Performances Magazine | Hollywood Bowl, July 2025 by California Media Group

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Fireworks, picnics, enjoying a beautiful night of music with friends and family—for many of us, summer means an evening at the Hollywood Bowl. For more than 100 years, the Bowl has been a testament to music’s power to nurture connection, spanning its first sunrise service and community sing-alongs to our recent WE LA concert recognizing first responders and those a ected by the LA wildfires.

Our Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel says, “Music can build community. It can forge bridges between cultures as we share the things that connect us.” Nowhere does this sentiment ring truer than on a perfect summer night at the Hollywood Bowl. As a Los Angeles County Park operated by the LA Phil, the Bowl attracts the world’s most famous performers while offering tickets for as little as $1—so that music and this magical summer experience can be available to everyone.

We are delighted to build on these traditions throughout the 2025 season, one that brings together an array of artists spanning all genres and diverse backgrounds. From Bugs Bunny to Beethoven, Jaws to Juanes, and our ﬁ rst musical theater production since 2022, Jesus Christ Superstar with Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert, there are so many spectacular evenings in store. We can’t wait to share them with you.

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WELCOME FROM SUPERVISOR BARGER

I’m excited to welcome you to the Hollywood Bowl, one of the most historic and beloved venues in Los Angeles County. Whether this iconic facility is hosting a performance by the exceptional Los Angeles Philharmonic or a concert by a visiting world-class musician, the Hollywood Bowl is known for its commitment to excellence both on the stage and behind the scenes.

It’s particularly special to me that the Hollywood Bowl ﬁnds its home in Los Angeles County’s Fifth District among the communities I have the privilege to represent. With such a rich and storied history, and as host to some of the biggest names in music today, the Bowl is one of the landmarks that make our district unique.

Whether you’re visiting from down the street, across the county, or around the world, I hope you enjoy your time at this remarkable venue. I still hold

near and dear the many fond and fun memories I’ve made at the Hollywood Bowl throughout my life. I know your experience here will be just as memorable, whether it’s your ﬁ rst show or you’re a regular visitor.

Throughout the season, I encourage you to take advantage of all the incredible opportunities available to you. To hop on the convenient and a ordable Park & Ride buses and Bowl Shuttles accessible from all over the county, look at the delicious food options, get a sneak peek at your seats, and ﬁ nd everything else you need to know, head to hollywoodbowl.com/visit so you can make the most of your evening.

You can stay in touch with me at kathrynbarger.lacounty.gov or on social media for the latest community updates and resources. I look forward to connecting with you and hope to see you at a Hollywood Bowl concert soon!

Best wishes,

Supervisor Kathryn Barger Chair, Board of Supervisors Fifth District, Los Angeles County

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A MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR NORMA

EDITH GARCÍA-GONZALEZ

I am thrilled you are spending an evening visiting the Hollywood Bowl—one of the best outdoor venues in the US. The Hollywood Bowl is a legendary performance space, public park, and picnic ground, owned by the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation (LA County Parks) and operated by the world-class LA Phil. The Bowl’s summer lineup of diverse music genres is a bucket list for Los Angeles County residents and visitors.

The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, LA County Parks, and the LA Phil are committed to ensuring that all Angelenos can enjoy this remarkable venue through initiatives that expand access. We will:

• Continue the Hollywood Bowl Access Program, a partnership of LA County Parks and the LA Phil, to bring teens and seniors to enjoy summer concerts.

• Expand $1 ticket access for the public and expand the concerts o ered.

• Serve as a good steward of sustainability and our environment by continuing to grow public ridership for the Hollywood Bowl’s shuttle and the Park & Ride programs. We have exceeded our 30% transportation goal and are not stopping there.

We invite you to experience the Hollywood Bowl all year long. Visitors can take a leisurely picnic at Highland Camrose Park at the base of the Bowl, visit the on-site museum, take view-worthy strolls on the grounds, and exercise on the hundreds of hillside steps. I warmly welcome and invite you to enjoy your Hollywood Bowl!

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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

Gustavo Dudamel is committed to creating a better world through music. Guided by an unwavering belief in the power of art to inspire and transform lives, he has worked tirelessly to expand education and access for underserved communities around the world and to broaden the impact of classical music to new and ever-larger audiences. His rise, from humble beginnings as a child in Venezuela to an unparalleled career of artistic and social achievements, o ers living proof that culture can bring meaning to the life of an individual and greater harmony to the world at large. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein. Throughout 2025, Dudamel will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of El Sistema, honoring the global impact of José Antonio Abreu’s visionary education program across ﬁve generations, and acknowledging the vital importance of arts education. Dudamel’s advocacy for the power of music to unite, heal, and inspire is global in scope. In appearances from the United Nations to the White House to the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, Dudamel has served as a passionate advocate for music education and social integration through art, sharing his own transformative experience in Venezuela’s El Sistema program as an example of how music can give a sense of purpose and meaning to young people and help them rise above challenging circumstances. In 2007, Dudamel, the LA Phil, and its community

partners founded YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), which now provides more than 1,700 young people with free instruments, intensive music instruction, academic support, and leadership training. In 2012, Dudamel launched the Dudamel Foundation, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal of expanding access to music and the arts for young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.

As a conductor, Dudamel is one of the few classical musicians to become a bona fi de pop-culture phenomenon and has worked tirelessly to ensure that music reaches an ever-greater audience. He was the fi rst classical artist to participate in the Super Bowl halftime show and the youngest conductor ever to lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert. He has performed at global mainstream events from the Academy Awards to the Olympics, and has worked with musical icons like Billie Eilish, Christina Aguilera, LL Cool J, Ca7riel y Paco Amoroso, Laufey, Coldplay, and Nas. Dudamel conducted the score to Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Side Story, and at John Williams’ personal request, he guest conducted the opening and closing credits of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. His fi lm and television appearances include Sesame Street, The Simpsons, Mozart in the Jungle, Trolls World Tour, and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and in 2019 Dudamel was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

For more information about Gustavo Dudamel, visit his o cial website at gustavodudamel.com and the Dudamel Foundation at dudamelfoundation.org

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. Both at home and abroad, the LA Phil—recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras—is leading the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming, onstage and in the community, that reﬂects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. The 2024/25 season is the orchestra’s 106th.

Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. The Ford, situated in a 32-acre park and under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.

The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its inﬂuential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments,

intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purposebuilt 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 Grammywinning recordings featuring the music of Brahms, Ives, Andrew Norman, Thomas Adès, and Gabriela Ortiz—whose Revolución diamantina received three Grammys in 2025.

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

THOMAS WILKINS

Thomas Wilkins is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He has held a titled position at the Hollywood Bowl since 2008, when he was named Principal Guest Conductor; in the spring of 2014, he became Principal Conductor.

In addition, he is the Boston Symphony’s Artistic Partner for Education and Community Engagement and Germeshausen Youth and Family Concerts Conductor; Indiana University’s Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral Conducting, a position established by the late Barbara and David Jacobs; and Principal Guest Conductor of the Virginia Symphony. At the close of the 2020/21 season, he ended his long and successful tenure as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony. Other past positions include resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony and The Florida Orchestra (Tampa Bay) and associate conductor of the Richmond (VA) Symphony. He also has served on the music faculties of North Park University (Chicago), the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Devoted to promoting a lifelong enthusiasm for music, Wilkins brings energy and commitment to audiences of all ages. He is hailed as a master at communicating and connecting with audiences. Following his highly successful

ﬁrst season with the Boston Symphony, The Boston Globe named him among the “Best People and Ideas of 2011.” In 2014, Wilkins received the prestigious Outstanding Artist award at the Nebraska Governor’s Arts Awards for his signiﬁcant contribution to music in the state, and in March 2018, the Longy School of Music at Bard College honored him with the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society. In 2019, the Virginia Symphony bestowed Wilkins with its annual Dreamer Award. In 2022, the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Music, the Boston Conservatory awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Arts, and he was the recipient of the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award. During his conducting career, Wilkins has led orchestras throughout the United States, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonic orchestras; the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras; the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, and Detroit; and the National Symphony.

A native of Norfolk, VA, Thomas Wilkins is a graduate of the Shenandoah Conservatory and the New England Conservatory. He and his wife, Sheri-Lee, are the proud parents of twin daughters, Erica and Nicole.

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HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is composed of approximately 65 regular players, an international mix of classically trained musicians who are among the best studio musicians in Los Angeles. Many spend their days on Hollywood’s scoring stages. It might be surprising to learn that there is no overlap between the musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and those of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra—another indicator that LA has a tremendous pool of musical talent.

Musicians have been performing at the Hollywood Bowl since its opening in 1922. “Bowl Orchestra” was used as early as 1925, and “Hollywood Bowl Orchestra” appeared on live recordings made in 1928. Leopold Stokowski was Music Director of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1946. During that time, the orchestra recorded several classical works. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capitol Records issued an extensive series of recordings of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra with a number of different conductors, including Carmen Dragon, Felix Slatkin, Alfred Newman, and Miklós

Rózsa, with album titles such as Rhapsody Under the Stars, Chopin by Starlight, Fiesta!, and Marche!

From the 1950s on, there was no o cial Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, until it reappeared in 1991, under the auspices of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, as a completely new ensemble under the direction of Principal Conductor John Mauceri. After retiring from the orchestra in 2006, Mauceri was awarded the lifelong title of Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

In 2008, Thomas Wilkins began an appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. In June 2014, he became the orchestra’s Principal Conductor, in which position he continues to lead the ensemble each summer in a wide range of concerts at the fabled outdoor venue.

From Mozart to Motown, the repertoire of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is as diverse as Hollywood itself. In a single season, the orchestra may perform everything from Broadway favorites to film music, pop music to jazz, and classical music to world premieres by living composers. In essence, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra does it all.

The Bowl’s food and wine team--James Beard Award Winners chef Suzanne Goin and restaurateur Caroline Styne of celebrated restaurants Lucques, a.o.c., Caldo Verde and Cara Cara - are now in their seventh year of providing exceptional cuisine designed to make your concert experiences even more spectacular. From supper in your box seats to freshly-prepared picnic baskets and market-driven fare, there’s truly something for everyone.

FOOD + WINE AT-A-GLANCE

SUPPER IN YOUR SEATS

Enjoy a delicious pre-concert meal served to you in the comfort of your box seats. Menu selections include Suzanne Goin’s three course menus, family-style feasts, a la carte starters, main courses, desserts, and wine. Order by 4pm the day before your concert.

MARKETPLACES

Specialty sandwiches, seasonal grab-and-go salads, cheese + charcuterie plates, snacks, beer, wide-ranging variety of approachable and delicious wines await you at all of three of our Marketplaces. You’ll ﬁnd everything you need to build a picnic from scratch or supplement one you already have.

LUCQUES AT THE CIRCLE

Fine dining for subscribers of the Pool Circle, with a seasonal made-to-order menu and an exceptional wine list styled from the award-winning restaurant Lucques.

STREET FOOD & SNACKS

A variety of delicious options are available throughout the Bowl, including street tacos, salads, specialty sandwiches, gourmet pizza, pulled pork, artisan baked goods, sweets, and popcorn.

THE BACKYARD

Inspired by the gorgeous natural surroundings of the Bowl, this al fresco space has the feel of a chic backyard in the Hollywood Hills. Two large wood-burning grills are the focus of this farmers’ market-driven restaurant serving grilled ﬁsh, chops, steaks, vegetables, salads, and raw bar items.

ANN’S WINE BAR by a.o.c.

Inspired by the original a.o.c. on 3rd St., Ann’s Wine Bar features a wide selection of Caroline’s favorite new and old world wines to be explored by both experienced and novice wine lovers, all paired with Suzanne Goin’s signature small plates menu. Reservations recommended.

CATERING AT THE BOWL

Give your guests the experience of a lifetime when you host your next event at the Bowl! Our selection of seven beautiful venues is perfect for events of all sizes, from intimate gatherings to elaborate a airs.

KITCHEN 22

Kitchen 22 is the best place to indulge in fan favorites like burgers, French fries, fried chicken, specialty sandwiches, and salads.

MOBILE ORDERING: Download the Hollywood Bowl app or scan one of the many QR codes to place an order from the comfort of your seat and skip the line at pick up. Mobile ordering is available throughout the venue.

PICNIC BOXES

It’s easier than ever to enjoy a picnic supper before your concert with ﬁve options for delectable fresh-made picnic boxes from Food + Wine. Simply pre-order online by 4 pm the day before your concert, and your choice will be waiting for you when you arrive at the Bowl.

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YOLA

Through YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), 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—aged 6 to 18—locally and nationally, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. Eighteen years ago, the LA Phil and its community partners launched YOLA with 80 students at the EXPO Center in South LA. Today, in partnership with Heart of Los Angeles and Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, our program hubs serve students and families in the Rampart District, Westlake/MacArthur Park, East LA, and Inglewood. YOLA engages musicians from more than 200 schools in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Music study is complemented by leadership development opportunities, workshops, and performances. YOLA’s young musicians have performed on great stages, from the LA Phil’s iconic venues—the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall—to national and international television broadcasts, and alongside the greatest artists. On October 15, 2021, the Los Angeles Philharmonic opened the Judith and Thomas

L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Gehry Partners, LLC, the first permanent, purposebuilt facility for YOLA. For more information, please visit laphil.com/yola

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current exhibition at the Hollywood Bowl Museum focuses on the founding figures of the iconic venue.

In 1919, a virtual who’s who of Los Angeles cultural and civic life galvanized around a project to build the first urban open-air performing arts venue in the nation. Aiming to put Los Angeles on the map, these impresarios, musicians, real estate moguls, Theosophists, “professional men” of various backgrounds, and others brought their own ideas and agendas for the venue and how it could serve Los Angeles’ vast and growing communities.

Currently on view at the Hollywood Bowl Museum, Building the Bowl: From Dream to Destination focuses on six of the central founding figures of the Hollywood Bowl— Christine Wetherill Stevenson, Dr. T. Perceval Gerson, Charles E. Toberman, Artie Mason Carter, Frederick W. Blanchard, and Florence M. Irish—each of whom played a distinctive role in its history.

BUILDING THE BOWL: FROM DREAM TO DESTINATION

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KEEPING IT GREEN AT THE BOWL

HOW WE’RE CARING FOR HOLLYWOOD’S MUSICAL BACKYARD

By Piper Starnes

by Radha Vishnubhotla

For more than 100 years, the Hollywood Bowl has been a public park 1 managed by Los Angeles County and operated by the Hollywood Bowl Association (which later became part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association). Through this partnership, the venue has remained open to everyone, every day, all year long.

Few people understand the responsibility of preserving the Bowl and its grounds more intimately than Mark Ladd, who is, in many ways, the embodiment of the partnership between the LA Phil and LA County.

