Performances Magazine | LA Phil, February 2024

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FEBRUARY 2024

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WELCOME MESSAGE

Book I • FEBRUARY 2–11

Book II • FEBRUARY 15–28

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ABOUT THE LA PHIL

FEB 2–4 LA Phil

FEB 15–18 LA Phil Schubert and Beethoven

13 SUPPORT THE LA PHIL 14 FEATURE Welcome to Walt Disney Concert Hall P1 PROGRAM NOTES

JOHN WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHT

A Century of Film Music FEB 6 Green Umbrella Last Days FEB 9–11 LA Phil Ravel and Adès

FEB 23–25 LA Phil Mälkki Conducts Brahms FEB 25 Organ Recital Wayne Marshall FEB 27

LUNAR NEW YEAR

Chamber Music with the LA Phil FEB 28 Colburn Celebrity Recital Leila Josefowicz, violin John Novacek, piano

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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION

Welcome to the LA Phil Art is about connection, and the root of all connection is people and relationships. The LA Phil is an artist-led institution. Our mission and creative curiosity are driven by the people on our stage. While that starts with Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock, and Creative Chair John Adams, that artistic family extends to collaborators whose names our audiences have come to know well over the years.

February offers a chance to hear from some of the close partners of the LA Phil artistic family. Starting the month, the legendary John Williams curates the program A Century of Film Music, which explores the history of Hollywood scores from the early days with Korngold and Waxman to Elfman, Silvestri, and Morricone.

John actually first collaborated with the LA Phil as a fill-in pianist at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1950s, and there is no more expert voice to craft a concert like this one.

Composer and conductor Thomas Adès returns for two concerts. The first involves the staging of Last Days, a thrilling opera inspired by the Gus Van Sant film of the same name. The second pairs music from his The Tempest and piano concerto—brought to life by the intrepid Kirill Gerstein—with music by Ravel. In late February, the LA Phil’s former Principal Guest Conductor Susanna Mälkki returns. Mälkki has a rare gift for guiding both classic and cuttingedge repertoire, and she showcases that talent in music by Brahms and a U.S. premiere by Enno Poppe.

Whether it’s your first time here or this is a valued tradition, from our musical family to yours, we hope you enjoy what your ears may discover.

Board of Directors CHAIR

Teena Hostovich

Thomas L. Beckmen* Jonathan Kagan* VICE CHAIRS David C. Bohnett* Reveta Bowers* Jane B. Eisner* David Meline* Diane Paul* Jay Rasulo*

Darioush Khaledi Winnie Kho Francois Mobasser Margaret Morgan Leith O’Leary Andy Park Sandy Pressman Richard Raffetto

DIRECTORS

Geoff Rich

Nancy Abell

Laura Rosenwald

Gregory A. Adams

Richard Schirtzer

Julie Andrews

G. Gabrielle Starr

Camilo Esteban Becdach

Jay Stein*

Linda Brittan Jennifer Broder Kawanna Brown

Christian Stracke* Jason Subotky Ronald D. Sugar* Vikki Sung

Andrea Chao-Kharma*

Jack Suzar

R. Martin Chavez

Keith Terasaki

Christian D. Chivaroli, JD

Sue Tsao

Jonathan L. Congdon Donald P. de Brier* Louise D. Edgerton

Jon Vein Megan Watanabe Regina Weingarten

Lisa Field

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

David A. Ford

Irwin Winkler

Hilary Garland

Debra Wong Yang

Jennifer Miller Goff* Tammy Golihew

HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS

Carol Colburn Grigor

Frank Gehry

Marian L. Hall

Lenore S. Greenberg

Suzanne M. Hart

Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy

Antonia Hernández*

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ABOUT THE LA PHIL

Gustavo Dudamel

Music & Artistic Director, Walt and Lilly Disney Chair Gustavo Dudamel is driven by the belief that music has the power to transform lives, to inspire, and to change the world. Through his dynamic presence on the podium and his tireless advocacy for arts education, he has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped provide access to the arts for countless people in underserved communities.

Dudamel currently serves as Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein.

Dudamel is one of the few classical musicians to become a bona fide pop-culture phenomenon.

His film credits include Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Simpsons, and he led the LA Phil with Billie Eilish in the concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles. He has performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, the Academy Awards, and the Nobel Prize concert, and has worked with international superstars Christina Aguilera; Ricky Martin; Tyler, The Creator; Coldplay; and others. His extensive discography includes 67 releases and four Grammy Awards.

Inspired by his transformative experience as a youth in Venezuela’s immersive musical training program El Sistema, he created the Dudamel Foundation in 2012, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal “to expand access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.” In July and August 2022, the Dudamel Foundation brought its Encuentros initiative to the Hollywood Bowl as part of the 100thanniversary season, in a two-week intensive global leadership and orchestral training program for young musicians from around the world that culminated in a concert at the Hollywood Bowl and a tour with the Orquesta del Encuentro to the legendary Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA.

“THE RARE CLASSICAL ARTIST TO HAVE CROSSED INTO POP-CULTURE CELEBRITY.” —The New York Times’ Zachary Woolfe and Laura Cappelle

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ABOUT THE LA PHIL

Los Angeles Philharmonic

“SO FAR AHEAD OF OTHER AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS THAT IT IS IN COMPETITION MAINLY WITH ITS OWN PAST ACHIEVEMENTS.” —The New Yorker’s Alex Ross The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations.

Both at home and abroad, the LA Phil—recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras—is leading the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming, onstage and in the community, that reflects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. The 2023/24 season is the orchestra’s 105th.

Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Ford, and the Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music.

Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music.

Situated in a 32-acre park and

under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, The Ford presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.

The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purpose-built facility: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Frank Gehry.

The orchestra also undertakes tours, both domestically and internationally, including regular visits to New York, London (where the orchestra is the Barbican Centre’s International Orchestral Partner), Paris, and Tokyo. As

part of its global Centennial activities, the orchestra visited Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Boston, and New York. The LA Phil’s first tour was in 1921, and the orchestra has made annual tours since the 1969/70 season.

The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy Award-winning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, and Andrew Norman. Deutsche Grammophon has released a comprehensive box set in honor of the orchestra’s centennial.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity. Their names are Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929), Artur Rodziński (1929-1933), Otto Klemperer (1933-1939), Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956), Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959), Zubin Mehta (1962-1978), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984), André Previn (1985-1989), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009), and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).

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ABOUT THE LA PHIL

Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director Walt and Lilly Disney Chair

Zubin Mehta Conductor Emeritus Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate Rodolfo Barráez Assistant Conductor Ann Ronus Chair

John Adams

John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair

Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz

FIRST VIOLINS Martin Chalifour Principal Concertmaster Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair

Nathan Cole First Associate Concertmaster

Ernest Fleischmann Chair

Bing Wang Associate Concertmaster

Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair

Akiko Tarumoto Assistant Concertmaster Philharmonic Affiliates Chair

Minyoung Chang I.H. Albert Sutnick Chair

Tianyun Jia Jordan Koransky Ashley Park Stacy Wetzel Justin Woo

SECOND VIOLINS

Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair

HORNS

CELLOS

Elise Shope Henry

Andrew Bain Principal

Robert deMaine Principal

Sarah Jackson

Nancy and Leslie Abell LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair

Mari L. Danihel Chair

Piccolo

Evan Kuhlmann

OBOES

Gregory Roosa

Marc Lachat Principal

Amy Jo Rhine

Mark Kashper Associate Principal

Dahae Kim Assistant Principal

Carol Colburn Grigor Chair

Kristine Whitson Johnny Lee

Jonathan Karoly

Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair

Dale Breidenthal

Mark Houston Dalzell and James DaoDalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community

Ingrid Chun Jin-Shan Dai Chao-Hua Jin Jung Eun Kang Nickolai Kurganov Varty Manouelian Michelle Tseng Suli Xue Ayrton Pisco* Nebyu Samuel*

VIOLAS Teng Li Principal

Sadie and Norman Lee Chair

David Garrett Barry Gold Jason Lippmann Gloria Lum

Linda and Maynard Brittan Chair

Serge Oskotsky Brent Samuel+ Ismael Guerrero*

BASSES Christopher Hanulik Principal Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller Chair

Kaelan Decman Associate Principal Oscar M. Meza Assistant Principal

Marion Arthur Kuszyk Associate Principal Anne Marie Gabriele Carolyn Hove

English Horn Carolyn Hove

CLARINETS

Alan Scott Klee Chair Loring Charitable Trust Chair

Elyse Lauzon

Reese and Doris Gothie Chair

Ethan Bearman Assistant

Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair

Elizabeth Linares Montero*

TRUMPETS

Thomas Hooten Boris Allakhverdyan Principal M. David and Diane Principal Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair

Burt Hara Associate Principal Andrew Lowy Taylor Eiffert

E-Flat Clarinet

Paul Chair

James Wilt Associate Principal Nancy and Donald de Brier Chair

Christopher Still

Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair

John Connell Chair

David Allen Moore

Ben Ullery Associate Principal

Ted Botsford Jack Cousin Jory Herman Brian Johnson Peter Rofé Nicholas Arredondo*

Bass Clarinet

FLUTES

Shawn Mouser Associate Principal

James Miller Associate Principal

Michele Grego+ Evan Kuhlmann

Paul Radke

Jenni Seo Dana Lawson

Richard Elegino John Hayhurst Ingrid Hutman Rochelle Abramson Michael Larco Camille Avellano Hui Liu Margaret and Jerrold Meredith Snow L. Eberhardt Chair Leticia Oaks Strong

* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen LA Phil Resident Fellow

Denis Bouriakov Principal

Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair

Andrew Lowy Taylor Eiffert

BASSOONS Whitney Crockett Principal

Ann Ronus Chair

The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.

