perry Dreiman
KEYBOARDS Joanne Pearce Martin Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
HARP Lou Anne Neill
LIBRARIANS Kazue Asawa McGregor Kenneth Bonebrake Stephen Biagini
PERSONNEL MANAGER Jeffrey Neville
CONDUCTING FELLOWS Christian Kluxen Gemma New *on sabbatical
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THREE SUMMER PROGRAMS COMBINE FILM WITH MUSIC Look both ways at the intersection of film scores and classical concert music, because the cultural traffic there moves quickly, as several programs at the Bowl this month demonstrate. Though Golden Age and mid-century film composers often resented the reflexive critical distinction between commercial music and art or concert music, those kinds of boundaries – arbitrary and artificial even at the time – have largely been obliterated. In one direction, there is music moving from the concert hall to the cinema, and the director best known for collages of classical music is probably Stanley Kubrick. He drew first on his own extensive record collection for pop music, however, in Dr. Strangelove (1964). The sardonic juxtaposition of “Try a Little Tenderness” with B-52 bombers in flight and “We’ll Meet Again” as atomic bombs exploded among civilians gave him ideas and techniques that he exploited more fully with a wide range of classical music in his final six movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In a film such as Barry Lyndon, the use of roughly contemporaneous music evoked the period aurally as effectively as Kubrick’s innovative candlelit cinematography did visually. Classical music also works in countervailing ways, though. A Clockwork Orange created the template for the ironic association of classical masterpieces with 24
ultra-violence that echoes in countless films. 2001: A Space Odyssey – with its epic “Dawn of Man” sequence to Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, the weightless space ballet to Johann Strauss, Jr.’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube, the moody loneliness of Gayane’s Adagio from Aram Khachaturian’s ballet Gayane, and the introduction of György Ligeti’s micropolyphonic Lux Aeterna and several other pieces – exemplified Kubrick’s concept of film as a medium more of sound and image than verbal narrative. Kubrick returned to Ligeti in The Shining and in Eyes Wide Shut, doing much to make Ligeti – or imitation Ligeti – a staple of tension and alienation in films such as Martin Scorsese’s 2010 psychological thriller Shutter Island. Brad Lubman leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale in a live presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey, playing the score while the film is shown on the Bowl’s big screen August 18. Echoes of Kubrick’s musical strokes abound in recent films, including Terrence Malick’s 2011 The Tree of Life and Ridley Scott’s 2012 Prometheus. The Tree of Life has an eclectic score (over 30 pieces) and clear references to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in its concept as well as in specific scenes. Prometheus also suggests 2001 in details and in spirit, and it ends (as did Scott’s original Alien in 1979) with an ambiguously serene classical coda to alien violence. This repurposing of classical pieces is almost as old as sound films themselves.
Wagner was one of the dominant influences on music and theater in the early age of movies, and films such as Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou (1929, with the music originally played live on a phonograph during screenings and only added to prints of the film in 1960) and Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) were post-modern before their time, subverting distinctive music from Tristan und Isolde in (in)famous scenes. And then, of course, there is music that travels the other way, from screen to stage. Excerpts from film scores have long been staples of pops concerts, and composers are increasingly taking control of how their music makes that transition, as Bowl goers well know from John Williams’ annual programs, among many other examples. (This summer Williams introduces the screening of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, with the LA Phil playing his complete Oscar-winning score live, September 4-6.) Tan Dun’s approach, however, has been to rework his film music into a series of concertos. Even before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released, Tan Dun had created a six-movement concerto from his score, which won an Academy Award and a Grammy in 2001. It was premiered by cellist Yo-Yo Ma on September 30, 2000, at London’s Barbican Centre Festival: Fire Cross Water, where Tan Dun was artistic director. It may be accompanied by edited footage from the film, and the composer subsequently applied this concerto/film process to his music for
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Hero (2002) and The Banquet (2006), creating a Martial Arts Trilogy of solo concertos for cello, violin, and piano. “The Trilogy was born out of the three greatest romantic martial arts films of our time, which were directed by three of its most influential directors: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger), Zhang Yimou (Hero), and Feng Xiaogang (The Banquet),” Tan Dun said. “For me, the Martial Arts Trilogy was a preconceived project that started ten years ago and developed into a spiritual drama through three of the most important musicians of our time: Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Lang Lang.” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of the creators of the symphonic film score, pioneered this approach with his 1945 Violin Concerto. Written for Jascha Heifetz, it includes themes from Korngold’s scores for Another Dawn, Juarez, Anthony Adverse, and The Prince and the Pauper.) In 2013, Tan Dun’s Trilogy became the Martial Arts Cycle with the addition of a triple concerto, The Triple Resurrection, as a fourth movement, making references to the previous concertos and the film scores from which they were derived. In May 2013 Tan Dun led the MDR Sinfonieorchester in the world premiere of The Triple Resurrection in Leipzig. “I wrote this piece for Wagner’s 200th birthday, because his idea of orchestral drama affected me so much,” the composer has said. “My triple concerto, which I named The Triple Resurrection, is a salute to Wagner’s very powerful Ring cycle. The Triple Resurrection has multiple layers of ideas concerning resurrection, reflected in the belief, the music, the drama, the opera, the cinema. Basically, orchestral drama has here been adapted into a form for the 21st century. Even with music written for film, the music on its own can tell the story and can convey fantastic drama.” Tan Dun conducts the LA Phil in all four concertos August 13, with their cinematic accompaniment. The soloists are violinist Ray Chen, cellist Johannes Moser, and pianist Zhang Zuo. For tickets or further information, please visit HollywoodBowl.com or call 323.850.2000.
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OPENING NIGHT JOURNEY PLAYS TO SELL-OUT CROWD Following the YOLA video tribute, DeVito welcomed and introduced the 80 members of YOLA seated on stage along with the LACHSA Choir. Wilkins then welcomed Journey to the stage to begin the first half of the concert. Along with the YOLA students, led by Wilkins, the band started off with a couple of favorite Journey tunes – “Only the Young,” followed by power ballad “Faithfully,” featuring the LACHSA Choir. The first half wrapped with Journey, YOLA, and the Choir performing the band’s 1978 release “Lights,” accompanied by a fireworks show. The second half of the concert picked up with Journey, joined now by the HBO and Wilkins, launching into a full set of their most popular and beloved hits, beginning with “Be Good to Yourself,” followed by “Open the Door.” They continued with “City of Hope” from their 2011 album Eclipse, and their biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit, “Open Arms,” One of Los Angeles’ most iconic concert venues, the Hollywood Bowl, launched its 94th season with the annual Opening Night Concert, featuring ever-popular and long-enduring rock band and recent Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame inductee Journey, Saturday, June 20. Journey – original members Neal Schon (guitars, backing vocals) and Ross Valory (bass, backing vocals); long-term members Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals), and Deen Castronovo (drums, percussion, backing vocals); and lead singer Arnel Pineda – has had three highly successful appearances at the Bowl since 2006. Since the group’s formation in 1973, Journey has earned 19 Top 40 singles and 25 gold and platinum albums. (Omar Hakim filled in on drums for the evening in Castronovo’s absence.) In its first-ever performance with an orchestra, the band played a full set filled with Billboard Hot 100 hits with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (HBO), led by its charismatic Principal Conductor Thomas Wilkins. The band also performed during the first half of the concert with members of Youth Orchestra LA (YOLA) and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) Choir. The Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl benefit concert raised more than $1 million for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s many education and community programs, which serve more than 150,000 youth, families, and teachers every year. The festive evening began with Wilkins leading the HBO in Los Angelesbased composer Peter Boyer’s Silver Fanfare, during which a video montage of highlights from past Hollywood Bowl Opening Nights was shown on the Bowl’s big screens. After officially welcoming the audience, Wilkins introduced the LA Phil Gala Committee Chairs Teena Hostovich and Doug Martinet and Sponsorship Chairs Jonathan Weedman and Raymundo Baltazar, before welcoming Danny DeVito to the stage. The actor shared with the audience the background and accomplishments of the LA Phil’s YOLA program and its music education efforts before introducing a video focusing on YOLA and their preparation for performing with Journey; this was a focus at their recent YOLA camp, which took place in Idyllwild. Through YOLA, the LA Phil and its community partners that share in the program’s managerial and fiscal responsibilities provide students ages 6 to 18 from underserved neighborhoods free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support. 32
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both with the LACHSA Choir. As the set continued, they played “Still They Ride,” followed by “Who’s Crying Now,” performed with the LACHSA Choir. Next was Grammy-nominated “When You Love a Woman” which reached No. 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in 1996, “Winds of March,” “Mother Father” with the Choir, and “Patiently.” They went on to the band’s first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, “Wheel in the Sky” with the Choir, and “Escape.” Journey, with the HBO and Wilkins, rounded out the concert with a rousing rendering of “Any Way You Want It” accompanied by a spectacular fireworks display. For the encore, Journey returned to the stage with the LACHSA Choir for the band’s perennially popular “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” to conclude the show. “It’s the stuff of fantasy; Journey is onstage at the Hollywood Bowl accompanied by a full orchestra,” Will Theisen wrote in reviewing the concert for the Orange County Register. “Guitarist Neal Schon is shredding on his custom green Paul Reed Smith, and just as he launches into the loudest part of ‘Any Way You Want It,’ with the entire crowd singing along, fireworks start to illuminate the sky. They’re silent at first, but as they rise higher and creep over the crowd, thunderous booms accompany the white spirals, red flares and purple bursts that now spread to all four corners of the horizon. Luckily, the notebook containing this rock fantasy belonged to the opening-night committee for the Hollywood Bowl, and on Saturday, Journey played with a full orchestra for the first time in a career that has spanned four decades.” A number of film and television personalities, as well as elected and other civic officials, were on hand to enjoy the benefit concert, including John Savage, the Bowl’s Spamalot cast member Merle Dandridge, drummer Matt Sorum, and Michaele Schon. Also attending were Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, County Department of Parks and Recreation Director Russ Guiney, Los Angeles Philharmonic Board Chair Diane B. Paul, and Los Angeles Philharmonic Executive Director Gail Samuel. Special thanks to Wells Fargo for its generous support of Opening Night.
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AUG 23 Smooth Summer Jazz Dave Koz and Rick Braun featuring Kenny Lattimore and Maysa Larry Graham and Graham Central Station Macy Gray Harvey Mason: Chameleon
AUG 18 A Live Presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey Los Angeles Philharmonic Brad Lubman Los Angeles Master Chorale
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AUG 26 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Michael Franti and Spearhead Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires AUG 27 From Bach to Bluegrass Los Angeles Philharmonic Nicholas McGegan Edgar Meyer Sam Bush Jerry Douglas AUG 28-19 Diana Krall Los Angeles Philharmonic Chris Walden Gregory Porter AUG 30 Erykah Badu St. Vincent Moses Sumney
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The Los Angeles County Arts Commission fosters excellence, diversity, vitality, understanding, and accessibility of the arts in Los AngelesCounty, encompassing 88 municipalities, and provides leadership in cultural services. The Arts Commission funds over 350 nonprofit arts organizations through a $4.5 million grant program, implements the regional initiative dedicated to restoring arts education to 81 public school districts, programs and operates the Ford Theatres, funds the largest arts internship program in the country, and manages the County’s civic art policy. The Arts Commission also produces free community programs, including the Emmy Award-winning LA County Holiday Celebration for public television. www.lacountyarts.org. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s programs are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mark Ridley-Thomas Hilda L. Solis Michael D. Antonovich Mayor of Los Angeles County Sheila J. Kuehl Don Knabe
county arts commission
Claire Peeps President Bettina Korek Vice President Pamela Bright-Moon Secretary Betty Haagen Executive Committee Araceli Ruano Immediate Past President Eric Hanks Helen Hernandez Constance Jolcuvar Peter Lesnik Claudia Margolis Richard Montoya Alis Clausen Odenthal Hope Warschaw Rosalind Wyman Laura Zucker Executive Director
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ENDOWMENT DONORS We are honored to recognize donors to our Endowment Fund, whose generosity ensures a living tradition of world-class music at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. The following list represents contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Endowment Fund.