As Director of Operations at the Bowl and its county-appointed Superintendent, Ladd has been a devoted caretaker of the venue going back to 1979. From managing the grounds and helping write the Bowl’s design guidelines2 to monitoring wildlife activity and advocating for more e cient transportation, Ladd oversees the many moving pieces that help the Bowl look and feel as durable, useful, and beautiful as it is.

“From the very beginning, we’ve had a cavalcade of incredible stars perform here, and we always want to have respect for what they did by sustaining this place,” Ladd says. But if you look around, you’ll notice some factors that can make this work a challenge.

“We’ve shoehorned this venue in a tiny little canyon, in a neighborhood, in a mountain ﬁre zone, next to a giant freeway [the 101], and the second-busiest street in Los Angeles [Highland Avenue] intersects our property,” Ladd says. The Bowl was here before most of those things, of course, but they’re all part of what makes this venue both a local treasure and a global destination. “People love coming here, so we need to make sure that we treat [them] like you would welcoming people into your home.”

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A ﬁfth-generation Californian, Ladd comes from what he calls a “real pioneer family”3 that values community, the environment, and the relationship between the two. In a way, Ladd “inherited” his dedication to the area and nature. Growing up in a remote area of the Cleveland National Forest in the Santa Ana Mountains, Ladd says, “you couldn’t get TV out there! You had to make your own fun.” His front yard sat at the base of a steep, narrow canyon where he played with the neighborhood kids by the creek, caught and released animals, and learned ﬁrsthand about the spectacular native plants. (That included the not-so-spectacular ones. “You don’t want to play with poison oak!” Ladd says.)

Under Ladd’s supervision, the LA Phil and LA County are continuing their century-long collaborative stewardship of this iconic site while welcoming over 1 million annual visitors to one of the most biodiverse places in the world. This requires maintaining the world-class performance venue, preserving its native plants, protecting migrating birds, and making sure audiences and wildlife coexist in this special place.4

On the park grounds, you’ll ﬁnd eco-friendly upgrades like water-saving restrooms,5 carefully managed green waste that’s reused or recycled, and a hightech irrigation system.6 We even use stainless-steel grates and special ﬁlters to clean the runo water and protect our waterways and local wildlife from pollutants.

Brush rabbits, California quails, and western fence lizards are just a few of the many species that call this natural oasis home. Plus, native plants like the co eeberry, California sycamore, sugar bush, and monkey ﬂower help keep the habitat healthy and resilient in the face of drought, wildﬁres, and other environmental threats.

When you take the Bowl Shuttle or Park & Ride,7 you’re also helping us keep thousands of cars o the streets and cut down on carbon emissions in the neighborhood. If you enjoy picnicking here, consider reusing your food and beverage containers, and dispose of any waste in the proper bins. Whether you’re here for a concert, a morning hike, a picnic, or just a moment of stillness in nature, the Bowl is your backyard. And like any backyard, it thrives when we take good care of it.

1. The Hollywood Bowl sits in the middle of an 88-acre park with 14 picnic areas and over 800 trees. Last year we planted 40 more—keep an eye out for them over the next 10 years! They’ll be around for at least a century.

2. The 2002 Hollywood Bowl Design Guidelines is a 169-page document that includes everything from dimensions and detailed sketches of the bench seats to tile and grout treatments for the fountains to aesthetic rulings on when and where primary colors, pastels, and earth tones can be used. The 15-page landscape section—written entirely by Ladd—also outlines the proper way to hang vines on sound walls, use lighting to emphasize texture and silhouettes, and nurture plants native to the Hollywood Hills.

3. Among Ladd’s relatives are founding elders of the three oldest Presbyterian churches in Southern California, the ﬁ rst mayor of Inglewood, a member of the State Assembly, a University of California Regent, trustees at Pomona and Occidental colleges, president of the Irvine Company, and founders of Orange County and Newport Beach. The city of Lamont, near Bakersﬁeld, is named after Ladd’s great-great-great grandmother, E e Lamont. His great-great grandmother Flora Babcock graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1875!

4. In 2010, the Bowl became California’s ﬁrst amphitheater—and the 58th property in the world—to become a Certiﬁed Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. That means we’re an o cial champion of energy and natural resource conservation, waste reduction, and other sustainability e orts.

5. Our waterless urinals and low-ﬂush toilets reduce our annual water consumption by about 3.5 million gallons!

6. This satellite-controlled irrigation system responds to rainfall, helping us reduce our water use by 10%.

7. Up to 165 buses bring patrons to the Bowl from locations throughout the county. Last summer, 36% of Bowl attendees arrived via Bowl Shuttle or Park & Ride.

PHOTO: ELIZABETH ASHER

MARK LADD

LA MOVES: DANCE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL AND THE FORD

By Derek Traub

Los Angeles has been a welcoming home for dance for more than a century, and over that time the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford have given it center stage. In the 1920s and ’30s, visionary choreographers like Ruth St. Denis, Lester Horton, and Agnes de Mille used the vast outdoor platform of the Hollywood Bowl to stretch the boundaries of movement and meaning.

In her 1996 article “How the Bowl Danced: An Era of Exploration,” Naima Prevots, the ﬁ rst curator of the Hollywood Bowl Museum, explains, “Dance pioneers came to Los Angeles and saw it as a utopian place to teach, create, and try out their new ideas. By providing a prestigious venue for choreographers and dancers, the Hollywood Bowl became an active partner in allowing American dance to develop and mature.”

BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE MÉXICO

PHOTO: MUSIC CENTER ARCHIVES/OTTO ROTHSCHILD COLLECTION

Throughout the next decades, the Bowl would evolve into a signiﬁcant stop for touring companies such as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which performed for three nights in 1941; Martha Graham; Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev and the Royal Ballet; and New York City Ballet.

Today, that legacy is alive and leaping across the stages of both the Bowl and The Ford in performances that speak to tradition, innovation, and the pulse of the city itself.

This month at the Bowl, ballet meets fireworks in a very LA kind of romance. The Tchaikovsky Spectacular (July 18–19) welcomes back San Francisco Ballet in a sweeping evening that includes Swan Lake, Capriccio Italien, and of course as the grand finale, the 1812 Overture, with cannon fire and pyrotechnics lighting up the night. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts, returning after his triumphant debut last season with Ballet Folklórico de México (which made its US debut—also at the Bowl—in 1962). This year, the spectacular is matched by elegance, as music and motion share the spotlight.

Then on September 11, the Bowl turns to Shakespeare. In the concert Romeo, Juliet & Dance Theatre of Harlem, the star-crossed lovers are reimagined through Prokoﬁev’s bold score, Tchaikovsky’s yearning overture, and the expressive power of dance. Dance Theatre of Harlem, joined by conductor Jonathon Heyward, also premieres choreography to Adolphus Hailstork’s Symphony No. 1, bridging continents and cultures with a movement language all its own.

Meanwhile, The Ford o ers an up-close, heart-forward look at how dance lives in community. On August 16, Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company explores Mexico’s rich wedding traditions in Serenatas y Bodas de México, complete with mariachi serenades and a stunning new piece inspired by Oaxaca’s muxes. A week later, Lula Washington Dance Theatre celebrates 45 years of activism, artistry, and Afro-diasporic storytelling with a program that includes revivals of classics and two powerful new premieres—one a tribute to the late saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, the other inspired by African American folklore and spirituality.

And for the next generation of movers and shakers? The LA Soundscapes family series transforms The Ford into a joyous playground of rhythm and imagination. UniverSOUL Hip Hop’s WonderLAnd! (August 17) is a three-part celebration of dance, creativity, and community, while Kim Eung Hwa & Korean Dance Company’s Hangawi (September 14) brings Korea’s autumn festival traditions to life with fan dances, drums, and dazzling color.

The story of dance in Los Angeles has always been one of experimentation, inclusion, and breathtaking beauty. This summer, it’s told in ﬁreworks and folklórico, in pointe shoes and sneakers. The stage is set—and LA moves.

LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE

UNIVERSOUL HIP HOP’S WONDERLAND!

KIM EUNG HWA & KOREAN DANCE COMPANY

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET

CYNDI LAUPER

A NOTE OF MANY COLORS:

LYNETTE M. HAYDE AND THE PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL

Entrepreneur and LA Phil donor

Lynette M. Hayde is on a mission to make the world a more colorful and beautiful place.

In addition to her membership in the Philharmonic Council, a dedicated group of patrons who contribute $15,000 or more per year to the LA Phil, she devotes her time to guiding thousands of people on a personal level.

After observation, research, and testing, Hayde realized that we all embody a color gene and that colors are a part of our DNA. Hayde’s belief in her concept and her drive to serve others led her to put this ideology into practice by launching C Color, an internet lifestyle company that assists clients in identifying their intrinsic color preferences.

Hayde’s spirit of service to others extends far beyond her work with C Color clients. Through her philanthropic engagement with the LA Phil, she continues the legacy left by women like Dorothy Chandler, who uplifted the arts in Los Angeles for decades. Like Chandler, Hayde believes in the

importance of arts organizations in our communities and that the impact of her giving will live on forever.

Hayde’s philanthropic philosophy aligns with a quote by humanitarian and music scholar Albert Schweitzer, who once said:

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

With Hayde based in Orange County, her Philharmonic Council membership is critical in keeping her engaged through donor events like the Hollywood Bowl Stage Dinner, an insider experience for members at the Artistic Champion level and above. These donors are given the rare chance to learn about a performer’s backstory and craft while taking in the view of the house from the Bowl stage. Hayde felt the private recital, along with the unique perspective of an empty venue, was a memorable experience.

Hayde returns to the LA Phil season after season because, in her words, “There is no other orchestra in the nation, if not the world, that compares with the LA Phil.”

The only change that she would make is to clothe the musicians in color.

For more information on how you can become one of our most vital supporters and join the Philharmonic Council, please contact patrons@laphil.org or visit laphil.com/philcouncil

Photo credits: Top right: John McCoy for The Music Center. Left image: Esperanza Spalding; photo by Ray Otabe. Middle right image: Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen’s Swan Lake; photo by Rosalie O’Connor; courtesy of Boston Ballet. All other images by Will Yang for The Music Center.

Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Sep. 12–14, 2025

The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Oct. 24–26, 2025

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Mar. 25–29, 2026

New York City Ballet

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Jun. 24–28, 2026

The Music Center’s BalletNOW ® : Superstars of Paris featuring Hugo Marchand & Friends

The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall

Jul. 31–Aug. 2, 2026

New York City Ballet. Photo by Erin Baiano.

PROKOFIEV’S FIFTH

TUESDAY JULY 8, 2025 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Thomas Søndergård, conductor

Kirill Gerstein, piano

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

RACHMANINOFF

PROKOFIEV

Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 (c. 13 minutes)

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (c. 22 minutes)

Introduction: Allegro vivace—Variation I (Precedente)

Tema: L’istesso tempo

Variation II: L’istesso tempo

Variation III: L’istesso tempo

Variation IV: Più vivo

Variation V: Tempo precedente

Variation VI: L’istesso tempo

Variation VII: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato

Variation VIII: Tempo I

Variation IX: L’istesso tempo

Variation X: L’istesso tempo

Variation XI: Moderato

Variation XII: Tempo di minuetto

Variation XIII: Allegro

Variation XIV: L’istesso tempo

Variation XV: Più vivo scherzando

Variation XVI: Allegretto

Variation XVII: Allegretto

Variation XVIII: Andante cantabile

Variation XIX: A tempo vivace

Variation XX: Un poco più vivo

Variation XXI: Un poco più vivo

Variation XXII: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)

Variation XXIII: L’istesso tempo

Variation XXIV: A tempo un poco meno mosso

Kirill Gerstein

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100 (c. 46 minutes)

Andante

Allegro marcato

Adagio

Allegro giocoso

Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

Programs and artists subject to change.

BALLADE IN A MINOR, OP. 33

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)

Musically precocious, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor entered the Royal College of Music in his native London as a violinist at the age of 15. Within a year, he had six choral pieces published. A year after he left the school, he received his ﬁrst commission, from the Three Choirs Festival, on the recommendation of Elgar. “I am sorry I am too busy to do so,” Elgar wrote when the festival o ered him a commission. “I wish, wish, wish you would ask Coleridge-Taylor to do it. He still wants recognition, and he is far and away the cleverest fellow going amongst the young men.”

What the festival got was indeed a clever young man’s piece, a wild orchestral ride brimming with invention and energy. Like a poetic ballad, the piece is organized in stanza-like sections. Its main theme is dramatically driven and explosively orchestrated; its tender lyrical foil achieves contrast mainly through meter and texture.

Coleridge-Taylor, who would later be called “the Black Mahler” by orchestral musicians in New York, conducted the highly successful premiere himself at the festival in 1898. —John Henken

RHAPSODY ON A THEME OF PAGANINI, OP. 43

Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873–1943)

Rachmanino summed up his life as a composer shortly before his death (in Beverly Hills, his final home): “In my own compositions, no conscious e ort has been made to be original, or Romantic, or Nationalistic, or anything else. I write down on paper the music I hear within me, as naturally as possible. I am a Russian composer, and the land of my birth has influenced my temperament and outlook. My music is the product of my temperament, and so it is Russian music…. I have been strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov; but I have never, to the best of my knowledge, imitated anyone. What I try to do, when writing down my music, is to make it say simply and directly that which is in my heart when I am composing. If there is love there, or bitterness, or sadness, or religion, these moods become part of my music, and it becomes either beautiful or bitter or sad or religious.”

The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is one of his least sentimental pieces—with the exception of the swooning 18th variation, a tour de force in which the minor-key Paganini theme is inverted to become a major-key, inescapably Russian theme.

The score was written in 1934, by which time Rachmanino could look back on three decades of fame as a virtuoso pianist, admired for performing his own works, as well as those of Beethoven and Chopin, and alongside distinguished violinists, chief among them Fritz Kreisler.

His own music had by the early 1930s become leaner and meaner than the sprawling, yearning preWorld War I scores on which his reputation rested. In the later works— beginning with the Fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 40, continuing with the Three Russian Songs, Op. 41, the Variations on a Theme of Corelli for solo piano, Op. 42, and culminating with the Rhapsody—the level of dissonance is higher, while rhythms are more angular than in the past.

The Rhapsody—though there is nothing rhapsodic about its tightly focused structure—comprises an introduction followed by 24 variations on the last of Nicolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (a set of variations itself). The theme was a favorite subject of 19th-century composers for large-scale variation works, among them Robert Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. Rachmanino applied his own, highly original thoughts on the subject, his grandest inspiration being combining the theme by the “devilish” violinist with the hellish medieval liturgical Dies irae theme, which is heard in the seventh, 10th, and 24th variations. —Herbert Glass

SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 100

Sergei Prokofiev

(1891–1953)

In 1933, after 15 years abroad, Prokoﬁev returned to Russia. He decided—without prodding (yet) from the commissars—that his music might now become an integral part of a broader Soviet cultural life. The following years produced some marvelous stu , including the score for Sergei Eisenstein’s epic ﬁlm Alexander Nevsky, the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, and the Fifth Symphony—music of power, lyricism, and accessibility.