John Lofton

Miller and Goff Family Chair

Mason Soria

John Cecil Bessell Chair

Ben Hong Associate Principal

Lyndon Johnston Taylor Principal

Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair

Bass Trombone

TUBA

David Cooper Associate Principal

Deanie and Jay Stein Chair

On sabbatical

Contrabassoon

Sarah Jackson

Rebecca Reale

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Catherine Ransom Karoly Associate Principal

Minor L. Wetzel Jarrett Threadgill*

Jeffrey Strong

TROMBONES David Rejano Cantero Principal

TIMPANI Joseph Pereira Principal

Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair

David Riccobono Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION Matthew Howard Principal James Babor Perry Dreiman David Riccobono

KEYBOARDS Joanne Pearce Martin Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair

HARP Emmanuel Ceysson Principal

Ann Ronus Chair

LIBRARIANS Stephen Biagini Benjamin Picard KT Somero

CONDUCTING FELLOWS

Koni and Geoff Rich Chair

Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair

Carlos Ágreda Ross Jamie Collins Michelle Di Russo Anna Handler

The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.

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INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair

Paula Michea

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO

EXECUTIVE TEAM Summer Bjork CHIEF OF STAFF

Nora Brady

CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Glenn Briffa

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Margie Kim

CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER

Emanuel Maxwell CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER

Mona Patel

GENERAL COUNSEL

Meghan Umber

CHIEF PROGRAMMING OFFICER

SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM Laura Connelly

GENERAL MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL; VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION

Cynthia Fuentes DIRECTOR, THE FORD

Elsje Kibler-Vermaas VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING

Sara Kim

VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY

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Miguel A. Ponce Jr. SYSTEM SUPPORT I

Christopher Prince TESSITURA SUPPORT

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DIRECTOR, IT SERVICES

Meredith Reese

SENIOR MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Kia Topps

OFFICE MANAGER/ RECEPTIONIST

Aly Zacharias DIRECTOR, LEGAL

ARTISTIC PLANNING & PRESENTATIONS Linda Diaz ARTIST LIAISON

Kristen Flock-Ritchie ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR

Brian Grohl

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING

Ljiljana Grubisic

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Sarita Eldridge DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

Kevin Higa

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Dean Hughes SYSTEM SUPPORT III

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SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

Mary Smudde

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Fabian Fuertes

Julie Hernandez FACILITIES MANAGER, BECKMEN YOLA CENTER

Lorenzo Johnson PROGRAM MANAGER, YOLA AT INGLEWOOD

Diana Melgar

PROGRAM MANAGER

Jyoti Aaron

Michael Salas

CREATIVE PRODUCER

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SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

Steven Cao

ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER

Katherine Franklin

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Lisa Hernandez

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

Micaela Accardi-Krown

FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER

Mary Allen

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR

Lushia Anson

Rafael Mariño Mark McNeill

Ayrten Rodriguez Stephanie Yoon

Rebeca Zepeda

REPRESENTATIVE SUPERVISOR

Brendan Broms SUPERVISOR

Diego De La Torre SUPERVISOR

Jacquie Ferger REPRESENTATIVE

Linda Holloway

PATRON SERVICES MANAGER

Jennifer Hugus PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

Carlie Tomasulo

CONTROLLER

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNTING MANAGER VENUE ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR

Nina Phay

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

Lisa Renteria

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST

Sierra Shultz

STAFF ACCOUNTANT

Robert Siegel

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

TRANSIT MANAGER

OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR

Charee Heard

DIRECTOR, RETAIL SERVICES

Lisa Burlingham

SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS

Charles Carroll MANAGER, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Joe Carter

SENIOR DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Elias Feghali

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE STRATEGIES & ANALYTICS

Justin Foo

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SALES & CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT

COORDINATOR, THE FORD

Tara Gardner

Richard Ponce

Mark Ladd

Diana Salazar

Gina Leoni

PARKING & TRAFFIC MANAGER DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Megan Ly-Lim

PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE

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Caila Gale

Eden Palomino

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Scott Arenstein

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CREATIVE COPYWRITER

Genevieve Goetz

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Angelina Grego

Anna Stokkebye

GIFT PLANNING OFFICER

Natalie Suarez

MANAGER, AFFILIATES & VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT

SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Kahler Suzuki

Gerry Heise

SENIOR VIDEO PRODUCER

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

MARKETING DATABASE SPECIALIST

MANAGER, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Jonathan Thomas Lauren Winn

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT & MEDIA INITIATIVES

SENIOR DIRECTOR, BRAND

Gaby Hernandez

SUPERVISOR

Elan Fields

FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST

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CREATIVE COPYWRITER

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Karen O’Sullivan REPRESENTATIVE

SENIOR DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS

Kristine Nichols

Dreima Flores

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YOLA ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Julia Cole

Jessica Farber

REPRESENTATIVE

AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

Gaudy Sanchez

DIRECTOR, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER

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Rosa Ochoa

MANAGER, YOLA NATIONAL

Michelle Carrasquillo

LaTonya Lindsey

Steve Arredondo

William Minor

MANAGER, YOLA

Taylor Burrows

MARKETING MANAGER

Shana Bey

REPRESENTATIVE

Melissa Magana

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DIRECTOR, CONTENT

SENIOR MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA

HOLLYWOOD BOWL & THE FORD

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ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR

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Raymond Horwitz PROJECT MANAGER, MEDIA INITIATIVES

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Karin Haule

Kelvin Vu

Derek Traub

Annisha Hinkle

Bill Williams

Morgan Walton

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

SENIOR MANAGER, PROMOTIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Jennifer Hoffner ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING

Alexis Kaneshiro

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR

MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AFFILIATES & VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT

Richard T. Watkins ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY

SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL

The Philharmonic Box Office and Audience Services Center are staffed by members of IATSE Local 857, Treasurers and Ticket Sellers.

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SUPPORT THE LA PHIL

At the Heart of the LA Phil: The Orchestra and its Champions

The musicians of the orchestra are the beating heart of the LA Phil—everything stems from these dedicated, creative individuals. In addition to performing over 150 concerts annually, orchestra members curate the Chamber Music series, regularly provide private lessons to YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) musicians, and showcase our city’s artistry on international tours.

To recognize and support these incredible orchestra members and help recruit and retain the most talented musicians globally, donors have made contributions to endow chairs in the orchestra. To date, over 34 positions have

been endowed by supporters like Diane and David Paul.

As patrons, philanthropists, and through Diane’s Board leadership, including serving as Board Chair from 2013 to 2016, the Pauls have made a transformational impact on both the Phil and LA. While serving as Board Chair, Diane helped plan citywide celebrations for the Phil’s centennial season, which marked the orchestra’s profound, century-long impact on Southern California. At the time, the Pauls decided to make a concrete impact by underwriting and naming the Principal Trumpet position, now known as the

M. David and Diane Paul Chair, held by the brilliantly talented Thomas Hooten.

“By supporting the Principal Trumpet position, we wanted to celebrate the talent of the musicians and the transformative impact they have on our community,” Diane said. “It’s our way of saying thanks to these amazing artists who touch our lives in so many ways.”

A gift supporting the LA Phil’s Endowment Fund to name an orchestra chair ensures the orchestra’s vitality not just today, but for generations to come and helps build a stable, permanent source of financial support for the LA Phil.

“WE WANTED TO CELEBRATE THE TALENT OF THE MUSICIANS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT THEY HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITY....

IT’S OUR WAY OF SAYING THANKS TO THESE AMAZING ARTISTS WHO TOUCH OUR LIVES IN SO MANY WAYS.” DIANE PAUL ( ri g ht ) AND THOMAS HOOTEN

—Diane Paul

To learn more about how you can support an endowed chair, please email legacy@laphil.org.

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FEATURE

Welcome to Walt Disney Concert Hall As Walt Disney Concert Hall celebrates its 20th anniversary, we asked members of the audience, musicians, and LA Phil staff to share what makes this venue so special for them.

MATTHEW

LA native Matthew Howard is Principal Percussionist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“I came to my first show in 2009 in college. It was the first time I was introduced to classical music. I remember I sat in the terrace section and saw [Ravel’s] Bolero. I remember being drawn to the percussion section, thinking, ‘This is a goal of mine. I need to play on that stage.’ One of the best things about playing percussion is we have the largest dynamic range, and that’s really true in this space. Anything Prokofiev, Mahler, Shostakovich, we have so much fun playing; they really know how to write for our colors.”

CLAIRE

Claire and her husband David first went to concerts together when they were dating and have been subscribers for four decades.

“We’ve probably sat in every single section of the hall from the first day it opened. The acoustics, the orchestra, and the building have made Los Angeles a major music destination. This is one of the few places I can expect to hear everything from Frank Zappa to Bach.”

DAVID L.

David Lawrence is a composer and music producer for television and film.

“As an artist and composer, to walk into this beautiful building and hear acoustic perfection is nothing short of spectacular. It’s a dream. Once you’re sitting and hearing and feeling what these musicians can do, it’s so palpable. Your heartbeat quickens. Your blood pressure rises. You feel the energy of 90 to 100 musicians giving and giving. It’s transformational.”

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REBECCA

Rebecca Reale holds the Deanie and Jay Stein Chair in the First Violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“My favorite thing about the concert hall as a musician is [that] it is intimate enough where we can really feel connected with our audiences. We see familiar faces coming back, and we start to build relationships with them.”

DAVID M.

Bassist David Allen Moore has performed with the LA Phil for 24 years.

“I go back to Dorothy Chandler [Pavilion] days and remember seeing the construction from across the street. It’s still kind of crazy when you drive up and think, ‘That’s a real building that I actually get to go into and play.’ There’s a clarity and an honesty to the hall that’s really intimidating at first because you’re not enveloped in a kind of resonating bathtub like the sound of some more traditional hall designs. It really forces you to pay attention to the finest details, because whatever you’re doing onstage is getting communicated to the audience.”

LINDA

Linda Holloway is Patron Services Manager for the LA Phil.