$25 MILLION Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation
$20 MILLION David Bohnett Foundation
$10 MILLION Colburn Foundation
$8 MILLION The Annenberg Foundation
$5 MILLION The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Terri and Jerry M. Kohl
$4 MILLION Alfred E. Mann
$3 MILLION
Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann Carol Colburn Grigor Flora L. Thornton
$2 MILLION
Michael J. Connell Foundation Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Elise Mudd Marvin Trust Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Ronus Foundation
$1 MILLION Linda and Robert Attiyeh Gordon and Adele Binder Helen and Peter S. Bing William H. Brady, III Fairchild-Martindale Foundation Eris and Larry Field Kiki and David I. Gindler Mr. and Mrs. Bram Goldsmith Joan and John F. Hotchkis Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee Karl H. Loring Ginny Mancini E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Beatrix and Martin Padway William Powers and Carolyn Powers H. Russell Smith Foundation $500,000 to $999,999 Ann and Martin Albert Betty Freeman Gertrude and Arthur Friedman Dorothy and B. Allen Lay Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy and Family Earl and Victoria Pushee William and Sally Rutter Dody Waugh Lee and Hope Landis Warner YOLA Student Fund Edna Weiss
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$250,000 to $499,999 Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Linda and Maynard Brittan Linda and Abbott Brown Mark Houston Dalzell Dunard Fund USA Margaret and Jerrold Eberhardt Veronica and Robert Egelston Gordon Family Foundation Lenore S. and Bernard Greenberg William Randolph Hearst Foundation Yvonne and Gordon Hessler The Kaplan Family Trust Gerald L. Katell Ms. Norma D. Kayser Carrie and Stuart Ketchum Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates Merle and Peter Mullin Jane and Marc Nathanson Nancy and Sidney Petersen Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Rice Family Foundation Robert Robinson Alyce and Warren B. Williamson $100,000 to $249,999 Anonymous Rachel and Lee Ault W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Baker Family Trust Deborah Borda Jacqueline Briskin David A. Clark The James and Paula Coburn Foundation Silvia and Kevin Dretzka Christine and Daniel Ewell Eva G. and William D. Fremont Arnold Gilberg, M.D., Ph.D. Gonda Family Foundation The Estate of Fay Bettye Green Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green Bud and Barbara Hellman H. Kirkland Jones and Yuri Long-Jones Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan Susanne and Paul Kester Vicki King Sylvia Kunin The L. Franc Scheuer Trust Ann and Edward Leibon Ellen and Mark Lipson Ms. Helen McKenna Elise Mudd Marvin Trust Minturn Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Soraya and Younes Nazarian Margaret M. Parmaley Edith Peluse Mary Pickford Foundation Sally and Frank Raab Nancy S. and Barry Sanders David and Linda Shaheen Foundation
William and Luigina Sheridan Mr. and Mrs. William E.B. Siart Katherine and Thomas Stoever Ronald and Valerie Sugar Geoffrey and Margot Tyrrash Wasserman Foundation $25,000 to $99,999 Anonymous (2) Mr. Robert J. Abernethy William A. Allison Joe Austin Marie Baier Foundation Angela Bardowell Richard Bardowell, M.D. Alvin W. Bisher Lynn and Otis Booth Dorothy Burke Ann and Tony Cannon Hannah Carter Dee and Robert E. Cody The Colburn Fund Community Foundation Silicon Valley Mr. Allen Don Cornelsen Terry Cox Ginny and John Cushman Marilyn J. Dale Nancy and Donald de Brier Dr. and Mrs. Roger DeBard Jennifer and Royce Diener Allan and Diane Eisenman Robert E. Englekirk Ernest Fleischmann Claudia and Mark Foster Lillian and Stephen Frank Tomas Fuller and William Kelly Ms. Jeanne M. Giovannoni Paul and Florence Glaser David and Paige Glickman Good Works Foundation Margaret Grauman The Harris Family Foundation Joan Green Harris Trust Anne Heineman Linda Joyce Hodge In and Ki Hong Jean W. Horton Drs. Judith and Herbert Hyman Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Albert E. and Nancy C. Jenkins Charitable Trust Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody C.W. & Irene Johnson Family Trust Stephen A. Kanter, M.D. Hugh W. Kennedy The Estate of Raymond A. Lieberman Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald Sarah F. Manson Vicki and Kerry McCluggage Meitus Marital Trust Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.
John D. Millard Diane and Leon Morton Alfren and Arlene Noreen Occidental Petroleum Corporation M. Lee Pearce Ann and Robert Ronus Lois Rosen James M. Rosser Anne and James Rothenberg Donald Tracy Rumford SahanDaywi Foundation Charles I. Schneider and Nancy Barrier Virginia Skinner Living Trust Nancy and Richard Spelke Mary H. Statham Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Stevens Priscilla and Curtis Tamkin Don Taylor Ms. Fran H. Tuchman Magda and Frederick R. Waingrow Rhio H. Weir Jean E. Willingham Winnick Family Foundation Cheryl and Peter Ziegler Lynn and Roger Zino
Los Angeles Philharmonic Musicians Martin Chalifour Brian Drake Barry Gold Christopher Hanulik Ingrid Hutman Gloria Lum Joanne Pearce Martin Kazue Asawa McGregor Oscar M. Meza Mitchell Newman Peter Rofé Meredith Snow Barry Socher Paul Stein Leticia Oaks Strong Dennis Trembly James Wilt Suli Xue
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment Fund with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. Our apologies if your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error. Please contact our Development Office at 213.972.7557 and we will correct our mistake. Thank you.
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GIFTS
We are honored to recognize corporate, foundation, and government donors who generously support the mission of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association: to perform, present, and promote music in its many varied forms at the highest level of excellence to a large and diverse audience. We are deeply grateful for the following contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl received between April 2014 and April 2015. gifts of
$250,000 and above The Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation Max H. Gluck Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts Rolex Watch USA, Inc. Union Bank of California
Anonymous Acura The Ahmanson Foundation Andy & Bill Concerts, LLP Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles
$100,000 to $249,999 The José Iturbi Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation Legacy Foundation Fund Los Angeles County Arts Commission Rosenthal Family Foundation Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. Viking Cruises Wells Fargo Private Bank The Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky
Amgen Foundation Anheuser-Busch Inc. BMW of North America Michael J. Connell Foundation Disney Worldwide Services The Eisner Foundation Fidelity Investments Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Heineken USA Incorporated
$50,000 to $99,999 The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Target Corporation Transit Systems Unlimited Inc.
The Annenberg Foundation Edison International The Getty Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Hubert’s Lemonade
$25,000 to $49,999 Anonymous The Herb Alpert Foundation California Community Foundation The Capital Group Companies City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Coca Cola Enterprises Cooper Tire & Rubber Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Golden Road Brewing
The Green Foundation Macy’s Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc. MetLife Foundation Newhall Land And Farming Company The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Jay and Rose Phillips Foundation of California Sunset Marquis The Walt Disney Company
$10,000 to $24,999 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Michael D. Antonovich, Los Angeles County Supervisor Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable Foundation East West Bank Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor League of American Orchestras’ Getty Education and Community Investment Grant Program LN-HS Concerts, LLC Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
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Milken Family Foundation The Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina Morgan Stanley Community Affairs Foundation Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Kermit Henry Schotter Trust Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. The Specialty Family Foundation State Farm Insurance Dwight Stuart Youth Fund World Presidents’ Organization, City of Angels Chapter
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NEWS
FROM THE LA PHIL
In Memoriam The Los Angeles Philharmonic family was saddened to learn of the passing of GABRIEL JELLEN in June. Jellen, 83, was a member of the orchestra’s cello section for 36 years. He played violin and clarinet as a boy, and he also enjoyed playing alto and tenor saxophone in his free time. But his passion was playing the cello. From his early years in the Bronx he was fascinated when he listened to the practicing of a New York Philharmonic cellist who lived in the same building. His mother decreed, however, that Gaby was too small for such a large instrument, and he was handed a violin. After moving to California, he became a member of Peter Meremblum’s youth orchestra (initially as a violinist, later rejoining as a cellist). The young musician was hired to play in an MGM film starring Robert Taylor. After he renewed his love affair with the cello, Jellen’s teachers included Gregory Aller and Kurt Reher, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s former Principal Cellist. Jellen’s first professional job was in the cello section of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, but he soon found his way to the post of Assistant Principal Cello in the Tulsa Philharmonic. It was ten years later (after serving with the Saint Louis Symphony and the New Orleans Philharmonic) that he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in August 1963. His first season was in the old Philharmonic Auditorium, where he had listened as a child to concerts conducted by Albert Coates and Alfred Wallenstein. He retired at the end of the Hollywood Bowl season in 1999.
Immortal Beethoven Tickets for Immortal Beethoven, the LA Phil’s highly anticipated festival opening the 2015/16 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, go on sale August 4. Following the models of his widely praised cycles of the Mahler and Tchaikovsky symphonies, Gustavo Dudamel leads two complete sequential cycles of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, shared between the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela (Oct. 1-11, including four performances of the Ninth Symphony by the combined orchestras). “Reuniting my two musical families, the LA Phil and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, in the Immortal Beethoven festival will be a complete joy,” Dudamel has said. “I am incredibly proud of the work we have accomplished and will continue to accomplish together on stage and for the children of El Sistema and YOLA.”
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Dudamel has already led his Venezuelan orchestra in acclaimed recordings of the Symphonies Nos. 3, 5, and 7 for the Deutsche Grammophon label. Last month, he conducted the cycle in numerical order for the first time on five successive nights in Bogotá, Colombia. Highlights of Dudamel’s Beethoven history with the LA Phil would have to begin with ¡Bienvenido Gustavo!, the triumphant communal inauguration of his tenure at the Hollywood Bowl in 2009, which climaxed in the Ninth Symphony. He and the LA Phil also joined Leif Ove Andsnes in a multi-season survey of Beethoven’s works for piano and orchestra. This coming festival further explores the legendary composer’s works through chamber music featuring members of the LA Phil and the Simón Bolívar String Quartet (Oct. 13), plus educational initiatives including YOLA activities and Toyota Symphonies for Youth (Oct. 3 & 10). The Opening Night Concert & Gala is “The Brilliance of Beethoven” and features both orchestras (Sept. 29). Other Immortal Beethoven events include a screening of the documentary In Search of Beethoven with a discussion and Q&A (Sept. 9 at the American Jewish University), and free community concerts around town featuring pianists and members of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela (Sept. 27-Oct. 8). And to whet your appetite — should that be needed! — there are important Beethoven works presented at the Bowl this month. Chinese superstar pianist Yundi makes his long-awaited Bowl debut with Beethoven’s beloved “Emperor” Concerto, with the LA Phil conducted by James Gaffigan (Aug. 6), opening a program capped by Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Joshua Bell, one of America’s greatest violinists, leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s epically dancing Seventh Symphony; Bell is also the soloist in Bruch’s evergreen Violin Concerto No. 1 (Aug. 11). Single tickets for the rest of the 2015/16 season go on sale August 23. For more information, please visit LA Phil.com or call 323.850.2000.
Summer Concerts Broadcast on Classical KUSC For the ninth consecutive year, Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl summer season concerts will be broadcast on 91.5 Classical KUSC. The ten concerts, recorded live, feature the LA Phil with a stellar roster of guest artists and conductors, as well as Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Hosted and produced by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen and executive produced by KUSC’s Gail Eichenthal, the programs air weekly at 7 pm on Sundays from August 9 through
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“I can hear you when you sigh/Through the water in the sky.” To the crowd’s delight, Trey Anastasio sang those words on a Friday evening at the Hollywood Bowl last fall. For those who live in and love California, now in the grip of an historic drought, we have long wished that the sky would deliver enough water to ease the shortage we’ve all been coping with for several years. At the Department of Parks and Recreation, we partner with all Californians in our shared obligation to conserve this precious resource. We are proud to say that the Bowl is taking a leadership role in water conservation. Do you like the look of the landscaping on these beautiful grounds? Many of you may not know that the Bowl is one of 29 L.A. County parks watered by “smart controllers.” This technology collects real-time weather data, beamed down by orbiting satellites to a computer-based interface, and irrigates plants according to their specific moisture needs at an appointed time. Countywide, these controllers have saved 219 million gallons of water at our parks – enough water to provide 1,200 families with a year’s supply of water. It has now been eight years since we installed waterless urinals and low-flush toilets in the restrooms here at the Bowl, saving 3.5 million gallons of water – in the first year alone! While entering the Bowl tonight, you probably walked or drove past a great example of water conservation that is meant to go mostly unnoticed. Last November, we quietly replaced the grass that had long circled the Bowl marquee – otherwise known as our “front door” – and replaced it with a form of artificial turf that requires no water for maintenance. Whether the efforts are large or small, we must all pull together to help ensure that we confront this drought in a fashion that is environmentally responsible, and takes into account the quality-of-life need to do all we can to preserve and protect the outdoor beauty that is a hallmark of the Golden State. Until we meet again, I leave you with a few more words from the song that opened this note, which seem especially apropos as you prepare to hear some great music this evening: “Listen as she speaks to you/Hear the voices flutter through…”
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October 11, and are heard widely throughout much of Southern California on 91.5 Classical KUSC, 88.5 KPSC in Palm Springs, 91.1 KDSC in Thousand Oaks, 99.7 KESC in Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo, and 88.7 KQSC in Santa Barbara. The programs can also be heard online at KUSC.org. Each concert will be available for online streaming for one week following the Sunday broadcast. Interviews and features with soloists and orchestra members throughout the series offer unique insights and give listeners a more in-depth perspective.
August 9 Lionel Bringuier, conductor Yuja Wang, piano BORODIN Polovtsian Dances PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 DEBUSSY La mer RAVEL Bolero August 16 Lionel Bringuier, conductor Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet selections TCHAIKOVSKY Rococo Variations TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture August 23 Bramwell Tovey, conductor Martin Chalifour, violin BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” August 30 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Joélle Harvey, soprano Lawrence Brownlee, tenor Brian Mulligan, baritone Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon, Artistic Director National Children’s Chorus Luke McEndarfer, Artistic Director WHITACRE Her Sacred Spirit Soars WHITACRE Equus ORFF Carmina Burana
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NEWS September 6 Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Gil Shaham, violin Alberto Arvelo, director Bryce Dallas Howard, narrator Deanna Breiwick, soprano Jennifer Holloway, mezzo-soprano Women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon, Artistic Director MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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The incomparable Audra McDonald sings classics from Broadway and the American Songbook, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Bramwell Tovey. Gifted dancers from American Ballet Theatre bring to life Bernstein’s Fancy Free, using Jerome Robbins’ zestful 1944 choreography. (September 1 & 3)
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Bring your entire family to this extraordinary, world-premiere event, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs John Williams’ entire Academy Award-winning score from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming masterpiece about a boy and his alien friend, live-to-picture while this beloved film is shown in HD on the Bowl’s big screen. Don’t miss E.T. under the stars, as you’ve never seen or heard it before! John Williams himself introduces the event. (September 4-6) This film is rated PG.