The symphony was written in only a month, in 1944, mostly at a resort in Ivanovo where the Soviet Composers’ Union had made it possible for the nation’s leading musicians—Shostakovich, Myaskovsky, and Khachaturian, as well as Prokoﬁev—to continue their work away from war-ravaged cities.

Prokoﬁev, with characteristic sobriety, regarded his Fifth Symphony as “very important not only for the musical material that went into it, but also because I was returning to the symphonic form after a break of 16 years. The Fifth Symphony is the culmination of an entire period in my work. I conceived of it as a symphony on the greatness of the human soul.”

The first performance of the Fifth Symphony was presented in Moscow under the composer’s baton in January 1945, only days after news of the Soviet army’s victory over the Germans at the Vistula River, a major advance through Poland to Germany. In March, the symphony was heard in Leningrad; in May (following the end of fighting in Europe), in Paris; and in November, the Boston Symphony, under the composer’s old friend Serge Koussevitzky, performed its US premiere. While important works were still to come from Prokofiev’s pen, this was the last music he created before his long, slow physical decline, which began with a concussion su ered in a fall only days after the work’s Moscow premiere. The symphony is in four movements: slow, fast, slow, fast. The long, somber opening has been compared to those in the symphonies of Shostakovich, notably his Fifth, which preceded Prokofiev’s by seven years. But Prokofiev’s is a good deal more varied in mood and ultimately less oppressive. It is in traditional sonata-allegro form, except that the allegro is considerably slower than one would expect. The hair-raising coda elicited a spontaneous burst of applause from its first audience, and it is easy to hear why.

The second movement is a scintillating scherzo, the airy staccato of the ﬁrst violins accompanied by a delicately syncopated clarinet ri , eventually joined by the piano and a variety of percussion. After a deceptively relaxed oboe and clarinet introduction, the trio turns equally animated, with a jaunty tune announced by the clarinet to the accompaniment of strings, snare drum, and tambourine. On its return, the scherzo assumes more weight and menacing coloration than when ﬁrst heard.

The slow movement is among the most eloquent creations in the entire Prokoﬁev catalog. The hauntingly lyrical opening theme— again with particularly ear-catching writing for the clarinet—is followed by a darker middle section, leading to a thrilling climax before the opening theme returns, and the movement concludes in gentle, dirge-like fashion, capped by a rising clarinet arpeggio.

The ﬁnale opens with deceptive simplicity—sweetly in the woodwinds but growing increasingly tart as a bit of string-and-horn frolicking brings on the lively clarinet (again) and a chain of perky, mocking dances. A solemn note brieﬂy intrudes before the dancing resumes, growing ever wilder, with slashing percussion punctuation, culminating in a propulsive and thrillingly grotesque coda. —H.G.

THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD

Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård is the Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), following six seasons as its Principal Guest Conductor. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as Principal Conductor of BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW), after stepping down as Principal Conductor and Musical Advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He has appeared with many notable orchestras in leading European centers, such as Berlin (including the Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and Konzerthausorchester), Munich (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), Zurich (Tonhalle Orchester), Leipzig (Gewandhausorchester), Paris (Orchestre National de France), London (Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonia Orchestra), and Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic). Søndergård is a familiar ﬁgure in Scandinavia, having performed with such orchestras as the Oslo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony,

and Helsinki Philharmonic. North American appearances have included the symphony orchestras of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, St. Louis, Toronto, Atlanta, Montreal, Vancouver, Houston, and Seattle. He has also made highly successful tours to China, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.

With the Minnesota Orchestra in 2024/25, Søndergård led a diverse range of programs, including a Nordic Composers Festival, concert performances of Puccini’s Turandot, and projects with leading soloists such as Yunchan Lim, Isabelle Faust, Julia Bullock, and Bruce Liu. Highlights with the RSNO included Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2, a

collaboration with Dunedin Consort, and closing the season with a celebration of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Other highlights included his returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Elektra), Den Norske Opera ( Peer Gynt), and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

In October 2023, Søndergård was a recipient of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie CarlNielsen’s Foundation award for his outstanding contribution to Danish musical life. In January 2022, he was decorated with a prestigious Royal Order of Chivalry—the Order of Dannebrog (Ridder af Dannebrogordenen) by Her Majesty Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark.

THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD

KIRILL GERSTEIN

Fascination for musical discovery combined with boundless curiosity, imagination, and virtuosity have established Kirill Gerstein as one of today’s most proliﬁc and compelling performers. As a pianist, curator, educator, musical leader, and artistic collaborator, Gerstein explores resonant themes across a vast spectrum of repertoire—from Baroque suites and Classical concertos to contemporary creations, jazz, and cabaret. This exploration has nourished relationships with many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, composers, festivals, recording labels, and media platforms.

Recently, Gerstein was Artist-inResidence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Spotlight Artist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Resident Artist at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, and curator of a three-part “Busoni and His World” concert series at London’s Wigmore Hall. He also released an acclaimed album with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko celebrating Rachmanino ’s 150th birthday; presented, alongside jazz master Brad Mehldau, an innovative program contrasting composed and improvised music as part of his residency at the Ruhr Piano Festival; and, at Tanglewood, performed Berlin cabaret songs of the 1920s with iconic performance artist and composer HK Gruber.

Media projects, broadcasts, and digital innovation represent an integral part of Gerstein’s creativity. He has recorded for Platoon/Apple Music, myrios, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, with performances ﬁlmed by Unitel, Accentus Music, and EuroArts, broadcast on ORF, BBC, ARTE, and Marquee TV, and streamed on medici.tv and STAGE+. Gerstein’s latest media project, Music in Time of War, pairs late piano works by Claude Debussy with pieces by Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Vardapet Komitas. Gerstein’s world premiere recording of Thomas Adès’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Adès was nominated for three Grammys and received a 2020 Gramophone Award.

A true champion of music of our time, Gerstein has commissioned and premiered new works by Timo Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen, and Brad Mehldau, among others.

Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein was 14 when he became the youngest student to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2010, Gerstein received the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award as well as an Avery Fisher Career Grant. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2021.

KIRILL GERSTEIN

CLASSICAL PRIDE

THURSDAY JULY 10, 2025 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Oliver Zeffman, conductor

Pumeza Matshikiza, vocalist

Jamie Barton, vocalist

Anthony Roth Costanzo, vocalist

Thorgy Thor, violin

BERNSTEIN

Overture to Candide (c. 5 minutes)

Jennifer HIGDON blue cathedral (c. 16 minutes)

Jake HEGGIE / Taylor MAC

Good Morning, Beauty (c. 20 minutes) (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Good Morning, Beauty Rising

Or Am I in a Rut?

Dearly, Queerly

Pumeza Matshikiza, Jamie Barton, Anthony Roth Costanzo

INTERMISSION

Drag Moment (c. 10 minutes)

Thorgy Thor

TCHAIKOVSKY

Francesca da Rimini (c. 22 minutes)

This performance is generously supported by R. Martin Chavez and the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund

Programs and artists subject to change.

In July 2023, Oliver Zeffman led the first Classical Pride celebration. Held at London’s Barbican Centre, the concert featured works by LGTBQ+ composers—from Tchaikovsky and Poulenc to contemporary voices such as Caroline Shaw and Julian Anderson—all performed by LGTBQ+ identifying artists and allies. Zeffman’s goal was twofold: to demonstrate to classical music audiences that queerness has been a part of the genre at its highest levels for centuries and to bring the significant accomplishments of these figures to the awareness of the general LGTBQ+ community. “I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, to be honest,” he told the website classical-music.uk at the time.

In 2024, Classical Pride expanded to a five-day festival at the Barbican, with concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra, an opera, and eight new commissions. This year marks another milestone with Classical Pride’s US debut this evening at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring Zeffman leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic joined by world-renowned guest artists.

“I’ve tried to present the best that classical music has to offer, while celebrating the enormous diversity of the LGTBQ+ community within it,” Zeffman has said. This evening’s program reflects this purpose, spanning nearly 150 years of music performed by some of today’s brightest stars.

The program begins with the sparkling overture to Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Overture to Candide, based on the play of the same name by Voltaire. Candide ran a mere three months on Broadway following

its December 1956 premiere, but its overture—cleverly written in sonata form—has become a beloved concert staple. A year later, Bernstein (1918–90) debuted West Side Story and became the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Publicly, he was the dean of American composers and conductors, as well as a devoted husband and father; privately, he had affairs with other men (a subject central to Bradley Cooper’s 2023 Bernstein biopic, Maestro). Zeffman honors both his genius and his identity as a gay man with this inclusion.

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) wrote blue cathedral (1999) as a commission for the 75thanniversary celebration of the Curtis Institute of Music. Her younger brother, Andrew Blue Higdon, had recently died from skin cancer, and the commission became an opportunity to memorialize their relationship. Atop of a bed of strings and twinkling percussion, a dialogue between flute, Jennifer’s instrument, and clarinet, Andrew Blue’s, emerges. At the end, the clarinet ascends alone. Higdon writes in her composer’s note: “This piece represents the expression of the individual and the group…our inner travels and the places our souls carry us, the lessons we learn, and the growth we experience.”

Higdon has spoken openly about increasing representation of LGBTQ+ musicians within the classical music world, particularly recognizing historical figures who had to hide their sexuality to have their work heard. “I constantly hear the classical world saying that they want to be relevant to their communities, and part of that is reflecting and celebrating

those communities.... I think more people would feel that classical music is a relevant expression of the emotion, struggles, and joy of their own lives.”

Jake Heggie (b. 1961) is best known today as a composer of operas—such as Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick—that have been mounted across the globe. He is also a prolific writer of songs, with nearly 300 in his catalog. In 2023, Zeffman reached out to Heggie to compose a song for the 2024 Classical Pride Festival in London. The result was Good Morning, Beauty, featuring lyrics by the iconoclastic New York Downtown theater artist Taylor Mac. “That collaboration went so well that a consortium of three companies (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and Classical Pride London) asked us about adding three more songs to create a full cycle. What emerged is what Taylor refers to as ‘a present to queers in longterm relationships,’” Heggie writes in his program note.

Tonight’s concert presents the world premiere of the full cycle. Heggie continues: “[It] begins with the gratitude and wonder of waking every day next to the person you love, then jumps to some of the very human challenges of partnering for life: the annoying routines that creep up on us, the ruts and misunderstandings. It ends with the humor, longing and complexity of queer love—and the pressures of navigating the dominant culture’s fear of it—alongside its beauty and simplicity.”

Since appearing on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Thorgy Thor has brought the worlds of drag and classical music together,

mainly through her Thorgy and the Thorchestra programs that have toured globally. A trained violinist, violist, and cellist, Thorgy describes her mission as one that dovetails with the goals of Classical Pride, as she explained to her hometown radio station WSHU: “This has become my responsibility, to make drag lovers fall in love with classical music... and vice versa, I want to see some of the older folks at the drag club on a Monday night at 1 o’clock in the morning supporting your local drag performers,” she quipped.

The concert closes with the oldest work on the program: Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy

Francesca da Rimini. A tortured soul whose suffering largely stemmed from what is now seen as his latent homosexuality, Tchaikovsky (1840–93) was drawn to ill-fated love stories. The figure Francesca da Rimini appears in the Inferno section of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dante meets her in the Second Circle of Hell, where she tells of her marriage to a cruel warlord, Giovanni Malatesta, and subsequent affair with his brother, Paolo. Upon discovering the lovers, Giovanni stabs them to death. Tchaikovsky’s fantasy unsettles at the outset as Dante descends to the Second Ring, eventually reaching the

swirling winds where the souls of Francesca and Paolo are doomed to roil for eternity. Eventually the winds subside, and Francesca, embodied by a solo clarinet, narrates her plaintive tale. With this finale, Zeffman emphasizes his point: “Classical music is part of queerness and queer culture and has been for a very long time. Longer than Madonna or Elton John or Kim Petras, whoever you think creates ‘gay’ music or queer music.... [Y]ou may not know it, but classical music really has a huge, huge queer history, and a living aspect to it as well.”

—Amanda Angel

Please scan for more information on tonight’s program, composers, and performers.

OLIVER ZEFFMAN

A conductor of “tremendous ardor and shrewd dramatic timing” (The Telegraph), Oliver Ze man is widely seen as one of today’s most intrepid young musicians.

Alongside upcoming and recent concerts as well as recordings with the likes of the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and the Orchestre national d’Île-deFrance, Zeffman is recognized as “an entrepreneurial tour de force” ( BBC Music Magazine) “with a record for getting things done” (Gramophone).

Projects he’s initiated include Classical Pride—the inaugural event in 2023 was the ﬁrst time any major orchestra or concert hall outside the US had celebrated Pride and was described as “achieving so much more for inclusivity in classical music than the last 10 years of strategic planning by the sector.” Music x Museums was a series of concerts in partnership with London museums such as the Victoria and Albert, Cutty Sark, and Science Museum, all ﬁlmed for Apple Music; and Eight Songs from

Isolation—an opera-ﬁlm consisting of eight new works from several of today’s leading composers—was shot at the height of the pandemic across Europe, Asia, and North America and was nominated for ﬁve Opus Klassik Awards.

A ﬁrm advocate for contemporary music, Ze man has commissioned and premiered over 30 new pieces from some of the most exciting composers of today. In previous years, he gave the Russian premieres of a

number of important 20th and 21st century works, including George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence, Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Walton’s Façade, and Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Ze man originally studied history and Russian at Durham University and spent a year at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory.

OLIVER ZEFFMAN

PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA

South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, an exclusive Decca artist since 2014, has performed at many of the leading opera houses across Europe and the United States and has released two solo recordings with Decca: Voice of Hope, her debut album combining wellknown arias with traditional and popular African songs, and Arias.

Throughout her career Matshikiza has championed numerous contemporary operatic works. Last summer, Matshikiza performed in a concert in Paris’ Olympia Hall under the auspices of Le Festival de Paris and at the Barbican in London as part of Classical Pride.

The 2024/25 season included a concert with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov in Bucharest, a Christmas tour around the UK with

Bryn Terfel, and her role debut in the title role of Tosca at the Staatsoper Hannover. In recent seasons Matshikiza won critical acclaim in the title role of Aida (a role debut) at the Staatsoper Hannover, as Mařenka in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride at Garsington Opera, and as the Fox in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the English National Opera. Further highlights of her recent career have included her debuts as both Bess and Serena in a new production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Theater an der Wien, as well as concerts in London, Germany, and South Africa, and a European tour with Rolando Villazón. The title character of Dvořák’s Rusalka has quickly become one of her signature roles: After her acclaimed debut at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, in 2018, she performed the part in new productions in Strasbourg and Antwerp. She made her first US appearance, with The Dallas Opera, as Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème Matshikiza spent five years as an ensemble member of Staatsoper Stuttgart, where her numerous lead roles have included Micaёla (Carmen), Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro), Ännchen ( Der Freischütz), Zerlina ( Don Giovanni ), and Pamina ( Die Zauberflöte).

PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA

JAMIE BARTON

Critically acclaimed by virtually every major outlet covering classical music, American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is increasingly recognized for how she uses her powerful instrument o stage—lifting up women, queer people, and other marginalized communities. Her lively social media presence on Instagram and X (@jbartonmezzo) serves as a hub for conversations about body

positivity, social justice issues, and LGBTQ+ rights. In recognition of her iconic performance at the Last Night of the Proms, Barton was named 2020 Personality of the Year at the BBC Music Magazine Awards. She is a winner of the International Opera Awards’ Readers’ Award, Beverly Sills Artist Award, Richard Tucker Award, and BBC Cardi Singer of the World Competition, after which The Guardian described her as “a great artist, no question, with an imperturbable steadiness

of tone, and a nobility of utterance that invites comparison not so much with her contemporaries as with mid-20th century greats such as Kirsten Flagstad.”

This season, Barton makes a dual role and company debut as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress at Opéra national de Paris and brings her acclaimed Azucena to the Metropolitan Opera’s Il trovatore. She also debuts as Nettie Fowler in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel with Boston Lyric Opera before appearing as Amneris in Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Aida. Barton opens the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra season as the mezzo soloist in Das Lied von der Erde and returns to the BBC Proms for Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Other appearances include debuts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Opera, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Barton also embarks on a chamber music tour, bringing a world premiere by Joel Thompson to the stages of Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington. Recital appearances this season include the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and at Wigmore Hall in London.

JAMIE BARTON

ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, ﬁlm, and on Broadway. In June 2024, he began his tenure as the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia. He has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Opéra national de Paris, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, The Dallas Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as the 2023 Artist in Residence), and Finnish National Opera.

In concert he has sung with the New York Philharmonic (where he was named The Mary and James G. Wallach Artistin-Residence for the 2021/22 season), The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Boston Baroque, Berlin Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and

the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also been presented in recital in Vancouver, by Princeton University Concerts and Duke Performances, and at the Morgan Library in New York. He has performed at a wide-ranging variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Versailles, the Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jordan Hall in Boston, Wigmore Hall in London, National Sawdust, Minamiza Kyoto, Joe’s Pub, the Guggenheim, Park

Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.

Costanzo’s most recent album, Anthony Roth Costanzo & Justin Vivian Bond: Only an Octave Apart was released in January 2022. His ﬁrst solo album, ARC, was released in September 2018 and nominated for the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. He also stars on the Metropolitan Opera’s recording and DVD of Akhnaten, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO

THORGY THOR

Thorgy Thor is a New York City-based drag performance artist, entertainer, musician, and event host. Since appearing on Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the series’ All Stars Season 3, Thorgy has traveled the world, bringing to audiences her trademark wit, sense of humor, and musical charm.

Thorgy uses unconventional recording materials and music to create unique performances for theater, film, cabaret, and nightlife entertainment. She is an explosive performer who loves to lip-sync and create collaborative performance art that combines drag, music, and comedy.

In 2018, the show Thorgy and the Thorchestra was created in collaboration with Canadian conductor Daniel BartholomewPoyser and made its debut with Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax in conjunction with Halifax Pride, with two nights of sold-out performances, to rave reviews. The show blends orchestral performances of traditional and modern classical repertoire and contemporary pop songs. The creation and debut of Thorgy and the Thorchestra was featured as part of Disruptor Conductor, Sharon Lewis’ 2019 documentary film about Bartholomew-Poyser,

which highlighted his creative collaboration with Thorgy.

Since then, Thorgy has taken the Thorchestra program to audiences around the globe. She has performed in the US with the Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, and Seattle Symphony and in Canada with the Vancouver, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Saskatoon, and Regina symphonies and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, she has had the pleasure of playing violin with many recording artists

including New York legend Joey Arias, as well as in performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Le Poisson Rouge.

After moving to Brooklyn in 2006, Thorgy was featured in nightclubs, theater projects, street performances, and photo series throughout New York City. She has since been nominated for numerous awards, including the Glam Awards, Get Out Awards, and Odyssey Magazine Awards. At the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, she won the LEGEND award and took home Best Group Show of the Year.

THORGY THOR

THE CINEMATIC SCORES OF ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

TUESDAY JULY 15, 2025 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Alexandre Desplat, conductor

Alexandre DESPLAT

Programs and artists subject to change.

Godzilla (2014) (c. 3 minutes)

The Imitation Game (2014) (c. 8 minutes)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) (c. 9 minutes)

Wes Anderson Suite (c. 12 minutes)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The French Dispatc h (2021)

Pinocchio (2022) (c. 8 minutes)

INTERMISSION

Suite Royale (c. 11 minutes)

The Queen (2006)

The King’s Speech (2010)

The Lost King (2022)

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) (c. 7 minutes)

The Shape of Water (2017) (c. 6 minutes)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Suite (c. 13 minutes)

From the time he burst onto the scene in 2003 with his enchanting score for Girl with a Pearl Earring, Paris-based composer Alexandre Desplat has collaborated with many of the leading directors in America, Great Britain, and the Continent. He has won two Oscars (and earned nine additional nominations), three BAFTAs, three Césars, two Golden Globes, and a pair of Grammy Awards.

Some of the directors who have relied on his special talents include Ang Lee ( Lust, Caution), Ben A eck ( Argo), Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), Greta Gerwig ( Little Women), Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ), Roman Polanski (The Ghost Writer), and George Clooney (The Monuments Men)—along with numerous others, represented on the program.

Peter Webber’s ﬁlm Girl with a Pearl Earring imagined an entire backstory for Dutch painter

Johannes Vermeer’s 17th-century masterpiece, with Colin Firth as the artist; Scarlett Johansson as his muse, a shy young maid who becomes his model; and Tom Wilkinson as his rich patron. It inspired a waltz-time theme and an elegant, Golden Globenominated score for piano, strings, and woodwinds.

He has done six films with British director Stephen Frears, starting with The Queen (2006), for which he wrote, in his words, “music of grandeur and elegance, but also wit,” as the film charted the delicate relationship between Queen Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) in the days after the death of Princess Diana. Their most recent film was The Lost King (2022), about an amateur historian (Sally Hawkins) seeking the remains of King Richard III; Desplat’s

score carefully straddled two time periods: the 15th century, featuring medieval lute, recorders, and organ; and modern times, with symphony orchestra providing the mystery.

For director David Fincher, he scored The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), an adaptation of an obscure F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man (Brad Pitt) who ages in reverse and the complications that result when he falls in love with a 30-yearold woman. Despite the epic nature of the ﬁlm, the music is delicate and chamber-like.

The composer provided a sensitive and touching musical backdrop, frequently featuring piano, for Tom Hooper’s historical drama The King’s Speech (2010), about England’s King George VI (Colin Firth) overcoming his stammer with the help of a patient speech therapist (Geo rey Rush). The ﬁlm won a Best Picture Oscar, and Desplat’s score won a BAFTA and a Grammy.

That same year, Warner Bros. asked the composer to complete its eight-film Harry Potter series with music for the two-part finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010–11), directed by David Yates. Desplat created a mystical ambience, scoring the decisive final battles between Harry (Daniel Radcli e) and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) with an apt mixture of suspense and the eerie sounds of black magic at work.

Desplat surprised many by creating music for his ﬁrst “monster movie,” Gareth Edwards’ remake of Godzilla (2014), starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ken Watanabe. Ominous, powerful, action-ﬁlled, it demanded a large orchestra—but, as always, the composer found the heart at the center of the story. In a very di erent realm that same year, he conveyed the

brilliance and tragedy of English mathematician Alan Turing, whose inventions decoded Nazi messages and helped to win World War II for the Allies. Morten Tyldum’s film The Imitation Game starred Benedict Cumberbatch as the tormented genius and Keira Knightley as a supportive, understanding colleague. It was a tall order, creating music for a wartime thriller as well as a tender platonic love story. Desplat’s fast-moving figures and piano arpeggios suggested both the speed of Turing’s brain and the race to crack the German Enigma code. Cumberbatch’s performance and Desplat’s music accounted for two of the film’s eight Academy Award nominations.

In 2015, Desplat won his first Academy Award, for the music of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). It was his third film for the eccentric American filmmaker Wes Anderson, and the wholly unpredictable, lighthearted story—about the mid-20th-century adventures of the concierge (Ralph Fiennes) of a fabled Mitteleuropa resort and his lobby boy—required an unusual approach. The composer chose an ensemble of mostly Eastern European instruments including the cimbalom, zither, mandolin, and balalaika to suggest the locale and added orchestra, organ, and choir for specific characters and scenes. Charming, fresh, and funny, it was so catchy and appealing that Desplat not only won the Oscar, he also claimed a BAFTA, a Grammy, and a World Soundtrack Award.

Desplat and Anderson have now done seven ﬁlms together, beginning with Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and most recently The Phoenician Scheme (2025). All have featured surprising and playful combinations of instruments as demonstrated in tonight’s “Wes Anderson Suite,”

including the banjo, recorder, and bouncy, childlike fun of Mr. Fox; the delightful music of Grand Budapest Hotel; and the quirky, Erik Satie-like piano miniatures of The French Dispatch (2021).

Desplat has collaborated with Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on several occasions over the past decade, twice in feature films, and one of those features earned the composer his second Academy Award: The Shape of Water (2017). Fantasy films, especially, rely on music to help convince us of the reality of the story and characters, and del Toro’s unexpected love story benefited enormously from the score.

Del Toro’s piece about a mute custodian (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an amphibious creature won four Oscars that year, including Best Picture and

one for del Toro as director. Flutes, harps, and bandoneon suggest the ﬂoating sensation of water that pervades the entire ﬁlm, with the surprising sound of whistling providing a haunting, human touch.

Desplat reunited with del Toro for their most ambitious project: Pinocchio (2022), a stop-motion animation reimagining of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 classic. The story of a wooden puppet magically brought to life as a companion for a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto, it follows his adventures with Sebastian J. Cricket and victimization by the cruel Count Volpe before being reunited with Geppetto. Ewan MacGregor, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, and Tilda Swinton were among the voices heard.

The film took several years to design and write, and then three

more to realize the painstaking and time-consuming work of creating the characters, then animating them a frame at a time. Desplat wrote nine songs, including the memorable “Ciao Papa,” which reflects both the innocence of Pinocchio and the sorrow of Geppetto. And in a nod to the production itself, the composer designed an orchestra consisting almost entirely of wooden instruments (strings, woodwinds, percussion, no brass), plus choir and glass harmonica for the magical Blue Fairy.

Del Toro’s acclaimed ﬁlm won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA and an Annie as best animated feature, while the composer won an Annie and was Golden Globenominated for best song and best score. —Jon Burlingame

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

Alexandre Desplat, a true cinephile, has developed his own style through a unique approach that creates a special tone and identity for each movie score. Revered for his extraordinary career as a composer of film music, he has created original scores for over 130 films and received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, three César Awards, two Golden Globes, two Grammy Awards, and numerous other nominations and distinctions. Desplat has collaborated with directors such as Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, George Clooney, David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig, Terrence Malick, Roman Polanski, and Guillermo del Toro. After scoring 50 European films with legendary French directors including Philippe de Broca, Francis Girod, and Jacques Audiard, Alexandre Desplat burst onto the Hollywood scene with his evocative score for Girl with a Pearl Earring in 2003. Over the last two decades,

he’s become one of the most proliﬁc ﬁlm composers in the industry, having created the enticing sound worlds for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and The Shape of Water, among countless other blockbusters.

A close collaborator of Wes Anderson, Desplat has created delightfully mischievous scores for Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The French Dispatch, which continue to spark joy and delight among music and movie lovers worldwide.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT

JUANES

WEDNESDAY JULY 16, 2025 8PM

Juanes

Emmanuel Briceño, musical director, keyboards, vocals

Felipe Navia, bass

Juan Pablo Daza, guitar

Marcelo Novati, drums

Richard Bravo, percussion

LA LOM

Programs and artists subject to change.

JUANES

Born and raised in Medellín, Colombia, Juanes is unquestionably Latin rock’s leading global ambassador and champion for social change. Hailed by Time magazine as “one of the 100 Most Inﬂuential People in the World,” Juanes is the only artist who holds two of Billboard ’s “Top 5 Latin Pop Songs of All Time,” has 13 No. 1 US singles to his credit, dozens of groundbreaking global television appearances performed in Spanish, a Rolling Stone selection for “Best Albums of the 21st Century So Far,” and has collected a staggering combined 29 Grammy and Latin Grammy awards (from a record-setting 49 nominations for a solo artist). Known for his distinctive sound that fuses a deep love of rock and pop music with smartly crafted, multilayered songwriting and a deep reverence for the traditional folkloric rhythms of Colombia and Latin America, Juanes has sold millions of records around the world.

After a period of stretching his sound to include fusions with a wider range of contemporary sounds, Juanes’ critically acclaimed and highly personal 2023 album Vida Cotidiana (Everyday Life) paired a deﬁnitive return to the electric guitar rock roots of his earliest work with his long-praised skill as an ardent songwriter turned inward during the pandemic to reexamine his matured take on life, love, family, social concerns, and more. The wide consensus declared the work “the best album of Juanes’ career,” and it was recognized with the 2023 Latin Grammy for Best PopRock Album and a 2024 Grammy for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album. Numerous media outlets hailed the album as among the best Latin music of 2023, including NPR, Billboard, Variety, and Rolling Stone, which said: “Three decades in the industry haven’t dampened [the] creativity…of one of the most beloved stars in the Spanishspeaking world, and his [11th] album proves it.... ‘One of the Best Latin Albums of the Year’…with some of

Juanes’ best writing...and razorsharp production.”

Now, with the beginning of a new creative cycle, Juanes recently unveiled a first taste of music from his next album. The project’s first single, “Una Noche Contigo,” (A Night with You) arrived in April, signaling a return to a brighter sound and his heartfelt lyrical focus on the way many facets of love are the driving force in our lives. The track is a classic serenade on finding a lifetime love in an unexpected moment, with musical influences spanning Juan Gabriel, Otis Redding, and The Beatles.

LA LOM

The Los Angeles League of Musicians, LA LOM, are an instrumental trio formed in Los Angeles in 2021. They blend the sounds of Cumbia Sonidera, ’60s soul ballads, and classic romantic boleros that emanate from radios, backyard parties, and dance clubs of Los Angeles with the twang of Peruvian Chicha and Bakersﬁeld Country.

JUANES LA LOM

BRAHMS & GRIEG

THURSDAY

JULY 17, 2025 8PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Tabita Berglund, conductor

Hélène Grimaud, piano

BRAHMS

GRIEG

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (c. 50 minutes)

Maestoso

Adagio

Rondo: Allegro non troppo

Hélène Grimaud

INTERMISSION

Peer Gynt, Op. 23 (c. 6 minutes)

Act I: Prelude (At the Wedding)

Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, Op. 55 (c. 16 minutes)

The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid’s Lament

Arabian Dance

Peer Gynt’s Homecoming (Stormy Evening on the Sea)

Solveig’s Song

Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (c. 13 minutes)

Morning Mood

The Death of Åse

Anitra’s Dance

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Moritaka Kina is chief piano technician for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Pianos provided by Steinway Piano Gallery—Beverly Hills

Programs and artists subject to change.