“There’s something at every corner. You just have to look up and take it in. The different materials and finishes. It’s also not often in a building of this complexity that an architect will be honest enough to show the structural details as well. Around the building [exterior], there are staircases that go all the way to the top that afford you amazing views of Los Angeles.”

JARED

Jared is a regular concertgoer and donor to the LA Phil.

“What initially brought me to Walt Disney Concert Hall was actually a lecture series called Music 101 with Alan Chapman, and I fell in love with the building. Soon after, I went to my first LA Phil concert, and that made me fall in love with the LA Phil. It’s a truly different experience of listening to music than what I had before: to hear instruments without amplification and that sound bouncing off the walls. It’s kept me coming back time after time.”

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Imagine the Possibilities There are many ways you can show your support for the LA Phil. Take advantage of these giving opportunities that may offer tax benefits to you.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NOW

MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE FUTURE

Gift of Appreciated Securities

Retirement Plan Beneficiary Designation

A gift of securities to the LA Phil that have increased in value provides you with double tax savings: no capital gains tax, and you receive an income tax deduction for the full value of the securities.

Gift from Your IRA

If you are aged at least 70½, a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your IRA directly to the LA Phil avoids the income tax that you would owe on a regular withdrawal. If you have Required Minimum Distributions (RMD), your QCD gift will count toward your RMD.

In most cases, income tax is owed on the money left in your retirement plan.

However, there will be no tax if you designate the LA Phil as the beneficiary. A tax-wise strategy is to leave other, non-taxed, assets to your heirs and your retirement plan to the LA Phil.

ORDINARY PEOPLE MAKE EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS We are grateful to our donors for their long tradition of philanthropic support for the LA Phil. We would be happy to work with you to craft a charitable gift plan that makes the most sense for you.

To start a conversation, please contact the LA Phil office of Gift Planning: legacy@laphil.org or 213 972 3458.

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Corporate Partners

ANNUAL GIVING

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association is honored to recognize our corporate partners, whose generosity supports the LA Phil’s mission of bringing music in its varied forms to audiences at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. To learn more about becoming a partner, email jmccourt@laphil.org.

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From the concerts that take place onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford to the learning programs that fill our community with music, it is the consistent support of Annual Donors that sustains and propels our work. We hope you, too, will consider making a gift today. Your contribution will enable the LA Phil to build on a long history of artistic excellence and civic engagement. Through your patronage, you become a part of the music—sharing in its power to uplift, unite, and transform the lives of its listeners. Your participation, at any level, is critical to our success.

FRIENDS OF THE LA PHIL

Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil share a deep love of music and are committed to ensuring that great musical performance thrives in Los Angeles. As a Friend or Patron, you will be supporting the LA Phil’s critically acclaimed artistic programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford, as well as groundbreaking learning initiatives such as YOLA, which provides free afterschool music instruction to children in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil. For more information, or to learn about membership benefits, please call 213 972 7557 or email friends@laphil.org.

PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Tiffany Chivaroli, Co-Chairs The Philharmonic Council is a vital leadership group whose members provide critical resources in support of the LA Phil’s general operations. Their vision and generosity enable the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, invest in groundbreaking learning initiatives, and stage innovative artistic programs, heralded worldwide for the quality of their artistry and imagination.

We invite you to consider joining the Philharmonic Council as a major donor. For more information, please call 213 972 7209 or email patrons@laphil.org.

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ENDOWMENT DONORS

Endowment Donors We are honored to recognize our endowment donors, whose generosity ensures the long-term health of our organization. The following list represents cumulative contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Endowment Fund as of October 31, 2023. $25,000,000 AND ABOVE

$1,000,000 TO $2,499,999

$500,000 TO $999,999

Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation Cecilia and Dudley Rauch

Linda and Robert Attiyeh Judith and Thomas Beckmen Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty Helen and Peter Bing William H. Brady, III Linda and Maynard Brittan Richard and Norma Camp Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Connell Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell Mari L. Danihel Nancy and Donald de Brier The Rafael & Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation The Walt Disney Company Fairchild-Martindale Foundation Eris and Larry Field Reese and Doris Gothie Joan and John Hotchkis Janeway Foundation Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Carrie and Stuart Ketchum Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee B. Allen and Dorothy Lay Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee Estate of Judith Lynne MaddocksBrown Foundation Ginny Mancini Raulee Marcus Barbara and Buzz McCoy Merle and Peter Mullin William and Carolyn Powers Koni and Geoff Rich H. Russell Smith Foundation Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust Ronald and Valerie Sugar I.H. Sutnick

Ann and Martin Albert Abbott Brown Mr. George L. Cassat Kathleen and Jerrold L. Eberhardt Valerie Franklin Yvonne and Gordon Hessler Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis Mr. and Mrs. David Meline Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Earl and Victoria Pushee William and Sally Rutter Nancy and Barry Sanders Richard and Bradley Seeley Christian Stracke Donna Swayze Lee and Hope Landis Warner YOLA Student Fund Edna Weiss

$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999 David Bohnett Foundation

$10,000,000 TO $19,999,999 The Annenberg Foundation Colburn Foundation

$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999 Anonymous Dunard Fund USA Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Carol Colburn Grigor Terri and Jerry M. Kohl Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates Diane and Ron Miller Charitable Fund M. David and Diane Paul Ann and Robert Ronus Ronus Foundation John and Samantha Williams

$2,500,000 TO $4,999,999 Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann Lynn Booth/Otis Booth Foundation Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Karl H. Loring Alfred E. Mann Elise Mudd Marvin Trust Barbara and Jay Rasulo Flora L. Thornton

$100,000 TO $249,999

Mr. Robert J. Abernethy William A. Allison Rachel and Lee Ault W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Deborah Borda The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Jane Carruthers Pei-yuan Chia and Katherine Shen James and Paula Coburn Foundation The Geraldine P. Coombs Trust in memory of Gerie P. Coombs Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox Silvia and Kevin Dretzka Allan and Diane Eisenman Christine and Daniel Ewell Arnold Gilberg, M.D., Ph.D. David and Paige Glickman $250,000 Nicholas T. Goldsborough TO $499,999 Gonda Family Nancy and Leslie Abell Foundation Mr. Gregory A. Adams Margaret Grauman Baker Family Trust Kathryn Kert Green and Veronica and Mark Green Robert Egelston Joan and Gordon Family John F. Hotchkis Foundation Freya and Mark Ivener Ms. Kay Harland Ruth Jacobson Joan Green Harris Trust Stephen A. Kanter, M.D. Bud and Jo Ann and Barbara Hellman Charles Kaplan Gerald L. Katell Yates Keir Norma Kayser Susanne and Paul Kester Joyce and Kent Kresa Vicki King Raymond Lieberman Sylvia Kunin Mr. Kevin MacCarthy Ann and Edward Leibon and Ms. Lauren Lexton Ellen and Mark Lipson Alfred E. Mann Charities B. and Lonis Liverman Jane and Glenn Miya and Marc B. Nathanson Steven Llanusa Y & S Nazarian Ms. Gloria Lothrop Family Foundation Vicki and Nancy and Kerry McCluggage Sidney Petersen David and Rice Family Foundation Margaret Mgrublian Robert Robinson Diane and Leon Morton Katharine and Mary Pickford Thomas Stoever Foundation Sue Tsao Sally and Frank Raab Alyce and Mr. David Sanders Warren Williamson Malcolm Schneer and Cathy Liu David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

William E.B. and National Endowment Laura K. Siart for the Arts Magda and Frederick Alfred and R. Waingrow Arlene Noreen Wasserman Foundation Occidental Petroleum Robert Wood Corporation Syham Yohanna and Dr. M. Lee Pearce James W. Manns Lois Rosen Anne and James Rothenberg $25,000 Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust TO $99,999 The SahanDaywi Marie Baier Foundation Foundation Dr. Richard Bardowell, Mrs. Nancie Schneider M.D. William and Jacqueline Briskin Luiginia Sheridan Dona Burrell Virginia Skinner Ying Cai & Wann Living Trust S. Lee Foundation Nancy and Ann and Tony Cannon Richard Spelke Dee and Mary H. Statham Robert E. Cody Ms. Fran H. Tuchman The Colburn Fund Tom and Margaret Sheehy Janet Unterman Collins Rhio H. Weir Mr. Allen Don Mrs. Joseph F. Cornelsen Westheimer Ginny and Jean Willingham John Cushman Winnick Family Marilyn J. Dale Foundation Mrs. Barbara A. Davis Cheryl and Dr. and Mrs. Peter Ziegler Roger DeBard Lynn and Roger Zino Jennifer and Royce Diener LA PHIL Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner MUSICIANS The Englekirk Family Anonymous Claudia and Kenneth Bonebrake Mark Foster Nancy and Lillian and Martin Chalifour Stephen Frank Dr. Suzanne Gemmell Brian Drake Perry Dreiman Paul and Barry Gold Florence Glaser Christopher Hanulik Good Works John Hayhurst Foundation Jory and Anne Heineman Selina Herman Ann and Jean Horton Ingrid Hutman Drs. Judith and Andrew Lowy Herbert Hyman Gloria Lum Albert E. and Joanne Pearce Martin Nancy C. Jenkins Kazue Asawa McGregor Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody Oscar and Diane Meza Mitchell Newman Ms. Ann L. Kligman Peter Rofé Sandra Krause and Meredith Snow and William Fitzgerald Mark Zimoski Michael and Barry Socher Emily Laskin Paul Stein Sarah and Leticia Oaks Strong Ira R. Manson Lyndon and Beth Carole McCormac Johnston Taylor Meitus Marital Trust Dennis Trembly Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D. Allison and Jim Wilt Suli Xue John Millard

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org. Thank you.

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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

John Williams Spotlight

A Century of Film Music Los Angeles Philharmonic David Newman, conductor Bing Wang, violin Diana Newman, soprano

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2, 2024 8PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3 2PM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4 2PM

Alfred NEWMAN

20th Century Fox Fanfare

KORNGOLD

Main Title from Captain Blood

RÓZSA

Prelude (Main Title) from Ben-Hur

WAXMAN

Suite from Sunset Blvd.