Stunning Georgian pianist and Sony Classical recording artist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Rachmaninoff’s passionate Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the LA Phil. Dvorˇák’s celebrated “New World” Symphony concludes the program, which marks 24-year-old Israeli conductor Lahav Shani’s U.S. debut. (September 8)
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Pablo Heras-Casado
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings his vaunted style and flair to Gershwin’s jazzy Concerto in F, with Pablo Heras-Casado conducting the LA Phil. The Bowl’s memorable classical season comes to an end with Berlioz’ love-steeped Symphonie fantastique. (September 10)
Dance the night away with the world’s greatest party band, The B-52s, and the romantic pop swagger of The Psychedelic Furs. It’s an endof-the-season bash not to be missed, packed with your favorite hits: “Rock Lobster,” “Love Shack,” “Pretty in Pink,” “The Ghost in You” and more – plus the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra conducted by Thomas Wilkins and the Bowl’s spectacular fireworks! (September 11-13)
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Los Angeles Philharmonic James Gaffigan, conductor Stefan Dohr, horn Andrew Bain, horn Timothy Jones, horn Sarah Willis, horn
TUESDAY August 4, 2015 8:00pm Fanfare for 16 Horns (world premiere) Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (with generous support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting) and the International Horn Society John Cerminaro, Ethan Bearman, Amy Jo Rhine, Brian Drake Kerry Turner, Geoffrey Winter, Charles Putnam, Kristina Mascher-Turner Stefan de Leval Jezierski, Andrej Žust, Peter Luff, Jeff Nelsen Robert Ward, Jonathan Ring, Bruce Roberts, Jessica Valeri
Konzertstück in F major
Lebhaft Romanze: Ziemlich langsam Sehr lebhaft Stefan Dohr, Andrew Bain, Timothy Jones, Sarah Willis
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Der Rosenkavalier Suite
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Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
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Fanfare for 16 Horns Bruce Broughton (b. 1945) Though best known for his television and film scores – ten Emmys, plus an Oscar nomination for Silverado and a Grammy nomination for Young Sherlock Holmes – Bruce Broughton has also composed a distinguished body of concert music, including several concertos and works that have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony brass, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Brought up in the intense environment of Salvation Army bands, as a boy Broughton played cornet and horn before concentrating on piano, and he has written a number of pieces featuring brass. (His brass quintet Three American Portraits was performed by LA Phil members at Walt Disney Concert Hall last May as part of the Next on Grand festival.) Broughton’s Fanfare for 16 Horns was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the International Horn Society, which is holding its 47th International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles this week. It is scored for a quartet of quartets, each group of four treated as a sort of single mega-horn as well as four polyphonically discrete voices, much as Robert Schumann did in the Konzertstück that follows it. The sheer zest of the thing is also much like the exuberant Schumann piece, and there are motives that seem to carve similar shapes, but then most fanfares share common gestures and the Schumann piece is certainly full of fanfares. Broughton’s begins with an energetic, chromatic call-and-response. It shifts moods and textures easily and often, but is always in motion, whether dancing or singing, sighing or strutting. Extreme virtuosity is taken for granted as an intensifying element, and it swaggers to an emphatic conclusion. — John Henken Konzertstück in F major Robert Schumann (1810-1856) This unique and vivacious concerto for four horns and large orchestra is a product of Schumann’s final years in the Saxon capital Dresden, one of the happiest and most fruitful periods in the career of this often troubled and tormented artist. It was completed early in
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March 1849, shortly after Schumann wrote his Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, for horn and piano. (Schumann apparently had no immediate purpose for the work. He conducted its premiere in Leipzig the following year on a concert that was a sort of make-up for the delayed premiere of his opera Genoveva.) Schumann was always interested in new and progressive developments, and these were the first significant solo pieces for the valve horn, which was slowly replacing the natural horn. (The valve horn was introduced in the Paris Conservatoire in 1833, for example, but then was banned in 1864 when its professor retired; it did not become the officially recognized instrument there until 1903.) Schumann demonstrates abundantly the advantages in chromaticism and agility of the new instrument, but was practical enough to write the orchestral parts in the Konzertstück for the natural horn. Schumann’s eagerness to exploit the new chromatic freedom of his solo instruments gives the first movement a restless ebb and flow through many keys, though he retains a solid formal tonal scheme. Exuberance indeed is the great characteristic of this music, and the challenges to the solo quartet – particularly its high-flying first – are extreme even today. The second movement Romance features a lyrical duet for the first two soloists, supported with highly interactive orchestral soloists like chamber music. This frames a warm but metrically unstable chorale for the full orchestra and solo quartet over rippling cello arpeggios. As that instrumental song dies away, the trumpets burst in with the premature introduction to the finale, marked Sehr lebhaft, and “very lively” it is. This is another whirlwind for the soloists, testing range and agility within a very expressive context. Their witty conversation with the orchestra includes a central section bringing back that chorale from the Romance, now in the remote key of E major, an impossible feat for the traditional natural horn. — J.H. Der Rosenkavalier Suite Richard Strauss (1864-1949) When Richard Strauss needed some local color for his opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose), which is set in Vienna, he turned to the waltz. It was a rather anach-
ronistic choice, since the opera is set in the 18th century, roughly a hundred years before Johann Strauss, Jr. and company had everyone in the Austrian capital dancing in 3/4 time. Examples of the waltz can be found as far back as the late 18th century, but, for most music lovers, the waltz equals Vienna during its 19th-century glory days. By the time Strauss composed Der Rosenkavalier in 1909-10, the sun was setting on that golden age, and the composer used the waltz in the opera as shorthand for the elegance and grace of a bygone era. The opera’s story unfolds in old regime Europe. Octavian, a young nobleman (sung by a mezzo-soprano in the opera, which makes the part one of the most famous trouser roles), is carrying on a love affair with the Marschallin (she is married to a Field Marshall, which explains her name, a feminized form of the German “Marschall”). Baron Ochs, a bumbling old bumpkin and relative of the Marschallin, wants to marry lovely young Sophie, so the Marschallin suggests Octavian as a go-between for the proposal. When Octavian falls in love with Sophie, amusing machinations ensue, and eventually their love becomes clear to all. In the end, the Marschallin gives up Octavian so that he and Sophie can be united. Strauss’ score for the opera, with its delectable waltzes and passages of ravishing beauty, proved extremely popular with audiences, and Strauss culled two “Waltz Sequences” from the score for performance in the concert hall. Delicious as these are, they miss out on some of the score’s more subtle flavors. The composer also sanctioned and had a hand in the arrangement of substantial excerpts from the score to accompany a 1925 silent film of Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Robert Wiene of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame. Strauss was very reluctant about the whole venture, in spite of a $10,000 fee, and his trepidation was borne out by the fairly disappointing end result. Two decades later, Strauss consented to another version of his Rosenkavalier score for orchestra, the Suite selected for tonight’s program. The Suite was presumably arranged by Artur Rodzinski, who was conductor of the New York Philharmonic at the time and had been Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1929 to 1933, and he conducted its first performance in New York on October
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5, 1944. Strauss, in a tough spot financially after World War II, agreed to its publication in 1945. The Suite opens just as the opera does, with bellowing horns and glowing strings portraying the love-making that has just taken place between Octavian and his significantly older mistress, the Marschallin. The music that accompanies the presentation of the silver rose in Act II (Octavian gives it to Sophie as an engagement present from Baron Ochs) follows, delicate and rapt, the rose itself depicted by a series of shimmering chords played by flutes, solo violins, harps, and celesta. A brief passage of turbulent music that accompanies Ochs’ discovery that Octavian has only been posing as his go-between to pursue Sophie himself precedes the series of waltzes that we hear in Act II while Ochs is trying to sweet talk Sophie with smooth lines like “With me, no night will be too long for you!” Here, any attempt to follow the narrative of the opera begins to disintegrate, as the Suite jumps back to the beginning of Act II and then to an orchestral rendition of the famed trio and duet that close the opera, as the Marschallin gracefully yields to Sophie and the elated young lovers sing their duet. The
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Suite’s coda brings yet another waltz, this time from earlier in Act III, a fitting culmination for a Suite from an opera that revels in the splendor, opulence, and charm of Vienna’s golden age. — John Mangum Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Richard Strauss Following a crushing failure with his first opera (Guntram), Strauss returned to the tone poem with Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (1894-95). He indulged a sort of revenge in choosing as his topic the individual who thumbs his nose at society (originally intended as another opera). This was the composer’s take on the German legend of Till Eulenspiegel, a mischievous trickster who became known in folkloric stories as a sort of con artist meets jester. Strauss compared the charming opening measures to a fairy tale’s beginning. Soon Till bursts in on the scene in two themes: the first given to solo horn (spanning nearly three octaves) and the second a giggling flourish on clarinet. Till’s exploits – Strauss’ score has been
plundered by generations of cartoon music composers – include riding his horse through the marketplace and overturning its wares to the sound of a ratchet, dressing up as a clergyman (bloated bassoons and violas), flirting with the pretty girls (swooning strings) and getting rejected, and then mocking a parade of pompous academics. After a galloping horse ride, Till is put on trial, condemned, and – with a sudden change of tone ushered in by a snare drum roll and ominous brass – marched to the scaffold, pleading in vain. A shriek high in the clarinet announces his demise. But Strauss frames the proceedings with the initial fairy tale music, bringing the prankster back for a final surprise. The result is one of the finest examples of musical humor ever elaborated. But it’s significant that, however detailed the musical “narrative” sounds to us, Strauss insisted that his witty invention was all “spent in notes.” Indeed one of the score’s marvels is its elaboration of such plentiful variety from the source of Till’s two themes. — Thomas May
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Hailed for the natural ease of his conducting and the compelling insight of his musicianship, JAMES GAFFIGAN continues to attract international attention and is considered by many to be the most outstanding young American conductor working today. In January 2010, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; he recently concluded his tenure as Principal Guest Conductor of the Gurzenich Orchestra in Cologne. In addition to these titled positions, Gaffigan is in high demand to work with the leading orchestras and opera houses throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, Gaffigan has guest conducted the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and
the Chicago, Toronto, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, National, Atlanta, Houston, Baltimore, Vancouver, Milwaukee, and New World symphonies, among others. His U.S. festival engagements include appearances at the Blossom, Aspen, Grand Teton, and Grant Park festivals, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl and Music Academy of the West. James Gaffigan’s international career was launched when he was named a first-prize winner at the 2004 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt, Germany. Since then, he has appeared with prestigious orchestras such as the Munich, London, and Rotterdam philharmonics, London Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Symphony, London and Czech philharmonics, City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tonhalle Orchestra, and the Camerata Salzburg, among others. Highlights of his 2015/16 season include his debut with the New York Philharmonic and re-engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, both downtown and at the
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Hollywood Bowl, as well as with the Toronto, National, Dallas, and New World symphonies. Internationally, in addition to his work with the Lucerne Symphony and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, he guest conducts the London Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Sydney Symphony, and São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Equally at home in the opera house, James Gaffigan made his Vienna State Opera debut in 2011/12 conducting La bohème, was immediately invited back to conduct Don Giovanni the following season, and returns once again in the fall of 2015 for performances of The Marriage of Figaro. He made his professional opera debut at the Zurich Opera in June 2005 conducting La bohème. In the summers of 2009 and 2010 he conducted performances of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro at the Aspen Music Festival and made his debut at Glyndebourne sharing a production of Così fan tutte with the late Sir Charles Mackerras. Since then, he has returned to Glyndebourne leading performances of Falstaff and a new production of La Cenerentola and has led performances of The Marriage of Figaro with the Houston Grand Opera, Salome with the Hamburg Opera, Rigoletto with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and La traviata with the Norwegian Opera. Future opera projects include his debuts with the Bavarian State Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. Gaffigan’s first recording with the Lucerne Symphony for Harmonia Mundi, an all-Wolfgang Rihm disc, received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as did his second recording with Lucerne of Dvorˇák’s Symphony No. 6 and the American Suite, also for Harmonia Mundi. He is in the process of recording the complete Prokofiev symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and his most recent recording is the first Tchaikovsky and second Prokofiev piano concertos with Kirill Gerstein and the DSO Berlin for the Myrios label. Born in New York City in 1979, Gaffigan attended the New England Conservatory of Music and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, where he earned his Masters of Music in conducting. He was also chosen to study at the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival
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and School and was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. In 2009, Gaffigan completed a three-year tenure as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, where he assisted Michael Tilson Thomas, led subscription concerts, and was Artistic Director of the orchestra’s Summer in the City festival. Prior to that appointment, he was the Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, where he worked under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst from 2003 through 2006. James Gaffigan resides in Lucerne with his wife and their children, Sofia and Liam.