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN D MINOR, OP. 15

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)

An extraordinary melding of musical heritage and progressive outlook made Brahms an overwhelming presence in the latter half of the 19th century and beyond. The New Grove Dictionary describes him as the “successor to Beethoven and Schubert in the larger forms of chamber and orchestral music, to Schubert and Schumann in the miniature forms of piano pieces and songs, and to the Renaissance and Baroque polyphonists in choral music,” adding that he “creatively synthesized the practices of three centuries with folk and dance idioms….” Most of these elements can be discerned in the composer’s monumental First Piano Concerto.

The creation of this gigantic work, longer than Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, occupied Brahms for at least ﬁve years. After beginning a two-piano sonata in 1854, he soon realized that the musical material required orchestral treatment. Following the wise decision to combine piano and orchestra, Brahms recast the opening as the ﬁrst movement of a piano concerto; the other movements of the sonata were discarded (although one reappeared later in the composer’s German Requiem).

A jaunty new ﬁnale was completed in late 1856, followed by the radiant slow movement, but the composer continued to make adjustments after the ﬁrst performances of the concerto in January 1859.

Considering the intensity of the work, it may not be surprising that a critic wrote that the concerto “cannot give pleasure,” lamenting that it contained “the shrillest dissonances and most unpleasant sounds,” following its second performance, in Leipzig. When compared with the bucolic rapture of the First and Second Serenades (Ops. 11 and 16), which Brahms composed from 1857 to 1858, the concerto is an uncompromising and awesome piece of work, and it remains so.

The Maestoso ﬁrst movement opens with a mighty noise: As clarinets, bassoons, timpani, violas, and basses sustain an ominous pedal note, violins and cellos declaim the melody with stabbing accents and menacing trills. Before long, the other winds are added to the violent assault, but then an espressivo variant lends an air of melancholy, with the theme eventually rising to an exalted register in the ﬁrst violins. Another outburst, with horns reinforcing the theme, subsides to make way for the solo piano, which enters with one of the most understated themes in the concerto literature.

There is a hushed, hesitant, almost stuttering quality, which makes it all the more surprising when the piano challenges the orchestra with its own ferocious statement of those menacing trills. As thematic materials are traded back and forth during the 20-plus minutes of this movement, each element is perfectly suited to the orchestra and to the keyboard.

After the earthly struggles that mark the ﬁrst movement, the Adagio is a world away. “I am painting a gentle portrait of you,” Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann, whose husband, Robert, died in 1856. There is a devotional aspect to the music that likely reﬂects the composer’s appreciation of masters such as Palestrina. Clara herself noted the movement’s “spiritual” quality.

The final Rondo begins with the piano alone and has a structure resembling the finale of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. The truth, as so often with Brahms, is that models and forms fade quickly in the bright light of the composer’s distinctive and charismatic personality. Combining the rhythmic vigor that would become a regular feature of his concerto finales with the “learned” style of the Baroque masters and an ample supply of virtuoso passagework, the music hints toward Brahms’ masterful set of Handel Variations, composed in 1861. —Dennis Bade

MUSIC FROM PEER GYNT

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

Edvard Grieg was an unlikely avatar of Norwegian music. The cultural outlook of his family was largely Danish, and his mother had solid German training as a pianist in Hamburg. Grieg himself was sent to the Leipzig Conservatory when he was 15 years old.

In 1864, two years after his return from Leipzig, he spent the summer with the eccentric Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, who began to interest Grieg in Norwegian folk culture. That winter Grieg met Rikard Nordraak—who was only a year older but already the great musical hope for Norwegian nationalists—in Copenhagen, and Grieg’s conversion to Romantic nationalism was complete. When Nordraak died two years later, Grieg inherited the mantle of Norwegian musical champion. Works of the following decade— including the Piano Concerto, piano arrangements of Norwegian folk songs, and collaborations with the dramatist Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson—cemented Grieg’s reputation. Naturally, an invitation from Henrik Ibsen in January 1874 to compose incidental music for his verse drama Peer Gynt came about, though the two men were temperamentally far apart. In a long letter from Dresden, Ibsen talked about his plans to ﬁ nally stage Peer Gynt in its third edition, including some detailed thoughts about music. Grieg accepted gladly enough, imagining that he would be composing only the music Ibsen indicated in his letter.

The task ultimately swelled to 26 numbers across all fi ve acts, and Grieg did not fi nd the work congenial. To his friend Frants Beyer that summer, Grieg wrote: “With Peer Gynt it goes very slowly and there is no possibility of being fi nished by autumn. It is a frightfully intractable subject, with the exception of one or two parts, as for example where Solveig sings—all of which I have done. And I have done something for the hall of the troll king in Dovre which literally I can’t bear to hear, it reeks so of cow-turds, ultra Norwegianism, and to-one’s self-enoughness! But I am hoping that the irony will be able to make itself felt.”

Indeed it has. That piece, “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” is one of Grieg’s best known. In his review of an 1889 London performance, George Bernard Shaw called it “a riotous piece of weird fun,” while also complaining that it was made up of but a single phrase, repeated over and over.

Shaw’s observation is true, but it misses the point. The short piece, like Ravel’s much longer Boléro, is a supremely well-crafted exercise in orchestral color and dynamics.

Act I sets up the story with the village wedding of Ingrid, daughter of a rich farmer. Peer had been romantically interested in her, but she is marrying another. The other guests mock Peer as a braggart dreamer, but he manages to run o with Ingrid, for which he is banished, and his fantastic transcontinental wanderings begin. Tonight’s program presents the Act I Prelude, but it reverses the numerical order of the two suites from the play’s incidental music.

Suite No. 2, which is presented first this evening, opens with violent music from the beginning of Act II, in the aftermath of the broken wedding, framing Ingrid’s lament. The “Arabian Dance” is from the middle of Act IV, in the Bedouin camp just before “Anitra’s Dance.” The Prelude to Act V evokes a tempest at sea, as Peer is shipwrecked on his return to Norway. Now a grumpy old man, Peer reflects on the roads not taken in a life he now believes misspent. Peer hears the voice of his dead mother and trades questions with Death; despairing, he makes his way to the hut of Solveig, the woman he had loved and left at various points in the preceding acts. She comforts him with a cradle song, though the music that closes Suite No. 2 is her radiant song from the end of Act IV, a foreshadowing of her redeeming devotion to him. The first suite begins with the evocative “Morning Mood” that opens Act IV of the play, set in North Africa. “I imagine the sun breaking through the clouds at the fi rst forte,” Grieg wrote. “The Death of Åse” depicts not Peer’s wild fantasies at his mother’s deathbed but rather her desolate anticipation of death in quietly crooning strings, music that begins and ends Act III. “Anitra’s Dance”—“a soft little dance which I am very anxious should sound delicate and beautiful”—is the lilting seduction of Peer, posing as a prophet in the Arab world, by a Bedouin chieftain’s daughter. The suite ends with “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Act II, in which Peer encounters the hostile court of the troll king in a dream fantasy. —John Henken

TABITA BERGLUND

Tabita Berglund is one of today’s most exciting, talented, and indemand young conductors. She gained a reputation for her alert, charismatic, and inspiring style that elicits “exceptional musicmaking” (The Arts Desk). Last

season, Berglund began her fouryear tenure as Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and from 2025/26 she holds the same title with the Dresdner Philharmonie; she was appointed to each position following her respective debut.

Symphonic highlights of 2024/25 include debuts with the Los

Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Bamberger Symphoniker, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and Lahti Symphony Orchestra, as well as Berglund’s inaugural weeks as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor—the ﬁrst featuring the US premiere of Anna Clyne’s violin concerto Time and Tides with fellow HarrisonParrott artist Pekka Kuusisto. Other notable season highlights included Berglund’s Asian debut with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, her Salzburg Easter Festival debut with Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, a European tour with Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and returns to the Dresdner Philharmonie, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lyon, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. In December, she conducted the Norwegian National Ballet in 12 performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker

TABITA BERGLUND

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD

Renaissance woman Hélène Grimaud is not just a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life: Her multiple talents extend far beyond the instrument she plays with poetic expression and technical control. Grimaud has established herself as a wildlife conservationist, a human rights activist, and a writer, her deep dedication to her musical career reflected in and amplified by the scope and depth of her environmental, literary, and artistic interests.

Hélène Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at just 13. A few years later, in 1987, she gave her well-received debut recital in Tokyo. That same year, renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim invited her to perform with the Orchestre de Paris: This marked the launch of Grimaud’s musical career, characterized ever since by concerts with most of the world’s major orchestras and many celebrated conductors.

In the 2024/25 season, Grimaud performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick NézetSéguin, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, among others. She presented recitals at Carnegie Hall, at Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, and in Singapore, Taipei, and São Paulo. Joined by Camerata Salzburg, she extensively toured Europe and Asia.

Since 2002 Hélène Grimaud has been an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. Her recordings have been critically acclaimed and awarded numerous accolades,

among them the Cannes Classical Recording of the Year, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Diapason d’Or, Grand Prix du Disque, Record Academy Prize (Tokyo), Midem Classic Award, and ECHO Klassik.

The pianist’s latest project, For Clara, focuses on her long relationship with the German Romantics and on the ties that bound both Robert Schumann and his protégé Brahms to pianistcomposer Clara Schumann.

Grimaud’s prodigious contribution to the world of classical music was recognized by the French government, which appointed her Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD

THERE’S LIFE

AFTER ROMEO

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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

A liates Chair

Rebecca Reale

Deanie and Jay

Stein Chair

Rochelle Abramson

Minyoung Chang

I.H. Albert

Sutnick Chair

Tianyun Jia

Jordan Koransky

Ashley Park

Justin Woo

Katherine Woo

Melody Ye Yuan

Weilu Zhang

SECOND VIOLINS

[Position vacant]

Principal

Mark Kashper

Associate Principal

Isabella Brown

Assistant Principal

Kristine Whitson

Johnny Lee

Dale Breidenthal

Mark Houston Dalzell

and James DaoDalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community

Ingrid Chun

Jin-Shan Dai

Chao-Hua Jin

Jung Eun Kang

Vivian Kukiel

Nickolai Kurganov

Varty Manouelian

Emily Shehi

Michelle Tseng

VIOLAS

[Position vacant]

Principal

John Connell Chair

Ben Ullery

Associate Principal

Jenni Seo

Assistant Principal

Dana Lawson

Richard Elegino

John Hayhurst

Ingrid Hutman

Michael Larco

Hui Liu

Meredith Snow

Leticia Oaks Strong

Minor L. Wetzel+ Bradley Parrimore*

Pasadena Showcase

House for the Arts

LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair

* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen

LA Phil Resident Fellow

+ On sabbatical

CELLOS

Robert deMaine

Principal

Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair

Ben Hong

Associate Principal

Sadie and Norman

Lee Chair

Dahae Kim

Assistant Principal

Jonathan Karoly

David Garrett

Barry Gold

Jason Lippmann

Gloria Lum

Linda and Maynard

Brittan Chair

Zachary Mowitz

Serge Oskotsky

Brent Samuel

Ismael Guerrero*

Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace LA Phil

Resident Fellow Chair

BASSES

Christopher Hanulik

Principal

Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller Chair

Kaelan Decman

Associate Principal

Oscar M. Meza

Assistant Principal

David Allen Moore

Ted Botsford

Jack Cousin

Jory Herman

Brian Johnson

Peter Rofé

Nicholas Arredondo*

Alicia Miñana and Rob Lovelace LA Phil

Resident Fellow Chair

FLUTES

Denis Bouriakov

Principal

Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair

Catherine Ransom Karoly

Associate Principal

Mr. and Mrs. H.

Russell Smith Chair

Elise Shope Henry

Mari L. Danihel Chair

Sarah Jackson

Piccolo

Sarah Jackson

OBOES

[Position vacant]

Principal

Carol Colburn

Grigor Chair

Marion Arthur Kuszyk

Associate Principal

Anne Marie Gabriele

English Horn

[Position vacant]

CLARINETS

Boris Allakhverdyan

Principal

Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair

[Position vacant]

Associate Principal

Andrew Lowy

Taylor Ei ert

E-Flat Clarinet

Andrew Lowy

Bass Clarinet

Taylor Ei ert

BASSOONS

Whitney Crockett Principal

Shawn Mouser+

Associate Principal

Ann Ronus Chair

Michele Grego

Evan Kuhlmann

Contrabassoon

Evan Kuhlmann

HORNS

Andrew Bain

Principal

John Cecil Bessell Chair

David Cooper

Associate Principal

Gregory Roosa

Alan Scott Klee Chair

Amy Jo Rhine

Loring Charitable Trust Chair

Elyse Lauzon

Ethan Bearman

Assistant

Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair

Elizabeth Linares

Montero*

Nancy and Leslie Abell LA Phil Resident

Fellow Chair

TRUMPETS

Thomas Hooten

Principal

M. David and Diane

Paul Chair

James Wilt

Associate Principal

Nancy and Donald de Brier Chair

Christopher Still

Ronald and Valerie

Sugar Chair

Je rey Strong

TROMBONES

David Rejano

Cantero

Principal Koni and Geo

Rich Chair

James Miller

Associate Principal

Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair

Paul Radke

Bass Trombone

John Lofton

Miller and Go Family Chair

TUBA

Mason Soria

TIMPANI

Joseph Pereira

Principal

Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair

David Riccobono

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Matthew Howard Principal

James Babor

David Riccobono

KEYBOARDS

Joanne Pearce

Martin

Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair

HARP

Emmanuel Ceysson

Principal Ann Ronus Chair

LIBRARIANS

Stephen Biagini

Benjamin Picard

KT Somero

CONDUCTING FELLOWS

Luis Castillo-Briceño

Holly Hyun Choe

Dayner Tafur-Díaz

Molly Turner

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

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

HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA

Thomas Wilkins Principal Conductor

John Mauceri Founding Director

FIRST VIOLINS

Kathryn Eberle Concertmaster

Marisa Sorajja Principal

Grace Oh Associate Principal

Chloe Szu-Yun Chiu

Christine Frank

Radu Pieptea

Adrianne Pope

Yutong Sharp

Shelly Shi

Mari Tsumura

SECOND VIOLINS

Kathleen Sloan Principal

Cheryl Norman Brick Associate Principal

Pam Gates

Natalie Leggett

Carolyn Osborn

Robert Schumitzky

Olivia Tsui

Vivian Wolf

VIOLAS

Erik Rynearson Principal

Jonah Sirota Associate Principal

Carrie Holzman-Little

Carole Kleister-Castillo

Stefan L. Smith

Phillip Triggs

Hyeree Yu

CELLOS

Dennis Karmazyn Principal

Armen Ksajikian Associate Principal

Giovanna Moraga Clayton

Trevor Handy

Julie Jung

Erin Breene Schumitzky

BASSES

Andrew Chilcote Principal

Denise Briesé Associate Principal

Paul Macres

Barry Newton

FLUTES

Heather Clark Principal

Lawrence Kaplan

Piccolo [position vacant]

OBOES

Lelie Resnick Principal

Noah Breneman

English Horn

Catherine Del Russo

CLARINETS

[position vacant] Principal

Bass Clarinet [position vacant]

BASSOONS

Elliott Moreau Principal

Contrabassoon

Allen Savedo

HORNS

Dylan Hart Principal

Allen Fogle Associate Principal

TRUMPETS

Robert Schaer Principal

Robert Frear

TROMBONES

William Booth Principal

Alexander Iles

Bass Trombone

Todd Eames

TUBA

Jim Self Principal

TIMPANI

Tyler Stell Principal

DRUMS

Brian Miller Principal

PERCUSSION

Wade Culbreath Principal

Gregory Goodall

HARP

Cristina Montes Mateo Principal

KEYBOARDS

Alan Steinberger Principal

SAXOPHONE [position vacant]

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Scott Dunn

LIBRARIAN

Stephen Biagini

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically.