HERRMANN

“Scène d’Amour” from Vertigo

NORTH

“Forest Meeting” and March from Spartacus

Alfred NEWMAN

“Cathy’s Theme” from Wuthering Heights Bing Wang

JARRE

Suite from Lawrence of Arabia INTERMISSION

Danny ELFMAN

Main Title from Batman

John WILLIAMS

Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

GOLDSMITH

“The Hunt” from Planet of the Apes

MORRICONE

Main Title from Once Upon a Time in the West Diana Newman

Thomas NEWMAN “The Night Window” from 1917 John WILLIAMS

“Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones

ROTA

Suite from The Godfather

Alan SILVESTRI

Suite from Back to the Future

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Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall Corporate Partner: U.S. Bank (2/2) Programs and artists are subject to change.

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AT A GLANCE A Century of Film Music

Over the past 100 years, movies have produced thousands of hours of original music—much of it admittedly forgettable, but some of it truly memorable and worthy of performance outside its original cinematic contexts.

John Williams has been around for nearly all of that time and, in his 65 years

A CENTURY OF FILM MUSIC Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s were dominated

by European composers, many of them fleeing the Nazi menace. Austrian Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) was the first composer of stature to embrace this new form of entertainment. He thought of films as “operas without singing” and spent a decade at Warner Bros., penning soaring melodies and richly orchestrated music for films like the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Captain Blood (1935).

German-born Franz Waxman (1906–1967) was at Paramount when he scored Sunset Blvd.

(1950), a particularly cynical view of Hollywood courtesy of director Billy Wilder. The Oscar-winning score includes a demented tango for an aging screen siren (Gloria Swanson) desperate for a comeback.

Throughout the 1950s, Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995) earned praise for his music for MGM’s religious and historical epics,

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of compositions for movies and TV to date, has himself produced more than a handful of modern classics. He has surveyed the cinema landscape and curated tonight’s program, which spans the past century, of great music for the big screen.

—Jon Burlingame

none greater than Ben-Hur (1959). Rózsa’s inspirational music for Charlton Heston, as a Jew whose friendship with a Roman nearly destroys his life and his family, won him one of the film’s 11 Academy Awards.

Among the Americanborn pioneers of film music was Alfred Newman (1900–1970), longtime head of the 20th Century-Fox music department, whose nine Oscars are a record for a composer. “Cathy’s Theme” from Wuthering Heights (1939), starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, remains one of his most exquisite romantic themes, here arranged for violin and orchestra.

New Yorker Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) shifted from radio drama to films with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but he is best known for his decade-long collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock. Arguably the artistic high point of that work was Vertigo (1958), a psychological thriller with James Stewart and Kim Novak

that was, in the words of Herrmann biographer Steven Smith, “Herrmann’s fullest realization of his favorite dramatic themes: romantic obsession, isolation, and the ultimate release of death.”

In 1986, Alex North (1910–1991) became the first composer to receive an honorary Academy Award for his entire body of work.

And Spartacus (1960), Stanley Kubrick’s epic of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, was his magnum opus, a massive, aggressively modern work for orchestra that also had its warm and intimate moments for rebel leader Kirk Douglas and his love Jean Simmons.

Los Angeles–born Jerry Goldsmith (1929–2004) led the way with more progressive musical approaches in the 1960s and beyond. His landmark Planet of the Apes (1968) created an otherworldly soundscape rooted in such mid-20th-century musical concepts as serialism—until then rarely attempted in film music—while also delivering

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the kind of exciting adventure music in which he excelled.

The 1960s also saw a greater recognition of European composers active in film. Frenchman Maurice Jarre (1924–2009) won three Oscars for his music for David Lean–directed epics, beginning with Lawrence of Arabia (1962). A former percussionist and dedicated ethnomusicologist, he incorporated Middle Eastern sounds into his score for the enigmatic World War I hero T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole).

Prolific Italian composer Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) was initially known in America for his Western scores, especially those for the films of director Sergio Leone.

His 1960s masterwork in that genre was Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Leone’s grand-scale story of the coming of the railroad to the American West (starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale).

Also from Italy, Nino Rota (1911–1979) was commissioned by filmmaker Francis Ford

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Coppola for a recognizably Sicilian sound for his organized-crime films The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), which collectively starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro. Rota won the Oscar for the second installment, which reached operatic proportions both musically and cinematically.

The very same year that John Williams (b. 1932) won the Oscar for Star Wars (1977), he also composed a very different score for another science-fiction film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, his third collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, equal parts romantic and avant-garde. In a far different mode is Williams’ lighthearted “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), the third film in Spielberg’s adventure series starring Harrison Ford and also featuring film legend Sean Connery as Indy’s father.

In the 1980s, a new generation of composers, many of them from the

pop music world, began contributing to film. Alan Silvestri (b. 1950), a drummer and guitarist with a jazz and rock background, scored Robert Zemeckis’ time-travel romp Back to the Future (1985) despite having written for orchestra only once before. Danny Elfman (b.

1953), formerly of the band Oingo Boingo, took a Gothic approach to Batman (1989) for Tim Burton’s reimagining of the Dark Knight legend.

Both men have gone on to Oscar-nominated, Emmyand Grammy-winning fame for their film work.

Thomas Newman (b. 1955), Alfred’s youngest son, has been acclaimed for many of his 90 film scores, including seven for director Sam Mendes, most recently 1917 (2019), a powerful World War I story. As the composer said at the time: “Music is there to help, but the way in which it helps must be fundamental and visceral as opposed to intellectual and reflective”—a philosophy espoused by many of today’s film composers.

—Jon Burlingame

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DAVID NEWMAN

David Newman is one of today’s most accomplished creators of music for film. In his 30-year career, he has scored more than 110 films, ranging from War of the Roses, Matilda, Bowfinger, and Heathers to the more recent Girls Trip, Night School, and Serenity. His music has brought to life the critically acclaimed dramas Brokedown Palace and Hoffa; comedies such as Galaxy Quest and Throw Momma from the Train; and award-winning animated films Ice Age, The Brave Little Toaster, and Anastasia. He received an Academy Award nomination for his score to Anastasia.

In 2021, after a decade of conducting numerous live-music-to-film concerts for the classic West Side Story film, Newman arranged the score for Steven Spielberg’s bold new reimagining of the legendary Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical, earning a Grammy nomination in 2022.

As a highly sought-after conductor, Newman appears

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with leading orchestras throughout the world including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. In fall 2017, Newman conducted the world premiere of John Williams’ epic film series Star Wars: Episodes IV, V, VI, and VII with the New York Philharmonic. In the summer of 2020, he conducted the world premiere of his score for the film Galaxy Quest live with the San Diego Symphony during Comic-Con, and in the fall of 2021 he was invited by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles to conduct its inaugural concerts of The Wizard of Oz, live to picture, with the American Youth Symphony.

The creation and conducting of music has been a lifelong zeal for Newman, son of nine-time Oscar-winning composer Alfred Newman. An active composer for the concert hall, he has written works that have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, and Long Beach Symphony, as well as at the Ravinia Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival. He also composed

a violin-orchestra suite for prodigious Korean American violinist Sarah Chang based on the songs from West Side Story.

Passionate about nurturing the next generation of musicians, Newman has served on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival in the Film Scoring Program.

Newman is married to wife Krystyna and is the father of Diana and stepdaughter Brianne.

DIANA NEWMAN

American soprano Diana Newman brings performances to opera houses and concert stages across the United States and Europe.

Highlights of Diana’s 2023/24 season include the world premiere of Aaron Zigman’s Émigré with the Shanghai Symphony, followed by the piece’s U.S. premiere with the New York Philharmonic.

Newman began her 2022/23 season with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony before joining the Dallas Opera as

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Woglinde in Das Rheingold and later in the season as Despina in Così fan tutte. In the 2021/22 season, Newman made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and also covered the role of Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos.

Newman was a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl for America in Space in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. During her tenure at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Newman performed the roles of Frasquita in Carmen, Pedro in Don Quichotte, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and the Page in Verdi’s Rigoletto, a role she debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl.

Committed to the performance of art song and new works, Diana has attended numerous programs including the Ravinia Festival Steans Music Institute, SongFest, and the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar run by Stephanie Blythe. In 2014, she performed at Carnegie Hall in a master class led by legendary mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig as part of Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues series.

Newman has given multiple premieres of works by living composers, including Francesco Cilluffo, Alan L. Smith, and David Newman.

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BING WANG

Violinist Bing Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1994. She previously held the position of Principal Second Violin of the Cincinnati Symphony and has served on the faculty and as concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2003. Since 2009, she has also been Guest Concertmaster of her hometown orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, where her tenure was highlighted by a televised New Year’s concert conducted by Riccardo Muti.

As a soloist, Wang has won critical praise for her appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In September 1997, during the Philharmonic’s celebration of the Brahms anniversary year, she performed the composer’s Double Concerto with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Hollywood Bowl. She made her Walt Disney Concert Hall concerto debut in May of 2005 and appears annually as both concertmaster and soloist at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton

of composer John Williams, performing his signature movie classics such as Schindler’s List and his arrangement of Fiddler on the Roof. Wang has appeared regularly with the American Youth Symphony since 1997, and she has also been featured as a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Manhattan Symphony, and other orchestras. In 2002, she gave her first performances in China since emigrating to the U.S., touring as a soloist with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Active as a chamber musician, Wang has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Chamber music appearances include performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany. She also performs regularly on the Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella and Chamber Music series.

Bing Wang began studying the violin with her parents at the age of six. She entered the middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she was concertmaster of the school orchestra, and graduated with highest honors.

After coming to the U.S. to study with Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory, she received her master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Glenn Dicterow. In 2012, Bing Wang was named an Adjunct Associate Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music.