Proclaimed by the New York Chronicle as the “king of his instrument,” STEFAN DOHR’s perfect technique, pure intonation, and beauti-
fully articulated artistry are steadily making him a talking point internationally. Stefan Dohr studied in Essen and Cologne and started his professional career at the age of 19 as principal horn of the Frankfurt Opera. He occupied the same position with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, and the DeutschenSymphonie-Orchester Berlin. Stefan Dohr has been the principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1993. As a soloist Stefan Dohr has worked with many celebrated conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, and Daniel Harding as well as Claudio Abbado, who also invited him to appear as principal horn with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. His engagements as a sought-after chamber musician include performances with his Philharmonic colleagues in various ensembles as well as with partners such as Maurizio Pollini, Lars Vogt, Kolja Blacher, and Ian Bostridge. He is also a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet as well as the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. Stefan Dohr
appears regularly in international chamber music festivals and is invited to give master classes throughout the world. As well as the solo repertoire of the Classical and Romantic period such as the horn concertos of Mozart, Haydn, and Strauss, Stefan Dohr’s interest also lies in works by contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Knussen, and Kirchner. He has had a number of pieces composed for him, such as the ‘Montafon’ Concerto by Herbert Willi, which he premiered in 2008, and a horn concerto by Johannes Wallmann, premiered in 2010. The Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa created Moment of Blossoming for French horn and orchestra for him, and in February 2011, Stefan Dohr very successfully performed its world premiere with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle. Another concerto, dedicated to Stefan Dohr by German composer Wolfgang Rihm, had its world premiere at the Lucerne Festival 2014. Among his recordings are the CDs Opera! and Four Corners!, which Stefan Dohr has recorded with his colleagues from the Berlin Philharmonic horn section, as well as a solo recording, complete with all of Mozart’s horn concertos and which includes the arrangements and completions by Franz Xaver Süßmayer, Robert D. Levin, and Nino Rota for Mozart’s Unfinished K. 412/514 (386b). In 2014 recordings of Schumann’s Konzertstück and Toshio Hosokawa’s Moment of Blossoming were released. For further information, please visit stefandohr.com.
Born and raised in Australia, ANDREW BAIN was appointed to the chair of principal horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Gustavo Dudamel in May 2011.
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has also held the positions of principal horn of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony, and the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra and associate principal horn of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. From 20032012 he was the principal horn of the Colorado Music Festival. A regarded solo artist, Andrew has appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne Symphony and Queensland Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, and Music in the Round Festival. He has performed Schumann’s Konzertstück at the Colorado Music Festival and with the Colburn Orchestra in Los Angeles. Andrew has appeared regularly as a soloist with the LA Phil since joining the orchestra and is excited to appear in his debut as a soloist at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. In addition to performing, Andrew is proud to be the Horn Professor at the Colburn School Conservatory. A passionate educator, Andrew has held positions with the Australian National Academy of Music, University of Melbourne, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, and Sydney Conservatorium. He has also given master classes and lectures throughout the world including at the Pacific Music Festival, UCLA, Royal College of Music London, Guildhall School London, Manhattan School of Music, Shanghai Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, McGill University in Montreal, and in Poland for the Sinfonia Varsovia Academy. Andrew has recently appeared as guest principal horn of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic and over the summer is the principal horn of the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego and a faculty member of the Aspen Music Fstival and School; he has just returned from the Australian World Orchestra’s concerts with Simon Rattle in Sydney and Melbourne. Co-host of the 2015 International Horn Symposium here in L.A. from August 2-8, Andrew is thrilled to welcome over 1000 horn players to the city for a week-long celebration of everything horn! In addition to music, Andrew loves traveling, cooking, and exploring L.A. with his beautiful wife, Rupal. If he’s not working, you will most likely find him on the golf course trying to improve his handicap. More information can be found at andrewbainhorn.com.
TIMOTHY JONES is one of the most sought-after horn players of his generation. He is currently solo horn of the London Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1986.
Jones started playing the horn at the age of 15 and two years later won a position playing in the Munich Philharmonic. Having been invited to play solo horn with many of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, Jones has also held positions with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and has worked with many of the most prominent conductors in a career spanning over 35 years. Jones has appeared as a soloist at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, including the Salzburg Festival and the Pacific Music Festival, and many international halls, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Hall, and the Schauspielhaus in Berlin. His recording of the Kenneth Fuchs Horn Concerto, premiered and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, was nominated for a Grammy. An active chamber musician, Jones has collaborated with André Previn, Christoph Eschenbach, Heinz Holliger, Martha Argerich, Gil Shaham, and Yuri Bashmet. Jones is Professor of Horn at the Royal College of Music and is director and co-owner of the renowned horn company PAXMAN Limited.
Department. She went on to study full time at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her teachers included Anthony Halstead and Jeff Bryant. She later studied with Fergus McWilliam in Berlin, where she became second horn in the Berlin State Opera under Daniel Barenboim in 1991. During this time, Sarah played as a guest with many top orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, the London Symphony, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and performed worldwide as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles. In 2001 Sarah Willis joined the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the first female member of the brass section. She has recorded various acclaimed CDs including works such as the Brahms Horn Trio and the Rosetti Double Horn Concertos as well as the much-celebrated CDs Opera! and Four Corners! with the Berlin Philharmonic Horns. Her latest solo album, Horn Discoveries, was released in 2014. Sarah is involved in many of the Berlin Philharmonic education projects and especially enjoys creating and presenting its Family Concerts series. She also interviews conductors and soloists for the Digital Concert Hall and in 2011 she presented live to 33 million viewers during the final concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Sarah is passionate about music education and makes full use of digital technology and social media to reach audiences worldwide. She was chosen to be one of the first testers of Google Glass and used this experience to see how new technology could be used in classical music. She is also a regular broadcaster and interviewer on TV and online and fronts the classical music program Sarah’s Music for Deutsche Welle TV. Sarah Willis plays on a Gebr. Alexander hand-hammered Model 103
SARAH WILLIS was born in Maryland and holds British and American citizenships. Her father was a foreign correspondent and her family lived in the U.S., Tokyo, and Moscow before moving to England when she was 13. She began playing the horn aged 14 at school and then attended the Royal College of Music Junior
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WEDNESDAY
August 5
Jamie Cullum Soulive Lisa Fischer
WEDNESDAY August 5, 2015 8:00pm
Lisa Fischer
Lisa Fischer, vocals JC Maillard, musical director / arranger / guitar / SazBass / backing vocals Thierry Arpino, drums / percussion Aidan Carroll, bass / backing vocals
Soulive
Alan Evans, drums Neal Evans, bass keys / D6 clavinet / Hammond organ Eric Krasno, guitar
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Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum, piano / vocals Tom Richards, sax / keys / vocals Rory Simmons, guitar / trumpet Loz Garratt, bass / vocals Brad Webb, drums / vocals
Bob Sheppard, alto sax / clarinet Alex Budman, alto sax / flute Greg Huckins, tenor sax / bass clarinet Adam Schroeder, baritone sax / bass clarinet Wayne Bergeron, trumpet Reshawn Ross, trumpet Dan Fornero, trumpet Andy Martin, trombone Garrett Smith, trombone Ryan Dragon, trombone Steve Hughes, bass trombone
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When JAMIE CULLUM’s wife gave birth to their daughter in early 2011, the singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist was, naturally, overwhelmed. He and Sophie
Dahl, the writer and model, had married the previous year. Their young family was already blooming. How could he not be inspired? Cullum had previously filled his life with performing, recording, and writing. While studying English and Film at Reading University, he made his debut album, Heard It All Before. Post-graduation and in the wake of the release of the self-financed Pointless Nostalgic (2001), he’d spent most of his 20s travelling and touring and collaborating, first ripping up the jazz rulebook, then later following his muse wherever it took him. With 2009’s The Pursuit, that all-consuming musical passion meant touring the world tirelessly, winning over global corner after global corner, notably America and multiple geographical nooks and crannies therein (“good evening Birmingham, Alabama!”). Jamie Cullum’s sixth album was the sound of a man both at peace with himself and in playful, creative battle with his inspirations. With Momentum – and by channelling momentum – Jamie Cullum began enjoying a newfound musical freedom. Cullum’s willingness to defy convention has served him well during his lifelong pursuit of musical fulfillment. He began playing piano and guitar at the age of eight; in his mid teens, Cullum
was in and out of rock bands playing guitar, drums, and piano; he was also the drummer in a hip-hop combo, eventually finding his way back to jazz through the samples used in his
favorite hip-hop recordings; and Cullum spent the end of his teen years living in Paris, where he honed his skills performing in local jazz clubs before going on to become the biggestselling British jazz artist of all time. “The artists I most admire,” Cullum observes, “are people like Miles Davis and Tom Waits, who make all kinds of different records, and change and evolve over the years, but still remain themselves. That’s what I aspire to. I’m only about five per cent of the way there, but I’ve got time.” The Momentum album was quickly followed by one initially recorded just for the fun. After the more mainstream recording sessions of Momentum, Jamie felt he had a jazz itch to scratch. Three studio days later, the session masters of what would become Interlude were done. A passion project, the tracks were recorded, with a big band, in one room in one take. A jazz album through and through, the choice of tunes was very much influenced by his radio show. LP producer Benedic Lamdin (also known as Nostalgia 77) was a previous guest on the show, and the two duets on the record are with singers for whom Jamie’s show was a springboard mainstream success – Blue Note’s Gregory Porter and Sony’s Laura Mvula. Alongside his songwriting ability, flair as a
performer, and natural aptitude as a broadcaster, Jamie has taken his long term love of photography a step further by teaming up with Leica cameras to produce all the shots for Interlude’s deluxe artwork which can be seen on display at Leica’s galleries in Germany and London as well as in the booklet for the album itself. The musician has also turned magazine publisher. Inspired by Dave Eggars’ Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterley Concern, Jamie created The 88, “an occasional magazine for the adventurous thinker.” The heavyweight journal is a collection of words and pictures curated by Jamie, featuring contributions from his friends.
SOULIVE has never made any bones about what they do best; it’s right there in their name. Since forming in 1999, the trio of guitarist Eric Krasno, drummer Alan Evans, and keyboardist Neal Evans has carried the torch for the soul-jazz organ trio – that venerable, funky institution pioneered by the likes of Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff, and Groove Holmes in the late ’60s. Rest assured, when the Evans brothers first brought Kraz by their Woodstock studio, there was plenty of old vinyl spread out on the floor. In their 13 years together, Soulive has followed the muse in the direction of hip-hop, R&B, blues, and rock, collaborating with the likes of Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli, John Scofield, Derek Trucks, Maceo Parker, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville, and so many others, even going so far as to record a full album of covers by The Beatles (Rubber Soulive). But, no matter how they push the limits of the organ trio, they always come back to their bread and butter: blistering solos and grooves that don’t quit. Their 2012 a four-track EP Spark deserves a place on your record shelf, right between Booker T. and a bottle of some good singlemalt. Recorded over a day-and-a-half with saxophonist/flautist Karl Denson (The Greyboy Allstars, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe), the record captures the smoky vibe of early’70s-era CTI Records releases by the likes of Freddie Hubbard, Grover Washington Jr., and George Benson. Each tune was ultimately just a vehicle for the musicians’ playing, so, sticking to
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this formula, the quartet used very few overdubs. “Back in that era,” Krasno explains, “you bought a piece of vinyl and it had two tracks on either side. The grooves were kind of dark but really open and each musician got a chance to breathe.” Denson continues: “Spark is really about the playing, less about the tunes. It’s the four of us collectively getting back to more of a jazzier thing than we’d done in recent memory.” The first side opens with Yusef Lateef’s sultry “Nubian Lady,” featuring Denson on flute. It was a mutual love for Lateef that brought the quartet together to begin with – Kraz having studied with the legend and Denson having idolized his records. The laidback tempo lets the group simmer on the theme until Kraz decides to slice the whole thing open with some Middle Eastern fretwork, leaving Karl to pick up the pieces. Denson describes the sound as “Something a little more chilled out but funky at the same time.” “Povo” is a perfect evocation of the era, first recorded by Freddie Hubbard on CTI in 1972, featuring some of Kraz’ most sinewy lines and a caterwauling climax on tenor from Denson. When the two lay out, the Evans brothers remind the listener why an organ and a drum kit have always been plenty good for funky jazz. “We’ve always loved James Brown and music that’s going to make you groove,” says Krasno. “But there’s so much more vocabulary from jazz that you can put in it.” Art Farmer would have agreed. The band’s rendition of his 1972 tune “Soulsides” slips plenty of ideas into the deep pocket, putting Neal Evans out front on piano. “Spark,” the only original song on the record, was written in homage to legendary souljazz P8
guitarist Melvin Sparks, who passed away only days before Soulive entered the studio. Known for his fleet fingers and deft sense of the blues, Sparks made his name backing organists like McDuff and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Krasno grew up listening to Sparks play at a regular gig in New Canaan, CT, and credits the guitarist with inspiring many of his own sensibilities. When Denson asked Sparks to open for the Greyboy Allstars’ first East Coast tour in 1994, it revived his career. “We totally got along and had a great time over the years,” says Denson. Sparks joined Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe to record Dance Lesson No. 2 in 2001 and “just annihilated it. He was a great cat and a total musical mentor.” So, it was with sadness that the four musicians collectively penned the tune and with reverence that they perform the slinky strut, while dedicating the EP to his memory. Denson eulogizes on both flute and tenor while Krasno’s tone impeccably channels the musician he calls, “one of the great guitarists of our time and the coolest dude I knew.”
range, her spot-on intonation, her mastery of the stage, the way her tone wraps itself around your heart and won’t let go, the infectious quality of her time feel: these things keep her on top of the list. But it’s the sweetness of her smile, her visible pleasure in watching her band mates do their stuff, her glamorous-girlnext-door quality that make fans all over the world think she’s their own secret discovery (despite the fact that the YouTube version of her duet with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter” has millions of hits). The rest of her resume is pretty impressive too: touring, recording, and music making with Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, and many others. In 1992, Lisa Fischer won a Grammy for her hit single “How Can I Ease the Pain,” in an unlikely tie with Patti LaBelle. Onstage, the two singers hugged and swayed together, weeping, because Lisa was also one of the backup singers on LaBelle’s awardwinning song “Burnin’.” Along with other top session and backup singers like Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Patti Austin, and Judith Hill – “the greatest artists you’ve never heard of” – Lisa was featured in Morgan Neville’s Oscar and Grammy-winning 2013 documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom. In the wake of the movie’s critical and popular success, Lisa found herself, unexpectedly, in the spotlight. Now Lisa Fischer has a brand new band, Grand Baton, and together they are exploring uncharted territory. She’s on to a new leg of the journey, destination unknown.