In the aftermath of the January wildﬁres that devastated parts of Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, and Malibu, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented WE LA, a free community concert for first responders as well as families and individuals directly impacted by the crisis.

On April 1, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel led the orchestra in a genre-spanning program featuring collaborations with global pop star Christina Aguilera, jazz pianist Gerald Clayton, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Palisades Charter High School Band, and surprise guest cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

This night was a reminder of what it means to belong to a city that refuses to break. “Your courage and commitment inspire us,” Dudamel said. “Together we will rebuild our city, stronger than ever.”

PHOTOS: FARAH

Christina Aguilera performs her song “Beautiful” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” is performed by the Palisades Charter High School Band.

Kim Noltemy, President & CEO of the LA Phil, addresses the audience, saying, “You are all our heroes.”

County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath thank first responders for their bravery. “We celebrate [you] with the power of creativity, the arts, and music,” Horvath said.

Gerald Clayton, the six-time Grammy-nominated pianist raised in Altadena, performed Gershwin’s Variations on “I Got Rhythm” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

All proceeds from our limited-edition WE LA merchandise were donated to wildﬁre relief e orts via the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation and California Community Foundation’s Wildﬁre Recovery Fund.

To learn more about how the LA Phil is supporting recovery e orts and a ected communities, please visit laphil.com/wildﬁres

WE LA was generously supported by Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky; Terri and Jerry Kohl; GRoW @ Annenberg; and Barbara and Jay Rasulo.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform “Bridge Over Troubled Water” with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Two young concertgoers enjoy the uplifting musical night.

Oct

Nov 22+23, 2025

Dec 14+16, 2025

Jan 17+18, 2026

May 16+17, 2026

May

HOLLYWOOD BOWL SUMMER ESSENTIALS

For the third straight year, designer and artist Justina Blakeney collaborated with the Hollywood Bowl Store on an exclusive collection.

Titled With the Folks, this line represents her “love letter to LA.”

“The Hollywood Bowl has always felt like one of LA’s happiest places—music in the air, sunshine or stars overhead, and that electric sense of togetherness. For this season’s design, called ‘With the Folks,’ I wanted to capture that spirit of community, freedom, and fun. I started with the Bowl’s iconic shell shape, letting it bloom into flowers, petals, suns, and stars—symbols of resilience, beauty, and renewal. Flowers, to me, represent the way nature keeps finding a way to bloom, even after fire. This folksy, retro, and funky design is my love letter to LA—a celebration of music, nature, and the simple magic of gathering with the folks you love.”

—Justina Blakeney, Artist & Jungalow founder

Find the With the Folks collection and more exclusive merchandise for you or the music lover in your life at the Bowl Stores, the LA Phil Store, and at laphilstore.com

PHOTO: TIMOTHY NORRIS Designer Justina Blakeney’s With the Folks collection for the 2025 Bowl season is now available at the Bowl Store.

Hollywood Bowl With the Folks Woven Throw Blanket

A REVIVAL AT THE BOWL

From August 1 to 3, superstars Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert headline a production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl. Did you know that the hit musical—initially conceived as a concept album—was first presented at the Bowl on September 24, 1971, two and a half weeks before its Broadway opening? That “authorized original concert presentation” starred Tom Westerman as Jesus and Carl Anderson as Judas. (Anderson would resume the role on Broadway, following in the footsteps of original cast member Ben Vereen.)

In his Los Angeles Times review, critic John Rockwell wrote: “Jesus Christ Superstar is a work full of ﬁne tunes, thought-provoking lyrics and laudable dramatic intentions.”

Poster from the 1971 performances of Jesus Christ Superstar

LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US!

Take the stress out of your next concert trip. Audiences have been taking part in the Hollywood Bowl bus program since 1974, helping to make it the largest and most comprehensive transportation system of any concert venue west of the Mississippi. The Hollywood Bowl has added a transportation hub to help streamline access for Park & Ride, Bowl Shuttle, Metro, and rideshares. These efforts help reduce the number of cars coming to the Bowl by more than 2,000 vehicles each evening, making your night run more smoothly. Plan your next trip at hollywoodbowl.com/gettinghere.

DID YOU KNOW?

• When you show your same-day Park & Ride or Shuttle ticket at the Plaza Marketplace, you get 20% off your purchase.

• Buses drop you o at the top of Lot B.

• Bowl Shuttle rides are FREE with a valid TAP card used within the previous two hours, a GoMetro Round-Trip Pass, or a Burbank Metrolink ticket.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We acknowledge the Gabrielino Tongva, Gabrielino Kizh, and Fernandeño Tataviam Nations as the traditional stewards of the land now called the Hollywood Bowl.

We honor and respect the many indigenous peoples connected to this land and express our admiration for their resilient and important cultural leaders in our region—past, present, and future.

PRINCIPAL

Broadway Legends: From Gershwin to Sondheim

JUNE 2 1 , 202 5

Michael Feinstein, conductor

Liz Callaway & Joshua Henry, soloists

Moonlight Melodies: An Evening with the Crooners

JULY 12 , 202 5

Michael Feinstein, conductor & soloist

Nick Ziobro & Maude Maggart, soloists

The Music of Bond. James Bond.

AUGUST 9, 202 5

Michael Feinstein, conductor

Jimmie Herrod & Storm Large, soloists

Queens of Soul

JULY 2 6 , 202 5

Larry Blank, conductor

Shayna Steele, Kelly LaVesque & Tamika Lawrence, guest artists

Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to The Beatles

AUGUST 23, 2025

Larry Blank, conductor

Classical Mystery Tour, guest artists Feinstein’s Favorites

SEPTEMBER 6 , 202 5

Michael Feinstein, soloist

Christine Ebersol, special guest

Larry Blank, conductor

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

The mission of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture is to advance arts, culture, and creativity throughout LA County. We provide leadership, services, and support in areas including grants and technical assistance for nonprofit organizations, countywide arts education initiatives, commissioning and care for civic art collections, research and evaluation, access to creative pathways, professional development, free community programs, and cross-sector creative strategies that address civic issues. All of this work is framed by our long-standing commitment to fostering access to the arts and by the County’s Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission supports and advocates for the mission, vision, and values of the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. The Commission is an advisory group to the Board of Supervisors, with three appointees for each District.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s programs are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural A airs.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Hilda L. Solis

Holly J. Mitchell

Lindsey P. Horvath

Janice K. Hahn

Kathryn Barger Chair

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE

Kristin Sakoda Director

COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION

Randi Tahara President

Rogerio V. Carvalheiro Vice President

Sandra P. Hahn Secretary

Jennifer Price-Letscher Executive Committee Member

Leticia Buckley

Immediate Past President

Pamela Bright-Moon

Patrice Cullors

Diana Diaz

Eric R. Eisenberg

Brad Gluckstein

Helen Hernandez

Constance Jolcuvar

Alis Clausen Odenthal

Anita Ortiz

Liane Weintraub

Kathryn Barger

Lindsey P. Horvath

Holly J. Mitchell

Hilda L. Solis FIRST DISTRICT

Janice K. Hahn FOURTH DISTRICT

L.A.

CORPORATE PARTNERS

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

ANNUAL GIVING

From the concerts that take place onstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the 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 after-school music instruction to children in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil. For more information, or to learn about membership beneﬁts, please call 213 972 7557 or email friends@laphil.org.

PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Ti any 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.

Explore the full 2025-26 Season

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Riccardo Muti Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Gerald Clayton Duke Ellington Concert of Sacred Music

Yuja Wang Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Ms. Lisa Fischer Fly Me to the Moon, A Tribute to Quincy Jones

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 April 15, 2025.

$25,000,000 AND ABOVE

Walt and Lilly

Disney Foundation

Cecilia and Dudley Rauch

$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999

David Bohnett Foundation

$10,000,000 TO $19,999,999

The Annenberg Foundation

Colburn Foundation

Lenore S. and Bernard

A. Greenberg Fund

$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999

Anonymous Dunard Fund USA

Carol Colburn Grigor

Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Los Angeles

Philharmonic A liates

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/The Otis

Booth Foundation

Elaine and Bram Goldsmith

Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Karl H. Loring

Alfred E. Mann

Elise Mudd Marvin Trust

Barbara and Jay Rasulo

Flora L. Thornton

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

Linda and Robert Attiyeh

Judith and Thomas Beckmen

Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty

Helen and Peter Bing

William H. Brady, III

Linda and Maynard Brittan

Richard and Norma Camp

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael J. Connell

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Mari L. Danihel

Nancy and Donald de Brier

The Rafael & Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation

The Walt Disney Company

Fairchild-Martindale Foundation

Eris and Larry Field

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Reese and Doris Gothie

Joan and John Hotchkis

Janeway Foundation

Bernice and Wendell Je rey

Carrie and Stuart Ketchum

Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee

B. Allen and Dorothy Lay

Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee

Estate of Judith Lynne

Maddocks-Brown Foundation

Ginny Mancini

Raulee Marcus

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Merle and Peter Mullin

William Powers and Carolyn Powers

Koni and Geo Rich

H. Russell Smith Foundation

Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust

Ronald and Valerie Sugar

I.H. Sutnick

$500,000 TO $999,999

Ann and Martin Albert

Abbott Brown

Mr. George L. Cassat

Kathleen and Jerrold L. Eberhardt

Valerie Franklin

Yvonne and Gordon Hessler

Barbara Leidenfrost

Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis

Mr. and Mrs.

David Meline

Sandy and Barry D. Pressman

Earl and

Victoria Pushee

William and Sally Rutter

Nancy and Barry Sanders

Kenneth D. Sanson

Richard and Bradley Seeley

Christian Stracke

Donna Swayze

Judy Ungar and Adrienne Fritz

Lee and Hope Landis

Warner YOLA Student Fund

Edna Weiss

$250,000 TO $499,999

Nancy and Leslie Abell

Mr. Gregory A. Adams

Baker Family Trust

Kawanna and Jay Brown

Leah Danberg

Veronica and Robert Egelston

Gordon Family Foundation

Ms. Kay Harland

Joan Green Harris Trust

Bud and Barbara Hellman

Gerald L. Katell

Norma Kayser

Joyce and Kent Kresa

Raymond Lieberman

Mr. Kevin MacCarthy and Ms. Lauren Lexton

Alfred E. Mann Charities

Glenn Miya and Steven Llanusa

Jane and Marc B. Nathanson

Miguel A. Navarro

Y & S Nazarian

Family Foundation

Nancy and Sidney Petersen

Rice Family Foundation

Robert Robinson

Katharine and Thomas Stoever

Sue Tsao

Alyce and Warren Williamson

$100,000 TO $249,999

Mr. Robert J. Abernethy

William A. Allison

Rachel and Lee Ault

W. Lee Bailey, M.D.

Angela Bardowell

Deborah Borda

The Eli and Edythe

Broad Foundation

Jane Carruthers

Pei-yuan Chia and Katherine Shen

James and Paula Coburn Foundation

The Geraldine P. Coombs Trust in memory of Gerie P. Coombs

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox

Silvia and Kevin Dretzka

Allan and Diane Eisenman

Christine and Daniel Ewell

Diane Futterman

Arnold Gilberg, M.D., Ph.D.

David and Paige Glickman

Nicholas T. Goldsborough

Gonda Family Foundation

Margaret Grauman

Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green

Freya and Mark Ivener

Ruth Jacobson

Estate of Mary Calfas Janos

Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.

Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan

Yates Keir

Susanne and Paul Kester

Vicki King

Sylvia Kunin

Ann and Edward Leibon

Ellen and Mark Lipson

Ms. Gloria Lothrop

Vicki and Kerry McCluggage

Heidi and Steve McLean in memory of Katharine Lamb

David and Margaret Mgrublian

Diane and Leon Morton

Mary Pickford

Foundation

Sally and Frank Raab

Mr. David Sanders

Malcolm Schneer and Cathy Liu

David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

William E.B. and Laura K. Siart

Tom and Janet Unterman

Magda and Frederick R. Waingrow

Wasserman Foundation

Robert Wood

Syham Yohanna and James W. Manns

$25,000 TO $99,999

Mr. and Mrs.

Karl J. Abert

Marie Baier Foundation

Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.

Jacqueline Briskin

Dona Burrell

Ying Cai & Wann

S. Lee Foundation

Ann and Tony Cannon

Dee and Robert E. Cody

The Colburn Fund

Margaret Sheehy Collins

Mr. Allen Don Cornelsen

Ginny and John Cushman

Marilyn J. Dale

Mrs. Barbara A. Davis

Dr. and Mrs.

Roger DeBard

Jennifer and Royce Diener

Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner

The Englekirk Family

Claudia and Mark Foster

Lillian and Stephen Frank

Margaret E. Gascoigne

Dr. Suzanne Gemmell

Paul and Florence Glaser

Good Works Foundation

Anne Heineman

Ann and Jean Horton

Drs. Judith and Herbert Hyman

Albert E. and Nancy C. Jenkins

Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody

William Johnson and Daniel Meeks

Ms. Ann L. Kligman

Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Michael and Emily Laskin

B. and Lonis Liverman

Sarah and Ira R. Manson

Carole McCormac

Meitus Marital Trust

Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, M.D.