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Last Days LA Phil New Music Group Oliver Leith, composer Thomas Adès, conductor GBSR Duo: George Barton, percussion / Siwan Rhys, piano Matt Copson, librettist, co-director, and art director Anna Morrissey, co-director Grace Smart, set design BALENCIAGA, costumes Patrick Weldé, costume stylist Prema Mehta, lighting designer Sound Intermedia, sound design Agathe Rousselle, Blake (actor) Isaiah Musik-Ayala, Groundskeeper (bass) James Hayden, Private Investigator (bass) Mimi Doulton, Delivery Driver / Housemate (soprano) Patricia Auchterlonie, Superfan (soprano) Edmund Danon, Housemate (baritone) Arnold Livingston Geis, Mormon / Housemate (tenor) Kathryn Shuman, Mormon / Housemate (mezzo-soprano) Sam Dash, Magician (actor)

Oliver LEITH / Matt COPSON

Last Days (U.S. premiere) (c. 90 minutes)

This performance is presented without intermission.

To read about the cast and creative team, please turn to the enclosed insert.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2024 8PM

This performance is generously supported by Raulee Marcus and the Marcus Fund for New Music.

Last Days is a Royal Opera House production, co-commissioned with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, based on the film Last Days, written and directed by Gus Van Sant and produced by HBO Films.

Oliver Leith, Last Days, An Opera—Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Faber Music Ltd., London.

Programs and artists subject to change.

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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

Ravel and Adès Los Angeles Philharmonic Thomas Adès, conductor Kirill Gerstein, piano

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THOMAS ADÈS

Five Spells from The Tempest (c. 22 minutes)

RAVEL

Overture (Storm) Ariel and Prospero Ferdinand and Miranda The Feast Prospero’s Farewell—Caliban

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (c. 18 minutes)

Lento Allegro

Kirill Gerstein INTERMISSION

THOMAS ADÈS

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (c. 21 minutes)

Official and exclusive timepiece of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Allegramente Andante gravemente Allegro giojoso

Kirill Gerstein

Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.

RAVEL

La valse (c. 12 minutes)

Media sponsor: KUSC (2/9) Saturday’s performance is generously supported by the Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Fund.

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AT A GLANCE An Adès/Ravel revel

The music of Ravel is a complementary match with that of Thomas Adès, as the British composer-conductor-pianist demonstrates again with this multi-threaded program of brilliantly scored, highly interactive pieces. And pianist Kirill Gerstein makes the perfect partner for it. Adès wrote his Piano Concerto for Gerstein, and

FIVE SPELLS FROM THE TEMPEST Thomas Adès (b. 1971) Composed: 2022 Orchestration: 3 flutes (2nd & 3rd=piccolo), 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons (3rd=contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (crotales, glockenspiel, keyboard glockenspiel, handbell, triangle, cymbals, sheet metal, tam-tam, small whip, 3 snare drums, geophone, and bass drum), harp, upright piano, and strings First LA Phil performances.

Thomas Adès’ take on Shakespeare’s fantasy The Tempest marked a defining moment early in his career. Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2004,

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the two of them have performed the twopiano version of Ravel’s La valse together.

“Creative reality is on the edge of chaos,” Adès said in a recent joint interview, to which Gerstein replied, “That’s what virtuosity is; it’s not a given.” “If it were a given, it wouldn’t be fun,” was Adès’ riposte. This one should be fun, to say the least. —John Henken

when the composer was just 33 years old, Adès’ opera was overwhelmingly acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. In the following decade, Covent Garden revived its production, and the opera made its way to houses in Copenhagen, Strasbourg, Santa Fe, Vienna, Québec City, and New York—an impressive number of productions for a contemporary opera.

Adès and Meredith Oakes, the opera’s librettist, created a synthesis of music and text that’s surgically precise in how it communicates the moral themes and individual traits of Shakespeare’s cast of characters. For Adès, the ultimate goal was to compose “a symphonic opera,” a work “driven by the musical logic at least as much as by the logic of the drama itself.”

But Adès and Oakes do much more than paint a mesmerizing musical portrait of the play’s fantastical world. Rather, they add flesh, blood, and psychological depth to the characters, showcasing the range of human emotion lurking in the shadowy underbelly of the play—including positioning Prospero as a man driven by his loss of power and a profound sense of wrath festering within.

“Prospero’s relationship with the island is a metaphor for somebody who is cut off from his own life, cannot assume his role,” Adès said in conversation with the BBC’s Tom Service. “First, he was usurped from Milan; but the island isn’t his either.

The island is basically a kind of depression, and he has to make everybody else

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suffer it in order to dig his way out, because he has to prove to himself the redundancy of his power.”

Gone is the Byronic hero of Shakespeare’s text. In Adès’ Tempest, Prospero’s political downfall and subsequent exile transform him into a somewhat sadistic, vengeance-driven contagion. One who will stop at nothing to inflict fear and suffering on those around him—not only the Milanese court that usurped him 12 years before the play begins, but also the two indigenous figures he enslaves on the island: the air spirit Ariel and the monster Caliban, who are forced to carry out many of Prospero’s cruel plans. From the storm that makes castaways of his opponents to the many illusory traps and horrific visions he orders Ariel to create to terrify them, Prospero’s obsessive desire for retribution is the engine that runs the opera—which ultimately makes his inevitable journey to reconciliation all the more satisfying.

Composed in 2022, Five Spells from The Tempest retains much of Adès and Oakes’ overarching characterization of the play, condensing north of two hours of music into a 20-minute quintet of

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movements that traces the opera’s sequence of events while maintaining the musical logic so important to the opera’s structure.

In the “Overture (Storm),” Adès unleashes the tempest’s full power from the very first bar. A relentless rush of sharply attacked notes from every section of the orchestra drives the music forward with increasing fury until we land on a deep, bombastic chord in which we can imagine the ship capsizing in real time.

The second and third movements present a pair of contrasting character studies. First, “Ariel and Prospero” showcases the stratospheric vocal lines Adès writes for the coloratura soprano performing Ariel, demanding musical acrobatics taken up in the symphony by flutes, oboes, and clarinets.

Here Ariel reports on the shipwrecked visitors, and Prospero recounts his plan not to harm them immediately but rather to launch a cat-and-mouse game of terror. “Ferdinand and Miranda” paints with shimmering orchestral textures the meeting of Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, and Ferdinand, the son of Prospero’s archenemy, the King of

Naples. It’s love at first sight, much to Prospero’s disappointment.

“The Feast” brings us to Act III, where Ariel creates a mirage of a banquet for two of the shipwrecked characters, which the starving men interpret as a gift from heaven. A solo tuba imitates a noble soliloquy in which the wise counselor Gonzalo dreams of ruling over a utopic land where mankind knows no crime, there is no need for money, and every person can delightfully savor such a feast (a moment that’s brutally cut short in the opera as Ariel transforms into a harpy leading a pack of vicious dogs).

“Prospero’s Farewell— Caliban” is taken from the opera’s closing pages, where Prospero relinquishes his magical abilities and breaks his staff—actions that set the enslaved Ariel and Caliban free. Strings tremble as Prospero makes his final plea for Ariel to stay by his side, with oboes taking up the spirit’s ethereal vocalise. As Ariel departs the stage, Caliban alone contemplates the chaos he’s witnessed and what to make of the “human seeming” intruders who dominated the island for 12 years. —© Michael Cirigliano II

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PIANO CONCERTO FOR THE LEFT HAND Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Composed: 1929–1930 Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, tam-tam, triangle, wood block), harp, and strings First LA Phil performance: February 28, 1940, Albert Coates conducting, with Giles Gilbert, soloist Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein established a most unusual body of works in 20th-century keyboard literature. Although he lost his right arm during World War I in combat on the Russian front, the feisty musician was determined to continue his concert career, which he had just launched the year before war broke out. To this end, he developed a formidable

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left-hand technique, and began adapting and arranging works for his own use. In addition, he approached numerous composers—including Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Benjamin Britten—to create solos, chamber works, and concertos for his unique performing situation.

Wittgenstein was apparently a tough customer to please. When music from Richard Strauss arrived with a typically lush accompaniment, the pianist complained, “How can one hand compete with a quadruple orchestra?”

Prokofiev’s Fourth Piano Concerto, composed in Paris in 1931, fared even worse. Wittgenstein returned the bold and difficult though not impossible work with a curt: “Thank you very much, but I don’t understand a single note of it and shall not play it.” Not knowing any other one-armed pianists, Prokofiev shelved it, and it lay neglected for a quarter of a century. Even

Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, considered the finest contribution to this unique repertoire, received a rebuke when Wittgenstein saw the long solo cadenza that opens the work. “If I wanted to play without the orchestra, I wouldn’t have commissioned a concerto!”

Ravel refused to revise the work, however, and the pianist was forced to perform it as written for the premiere on November 27, 1931, in Vienna.

Though Ravel was a master at creating brilliant solo piano works, he had never before tackled a piano concerto. As if to make up for lost time, he found himself writing two piano concertos at the age of 55. The composer had been toying with the idea of writing a concerto for himself for a projected second tour to America, following his overseas triumph during the 1927/28 season. The Wittgenstein commission finally spurred Ravel to action. From spring of 1930 until autumn of 1931, he

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worked simultaneously on the Concerto in G for his own concerts and the one for the left hand requested by Wittgenstein.

While the composer conceived his own concerto as a scintillating divertissement, the Concerto for the Left Hand emerged as a dark, powerful work with tragic overtones, and it displays a great deal of resourcefulness and originality on Ravel’s part.

It was imperative to the composer that the D-major Concerto not have the slightest hint of being a stunt. “In a work of this kind, it is essential to give the impression of a texture no thinner than that of a part written for both hands. For the same reason, I resorted to a style that is much nearer to that of the more solemn kind of traditional concerto.”

Indeed, this rather soulful work from the pen of the usually elegant and aloof Ravel ranks among his finest creations.

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The Concerto unfolds in a single movement that falls into three sections.