LISA FISCHER is a singer who really gets around. Her life is an endless round of planes, trains, and automobiles, rehearsals and fittings. On tour with the Rolling Stones, Sting, Chris Botti, or Nine Inch Nails, her name may not be on the marquee, but she doesn’t care. She’s busy loving every minute of it. It’s easy to see why she works all the time: her astonishing
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August 6
Los Angeles Philharmonic
James Gaffigan, conductor Yundi, piano
BEETHOVEN
Allegro Adagio un poco mosso Rondo: Allegro Yundi
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Moderato Allegretto Largo Allegro non troppo
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THURSDAY August 6, 2015 8:00pm Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, “Emperor”
Symphony No. 5 in D minor
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Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Two significant events occurred in 1809 in Beethoven’s life, one of which proved extremely beneficial and the other more of a nuisance than anything else. The first was the gift of an annuity contract to ensure that he would maintain his domicile in Vienna; the second was the bombardment and occupation of the city by French forces from May to July. Toward the end of 1808, Beethoven was offered the position of Kapellmeister at Kassel. The prospect of Beethoven leaving Vienna for a position elsewhere was acknowledged as a potential embarrassment. This situation gave him the opportunity to negotiate a contract to his specifications that was agreed to by the Archduke Rudolph (Beethoven’s student) and the two princes Lobkowitz and Kinsky. That Beethoven received what he sought is fully stated in the second paragraph of the agreement: “only one who is as free from care as possible can devote himself to a single department of activity and create works of magnitude… the undersigned have decided to place Herr Ludwig van Beethoven in a position where the necessaries of life shall not cause him embarrassment or clog his powerful genius.” With the strokes of three pens, Beethoven was granted 4000 florins per annum for life. Thus he stayed in Vienna, producing “works of magnitude” up to his death in 1827. With the bombardment and occupation of Vienna, Beethoven suffered the pecuniary losses resulting from heavy taxes. What was most difficult for Beethoven to endure, however, was his loss of time in the countryside during the months of May through July; this irritation probably prolonged the composition of the Piano Concerto No. 5, which he most likely completed sometime near the end of the summer. Beethoven had probably finished the bulk of the Concerto before the French invasion. The integration of thematic materials parlayed between the piano and orchestra carries on the symphonic technique that Beethoven had used in the Violin Concerto (1806). In this Piano Concerto, there are no full-blown cadenzas. The first movement does open with a quasicadenza of arpeggios and scalar passages in the piano, first following, and then punctuated by sustained chords in the orchestra; this music is
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part of the structure of the first movement that indeed returns in the recapitulation. Just before the coda, Beethoven gives to the piano what appears to be a cadenza based on thematic materials with the instructions “do not play a cadenza, but quickly attack the following,” thus transforming this piano solo into a transitional passage leading to the coda proper. Written in the distant key of B major, the second movement presents a hymn-like structure played by the orchestra, complemented by descending scalar passages in the piano. The disarming simplicity of this movement recalls the sonority and pacing of a Mozartean adagio. The final passage in the solo piano functions as a transition to the Rondo, whose joyous theme is played first by the piano and later by the orchestra. One could say that this Concerto was written during the best and worst of times for Beethoven, but life triumphs in this last movement. — Steve Lacoste Symphony No. 5 in D minor Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony came on the heels of his 1936 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which drew a harsh critique in the Communist Party’s official newspaper. In the shadow of that attack (and the far darker shadow of Stalin’s fattening appetite for killing Russian intelligentsia), the composer suddenly withdrew his Fourth Symphony on the morning of its scheduled debut, ostensibly “on the grounds that it in no way corresponds to his current creative convictions and represents for him a long outdated phase.” When he unveiled his Fifth Symphony on November 21, 1937, the contrast with his recent, more avant-garde work was undeniable – as was the critical reception. One report numbered the resulting ovation’s length as equal to the symphony’s. After another performance in Leningrad, Party officials took the stage and suggested sending a grateful telegram to Shostakovich from the entire audience. Had the composer repented of his individualistic ways? The subheading of the symphony was “Creative reply of a Soviet musician to just criticism” (though it was later revealed this was a journalist’s phrase suggested to the composer, who allowed it). Or had Shostakovich actually baked a subversive
leaf into a deceivingly populist dessert? Tragedy and pessimism were no-nos in Soviet art, and the Fifth Symphony seems to end in triumph. But in a letter to a young friend during his later years, Shostakovich wrote: “I think that it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under a threat, as in Boris Godunov. It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shakily, and go marching off muttering, ‘Our business is rejoicing...’ [Alexander] Fadeyev [wrote] that the finale of the Fifth is irreparable tragedy.” A foreboding passage initiates the Symphony with stabbing intervals in the low strings. Out of a gently ebbing darkness, wanders a tormented melody in the violins, tenderly harmonized. The stabbing figure resumes, and the movement pulses into cracking tension. A low piano figure (spun off from the theme) rumbles alongside deep, foghorn brass. The theme slips out of a swirling cauldron of churning strings and machine-gun brass, before the movement calms in a flute statement, now in a major key. The orchestra retires into quiet darkness. A spirited line in deep strings gives way to the Allegretto movement’s mischievous idea, interpreted by woodwinds. Balletic string lines follow a processional brass declaration, and a solo violin struts around plucked accompaniment, chased by flirtatious flute, and the movement twirls toward a rambunctious end. Tonal harmonies give way to anguished tensions to begin the third movement, all over a dark, sliding bass line. Violins introduce the defining lament, followed by music for fragile flute and clocklike harp. The orchestra heaves with emotion, and grieving strings accumulate in layers. A quiet elegy, laced with mysterious harp, resolves into the relief of a major chord. From this serenity tromps a weaponized theme for brass and timpani, inaugurating the final movement, which storms through the strings, marching then running. A trumpet sings out in a hailstorm of feverish strings, and the movement’s triumphant theme emerges. A hypnotic whirlpool cycles under a solo horn melody, and strings rise with hope before a martial snare figuration resumes the music of battle. The seemingly celebratory finale crowns the Symphony with triumphal timpani, bombastic cymbals, and a bright brass coda. — Tim Grieving
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YUNDI was propelled onto the international stage when he won first prize at the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition at the age of 18, becoming the youngest and first Chinese winner in the history of the renowned competition. Since then, he has been regarded as a leading exponent of Chopin’s music. In recognition of his contribution to Polish culture, the Government of Poland presented a Gold Medal for Merit to Culture ‘Gloria Artis’ to Yundi in 2010.
Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philharmonia Orchestra and Andrew Davis, Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, and the Israel Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. He has also performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and NHK Symphony. Yundi is a household name and has a huge following in his native China. In the 2013/14 season, he embarked on a 35-city recital tour
Music, University of Cambridge and Qinghua University in Beijing. In Autumn 2012, he was appointed Associate Dean and Professor of the Piano Faculty at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, the youngest member of the faculty to achieve the status. Yundi has an extensive discography on Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Classics. In 2007, he became the first Chinese pianist to record live with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa. This Deutsche Grammophon disc met with rave reviews and was named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine. For EMI Classics, he recorded the complete Chopin Nocturnes, Live in Beijing, and Red
He maintains a strong connection with Poland and sat on the jury of the 17th Chopin Competition in 2015. On his regular recital tours, Yundi performs at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall (New York), Royal Festival Hall (London), Philharmonie Berlin, Alte Opera Frankfurt, Herkulessaal (Munich), Gewandhaus Leipzig, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Moscow International House of Music, Mariinsky Concert Hall (St. Petersburg), National Centre for Performing Arts (Beijing), Seoul Arts Centre, and Suntory Hall (Tokyo). Orchestras and conductors with whom he has collaborated include the
of the country, bringing classical music to provincial capitals as well as second- and third-tier cities. In addition to his activities on the concert platform, Yundi is also passionate about humanitarian work. He is an ambassador of the Red Cross Society of China and Environmental and City Image Ambassador for his hometown Chongqing. Equally committed to promoting classical music in an educational context, Yundi is one of the pioneers of musical education in China, where his success story has inspired millions of children learning the piano. He has also given master classes at the Royal College of
Piano, an album celebrating piano music written by Chinese composers. Yundi’s most recent CD on Deutsche Grammophon pairs Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto (Berliner Philharmoniker / Daniel Harding) with Schumann’s Fantasie in C; this follows a disc of three Beethoven piano sonatas. Future recording plans include further discs of Chopin. Born in Chongqing, Yundi began piano studies at age seven. He subsequently trained at the Shenzhen Arts School and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
For a biography of conductor JAMES GAFFIGAN, please see page P3.
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FRIDAY/SATURDAY
August 7,8
FRIDAY / SATURDAY August 7, 8, 2015 8:00pm
Presenting Alex Cuba
Alex Cuba, guitars / vocals Ian Olmstead, bass / background vocals Jake Jenne, drums / background vocals Jose Sanchez, percussion / background vocals
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Presenting Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow Alex Cuba
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Sheryl Crow, vocals / guitar Fred Eltringham, drums Audley Freed, guitars Joshua Grange, pedal steel Jen Gunderman, keys Robert Kearns, bass Peter Stroud, guitars
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SHERYL CROW is a nine-time Grammy winner who has sold more than 35 million albums around the world and has performed
Songs charts. Crow can also count a Top 20 solo country single among her long list of accolades.
duets with musical luminaries such as Sting and Mick Jagger, has been nominated for an additional 27 Grammys, and has released eight studio albums (seven charting Top 10, four of them platinum-plus), a quadrupleplatinum greatest hits collection, and a Christmas album. Her most recent album, Feels Like Home, captures the sound of a great and established artist enjoying a kind of fresh start. It features songs on which Crow collaborated with her longtime guitar player and frequent co-writer Jeff Trott (with whom she cowrote such past Crow classics as “If It Makes You Happy,” “My Favorite Mistake,” and “Every Day Is a Winding Road”), as well as such Nashville songwriters as Chris DuBois, Luke Laird, Natalie Hamby, and Chris Stapleton, among others. Crow has a combined 40 Top 10s on the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Mainstream Top 40, Triple A (with the most No. 1 singles among women in the chart’s 17-year history), and Hot Country
ALEX CUBA was born and raised in Cuba, studied guitar with his music teacher father, and played bass in a pop singer’s band, before
moving to Canada and launching a career performing his own original works. He’s toured his trio to venues around the world, released four albums, and earned 18 awards and nominations for his music, including two Junos and 3 Latin Grammys. His music is shaped by the experience of singing in Spanish in an English/French nation and by his choice of a home base in the northern town of Smithers, BC. It’s a sound that at once reminds listeners of the musician’s tropical roots and inspires them to conceptualize an emerging genre of Latin soul. Alex’s smoky vocals and adept guitar-work cross genres and cultures through magnetic pop/soul hooks. His talent as a songwriter has led him to co-write with major label artists artist such as Nelly Furtado and Jason Mraz. However, when it came to his own recording career, the U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba reached beyond the borders of either nation and directed the artist to pursue an independent recording career away from the support of major labels. Support from fans and the industry never wavered though. His self-titled release was the only independent release nominated for the Latin Pop category at the Grammy Awards in 2010. His latest album, Healer, refers to the need we all face to grow and heal in our lives physically, spiritually, and emotionally. The album includes five bilingual duets with four
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THOMAS WILKINS is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He has held a titled position at the Hollywood Bowl since
of 2013 he renewed his contract with the Omaha Symphony through the 2017/2018 season. He also holds the Germeshausen Family and Youth Concert Conductor chair with the Boston Symphony. Past positions have included resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony and Florida Orchestra (Tampa Bay), and associate conductor of the Richmond (VA) Symphony. He also has served on the music faculties of North Park University (Chicago), the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Devoted to promoting a life-long enthusiasm for music, Thomas Wilkins brings energy and commitment to audiences of all ages. He is hailed as a master at com-
2008, when he was named Principal Guest Conductor; in the spring of 2014 he became Principal Conductor. Additionally, he holds the position of Music Director of the Omaha Symphony, a post he has held since 2005. In the fall
municating and connecting with audiences. Following his highly successful first season with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Globe named him among the “Best People and Ideas of 2011.” In 2014, Wilkins received the prestigious “Outstanding Artist” award
Canadian singer-songwriters – Ron Sexsmith, Alejandra Ribera, David Myles, and Kuba Oms – and one with New Yorker Anya Marina. The first single “In 1,2,3,4,” featuring David Myles, reached radio in March 2015. It features both artists bridging Latin groove and a simple chord structure in a call to let go of the stresses of daily life and celebrate the choice we have to follow our hearts. The album hit stores March 31st, 2015 on Alex Cuba’s own imprint Caracol Records, distributed by Fontana North.