John Millard

National Endowment for the Arts

Alfred and Arlene Noreen

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Dr. M. Lee Pearce

Lois Rosen

Anne and James Rothenberg

Donald Tracy Rumford

Family Trust

The SahanDaywi Foundation

Mrs. Nancie Schneider

William and Luiginia Sheridan

Virginia Skinner Living Trust

Nancy and Richard Spelke

Mary H. Statham

Ms. Fran H. Tuchman

Rhio H. Weir

Mrs. Joseph F. Westheimer

Jean Willingham

Winnick Family Foundation

Cheryl and Peter Ziegler

Lynn and Roger Zino

LA PHIL MUSICIANS

Anonymous

Kenneth Bonebrake

Nancy and Martin Chalifour

Brian Drake

Perry Dreiman

Barry Gold

Christopher Hanulik

John Hayhurst

Jory and Selina Herman

Ingrid Hutman

Andrew Lowy

Gloria Lum

Joanne Pearce Martin

Kazue Asawa McGregor

Oscar and Diane Meza

Mitchell Newman

Peter Rofé

Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski

Barry Socher

Paul Stein

Leticia Oaks Strong

Lyndon and Beth

Johnston Taylor

Dennis Trembly

Allison and Jim Wilt

Suli Xue

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

ANNUAL DONORS

The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $2,000 or more to the LA Phil, including special event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between April 16, 2024, and April 15, 2025.

$1,000,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (3)

$500,000 TO $999,999

Ballmer Group Max H. Gluck Foundation

$200,000 TO $499,999

Anonymous (2)

Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen

Canon Insurance Service

Colburn Foundation

Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner

Lisa Field

Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

Ms. Erika J. Glazer

$100,000 TO $199,999

Anonymous (4)

Nancy and Leslie Abell

Mr. Gregory A. Adams

The Blue Ribbon

R. Martin Chavez

Becca and Jonathan Congdon

Michael J. Connell Foundation

Dunard Fund USA

Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation

The Eisner Foundation

Estate of Joseph Garcia

$50,000 TO $99,999

Anonymous (2)

Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser

Antonieta Arango, In memory of Javier Arango

Mr. Joe Berchtold

David Bohnett

Foundation

Linda and Maynard Brittan

Kawanna and Jay Brown

Dan Clivner

Nancy and Donald de Brier

De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

The Rafael and Luisa De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

The Walt Disney Company

Mr. James Gleason

Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence

Yvonne Hessler

Alexa Hong and Derek Reeves

Cindy and Alan Horn

Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky

Jennifer Miller Goff Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Music Center Foundation

Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore

The Hearthland Foundation

Tylie Jones

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

Barbara and Jay Rasulo

The Rauch Family Foundation

James D. Rigler/ Lloyd E. Rigler

- Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Rolex Watch USA, Inc.

Linda and David Shaheen

Jay and Deanie

Stein Foundation

Trust

Margo and Irwin Winkler

Tamara Golihew

GRoW @ Annenberg

The Hillenburg Family

The José Iturbi Foundation

Kaiser Permanente

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

County of Los Angeles

Ms. Irene Mecchi

John Mohme Foundation

Maureen and Stanley Moore

The Music Man Foundation

Peninsula Committee

Sandy and Barry D. Pressman

Koni and Geoff Rich

Rosenthal Family Foundation

James and Laura Rosenwald/ Orinoco Foundation

Maria Seferian

Jenny Williams

Alyce de Roulet

Williamson

Ellen and Arnold Zetcher

Barbara and Amos Hostetter

Frank Hu and Vikki Sung

Robin and Gary Jacobs

Monique and Jonathan Kagan

Mr. and Mrs.

Joshua R. Kaplan

Linda and Donald Kaplan

W.M. Keck

Foundation

Paul Kester

Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi

Dr. Ralph A. Korpman

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Live Nation-Hewitt

Silva Concerts, LLC

Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen

Linda May and Jack Suzar

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Heidi and Steve McLean

Mr. and Mrs. David Meline

Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

Ms. Linda L. Pierce

Richard and Diane Schirtzer

Smidt Family Foundation Trust

Audre Slater Foundation

Sony Pictures

Entertainment, Inc.

Marilyn and Eugene Stein

Ronald and Valerie Sugar

Keith and Cecilia Terasaki

David William

Upham Foundation

Mr. Alex Weingarten

John and Marilyn

Wells Family Foundation

Estate of Ronald Wilkniss

Debra Wong

Yang and John W. Spiegel

Anne

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The Pharcyde & Friends Live

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Labcabincalifornia

Produced in partnership with Fusicology

Perritos World National Tour With Concrete, DoKnow & Jerry Garcia

Produced in partnership with De Mi Alma Productions

Rakim, Kurupt & Friends

LA Soundscapes Punk Kids LA! with Bob Baker Marionette Theater Featuring Alice Bag and Kid Congo Powers of Juanita & Juan THE NATURAL WORLD OF STUDIO GHIBLI

$25,000 TO $49,999

Anonymous (11)

The Herb Alpert Foundation

Dr. William Benbassat

Susan and Adam Berger

Samuel and Erin Biggs

Mr. and Mrs.

Norris J. Bishton, Jr.

Jill Black Zalben

Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.

Steven Bristing

Michele Brustin

Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow

Thy Bui

Steven and Lori Bush

Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation

Andrea ChaoKharma and Kenneth Kharma

Chevron Products Company

Mr. Richard W. Colburn

Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Cook

Donelle Dadigan

Orna and David Delrahim

Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Dr. LuAnn

Wilkerson

Mike Dreyer

Joseph Drown Foundation

East West Bank

Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt

Edison International

Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg

Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher

Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation

Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra

Debra Frank

Drs. Jessie and Steven Galson

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

Francis Goelet

Charitable Lead Trusts

Mr. Gregg Goldman and Mr. Anthony DeFrancesco

Kate Good

Lori Greene Gordon and Neil Gordon

The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency

$15,000 TO $24,999

Anonymous (3)

Mr. Robert J. Abernethy

Mrs. Lisette Ackerberg

Drew and Susan Adams

Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler

The Aversano

Family Trust

Mrs. Stella Balesh

Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli

Karen Barragan

Camilo Esteban

Becdach

Miles and Joni Benickes

Mr. and Mrs.

Geoff C. Bland

Mr. Ronald H. Bloom

Tracey BoldemannTatkin and Stan Tatkin

The Otis Booth

Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.

Hal Borthwick

Liz and Peter Goulds

The Green Foundation

Marnie and Dan Gruen

Renée and Paul Haas

Harman Family Foundation

Lynette Maria Carlucci Hayde

Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen

Walter and Donna Helm

Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray

Mr. Philip Hettema

Marion and Tod Hindin

Fritz Hoelscher

Mr. Tyler Holcomb

Thomas Dubois

Hormel Foundation

David and Michelle Horowitz

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel

Paul Horwitz

Ms. Teena Hostovich and Mr. Doug Martinet

Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Hunter

Rif and Bridget Hutton

Estate of Mary Calfas Janos

Julia Kalmus

Terri and Michael Kaplan

Elizabeth Kolawa

Delores M. Komar and Susan M. Wolford

David Lee

Mr. and Mrs.

Simon K.C. Li

Charlene and Vinny Lingham

Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates

The Seth MacFarlane Foundation

Alfred E. Mann

Charities

Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury

Ms. Kim McCarthy and Mr. Ben Cheng

Coco Miller

Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson

Molly Munger and Stephen English

Deena and Edward Nahmias

Anthony and Olivia Neece

Mr. and Mrs.

Randy Newman

Mr. Robert W. Olsen

Tye Ouzounian

Ellen Pansky

Bruce and Aulana Peters

Dennis C. Poulsen and Cindy Costello

Madeline and Bruce Ramer

Mr. Bennett Rosenthal

Ross Endowment Fund

Bill and Amy Roth

Wendy and Ken Ruby

Katy and Michael S. Saei

Mr. Lee C. Samson

San MarinoPasadena Philharmonic Committee

Ellen and Richard Sandler

Miguel Santana

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Howard and Stephanie Sherwood

John Sinnema and Laura Sinnema

Melanie and Harold Snedcof

Randy and Susan Snyder

Jeremy and Luanne Stark

Lisa and Wayne Stelmar

Eva and Marc Stern

Dwight Stuart

Youth Fund

Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer

Michael Frazier

Thompson

Michael Tyler

Jennifer and Dr. Ken Waltzer

Walter and Shirley Wang

Debra and John Warfel

Warner Bros.

Discovery

Stasia and Michael Washington

Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima

Mindy and David Weiner

Lynn and Roger Zino

Zolla Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.

Wade Bourne

Business and Professional Committee

Campagna Family Trust

Dominic Chan

Marlene Schall

Chavez, Ph.D

Chivaroli and Associates, Tiffany and Christian Chivaroli

Sarah and Roger Chrisman

Larison Clark

Mr. and Mrs. V.

Shannon Clyne

Faith and

Jonathan Cookler

Cary Davidson and Andrew Ogilvie

Victoria Seaver

Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver

Jennifer Diener and Eric Small

Malsi and Johnny Doyle

James and Andrea Drollinger

Van and Francine Durrer

Dr. and Mrs.

William M. Duxler

Michael Edelstein and Dr. Robin Hilder

Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche

Geoff Emery

Max Factor Family Foundation

Bonnie and Ronald Fein

Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation

E. Mark Fishman and Carrie N. Feldman

Foothill Philharmonic Committee

Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg

Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N.

Braun, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs.

Josh Friedman

Gary and Cindy Frischling

Jane Fujishige

Beth Gertmenian

Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald Gertz

Carrie and Rob Glicksteen

Greg and Etty Goetzman

Goldman Sachs Co.

LLC

Mr. and Mrs.

Louis L. Gonda

Goodman Family Foundation

Robert and Lori Goodman

Rob and Jan Graner

Mr. Bill Grubman

Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian

Laurie and Chris

Harbert and Family

Lyndsay Harding

Mr. Sam Harris

Erin W. Hearst

Diane Henderson

M.D.

Jackson N. Henry

Stephen F. Hinchliffe

Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust

K. Hohman Family

International Committee of the LA Philharmonic Association

Mr. Gregory Jackson and Mrs. Lenora

Jackson

Meredith Jackson and Jan Voboril

Meg and Bahram Jalali

Sharon and Alan Jones

Mr. Eugene Kapaloski

Tobe and Greg Karns

Mr. and Mrs.

Robert A. Kasirer

Rizwan and Hollee Kassim

Sandi and Kevin Kayse

Diann Kim

Vicki King

Larry and Lisa Kohorn

Naomi and Fred Kurata

Arthur E. Levine and Lauren B. Leichtman

Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine

Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr. Donna Richey

Ms. Agnes Lew

Marie and Edward Lewis

Karen and Clark Linstone

Ms. Judith W. Locke

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Karen Bass Mayor

Hydee Feldstein Soto

City Attorney

Kenneth Mejia Controller

CITY COUNCIL

Bob Blumenﬁeld

Marqueece Harris-Dawson President

Eunisses Hernandez

Heather Hutt

Ysabel J. Jurado

John S. Lee

Tim McOsker

Adrin Nazarian

Imelda Padilla

Traci Park

Curren D. Price, Jr.

Nithya Raman

Monica Rodriguez

Hugo Soto-Martínez

Katy Young Yaroslavsky

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Daniel Tarica General Manager

CULTURAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION

Robert Vinson President

Natasha Case Vice President

Thien Ho

Ray Jimenez

Asantewa Olatunji

Christina Tung

Tria Blu Wakpa

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL HOUSE STAFF

Marcus Conroy

Master Electrician, Steward

Charles Miledi

Master Props

Sergio Quintanar

Master Carpenter

Kevin F. Wapner

Master Audio/Video

Los Angeles Jewish Health...

Anita Lorber

Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee

Bethany Lukitsch and Bart Nelson

The Mailman Foundation

Raulee Marcus

Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew W. Marlowe

Matt Construction Corporation

Jonathan and Delia Matz

Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie

David and Margaret Mgrublian

Marcy Miller

Cynthia Miscikowski

Mrs. Judith S. Mishkin

Marc and Jessica Mitchell

Mr. John Monahan

Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide

Integrated Resources, Inc.

Mr. Brian R. Morrow

John Nagler

Ms. Kari Nakama

Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Napier

Mr. Jose Luis Nazar

NBC Universal

Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero

Christine M. Ofiesh

Laura Owens

Melissa Papp-Green and Jeff Green

Gregory Pickert and Beth Price

$10,000 TO $14,999

Anonymous (4)

B. Allen and Dorothy Lay

Debra and Benjamin Ansell

Tichina Arnold

Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr. Gilbert Davila

Judy and Leigh Bardugo

Mr. Joseph A. Bartush

Catherine and Joseph Battaglia

Susan Baumgarten

Sondra Behrens

Phyllis and Sandy Beim

Mr. and Mrs.

Philip Bellomy

Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Benenson

Mark and Pat Benjamin

Ms. Gail K. Bernstein

Helen and Peter S. Bing

Ken Blakeley and Quentin O’Brien

The Hon. Bob Bowers and Mrs. Reveta Bowers

Oleg and Tatiana Butenko

Garrett Camp

Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin

Ms. Jessica Chen

Chien Family

Dr. and Mrs.

Lawrence J. Cohen

Jay and Nadege Conger

Nancy and Glenn Pittson

Cathleen and Scott Richland

Ms. Anne Rimer

John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson

Mimi Rotter

Linda and Tony Rubin

Thomas Safran

The SahanDaywi Foundation

Ron and Melissa Sanders

Santa MonicaWestside

Philharmonic Committee

Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk

Dena and Irv Schechter/The Hyman Levine

Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR

Evy and Fred Scholder Family

Howard and Linda Schwimmer

Samantha and Marc Sedaka

Mr. Murat Sehidoglu

Joan and Arnold Seidel

Neil Selman and

Cynthia Chapman

Marc Seltzer and

Christina Snyder

Mr. James J. Sepe

Julie and Bradley Shames

Mr. Steven Shapiro

Hillary and Weston Cookler

Alison Moore Cotter

Katie Danois

Dr. and Mrs.

Nazareth E. Darakjian

Lynette and Michael C. Davis

Rosette Delug

Nancy and Patrick Dennis

The Randee and Ken Devlin Foundation

Sean Dugan and Joe Custer

Victoria Dummer and Brion Allen

Emil Ellis Farrar and Bill Ramackers

Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang

Daniel and Maryann Fong

Mr. Michael Fox

Ms. Kimberly Friedman

Roberta and Conrad Furlong

Dr. and Mrs.

Bruce Gainsley

Mr. Peter A. Gelles and Mrs.

Eve Steele Gelles

Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler

Paige and David Glickman

Harriett and Richard E. Gold

Manuela Cerri Goren

Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel M. Gottlieb

Mr. and Mrs.

Ken Gouw

Tricia and Richard Grey

Beverly and Felix Grossman

Roberta L. Haft and Howard L. Rosoff

Mr. William Hair

Ms. Marian L. Hall

Beth Fishbein Hansen

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin

Helford and Family Betsydiane and Larry Hendrickson

Carol Henry

Liz Levitt Hirsch

Jessica and Elliot Hirsch

Elizabeth Hirsh

Mr. Raymond W.