An impressive feat of musical legerdemain and illusion, the full sound and texture of the solo part rarely give the slightest hint that a mere single hand is involved. As if to underline the usual domain of the pianist’s left hand, the exquisite orchestral scoring leans toward the rich, lower pitches of the ensemble, including English horn, bass clarinet, and contrabassoon, as well as low strings. This approach lends the Concerto a rather somber cast and an apt heroic grandeur.

The almost inaudible onset of the dramatic Lento preamble draws on the low-pitched sounds of contrabassoon, cellos, and basses. The gradual accretion of instruments and dynamics leads to a shattering climax that heralds the powerful grand entrance of the piano. The soloist’s initial cadenza commences with a savage survey of the

keyboard’s nether regions, and sets out the principal themes with force and drama. Later, several solo winds join the piano to comment on and extend the reflective, nostalgiatinged secondary theme.

Led by the brass, the tempo changes abruptly to a scherzo-like Allegro in furious 6/8 tempo. In an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, Ravel described this segment as “an episode in the nature of an improvisation… introducing a kind of jazz music actually constructed on the themes of the first section.” It’s a subtle blend of harmonies and rhythms inspired by American blues and jazz, mixed with exotic Iberian elements.

Returning to the territory of the opening, Ravel shows no mercy in the sometimes dreamy, always demanding final cadenza as the pianist traverses all themes, with an emphasis on the second subject. A brief but brilliant coda concludes the work. —Kathy Henkel

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CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA Thomas Adès Composed: 2018 Orchestration: 3 flutes (2nd=piccolo, 3rd=alto flute), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd=bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, castanets, choke cymbal, cowbell, crash cymbals, glockenspiel, gongs, guiro, marimba, roto-tom, side drum, sizzle cymbal, snare drum, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, tambourine, tenor drum, whip, wood block, xylophone), and strings First LA Phil performances.

Since its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in March 2019, this exuberant, accessible Concerto has achieved the sort of immediate recognition and genuine affection almost unprecedented for a piece of “new music.” It has received the amazing number of 50 performances, in cities all over the globe.

In February 2020, Deutsche Grammophon released a

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recording of the Boston Symphony performances with soloist Kirill Gerstein, who originally encouraged Adès to write the piece on a commission for the BSO and has been its enthusiastic interpreter and champion.

Wherever performed, the Concerto has sent reviewers reaching for their superlatives.

The New York Times called it “an affectionate, joyous, remarkably uncomplicated tribute to tradition.”

Numerous critics have pointed out the Concerto’s kinship with the concertos of Sergei Prokofiev, Béla Bartók, and even Sergei Rachmaninoff. In an interview, Gerstein observed that Adès “references the traditional models, but you never think he is doing something derivative.”

The fast-slow-fast three-movement structure and “traditionalism” have surprised many of the composer’s admirers, since in his prolific earlier career Adès was turning out works of a more avant-garde variety, such as In Seven Days (2008), written for piano, orchestra, and six video screens (commissioned by the LA Phil, which gave the

U.S. premiere), or his ribald chamber opera Powder Her Face (1995). Now, in his 50s, Adès seems to be feeling a new appreciation for the possibilities of Classical form and tonality, but suffused with colors, harmonies, rhythmic flexibility, and instrumental combinations unmistakably his own. Gerstein remarks that the piece “does what a piano concerto should do–it has octaves, a cadenza, a slow movement of gravitas.”

For the piano soloist, who is rarely silent and summoned to perform a wide variety of virtuosic tricks, the Concerto is certainly a challenge, but “no more difficult than your average very difficult concerto,” Gerstein told The Boston Globe.

Scored for a very large orchestra with a dazzling array of percussion, the dramatic first movement develops two distinct themes (an ascending, athletically rhythmic first subject and what Adès calls a “more expressive” contrasting second one) in a manner closely resembling traditional sonata-allegro form. The slithering, glittering instrumentation and keyboard acrobatics (steep descending chordal passages,

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an octave “mini-cadenza,” flashy tremolo) bring to mind moments in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, a landmark of urbane early 20th-century modernism. Like all the movements, the first is relatively brief, only seven minutes, but packed with action and variety.

Marked Andante gravemente, the slow, reflective second movement, in the composer’s own words, “consists of a choral introduction and a melody, which is joined by a countermelody, and a second idea with a simple falling melody over rising harmony.

The first melody reappears, leading to a fortissimo climax, subsiding to a final statement of the original theme and a coda based on the countermelody.”

Like the preceding two movements, the concluding Allegro giojoso displays considerable fluidity of meter and rhythm, with rapidly changing patterns and “frequent differences of opinion as regards key.” Tumbling motifs dominate, “in the style of a ball bouncing down stairs,” leading to a “precipice which the piano falls off” and a final return of the three-chord “call to arms” with which the movement began. —Harlow Robinson

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Composer’s Note

The first movement Allegramente opens with a statement of the theme by piano and then tutti. A march-like bridge passage leads to the more expressive second subject, first played by the piano and then taken up by the orchestra. The development section interrogates the first theme before an octave mini-cadenza leads to the recapitulation ff.

There is then a solo cadenza based on the second subject, first played tremolo and then over many octaves, the piano joined first by the horn and then by full orchestra. The movement ends with a coda based on the first theme and the march.

The second movement Andante gravemente consists of a chordal introduction and a melody, which is joined by a countermelody, and a second idea with a simple falling melody over rising harmony.

The first melody reappears, leading to a fortissimo climax,

subsiding to a final statement of the original theme and a coda based on the countermelody.

The finale Allegro giojoso begins with a three-chord call to arms, and then a tumbling theme for piano and orchestra, which is interrupted by the blustering entry of a clarinet solo, heralding a burlesque canon. There is here a good deal of argument, with frequent differences of opinion as regards key, brought to an end by the call to arms.

Eventually the piano takes up a new theme in the style of a ball bouncing down stairs and develops it to a choral climax.

The tumbling material is developed, and the call to arms is heard in multiple directions leading to an impasse, a winding down of tempo, and a new slow (Grave) section in three time with a falling theme. This leads to a precipice which the piano falls off with the original tumbling theme, and a coda lining up all the other themes for a final resolution on the call to arms. —Thomas Adès

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LA VALSE Maurice Ravel Composed: 1919 Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd=English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion (antique cymbals, bass drum, castanets, cymbals, orchestra bells, snare drum, tam-tam, tambourine, triangle), timpani, 2 harps, and strings First LA Phil performance: October 10, 1924, Walter Henry Rothwell conducting

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Although there are many composers who love the music of Johann Strauss but are ashamed to admit it, Brahms was pleased to acknowledge his envy of Vienna’s “Waltz King,” and so, apparently, was Maurice Ravel. Fourteen years before he composed La valse, he had told a French critic that he wanted to write “a grand waltz, a sort of homage to the memory of the great Strauss, not Richard, the other—Johann. You know how much I love those wonderful rhythms.” There are waltz rhythms in Ravel’s Mother Goose, and he wrote a string of what he called Noble and Sentimental Waltzes, which honored an earlier Viennese composer, Franz Schubert.

But La valse was intended to be the waltz to end all waltzes. Before the First World War, Ravel had planned a work entitled Wien (Vienna), but it had to wait until 1919 to begin taking shape as a “choreographic poem” in fulfillment of a commission from Serge Diaghilev. When the impresario heard the music, however, he declared, “Ravel, it’s a masterpiece, but it isn’t a ballet. It’s a portrait of a ballet, a painting of a ballet…”

The war had changed Ravel’s outlook profoundly, and “The Waltz” now had a demonic and explosive conclusion, in which the savagery of the scene is captured in some of Ravel’s most extraordinary orchestration. —Dennis Bade

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THOMAS ADÈS

Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. His compositions include three operas: he conducted the premiere of the most recent, The Exterminating Angel, at the 2016 Salzburg Festival and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Royal Opera House, London. He is conducting a new production of The Exterminating Angel in 2024 at the Opéra Bastille, Paris. He conducted the premiere and revival of The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, and La Scala, Milan. He led the world premiere of his full-evening ballet The Dante Project at Covent Garden and conducted it in May 2023 at the Opéra Garnier in Paris.

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He frequently leads performances of his orchestral works Asyla (1997), Tevot (2007), Polaris (2010); his Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (2005); In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (2008); Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra (2013); and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2019). His compositions also include numerous celebrated chamber and solo works.

September 2023 saw Adès conduct the Gewandhausorchester as part of his two-season residency with the ensemble, which features him as a conductor, pianist, and composer in various concert formats. Last autumn, Thomas also began a two-season residency with the Hallé Orchestra, which sees him curate a chamber program and conduct two orchestral concerts.

For his first appearance, Thomas conducted the U.K. premiere of Tower as well as the first U.K. concert performance of his ballet Purgatorio, alongside his Märchentänze for violin and orchestra with Anthony Marwood, which had its U.K. premiere at last year’s BBC Proms.

Adès has been the Artistic Partner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2016, and he conducts the orchestra every year in Boston and at Tanglewood.

He also regularly coaches piano and chamber music at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, U.K. As conductor, Thomas appears regularly with the Los Angeles and London philharmonic orchestras, the Boston, London, BBC, Finnish Radio, and City of Birmingham symphony orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouworkest, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome. In opera, in addition to The Exterminating Angel, he has conducted The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House and Zürich Opera and led the premieres of three operas by Gerald Barry, including the Los Angeles world premieres of The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, of which he also gave the European premiere at Covent Garden. Recent highlights include Thomas’ debut concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic.

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In summer 2022, he conducted the world premiere of Air for violin and orchestra at the Lucerne Festival—a Roche commission for Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra.

His CD recording of The Tempest from the Royal Opera House (EMI) won the Contemporary category of the 2010 Gramophone Awards; his DVD of the production from the Metropolitan Opera was awarded the 2013 Diapason d’Or of the Year, Best Opera Recording (2014 Grammy Awards), and Music DVD Recording of the Year (2014 ECHO Klassik Awards).