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at the Nebraska Governor’s Arts Awards, for his significant contribution to music in the state. During his conducting career, he has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Buffalo Phil-harmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the Utah Symphony, and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., to name a few. He continues to make frequent appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony. Last season he returned to the National Symphony Orchestra for a two-week festival of American music and dance, as well as a collaboration with world renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Wolf Trap, the NSO’s summer home. During the 2014/15 season, in addition to performances in Detroit and Columbus, he returned to the New Mexico Symphony and to the Cleveland Orchestra. Other future engagements include debuts at Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival and the New York Philharmonic. His commitment to community has been demonstrated by his participation on several boards of directors, including the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the Charles Drew Health Center (Omaha), the Center Against Spouse Abuse in Tampa Bay, and the Museum of Fine Arts as well as the Academy Preparatory Center, both in St. Petersburg, FL. Currently he serves as chairman of the board for the Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund and as national ambassador for the nonprofit World Pediatric Project headquartered in Richmond, VA, which provides children throughout Central America and the Caribbean with critical surgical and diagnostic care. A native of Norfolk, VA, Thomas Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He resides with his wife Sheri-Lee in Omaha. They are the proud parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.
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Thomas Wilkins Principal Conductor John Mauceri Founding Director
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Katia Popov Concertmaster Marisa Sorajja Principal Grace Oh Associate Principal Rebecca Bunnell Merle Mullin Chair Ron Clark Christine Frank Yen-Ping Lai Natalie Leggett Radu Pieptea Tina Qu Gil Romero Yu-Tong Sharp Shelly Xiaowei Shi Mari Tsumura
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Diego Matheuz, conductor Venera Gimadieva, Violetta Francesco Demuro, Alfredo Simone Piazzola, Germont David Portillo, Gastone Kelley O’Connor, Flora Erica Brookhyser, Annina Evan Hughes, Baron Douphol Norman Garrett, Marchese Craig Colclough, Dottore John Irvin, Giuseppe Gabriel Vamvulescu, Flora’s Servant / Messenger Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
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La traviata Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) What can we make of Violetta Valéry? Giuseppe Verdi and his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, certainly characterize her strongly, otherwise La traviata could not have held the stage as forcefully as it has since its premiere at Venice’s Teatro la Fenice on March 6, 1853. But just what kind of character is she? The bourgeois audiences of the 1850s had their own ideas about Violetta. They tossed around condemnations such as “foul and fulminating,” “untenable for music,” and epithets including “prostitute” and “harlot” to describe her and the opera. The London Times called it “an opera of foul and hideous horrors,” further editorializing in 1856 that “an unfortunate young person who has acted the part of a public prostitute… coughs her way through three acts, and finally expires on the stage in a manner which, however true to nature, ought to be revolting to the feelings of the spectators. Next season we trust to hear no more such abominations.” Verdi himself recognized the depravity of his subject, unashamedly referring to Violetta as “a whore” on several occasions. Verdi and Piave chose a play with a contemporary subject, Alexandre Dumas fils’ The Lady of the Camellias, but tried to protect themselves from bourgeois outrage by peppering the lib-retto with linguistically archaic phrases. They took the further precaution of setting early stagings around the year 1700. The composer and his librettist wanted to pluck La traviata out of a context that the audience would perceive as too close for comfort, but it was no use. Verdi’s “years in the galleys” ended with broadsides from a bourgeois gunboat. But did these stuffy first audiences capture the pulse of La traviata with their criticisms, or were deeper forces at work? Well, one look at the opera or its libretto dispels the notion that Violetta is a prostitute. She’s not hanging around the corner of Hollywood and Vine hustling anyone. In fact, we never even see her outdoors. She spends most of her time in various well-appointed Paris apartments or country homes – including her own – partying, relaxing, or dying from tuberculosis. Yes, Baron Douphol supports her lifestyle as long as she remains his lover, but this hardly qualifies her as the “foul and fulminating” harlot perceived by early audiences. She’s more like a courtesan,
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or the kind of mistress most of the bourgeois gentlemen in those audiences themselves kept. Maybe it was the recognition of their own hypocrisy that outraged them so much. In fact, Violetta’s longing for a quiet home life with Alfredo places her more firmly in a tradition of bourgeois respectability than on the margins of moral turpitude. Nothing about her is marginal. She’s in the center of France, society whirls around her, and she’s the object of aristocrats’ and wealthy men’s love. The complacent audiences of the 1850s were shocked that Verdi and Piave had given them one of their own gone astray, and they framed their attacks on Traviata in terms common to fulminations against the corruption and decay of bourgeois values – calling Violetta a prostitute encoded all sorts of middle-class anxieties about the sex, disease, and death that are part of the opera. Audiences certainly had no reason to take offense at Verdi’s music. It was some of the composer’s most accomplished yet, but he had lavished it on a subject deemed unworthy of his talents by bourgeois operagoers. In spite of the scandal at the work’s premiere at Venice’s La Fenice, Verdi and Piave offered La traviata to the city again a year later, at the Teatro San Benedetto. For no apparent reason, what had disgusted the year before satisfied the second time around. Piave wrote to a friend, “Not one number has been changed, not one number has been added or removed, not one musical idea has been altered. Everything that was there before for La Fenice is there now for the San Benedetto. Before, it was a fiasco; now it is a sensation. Draw your own conclusions!” Act I: At the spacious Paris home of Violetta Valéry, the city’s most conspicuous courtesan, guests arrive for one of her renowned parties. Gastone, Viscount de Letorières, introduces Alfredo Germont, a secret admirer of Violetta’s. Alfredo leads the assembled company in a lusty drinking song (the brindisi, “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici”), and the guests move into the ballroom to dance. Alfredo remains behind with Violetta, who is weakened because of her consumption, and declares his love, begging her to come away with him (the duet “Un dì felice, eterea”). She can only offer friendship, and gives him a flower from her corsage, asking him to return when it has wilted. Alone, she thinks about Alfredo (“Ah fors’è lui”), but resolves to enjoy herself and her whirlwind lifestyle (“Sempre libera degg’io”).
Act II: Alfredo and Violetta have been living together in the country for three months, and Alfredo discovers how: She’s been selling her possessions to support them. Disgraced, he rushes off to Paris to set his affairs in order. In his scena, Alfredo sings first of his joy – “Dei miei bollenti spiriti” – and then of his sorrow after learning of Violetta’s sacrifice – “Oh mio rimorso.” Alfredo’s father surprises Violetta with a visit and requests that she leave Alfredo because of his sister, who may have trouble marrying if her brother is linked to a courtesan (the grand duet that begins “Pura si come un angelo”). Violetta promises to do so (“Dite alla giovine,” the second section of the duet), and she asks Germont to tell his son the truth after her death (“Morrò! la mia memoria,” the final section of the duet). As promised, Violetta breaks with Alfredo when he returns (“Amami, Alfredo”). He assumes she will only be gone for a while, but a messenger delivers a letter announcing that she has returned to her former lover. Alfredo’s father tries to comfort his son (“Di Provenza il mar”), but to no avail. Act III: Violetta’s friend Flora is hosting a party. Alfredo’s arrival startles the guests, but his disinterest in Violetta garners approval. He joins a game of cards as Violetta and her lover, Baron Douphol, enter. The Baron challenges Alfredo, and promptly loses. Alfredo pockets his winnings, and the guests disperse when it is announced that dinner is served. Violetta returns to warn Alfredo that his life is in danger and that he should leave the party. Furious, he refuses and instead calls the guests to witness him throw his winnings at Violetta to repay her for everything she sold to support him in the countryside. His father arrives and renounces his son for such shameful behavior, and Douphol vows to avenge Violetta. Act IV: A month has passed, and Violetta lies in her sickbed. She reads a letter from Alfredo’s father, relating how Alfredo fled the country after wounding Douphol in a duel, but promising that he will return to seek her pardon. Violetta knows that she will not live much longer (“Addio del passato”). When Alfredo enters her bedroom, the two reunite joyfully and dream of leaving Paris (“Parigi, o cara”), but Violetta collapses. Alfredo’s father arrives and begs forgiveness for the pain he has caused the lovers, and Violetta presses a miniature portrait of herself into Alfredo’s hands, begging him to give it to a worthier woman. She dies.
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DIEGO MATHEUZ is a graduate of the internationally known Venezuelan Sistema, and is already widely known as one of the
most promising developing talents from the Americas. Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Mozart since 2009, Matheuz was appointed Principal Conductor of Teatro la Fenice in September 2011. In August 2013 he started a three-year appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. During the 2014/15 season in addition to his regular engagements in Venice and Melbourne, Diego Matheuz made his debut with the Philharmonia Zurich, Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, BBC Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, and the Orchestre Chambre de Paris at the Festival de Saint-Denis. He takes up reinvitations to the Philharmonia Orchestra, to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at their Festival Présences in Paris, and to Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Orchestra following a very successful tour of Japan and China with them in 2011. This season also marked his opera debut in Spain, conducting Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Liceu in Barcelona. Diego Matheuz made his professional opera debut in October 2010 conducting Rigoletto at Teatro la Fenice, and following his appointment as Principal Conductor he conducts two operas and several concerts a season in Venice, including a recent Tchaikovsky symphony cycle and productions of La traviata and La bohème. He has twice conducted the New Year concert at Teatro la Fenice, broadcast live on RAI television and
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subsequently released on DVD. During the 2013/14 season he conducted productions of Carmen and The Rake’s Progress and in autumn 2014 he returned for La traviata and to open the symphonic season. Now well established in Italy, Diego Matheuz made his debut with Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart in Bologna in October 2008. A year later he was appointed their Principal Guest Conductor. Recent appearances with Orchestra Mozart included performances in Bologna and in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and at the Southbank Centre, in London. In September 2009 he joined the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia as replacement for their Music Director Antonio Pappano on tour in Milan, Turin, and Lucerne, and he has made several subsequent appearances in Rome. Other Italian debuts have included Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and the final concert of the Spoleto Festival in July 2010. Orchestral highlights outside Italy have featured performances with the Philharmonia and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, in Berlin on tour with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and with Frankfurt Radio, Hamburg Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Israel Philharmonic, and the NHK Symphony in Tokyo. In North America he has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Diego Matheuz maintains a strong association with his native orchestras, returning regularly to Caracas; in 2013 he was appointed Associate Conductor of the Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela. Last season he toured with the orchestra to Turin, Naples, Genoa, Palermo, and Reggio Emilia, and in July 2013 he conducted them in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Bogota. In the spring of 2015 he toured with the orchestra to Russia, conducting concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In summer 2013 he also took part in the Sistema residency at the Salzburg Festival, appearing with the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
Born in 1984, Matheuz began his violin studies in his hometown of Barquisimeto before moving to Caracas. His international debut as a conductor took place with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela on March 14, 2008 at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico.
Hailed as ‘the new voice of Russia” and the star of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, VENERA GIMADIEVA (Violetta) has quickly
become one of the most sought-after lyric coloratura sopranos in Europe. Her performances as Violetta in La traviata have earned sensational reviews, with Opéra magazine describing her performance in Limoges as, “extraordinary…with her captivating timbre, her flexible yet powerful voice, her strong stage presence, and her true physical beauty (which never hurts), she will be a star before long”. Gimadieva studied at the Kazan Music College and the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire, later joining the St. Petersburg Opera, where her roles included the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, Serafina in Donizetti’s Il campanello di note, and Genevieve in Suor Angelica. She was a prize-winner at the 2008 Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg, the 2009 Competizione dell’Opera in Dresden, and the 2010 International Shalyapin Competition (first prize). In 2011 she was awarded the President’s Prize for young cultural professionals by President Dmitry
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Medvedev of the Russian Federation. In 2014 she won the Golden Mask award for Best Female Performer in Opera category for her performance of Amina in La sonnambula at the Bolshoi. Having studied in the Bolshoi Theatre’s young artists program, Gimadieva is now a member of the company, with roles including Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride, Ksenia in Boris Godunov, Amina in a new production of La sonnambula, Violetta in a new production of La traviata by Francesca Zambello, the title role of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, the Queen of Shemakha in a new production of The Golden Cockerel by Kirill Serebriannikov conducted by Vassily Sinaisky, Sirin in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia, and Serpina in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona. Concert performances in Moscow include Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Recent engagements elsewhere include Violetta in La traviata (La Fenice, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Reims, Hungarian State Opera, and Savonlinna Opera Festival), Gilda in Rigoletto (Hungarian State Opera), and an appearance at the BBC Proms with the John Wilson Orchestra. The 2014/15 season includes her first Juliette in Roméo et Juliette opposite Juan Diego Flórez’s first Roméo in Lima, La traviata for Paris Opera, and Gilda in Rigoletto and Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride at the Bolshoi. Future performances include the title roles of Lucia di Lammermoor and Manon.
FRANCESCO DEMURO (Alfredo) was born in Porto Torres, Sardinia, in January 1978. Between 2003 and 2004 he studied at the Conservatory in Sassari, then he enrolled himself as a private student at the Conservatory in Cagliari, where he received lessons from soprano Elisabetta Scanu. His 2007 debut in Parma with Luisa Miller was a great success both for the critics and the audience and he received invitations from some of the most important Italian and foreign opera houses. Between 2007 and 2009 he sang Luisa Miller again in Sassari, and he debuted in Turin with Rigoletto, which
he also sang in Hong Kong on a tour with Teatro Regio di Parma. Further highlights of those seasons include Simon Boccanegra at the Megaron in Athens, Rigoletto in Dresden conducted by Fabio Luisi and at Festival Verdi in Parma, and La bohème in Bari. He received great reviews from public and critics for his Spanish debut in Roberto Devereux in Las Palmas, and he sang La traviata at Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile) and Rigoletto in Beijing while on tour with Teatro Regio di Parma. In October 2009 he made his debut in the U.S. singing La traviata at Seattle Opera to great acclaim, and then he obtained a huge personal success at Suntory Hall in Tokyo with Così fan tutte. Further highlights include La traviata in Valencia with Maazel, Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg and Warsaw, La traviata and Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden, L’elisir d’amore at La Scala in Milan (debut), La bohème in Detroit, Maria Stuarda in Athens, L’elisir d’amore and La bohème at Wiener Staatsoper, and a new production of Rigoletto at Wiener Festwochen. In the summer of 2011 he received great reviews from public and critics at Arena di Verona, where he opened the summer season singing La traviata. His subsequent debut at the Royal Opera House in London with Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Pappano, was a huge success, and they invited him again to sing Alfredo in La traviata. The season continued with La traviata at Berlin Staatsoper, in
Limoges, and at Wiener Staatsoper; Falstaff in Verona; Rigoletto in Hamburg; Don Pasquale at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; and Macbeth in Munich. Between 2012 and 2013, he performed Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, and Falstaff in San Francisco with Luisotti; La traviata at Berlin Staatsoper and at Oper Frankfurt; Mozart’s Requiem in Verona; Falstaff at La Scala; La bohème in Seattle; Maria Stuarda in Bilbao; Rigoletto at Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; and his role debut in Roméo et Juliette at Arena di Verona. In the 2013/14 season he was highly praised for his interpretation of Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto while on tour in Tokyo with La Scala, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; he sang Don Pasquale in Verona; Rigoletto in Seattle; and La traviata in Las Palmas, Bari, at the Royal Opera House in London, and at Opéra Bastille. The 2014/15 season opened with Roméo et Juliette in Seoul, La bohème in Frankfurt, and La traviata in Cagliari. A series of important debuts followed: at the Metropolitan in New York (La bohème and La traviata), at La Fenice in Venice, and Teatro Real de Madrid and Liceu in Barcelona (La traviata). Most recently, he sang Maria Stuarda at the Champs-Élysées in Paris. On the concert platform, he performed Verdi’s Requiem with the Houston Symphony and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Palace of the Arts in Budapest. Current and future highlights include Rigoletto at Opéra Bastille and in Madrid, La traviata in Munich and Venice, Maria Stuarda at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Falstaff at La Scala, and L’elisir d’amore at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Baritone SIMONE PIAZZOLA (Germont) was born in Verona in 1985. He began his musical studies at age 11 with the soprano Alda Borelli Morgan. In 2004 he took part in various concerts organized by Fondazione Arena di Verona. In 2005 he won the first prize in the Marie Kraja competition in Tirana and in 2007 the Competition “Comunità Europea” of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto. Soon began a career that led him to perform in Giordano’s Il re at the Giordano Theatre in Foggia, Rigoletto conducted by Bruno Campanella at the Teatro dell’Opera in
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Rome and on tour in Japan, and Il trovatore (Conte di Luna) at Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto. In July 2008 he made his debut as Marcello in La bohème at Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
The 2009 season saw him as Marcello in La bohème at Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, Germont in La traviata in Verona and Florence, Cecil in Maria Stuarda and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly in Venice, Beijing, and Naples. He also participated in a gala concert together with Plácido Domingo at the Arena di Verona. In 2010 he made his debut as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust at the Teatro Bellini in Catania and was also engaged in La bohème (Marcello) at Teatro Massimo in Palermo conducted by Daniele Callegari, La traviata (Germont) in Jesi, Fermo, and Treviso, Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at Teatro Regio in Parma for the Verdi Festival and at Teatro Real in Madrid, and La fanciulla del West (Sonora) for Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He sang in Maria Stuarda (Cecil) conducted by Richard Bonynge and directed by Pizzi at the Megaron in Athens, and in La traviata (Germont) in Ascoli Piceno and in Palermo, at Teatro Comunale in Modena, Piacenza, and Bolzano, at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Venice directed by Robert Carsen, at the Ravenna Festival and Piacenza, directed by Ferzan Ozpeteck at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and on tour in Hong Kong (conducted by Roberto Abbado). He also participated in the Christmas Concert conducted by Riccardo Muti in the Senate and broadcast on Eurovision, in Don Carlo (Rodrigo)
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in Modena and Piacenza, and in a Verdi Gala with Fondazione Toscanini conducted by Kazushi Ono. His recent engagements include La traviata at La Fenice in Venice, in Macerata, and at Palau de les Arts in Valencia; La bohème in São Paulo, Brazil; Il trovatore at Sferisterio in Macerata, at Teatro alla scala in Milan, Naples, and in Budapest; as well as La bohème in Tel Aviv, La forza del destino at Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Simon Boccanegra in Venice, Lucia di Lammermoor in Berlin, and Pagliacci in Milan. His future engagements are La traviata in Berlin, Los Angeles and Paris, Don Carlo in Milan and Munich, and Il trovatore in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Oviedo. In August 2013 he earned the Second Prize as well as the Audience Award at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in Verona; in June of this season he earned the Abbiati Prize.
Praised by Opera News for “high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon,” American tenor DAVID PORTILLO (Gastone) has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation.
In the 2015/16 season, David Portillo will make his Metropolitan Opera debut as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, opposite Isabel Leonard. He will also return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Andres in Wozzeck in
a new production by Sir David McVicar, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, and to Palm Beach Opera in a role debut as Ernesto in Don Pasquale. European engagements include debuts at the Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées and Bremen Festival as Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and as the tenor soloist in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra. Portillo will also return to the Glyndebourne Festival to sing David in Die Meistersinger. The 2014/15 season saw Portillo’s return to Houston Grand Opera as Tamino in The Magic Flute, conducted by Robert Spano, a house debut as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at Washington National Opera, and returns to Aix-en-Provence as Pedrillo and to Arizona Opera for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Tonio in La fille du régiment. Orchestral engagements included Handel’s Messiah with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and Richmond Symphony, and Berlioz’ rarely performed Lélio, with the Dayton Philharmonic. A native of Texas, David Portillo is the recipient of many prizes, including a 2009 Sullivan Foundation Encouragement Award, 2009 American Opera Society of Chicago Award, 2009 Shoshana Foundation Grant, the 2009 Winner of the Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation Competition, and the 2008 Winner of the Men’s Prize of the Union League of Chicago Young Adult’s Music Competition.
Possessing a voice of uncommon allure, musical sophistication far beyond her years, and intuitive and innate dramatic artistry, the Grammy-winning mezzosoprano KELLEY O’CONNOR (Flora) has emerged as one of the most compelling performers of her generation. During the 2014/15 season, the California native’s impressive calendar includes Mozart’s Requiem with Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, Leoš Janácˇek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert, Debussy’s La damoiselle élue and Duruflé’s Requiem with Donald Runnicles conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Colorado Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Mahler’s Second Symphony
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included Didon in Les Troyens; Fenena in Nabucco; Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro; Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice; Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte; Muse/Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann; Emilia in Otello; Page in Salome; Preziosilla in La forza del destino; Lola in Cavalleria rusticana; Blumenmädchen in Parsifal; and Wellgunde, Waltraute, and Second Norn in Der Ring des Nibelungen. Brookhyser is thrilled to be making her first appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
with the San Antonio Symphony and the Reno Philharmonic. The artist returns to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’ Creation Oratorio led by Music Director Robert Spano, as well as for Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles. O’Connor also returns to the operatic stage as Smeton in a new production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Kevin Newbury, and as Suzuki in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in a concert performance with the Minnesota Orchestra. Recent concert seasons included performances of Beethoven’s Mass in C during an international tour with Franz Welser-Möst
Hall. John Adams wrote the title role of The Gospel According to the Other Mary for Kelley O’Connor and she has performed the work, internationally, both in concert and in the Peter Sellars production, under the batons of the composer, Gustavo Dudamel, and Grant Gershon. Additional information is available on the artist’s website: www.kelleyoconnor.com.
American mezzo ERICA BROOKHYSER (Annina) began the 2014/15 season with Opera Colorado as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. She won rave reviews as Brigitta in Die tote Stadt in concert with Boston’s Odyssey Opera, and further appeared as the soloist in Britten’s
American bass-baritone EVAN HUGHES (Baron) has been praised for his “appealing clarity and emotional heft” (The New York Times) and his “burnished tone” (Opera News).
and the Cleveland Orchestra, John Adams’ El Niño under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a U.S. recital tour with soprano Jessica Rivera and pianist Robert Spano including a performance at Carnegie Hall, Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony as well as with Roberto Minczuk and the Calgary Philharmonic, Stravinsky’s Les noces with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Britten’s Spring Symphony with Edward Gardner and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart’s Requiem with Iván Fischer leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie
monodrama Phaedra. She recently returned to her native Pacific Northwest for the St. John Passion with the Astoria Music Festival. Recent successes include Brookhyser’s return to LA Opera as Meg Page in Falstaff; at Spoleto Festival USA, where her performance in a fully staged production of El Niño by John Adams garnered excellent notices; and great acclaim for her role debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at Staatstheater Darmstadt. In 2012 Brookhyser won Open Opera’s Who will become Carmen?, a highly popular 6-episode reality talent-search television show broadcast on ARTE-TV in Germany; her performances as Carmen took place at the Berlin Seefestspiele. Brookhyser spent two years in LA Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist program, followed by four years as principal mezzo at Staatstheater Darmstadt. Her roles there
The 2014/15 season saw Hughes return to the Semperoper in Dresden in a variety of roles ranging from Handel (Zoroastro in Orlando and Achilla in Giulio Cesare) to Rossini (Don Basilio in Barbiere di Siviglia), Verdi (Pietro in Simon Boccanegra), Puccini (Colline in La bohème), and contemporary music (Emma Becker in Peter Ronnefeld’s Nachtausgabe). In concert, Hughes returned to Carnegie Hall for the world premiere of Elliott Carter’s The American Sublime with the Met Chamber Ensemble and James Levine, made his Los Angeles Philharmonic debut in the West Coast premiere of Pintscher’s Songs from Solomon’s Garden with the composer conducting (having just recorded the piece with the Ensemble InterContemporain and Pintscher in Paris), and made his debut in Fauré’s Requiem with Voices of Ascension. Future engagements include Hughes’ return
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to the Semperoper as a fest member in roles such as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Zoroastro, Schaunard (La bohème), Emma Becker, and Achilla. In concert he will join Washington Concert Opera as Oroe in Rossini’s Semiramide and will sing Songs from Solomon’s Garden with the American Composers’ Orchestra at Zankel Hall, having appeared there a few months earlier on Marilyn Horne’s Birthday Gala. Other future projects include a debut with Boston Lyric Opera in a title role. Last season Hughes returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and became a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, where he sang various leading roles, including Don Alfonso and Don Basilio. In the summer he made his debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Zuniga in Carmen and Don Fernando in Fidelio. On the concert stage, Hughes appeared with the New York Philharmonic in a program of contemporary pieces curated by Matthias Pintscher and presented at MOMA, and on the Metropolitan Museum’s recital series in a program devoted to French songs of the time of the sculptor Carpeaux, alongside Susan Graham and Brian Zeger. A champion of contemporary music, Hughes appeared in Elliott Carter’s Syringa with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Zankel Hall (Carnegie) and the Tanglewood Music Festival, conducted both times by James Levine; more recently he premiered Carter’s Three Explorations at Alice Tully Hall with the Axiom Ensemble and Jeffrey Milarsky. Another milestone in the bass-baritone’s performances of Carter’s music was On Conversing with Paradise as part of a festival of cultural exchange entitled Ascending Dragon in Los Angeles, Hanoi, and in other parts of Vietnam. Evan Hughes has appeared as Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Curtis Opera Theatre and the Tanglewood Music Festival (conducted by James Levine). At the Curtis Institute he was also seen as Lord Sidney in Il viaggio a Reims, the title role in Don Giovanni, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, José Tripaldi in the Philadelphia premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, and Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, which was released on Albany Records.