His piano engagements have included solo recitals at Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) in New York and at Wigmore Hall in London, and concerto appearances with the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Recent piano releases include an album of solo piano music by Janáček and a live album of Winterreise with Ian Bostridge. His solo disc of Janáček’s piano music won the 2018 Janáček medal.

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KIRILL GERSTEIN

From Bach to Adès, pianist Kirill Gerstein’s playing is distinguished by a ferocious technique and discerning intelligence, matched with an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of the international profession.

In the 2023/24 season, Gerstein features as a Spotlight Artist with the London Symphony Orchestra, performing four concerti across the season at the orchestra’s Barbican Centre home and on tour. In recital, he will reprise Thomas Adès’ Suite from The Tempest with Christian Tetzlaff, with premieres in New York, Washington, and Boston. Gerstein also appears in solo recital at Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Napa Valley, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Abu Dhabi Festival.

Gerstein’s forthcoming release on the Platoon label will pair music by Debussy

with that of Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Komitas, featuring collaborations with Thomas Adès, Ruzan Mantashyan, and Katia Skanavi.

Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein attended one of the country’s special music schools for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz at home by listening to his parents’ record collection.

Following a chance encounter with jazz legend Gary Burton in St. Petersburg when he was 14, he was invited as the youngest student to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

At the age of 16, Gerstein completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, followed by further studies with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. A longtime believer in the importance of teaching in the life of a musician, Kirill Gerstein is currently Professor of Piano at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Hochschule and on the faculty of Kronberg Academy.

Gerstein is the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award as well as a First Prize winner at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition and an Avery Fisher Career Grant holder. In May 2021, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music. kirillgerstein.com

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W.M. Keck Foundation Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Winnie Kho and Chris Testa Dr. Ralph A. Korpman Live Nation Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Alfred E. Mann Charities Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury Linda May and Jack Suzar Barbara and Buzz McCoy Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson National Endowment for the Arts M. David and Diane Paul Ms. Linda L. Pierce Sandy and Barry D. Pressman James D. Rigler/ Lloyd E. Rigler Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Allyson Rubin Wendy and Ken Ruby Thomas Safran Ellen and Richard Sandler Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust Christian Stracke Ronald and Valerie Sugar Ms. Lois M. Tandy Sue Tsao Michael Tyler Walter and Shirley Wang Stasia and Michael Washington Mr. Alex Weingarten John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation Debra Wong Yang and John W. Spiegel

Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder Geoff Emery Max Factor Family Foundation Bonnie and Ronald Fein Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Foothill Philharmonic Committee Debra Frank William Kelly and Tomas Fuller Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Goldman Sachs Co. LLC Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley Lucy S. Gonda MA, Creative Arts Therapies Liz and Peter Goulds The Green Foundation Renée and Paul Haas Harman Family Foundation Andrew Hewitt The Hillenburg Family Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin

Liz Levitt Hirsch Mr. Tyler Holcomb Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation Annica and James Newton Howard Robin and Gary Jacobs Meg and Bahram Jalali Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Joshua R. Kaplan Terri and Michael Kaplan Tobe and Greg Karns Paul Kester Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger Marvin J. Levy

Ms. Judith W. Locke City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates Renee and Meyer Luskin Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen The Seth MacFarlane Foundation Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker Ms. Kim McCarthy and Mr. Ben Cheng Ms. Irene Mecchi Marc and Ashley Merrill

$100,000 TO $199,999 Anonymous (2) Mr. Gregory A. Adams R. Martin Chavez Donelle Dadigan Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation

Breck and Georgia Eisner The Eisner Foundation Lisa Field Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll Ms. Erika J. Glazer

$50,000 TO $99,999 Anonymous (5) Mr. Robert J. Abernethy Amazon Amgen Foundation Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser Aramont Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Phil Becker Mr. and Mrs. Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Jill Black Zalben David Bohnett Foundation Linda and Maynard Brittan California Community Foundation

Canon Insurance Service Esther S.M. Chui Chao & Andrea Chao-Kharma Dan Clivner Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook Nancy and Donald de Brier De Marchena-Huyke Foundation Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt Berta and Frank Gehry Mr. James Gleason Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony DeFrancesco

California Office of the Small Business Advocate Chevron Products Company Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli Mr. Richard W. Colburn Becca and Jonathan Congdon Orna and David Delrahim The Walt Disney Company Malsi Doyle-Forman and Michael Forman East West Bank

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ANNUAL DONORS David and Margaret Mgrublian Molly Munger and Stephen English Deena and Edward Nahmias Anthony and Olivia Neece Carrie Nery

Mr. Robert W. Olsen Tye Ouzounian Bruce and Aulana Peters John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson Mr. Bennett Rosenthal Ross Endowment Fund Bill and Amy Roth

Linda and Tony Rubin Mr. Lee C. Samson San Marino-Pasadena Philharmonic Committee Dena and Irv Schechter/ The Hyman Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR

Mr. Steven Shapiro Gregory Slewett Randy and Susan Snyder Jeremy and Luanne Stark Lisa and Wayne Stelmar Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima

Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer Katy and Michael S. Saei David William Upham Foundation Nancy Valentine

Jennifer and Dr. Ken Waltzer Debra and John Warfel Mindy and David Weiner WHH Foundation John and Samantha Williams Zolla Family Foundation

Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler Carrie and Rob Glicksteen Goodman Family Foundation Robert and Lori Goodman The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency Rob and Jan Graner Mr. Bill Grubman Marnie and Dan Gruen Eric Gutshall and Felicia Davis Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian Stephen T. Hearst Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen Walter and Donna Helm Diane Henderson MD Carol Henry Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray Bob and Nita Hirsch Family Foundation Ms. Michelle Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paul Horwitz Dr. William B. Jones Mr. Eugene Kapaloski Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kasirer Sandi and Kevin Kayse Igor Khandros and Susan Bloch

Jennifer and Cary Kleinman Larry and Lisa Kohorn Nickie and Marc Kubasak Naomi and Fred Kurata Ellie and Mark Lainer Vicki Lan David Lee Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Keith and Nanette Leonard Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr. Donna Richey Ms. Agnes Lew Mr. and Mrs. Simon K.C. Li Anita Lorber Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro Law Firm The Mailman Foundation Raulee Marcus Phillip and Stephanie Martineau Jonathan and Delia Matz Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D. Marcy Miller Cindy Miscikowski Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin Mr. John Monahan

Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc. Wendy Stark Morrissey Mr. and Mrs. Dan Napier Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero Christine M. Ofiesh Andy S. Park Gregory Pickert and Beth Price Nancy and Glenn Pittson Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Porath Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud Cathleen and Scott Richland Ms. Anne Rimer Mimi Rotter The SahanDaywi Foundation Ron and Melissa Sanders Santa Monica-Westside Philharmonic Committee Evy and Fred Scholder Family Mr. Murat Sehidoglu Joan and Arnold Seidel Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder

Mr. James J. Sepe Nina Shaw and Wallace Little Jill and Neil Sheffield Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas Melanie and Harold Snedcof Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer The Specialty Family Foundation Mr. Lev Spiro and Ms. Melissa Rosenberg Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson Eva and Marc Stern Tom Strickler Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker Elinor and Rubin Turner Tom and Janet Unterman Christine Upton Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott Tee Vo and Chester Wang Warner Bros. Discovery Libby Wilson, MD Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi Andre Young Karl and Dian Zeile Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan

Mr. William Hair Laurie and Chris Harbert Christy Haubegger Stephen and Hope Heaney Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Helford and Family Jackson N. Henry Arlene Hirschkowitz Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth Joyce and Fredric Horowitz Frank Hu and Vikki Sung Ms. Julia Huang Ms. Loretta Hung Mr. Frank J. Intiso Kristi Jackson and William Newby Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Jackson Earvin Johnson Jr. Barbara A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Steaven K. Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keller Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Klee Alan S. Koenigsberg and John A. Dotto Lee Kolodny

Ms. Leerae Leaver Leisure Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Levin Randi Levine Maria and Matthew Lichtenberg Kyle Lott Vilma S. Martinez, Esq. Pam and Ron Mass Matt Construction Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Steve Matt Lisa and Willem Mesdag Marc and Jessica Mitchell Carmen Morgan Mr. Brian R. Morrow Sujata Murthy NBC Universal Dick and Chris Newman / C & R Newman Family Foundation Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Mr. John Nuckols Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Malley Steve and Gail Orens Loren Pannier Ellen Pansky Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon Johannessen Chris Pine Troy Pospisil

Joyce and David Primes Mark Proksch and Amelie Gilette William “Mito” Rafert Lee Ramer Hon. Vicki Reynolds and Mr. Murray Pepper Risk Placement Services Ernesto Rocco William F. Rodriguez Ms. Rita Rothman Jesse Russo and Alicia Hirsch Ann M. Ryder Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich Schelbert Dr. Marlene M. Schultz and Philip M. Walent Mr. Alan M. Schwartz Mr. Walter Sebring Samantha and Marc Sedaka Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann Jane Semel Julie and Bradley Shames Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro Gloria Sherwood Jennifer Speers

Joseph and Suzanne Sposato Mr. Adrian B. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stern James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin Suzanne and Michael E. Tennenbaum Gabrielle Union Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Van Tilburg Nancy Voorhees Rachel Wagman Emory Walton Laura and Casey Wasserman Bob and Dorothy Webb Sheila and Wally Weisman Abby and Ray Weiss Doris Weitz and Alexander Williams Mr. and Mrs. Steven White Lori Williams and Stephen Schulte Kimberly K. Wilson Alana L. Wray Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zelikow Bobbi and Walter Zifkin

$15,000 TO $24,999 Anonymous (5) Drew and Susan Adams Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli Susan Baumgarten Camilo Esteban Becdach Dr. William Benbassat Miles and Joni Benickes Helen and Peter S. Bing Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin Otis Booth Foundation Jaron and Wendy Brooks Mrs. Linda L. Brown Business and Professional Committee Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation Campagna Family Trust The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin Dominic Chan Andrea Chao-Kharma and Kenneth Kharma Marlene Schall Chavez, Ph.D

Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer Sarah and Roger Chrisman Larison Clark Mr. and Mrs. V. Shannon Clyne Faith and Jonathan Cookler Zoe Cosgrove Alison Moore Cotter Lynette and Michael C. Davis Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver Jennifer Diener and Eric Small Sean Dugan and Joe Custer Van and Francine Durrer Dr. and Mrs. William M. Duxler Edison International Ms. Ruth Eisen Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N. Braun, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman Gary and Cindy Frischling

$10,000 TO $14,999 Anonymous (5) ABC Entertainment Ty Ahmad-Taylor B. Allen and Dorothy Lay Tichina Arnold Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila The Aversano Family Trust Lorrie and Dan Baldwin Stephanie Barron Stiv Bators Sondra Behrens Phyllis and Sandy Beim Mark and Pat Benjamin Mr. Herbert M. Berk Suzette and Monroe Berkman Ms. Gail K. Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick Christopher Bridges Mr. Ronald W. Burkle Dr. Kirk Y. Chang Chien Family Carla Christofferson Leland Clow Susan Colvin Committee of Professional Women Mrs. and Mr. Eleanor Congdon Jay and Nadege Conger

Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Crowell Dr. and Mrs. Nazareth E. Darakjian Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie Tara Dollinger Emil Ellis Farrar and Bill Ramackers Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang E. Mark Fishman and Carrie Feldman Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Daniel and Maryann Fong Mr. Michael Fox Dr. and Mrs. David Fung Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Gainsley Beth Gertmenian Greg and Etty Goetzman Harriett and Richard E. Gold Manuela Cerri Goren Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Gottlieb Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gouw Diane and Peter H. Gray Alexia Grevious Tricia and Richard Grey Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff

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$5,500 TO $9,999 Anonymous Bobken and Hasmik Amirian Debra and Benjamin Ansell Art and Pat Antin Javi Arango Sandra Aronberg, M.D. and Charles Aronberg, M.D. Ms. Judith A. Avery Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D. Isaac Barinholtz and Erica Hanson Mrs. Linda E. Barnes Karen and Jonathan Bass Reed Baumgarten Logan Beitler Ms. Karen S. Bell and Mr. Robert Cox Maria and Bill Bell Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bellomy Denise Bevers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Birnholz Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien Mr. Michael Blea Steven Blum Greg Borrud The Hon. Bob Bowers and Mrs. Reveta Bowers Mr. David F. Bowman Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bristing Kevin Brockman and Dan Berendsen Mara and Joseph Carieri CBS Entertainment Arthur and Katheryn Chinski Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Clements Mr. David Colburn Susan Cole-Hill Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook Victoria Cook Mr. and Mrs. Michael Corben Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin Lloyd Eric Cotsen

Dr. Carey Cullinane Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez Gloria De Olarte Chaz Dean Ms. Rosette Delug Nancy and Patrick Dennis The Randee and Ken Devlin Foundation Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms. Georgia Archer Elizabeth and Kenneth M. Doran Mark Dorner Julie and Stan Dorobek Shaun D’Souza Bob Ducsay and Marina Pires de Souza Janet and Larry Duitsman Mr. and Mrs. Brack W. Duker Drs. Ray Duncan and Lauren Crosby Anna Sanders Eigler Bryan Elms Kristen Engle Richard J. Evans and Sara Evans Mr. and Mrs. Irwin S. Field The Hon. Michael W. Fitzgerald and Mr. Arturo Vargas Fox Rothschild LLP Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra The Franke Family Trust Ms. Kimberly Friedman Ruchika Garga Susan and David Gersh Jason Gilbert Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie The Gillis Family Tina Warsaw Gittelson Donald Glover Mr. and Mrs. Russell Goldsmith Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Gonda Juan C. Gonzalez Nestor Gonzalez and Richard Rivera

Lori G. Gordon Lee Graff Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Griffin III Mr. and Mrs. Paul Guerin Ms. Marian L. Hall Beth Fishbein Hansen Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma Lynette Hayde Mr. Donald V. Hayes Nicolette F. Hebert Myrna and Uri Herscher Family Foundation Marion and Tod Hindin Dr. and Mrs. Mel Hoshiko Deedie and Tom Hudnut Kevin Huvane Michele and James Jackoway Jeffrey and Kristen Jaeger Randi and Richard B. Jones Lawrence Kalantari Linda and Donald Kaplan Marilee and Fred Karlsen Susan Keller and Myron S. Shapero, M.D. Leigha Kemmett Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee Molly Kirk Phyllis H. Klein, M.D. Kathryn Ko Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Scott Krivis Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren Rosenthal Dr. and Mrs. Mark Labowe Mr. Richard W. Labowe Mr. and Mrs. Ronald B. Labowe Katherine Lance Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Lantz Mr. Jason Larian Mr. George Lee Mr. Randall Lee and Ms. Stella M. Jeong Mary Beth and John Leonard

Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Levine Saul Levine Arthur Lewis Marie and Edward Lewis David and Rebecca Lindberg Devon Lipe Patricia and Larry Londre Robert and Susan Long Ms. Diana Longarzo Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr. James Kelley Ruth and Roger MacFarlane Douglas MacLennan Sandra Cumings Malamed and Kenneth D. Malamed Mr. and Mrs. John V. Mallory Melvin Mandel, M.D. Todd Marshall Areva Martin Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson Mr. Gary J. Matus Liliane Quon McCain Ms. Catherine McClenahan Cathy and John McMullen Mr. Sheldon and Dr. Linda Mehr Lawry Meister Robert L. Mendow Mr. and Mrs. Dana Messina Ms. Marlane Meyer Coco Miller Rachel Miller Mr. Weston F. Milliken Linda and John Moore Mr. David S. Moromisato Mrs. Lillian Mueller Sheila Muller Craig and Lisa Murray Mr. Emory R. Myrick Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Nathan Kevin Nazemi Robert and Sally Neely Mrs. Cynthia Nelson

Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff Mr. and Mrs. Randy Newman Ms. Kimberly Nicholas Ms. Mary D. Nichols Renae Niles Nellie Nizam Ms. Margaret R. O’Donnell Irene and Edward Ojdana Mr. Ralph Page and Patty Lesh Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz Ms. Melissa Papp-Green Cynthia Patton Alyssa Phaneuf Carolyn Phillips Lorena and R. Joseph Plascencia Bronwyn Pollock Lyle and Lisi Poncher Robert J. Posek, M.D. Debbie and Rick Powell James S. Pratty, M.D. Steven Ray Mr. Eduardo Repetto Christopher Reynolds Jhamal Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Rowland Mr. Andrew E. Rubin Dr. Michael Rudolph Miles Rutkowski Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rutter Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Salick Jason Sanford Drs. Joan and Harry Saperstein Mark and Valerie Sawicki Ms. Maryanne Sawoski Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Schwartz Dr. and Mrs. Hervey Segall Dr. Ava Shamban Ranada Shepard Abby Sher Pamela and Russ Shimizu Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shoenman Mr. Adam Sidy

Kenneth and Renata Simril Bryan Sims Brandi Slayton Mr. Douglas H. Smith SouthWest Heights Philharmonic Committee William Spiller Lael Stabler and Jerone English John Stauffer Hilde Stephens-Levonian Rose and Mark Sturza Ron Sweet Jennifer Taguchi Mr. and Mrs. Randall Tamura Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann Weyman Mary Tong Richard Turkanis and Wendy Kirshner Typesetting Ink Charles and Nicole Uhlmann Jon Van Sluyters Mr. and Mrs. Craig Vickers Terry and Ann Marie Volk Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn Wagner Mr. Nate Walker Lisa and Tim Wallender Eric Wang Scott Ward Robert and Penny White Ms. Jill Wickert Mr. Kirk Wickstrom and Mrs. Shannon Hearst Wickstrom Mr. Robert E. Willett Denita Willoughby David and Michele Wilson Mr. Steve Winfield Karen and Rick Wolfen Ms. Eileen Wong Scott Lee and Karen Wong Linda and John Woodall Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wynne Mr. Nabih Youssef Mr. William Zak

Nitin Bhatia D Bichir Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh Lindsey Thomas J. Blumenthal Joan N. Borinstein Ms. Leslie Botnick Mr. Ray Boucher Mr. Matthew C. Bousquette and Mr. John Jacobs Mrs. Susan Bowey Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler Resheida Brady Ms. Marie Brazil Mrs. William Brand and Ms. Carla B. Breitner Robert Brichacek

Mr. Donald M. Briggs and Mrs. Deborah J. Briggs Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W. Kearney Diane Caliva Mr. and Mrs. Tom R. Camp Gwen E. Campbell Victor Carabello Lorena Castro Roberta Castro Mr. Jon C. Chambers Jami Chang Jerry Chang Adam Chase Mr. Louis Chertkow Susan and David Cole Ms. Ina Coleman

Mr. Garrett Collins and Mr. Matthew McIntyre Mr. Michael Corben and Ms. Linda Covette Nathan Cork John Curry Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch Chris Daly Mr. Howard M. Davine Corena De Klerk Ann Deal Nathan Dean Ms. Mary Denove Wanda Denson-Low and Ronald Low Nikki Depaola Christopher DeRosa

David Diaz Mr. Kevin Dill Michael Dillon Tim and Neda Disney R. Stephen Doan and Donna E. Doan Lauren Shuler Donner Mr. Gregory C. Drapac Martha Duran Alex Elias Mrs. Eva Elkins Ismail Elshareef John B. Emerson and Kimberly Marteau Emerson Susan Entin Bob Estrin Dominique Faes Ms. Janet Fahey

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Pamela and Jeffrey Balton Ken and Lisa Baronsky Catherine and Joseph Battaglia Kay and Joe Baumbach Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust Ellis N. Beesley, Jr. M.D. Mr. Richard Bemis Benjamin Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein Vince Bertoni and Damon Hein

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