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After winning the grand prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, Evan Hughes gave critically acclaimed recitals in NYC for the “On Wings of Song” series, and for “The Song Continues” Gala, marking his Carnegie Hall debut. He made his European recital debut in Denmark with pianist Mikael Eliasen in Skagen’s Sommermusik series. He has also given recitals for the William Walton Foundation at La Mortella in Ischia, Italy, and with the American Academy in Berlin. He has been heard in Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Santa Barbara Symphony and in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer. Hughes attended the Curtis Institute of Music and was a regional winner and a national semi-finalist in the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, American baritone NORMAN GARRETT (Marchese) is a recent alumnus of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National
Opera. Highlights of Garrett’s 2015/2016 season include the title role in Delius’ Koanga for his European debut at Wexford Festival in Ireland and Mandarino in Turandot with Cincinnati Opera, as well as concerts on behalf of Cincinnati Opera in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. In the 2014/15 season, Garrett appeared as Ríolobo in Daniel Catán’s Florencia in the Amazon at WNO and made his Lyric Opera of
Chicago company debut as Jake in Porgy and Bess, both directed by Francesca Zambello. Orchestral engagements included Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the National Philharmonic at the Music Center at Strathmore and Escamillo in the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s concert performance of Carmen. Garrett is a winner of the 2014 George London Foundation Competition. In the past three years, he has garnered top prizes in more than a dozen international vocal competitions, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation, the Jensen Foundation, the Giulio Gari Foundation, Fort Worth Opera’s McCammon Competition, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition. Norman Garrett is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Texas Tech University.
CRAIG COLCLOUGH (Dottore) began his career at LA Opera. After two seasons appearing with the company in various roles,
he joined Florida Grand Opera’s Young Artist Studio and in 2012 became a Filene Young Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera Company. Colclough’s season includes a debut with Arizona Opera as the title role in Falstaff in addition to returns to English National Opera for role debuts as Scarpia in Tosca and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and LA Opera as Simone in Gianni Schicchi. On the concert stage, he makes his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Dottore Grenvil in La traviata. Last season, Colclough made his European debut with English National Opera as Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, returned to
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LA Opera for concert performances of Hercules v. Vampires (roles of God of Evil and Procrustes), and also debuted with Atlanta Opera as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro as well as Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Lieutenant Gordon in Silent Night. During the 2013/14 season, the bassbaritone essayed the title role in Don Pasquale at Arizona Opera, covered the title role in Falstaff for both San Francisco Opera and LA Opera, and appeared as Bosun in Billy Budd at LA Opera. In concert, Colcough appeared with the Orange County Philharmonic Society for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Past leading roles include the title role in Falstaff; Don Giovanni, Leporello, and Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress; Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia; Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma; Rambaldo in Puccini’s La rondine; Raimondo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor; Friar Laurence in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet; and Elijah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Additional credits include the Israeli Symphony Orchestra, California Philharmonic, Capitol Records, Abbey Road Studios, and the soundtrack of the film Rolled.
Most recently seen at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, JOHN IRVIN (Giuseppe) garnered rave reviews for his “commanding, clarion tenor” and “virile performance” of Matthew Gurney in
a new production of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline. Originally a pianist, John Irvin discovered his passion for singing in 2008; he went on
to earn his Bachelor of Music magna cum laude from Georgia State University (2010) and Professional Certificate from Boston University’s Opera Institute (2012). An alumnus of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, John stepped in as Don Ottavio for the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park performance and as Lord Percy in the final dress rehearsal of Anna Bolena. Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Theatre of St. Louis (Emmeline), Madison Opera (Il barbiere di Siviglia with John DeMain), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Beyond the Score with Stéphane Denève), the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Don Curzio, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Gustavo Dudamel), and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Sir Andrew Davis). In 2011, John was an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, where he covered roles in Puccini’s La bohème and Menotti’s The Last Savage. He was given the great opportunity to sing as The Detective and The Bailiff in a workshop presentation of Theodore Morrison’s newly commissioned work, Oscar. This intimate performance featured selections from the opera with countertenor David Daniels in the title role. John was awarded the Agnes M. Canning Memorial Award for Singers. A Bonfils-Stanton Studio Artist at Central City Opera in 2010, John study covered B.F. Pinkerton and performed scenes from Bizet’s Carmen, Hoiby’s A Month in the Country, and Verdi’s La traviata and Rigoletto. At the conclusion of the program, he received the prestigious David R. Gloss Award for Excellence. John recently represented Lyric Opera at the Stella Maris International Voice Competition (2014). He earned the 2012 Encouragement Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s International Vocal Competition and the John Moriarty Encouragement Award for the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (New England Region). He was a finalist for the 2012 Sara Tucker study grant; other accomplishments include being a 2012 Liederkranz Foundation I.V.C. finalist, a 2011 MONCA Finalist (New England Region), and earning second place in the 6th annual Peter Elvins Vocal Competition. In addition to opera, John has also performed many oratorio works, including Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Haydn’s Maria Theresienmesse,
Charpentier’s Te Deum, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. Throughout his studies, he has participated in master classes with Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Stephen Lord, Laura Canning, Matthew Epstein, Deborah Birnbaum, David Daniels, George Shirley, Patricia Moy, Lauren Flannigan, Phyllis Curtin, Harry Bicket, Benton Hess, and Peter Strummer.
Bass GABRIEL VAMVULESCU (Flora’s Servant / Messenger) began his musical training while studying Theology and Byzantine Music at Saint Nicholas Theological
Seminary in Romania. Upon graduation, he enrolled in the George Enescu National Conservatory in Bucharest (Romania), where he studied voice with professor Julian Baiasu. He was awarded First Place in the Jonel Perlea German Lied Competition and the following year was accepted into the Romanian National Opera Apprentice Program with the role of Sarastro in The Magic Flute. In 1999 he received a full scholarship from the University of Maryland School of Music, where he studied with Professor François Loup. On the operatic stage he has performed with opera companies in Europe and in the U.S. in such roles as Colline in La bohème, Bartolo and Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro, Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Kecal in The Bartered Bride, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Rocco in Fidelio, and Mephistopheles in Faust. In 2010 Vamvulescu made his Los Angeles Opera debut in Die Gezeichneten by Franz Schreker and since then has returned in
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Madama Butterfly by Puccini (Imperial Commissioner), Der Kaiser von Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann (Loudspeaker), Der fliegende Holländer by Wagner (Dalland), and The Ghosts of Versailles by Corigliano (Juror and Luis XVI cover). Recently Vamvulescu returned from Abu Dhabi, where he performed The Metamorphoses by Ullmann.
Giving a voice to Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Grammy-nominated LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE is led by Artistic Director Grant Gershon. Proclaimed “the nation’s most pioneering major chorus” (Los Angeles Times), it has also been hailed as “inspired” (The New York Times), “magnificent” (Chicago Tribune), and “a superb vocal ensemble” (The New York Observer). The Chorale is currently in its 51st season as a resident company of The Music Center of Los
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Angeles County and its 12th as the resident chorus at Disney Hall. Presenting its own concert series each season, it performs choral music from the earliest writings to the most recent contemporary compositions. To date, the choir has commissioned 45 and premiered 92 new works, of which 62 were world premieres, and has been awarded three ASCAP/Chorus America Awards for Adventurous Programming as well as Chorus America’s prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence. The Chorale has performed in more than 300 concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at both Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, and has toured with the orchestra to Europe and New York City. It has also appeared at the Ojai Music Festival, the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center, the Ravinia Festival, and the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as in leading venues throughout the
Southland. Its discography includes five commercial CDs under Gershon’s baton. The latest, released in 2012 on Decca, features three works by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. In addition, in 2013, as part of its 50th anniversary season celebration, the Chorale released a digital recording featuring signature a cappella works available online-only at LAMC.org, iTunes, and Amazon.com. LAMC previously released three CDs under former Music Director Paul Salamunovich on RCM, including the Grammy-nominated LauridsenLux Aeterna. The Chorale is also featured with Gershon on the soundtracks of such major motion pictures as Lady in the Water and License to Wed. Serving more than 30,000 audience members of all ages annually, the Los Angeles Master Chorale also provides education outreach to some 6,000 students each year.
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Suzanne Anderson Tamara Bevard Christina Bristow Hayden Eberhart Claire Fedoruk Ayana Haviv Marie Hodgson Virenia Lind Deborah Mayhan Karen Whipple Schnurr Anna Schubert Courtney Taylor Rebecca Tomlinson Suzanne Waters Elyse Willis Sunjoo Yeo
Lesili Beard Rose Beattie Leanna Brand Aleta Braxton Monika Bruckner Amy Fogerson Michele Hemmings Leslie Inman Sarah Lynch Adriana Manfredi Cynthia Marty Margaurite Mathis-Clark Alice Kirwan Murray Kimberly Switzer Tracy Van Fleet
Matthew Brown Daniel Chaney Bradley Chapman Pablo Corá Ben Cortez Arnold Livingston Geis Jody Golightly Timothy Gonzales Steven Harms Blake Howard Jon Lee Keenan Shawn Kirchner Charles Lane Michael Lichtenauer Todd Strange
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Lesley Leighton, associate conductor Lisa Edwards, rehearsal pianist The singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO, Amy Fogerson, AGMA Delegate.
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ANNUAL DONORS The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank donors to our Annual Fund. The following list includes donors who have contributed $3,500 or more to the Annual Fund and Special Events between April 2014 and April 2015. The LA Phil gratefully acknowledges Al Mann’s leadership gift of $10 million to make possible the Alfred E. Mann Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Administrative Building.
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CHEFS PICNIC CLUB The Hollywood Bowl picnic season is just around the corner. Make your experience memorable by becoming a member of Chefs Picnic Club. Every Monday during the Hollywood Bowl season, you will be emailed simple, innovative picnic recipes themed on the venue’s weekly programming, from the hottest chefs on the dining scene.
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SUPPORT THE PHIL Annual Fund From the concerts that take place on stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, to the education programs that fill our community with music, it is support from Annual Donors that makes our work possible. We hope you, too, will consider joining the LA Phil family. Your contribution will enable the LA Phil to build on a long history of artistic excellence and civic engagement. Through your patronage, you become a part of the music – sharing in its power to uplift, unite, and transform the lives of its listeners. For more information on how to become a donor to the LA Phil, please call 213.972.7557. Board of Overseers Jack Suzar and Linda May, Chairs Jonathan and Monique Kagan, Vice Chairs The Board of Overseers is a vital leadership group, providing critical resources in support of the LA Phil’s general operations. Their vision and generosity enables the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, invest in groundbreaking educational initiatives, and stage innovative artistic programs, heralded worldwide for the quality of their artistry and imagination. We invite you to consider joining the Board of Overseers. For more information, please call 213.972.7209. 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. We invite you to join the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil program. As a Friend or Patron, you will be supporting the LA Phil’s critically acclaimed artistic programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl as well as groundbreaking educational initiatives such as YOLA, which provides free after-school music instruction to children in underserved communities throughout Los Angeles. Ticket sales cover only a portion of the costs associated with the LA Phil’s extraordinary menu of artistic and educational activities. Your participation, at any level, is critical to our vitality and success. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil program. For more information, please call 213.972.7557.
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GENERAL INFORMATION SMOKING POLICY By law (LACC 17.04.645), smoking is not permitted on the Hollywood Bowl grounds, except in designated areas. Violators are subject to removal. Smoking in any other areas could lead to arrest and would be considered a misdemeanor. CONCERT CONDUCT If the behavior of a patron or patrons near you becomes disruptive, the incident should be reported to the nearest usher or security person. To report an incident discreetly during an event, a call or text can be placed to the Customer Courtesy Line at 323.387.3190. For the full Code of Conduct visit HollywoodBowl.com/conduct.
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FIRST AID In case of illness or injury, please see an usher, who will escort you to the First Aid Station. LOST AND FOUND Any lost articles found on concert nights may be claimed at the Operations Office the next morning. Unclaimed articles are kept for 30 days from the date on which they are found. For information, call 323.850.2060. PHOTOGRAPHS Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgment of willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Hollywood Bowl and releases the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, its lessees, and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs. TICKETS FOR BOWL EVENTS You can buy seats for any of this season’s performances at the Bowl Box Office. The Box Office is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 6pm. On concert nights the Box Office remains open through intermission until August 5. The Box Office accepts American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa. You may also order tickets online at HollywoodBowl.com. Hollywood Bowl tickets also are available throughout Southern California at Ticketmaster outlets. Credit card phone orders may be placed by calling Audience Services at 323.850.2000 or Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000. Please note that there is a service charge for online, telephone, and outlet orders.
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PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES For information detailing accessible seating, restrooms, dining, on-site transportation, assistive listening devices, or any further information, please request the Map of the Hollywood Bowl for Patrons with Disabilities by phoning 323.850.2025 or TTY 323.850.2040. Please ask for Accessible Services, or log on to our website at HollywoodBowl.com.
evening concerts. The FAA also plans to adjust the traffic flow patterns wherever possible to minimize the noise and will make special announcements to pilots on the Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) at airports within the Los Angeles basin, advising pilots to avoid flights over the Bowl area during concert periods.
FAA PILOT REQUEST The Federal Aviation Administration has once again requested that all pilots avoid flying over the Hollywood Bowl area from 6pm to midnight and when the white strobe lights and searchlights are on during Hollywood Bowl
We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please address them to Leni Isaacs Boorstin, Director of Community and Government Affairs, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, 151 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
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