Holdsworth

Joyce and Fredric Horowitz

Mr. Frank J. Intiso

James Jackoway

Kristi Jackson and William Newby

Elizabeth Bixby

Janeway Foundation

Doug and Minda Johnstone

Mr. and Mrs. Steaven

K. Jones, Jr.

Dr. William B. Jones

Marilee and Fred Karlsen

Marty and Cari Kavinoky

Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen Keller

Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel

Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth N. Klee

Nina Shaw and Wallace Little

Jill and

Neil Sheffield

Lauren Shuler Donner

Grady and Shelley Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer

Angelina and Mark Speare

Terry and Karey Spidell

Stein Family FundJudie Stein

Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson

Tom Strickler

Akio Tagawa

Sue Tsao

Elinor and Rubin Turner

Charles Edward Uhlmann

Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Unger

Tom and Janet Unterman

Arnold Urquidez and Martha Shen-Urquidez

Nancy Valentine

Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott

Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn

Wagner

Mr. and Mrs.

Steven White

Libby Wilson, M.D.

Alana L. Wray

Karl and Dian Zeile

Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan

Mr. and Mrs.

Scott Krivis

Nickie and Marc Kubasak

Hon. Ruth A. Kwan

Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren Rosenthal

Ellie and Mark Lainer

Mr. and Mrs.

Norman A. Levin

Randi Levine

Maria and Matthew Lichtenberg

Lynn Loeb

Kyle Lott

Mona and Frank Mapel

Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson

Vilma S. Martinez, Esq.

Leslie and Ray Mathiasen

Cathy McMullen

Mr. Robert Merz

Lisa and Willem Mesdag

Ms. Marlane Meyer

Marc and Jessica Mitchell

Wendy Stark Morrissey

Carrie Nery

Dick and Chris

Newman / C & R

Newman Family Foundation

Kenneth T. & Eileen L.

Norris Foundation

Mr. John Nuckols

Irene and Edward Ojdana

Steve and Gail Orens

Mr. Ralph Page and Patty Lesh

Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz

Loren Pannier

Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Pearlston

Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon Johannessen

Julie and Marc Platt

Mark Proksch and Amelie Gillette

Lee Ramer

Susan Erburu

Reardon and George D. Reardon

Eduardo Repetto and Carla Figueroa

Risk Placement Services

Ernesto Rocco

Murphy and Ed Romano and Family

Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation

Mr. Steven F. Roth

Ms. Rita Rothman

Mr. and Mrs.

Stanford Rubin

Mr. David Rudy

Jesse Russo and Alicia Hirsch

Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Rutter

Dr. and Mrs.

Bernard Salick

Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich

Schelbert

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Jane Semel

Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro

Gloria Sherwood

The Sikand Foundation

Smart & Final Charitable Foundation

Jennifer Speers

Joseph and Suzanne Sposato

Mr. and Mrs.

Mark Stern

James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation

Tammy E. Strome

Rose and Mark Sturza

Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz

Fran Sweeney

Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin

Christine Upton

Kathy Valentino

Bob and Dorothy Webb

Sheila and Wally Weisman

Abby and Ray Weiss

Bryan D. Weissman and Jennifer Resnik

Doris Weitz and Alexander Williams

Renae Williams Niles

Susan Winfield and Stephen Grynberg

Karen and Rick Wolfen

Bobbi and Walter Zifkin

$5,500 TO $9,999

Anonymous (7)

Mechelle and Joe Adams

Bobken and Hasmik Amirian

Art and Pat Antin

Javi Arango

Dr. Mehrdad Ariani

Sandra Aronberg, M.D.

Ms. Judith A. Avery

Mr. Mustapha Baha

Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.

Mrs. Linda E. Barnes

Reed Baumgarten

Ms. Nettie Becker

Logan Beitler

Maria and Bill Bell

Carlo Bernardino

Mr. Alan N. Berro

Richard Birnholz

Mitchell Bloom

Thomas J. Blumenthal

Joan N. Borinstein

Greg Borrud

Mr. Ray Boucher

Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler

Faith Branvold

Ms. Marie Brazil

Anita Brenner

Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard

Drs. Maryam and Iman Brivanlou

Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel

Ronald Brot

Mrs. Linda L. Brown

Lupe Burson

Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W. Kearney

Lisa Calderon

California Community Foundation

Mara and Joseph Carieri

CBS Entertainment

Dr. Kirk Y. Chang

Arthur and Katheryn Chinski

Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Clements

Committee of Professional Women

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Corwin

Lloyd Eric Cotsen

Jessica and James Dabney

Mr. James Davidson and Mr. Michael Nunez

Julie and Stan Dorobek

Steven Duffy

Mr. and Mrs. Brack W. Duker

Anna Sanders Eigler

Alex Elias

John B. Emerson and Kimberly Marteau Emerson

Janice Feldman, JANUS et cie

Mr. Gregg Field and Ms. Monica Mancini

Laura Fox, M.D., and John Hofbauer, M.D.

The Franke Family Trust

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Freilich

Linda and James Freund

Ruchika Garga

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

SEASON SONGS VOLCANO

Ann Noble, Mildred Marie Langford, Frederick Stuart, Christian Henley and Trisha Miller in Skin of Our Teeth by Craig Schwartz.

Jon M. Gibson

Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie

Stephen and Renee Gingold

Tina Gittelson

Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Glaser

Glendale

Philharmonic Committee

Dr. and Mrs.

Steven Goldberg

Jory Goldman

Carol Goldsmith

Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Goldsmith

Juan Carlos Gonzalez

Edith Gould

Lee Graff

Foundation

Diane and Peter H. Gray

Mr. and Mrs.

Paul E. Griffin III

Rita and William Griffin

Mr. Frank Gruber and Ms. Janet Levin

Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Guerin

Rod Hagenbuch

Judith and Robert D. Hall

Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma

Drs. Susan Hammar and Rick Harrison

Myrna and Uri Herscher Family

Foundation

William Hewes

Tina and Ivan Hindshaw

Arlene Hirschkowitz

David and Martha Ho

Janice and Laurence Hoffmann

Eugene and Katinka Holt

Douglas Honig

Jill Hopper

Dr. and Mrs.

Mel Hoshiko

Deedie and Tom Hudnut

Michael Insalago

Mrs. Leonard Jaffe

Randi and Richard B. Jones

Mr. William Jordan

Meredith Jury

Robin and Craig Justice

Hun and Jee Kang

Judith and Russell Kantor

Leigha Kemmett and Jacob Goldstein

Sharon Kerson

Daisietta Kim

Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee

Remembering Lynn

Wheeler Kinikin

Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.

Michael and Patricia Klowden

Alan S. Koenigsberg and John A. Dotto

Lee Kolodny

Lori Kunkel

$3,500 TO $5,499

Anonymous (5)

Mr. Robert

A. Ahdoot

Ty Ahmad-Taylor

Ms. Rose Ahrens

Cary Albertsone

Adrienne S. Alpert

Mr. James P. Alstad

Edna R.S. Alvarez

Mr. Peter Anderson

and Ms. Valerie Goo

Mr. Robert C. Anderson

Dr. Philip Anthony

Victor and Iris Antola

Betsy and Harold E. Applebaum

Carlo and Amy Baghoomian

Tawney Bains and Zachary Roberts

Terence Balagia

Dr. and Mrs.

Kihong Kwon

Carole and Norm La Caze

Lena and Mark Labowe

Mr. Richard W. Labowe

Katherine Lance

Mr. and Mrs.

Jack D. Lantz

Joan and

Chris Larkin

Mrs. Grace E. Latt

Ms. Jeanne Lawson

Mr. George Lee

Mr. Randall Lee and

Ms. Stella M. Jeong

Mr. Stephen Leidner

Lennox Foundation

Lydia and

Charles Levy

David and Meghan Licata

David and Rebecca Lindberg

Mr. Greg Lipstone

Ms. Diana Longarzo

Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr. James Kelley

Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro

Law Firm

Kevin MacLellan and Brian Curran

Stephen Martinez

Pam and Ron Mass

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

E. McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. William

F. McDonald

Courtney McKeown

Lawry Meister

Carlos Melich

Mr. and Mrs.

Dana Messina

Mr. Weston F. Milliken

Linda and Kenneth Millman

Mrs. Lillian Mueller

Sheila Muller

Loretta Munoz

Craig and Lisa Murray

Ms. Yvonne

Nam and Mr. David Sands

Rachel Nass

Mrs. Cynthia Nelson

John W. Newbold

Ms. Kimberly

Nicholas

Ms. Mary D. Nichols

Mr. Michael B. Nissman

Amelia and Joe Norris

Kim and P.F. James Overton

Alicyn Packard and Jason Friedman

Cynthia Patton

Alyssa Phaneuf

Peggy Phillips

Lyle and Lisi Poncher

Robert J. Posek, M.D.

James S. Pratty, M.D.

William “Mito” Rafert

Hon. Ernest M. Robles

Maria Rodriguez and Victoria Bullock

Mr. and Mrs.

William C. Roen

Peter and Marla Rosen

Bill Rowland

Andrew E. Rubin, and Roberta and Stanley Bogen

Dr. Michael Rudolph

Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner

Dr. Marlene M.

Schultz and Philip M. Walent

Sue and Don Schuster

Dr. and Mrs.

Ronald Schwartz

Michael Sedrak

Dr. and Mrs.

Hervey Segall

Laurie Selik

Mr. Chris Sheridan

Pamela and Russ Shimizu

Mr. Adam Sidy

Scott Silver

Loraine Sinskey

Mr. and Mrs.

Peter R. Skinner

Cynthia and John Smet

Mr. Douglas H. Smith

Pamela J. Smith

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael G. Smooke

Adam Snyder

Shondell and Ed Spiegel

Lael Stabler and Jerone English

Sugimoto Family

Jennifer Taguchi

Mr. and Mrs.

Randall Tamura

Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann Weyman

Mr. Stephen S. Taylor

Mrs. Elayne

Techentin

Ms. Evangeline M. Thomson

Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker

Jack VanAken and Kathy Marsailes

Kathleen and Louis Victorino

Terry and Ann Marie Volk

Mr. Nate Walker

Lisa and Tim Wallender

Mr. Darryl Wash

Robert Weingarten

Kenneth J. Weiss and Cathy Siegel-Weiss

Jeffrey Westheimer

Ms. Jill Wickert

Mr. Robert E. Willett

David and Michele Wilson

Mr. Steve Winfield

Bill Wishner

Ms. Eileen Wong

Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Wynne

Kevin Yoder and Jeffrey Hall

Mr. Nabih Youssef

Pamela and Jeffrey Balton

Howard Banchik

Clare Baren and David Dwiggins

Ken and Lisa Baronsky

Mr. Richard Bayer

George and Karen Bayz

Newton and Rochelle Becker

Charitable Trust

Ellis N. Beesley, Jr.

M.D.

Garrett Bell and Catherine Simms

Ms. Karen S. Bell and

Mr. Robert Cox

Benjamin Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs.

Gerald Berke

Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein

Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Biles

Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh

Lindsey

Michael Blake

Mr. Larry Blivas and Ms. Julie Blivas

Ms. Judith Blumenthal

Leni I. Boorstin

Ms. Leslie Botnick

Michael Boucher and Ashley Coats

Jemelia Bowie

Anita and Joel Boxer

Mr. Donald M. Briggs and Mrs. Deborah

J. Briggs

Kevin Brockman and Dan Berendsen

Ryan and Michelle Brown

Dwight Buchanan

Diana Buckhantz

Ken Bunt

Cardinal Industrial

Michael Chait

Mr. Jon C. Chambers

Nolan and Marlene Charbonnet

Adam Chase

Dr. Hai S. Chen

Mr. Louis Chertkow

Carla Christofferson

Ms. Barbara Cohn

Susan and David Cole

In Honor of Judge John L. Cole and Mrs. Peggy S. Cole

Ms. Ina Coleman

Mr. Michael Corben and Ms. Linda Covette

Dr. Carey Cullinane

Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch

Mr. and Mrs. Leo David

Mrs. Judi Davidson

Mr. Howard M. Davine

Andrew Z. Davis

Gloria De Olarte

Ms. Mary Denove

Wanda Denson-Low and Ronald Low

Tim and Neda Disney

Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms. Georgia Archer

Mr. Gregory C. Drapac

Ray Duncan and Lauren Crosby

Miguel Duran

Dr. David Eisenberg

Susan Entin

Bob Estrin

Lyn and Bruce Ferber

Dr. Walter Fierson and Dr.

Carolyn Fierson

Michael Firestein and Deborah Krakow

A.B. Fischer

Steven Fishman

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael M. Flynn

Mrs. Diane Forester

Bruce Fortune and Elodie Keene

Lynn Franklin

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Freeland

Ms. Alisa J. Freundlich

Ian and Meredith Fried

Steven Friednam

Mrs. Diane Futterman

Mr. and Mrs.

Alan M. Gasmer

Dr. Tim A. Gault, Sr.

Susan and David Gersh

Susan and Jaime Gesundheit

Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Gibbs

Jason Gilbert

Mr. and Mrs.

David A. Gill

Tina Warsaw Gittelson

William and Phyllis Glantz

Madelyn and Bruce S. Glickfeld

Sheila Golden

Dr. Patricia Goldring

The Honorable and Mrs. Allan J. Goodman

Elliot Gordon and Carol Schwartz

Mr. James Granger

Dr. Stuart and Adrienne Green

Mr. and Mrs.

Carl C. Gregory

Barrie Grobstein

Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk

Dr. and Mrs.

Charles Gustafson

Eric Gutshall and Felicia Davis

Fred Hameetman

Mr. Robert

T. Harkins

Mr. and Mrs.

Brian L. Harvey

Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis K. Hashimoto

Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk

Byron and DeAnne Hayes

Mr. Donald V. Hayes

Peter and Nicolette Hebert

Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge Margaret Nagle

Gail and Murray E. Heltzer

Ms. Gail Herring

Jim Herzfeld

Mr. Bruce Heymont

The Hill Family

Dr. and Mrs.

Hank Hilty

Matthew Hinks

Glenn Hogan In Hong

Douglas and Carolyn Honig

Jonathan Howard

Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale

Hung Foundation

Mrs. Carole Innes

Harry and Judy Isaacs

Jackie and Warren Jackson

Mr. Channing

Johnson

Gordon M.

Johnson and

Barbara A. Schnell

Mr. Sean Johnson

Mireya Asturias

Jones and Lawrence Jones

Mr. Ken Kahan

Lawrence Kalantari

Karen and Don Karl

Mr. and Mrs.

David S. Karton

Aleksey Katmissky

Jonathan Kaunitz

Dr. and Mrs.

David Kawanishi

Kayne, Anderson & Rudnick

Mary and Stephen Kayne

John Keith

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael C. Kelley

Richard Kelton

Jason King

Lauren King

Mr. and Mrs.

Jon Kirchner

Molly Kirk

Mr. and Mrs.

Lyn Konheim

Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Sharon and Joel Krischer

Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean

Mr. and Mrs.

Howard A. Kroll

Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo

Thomas and Gloria Lang

James Laur and Peter Kongkasem

Craig Lawson and Terry Peters

Rick Lax

Mr. Les Lazar

Ms. Leerae Leaver

Mr. Robert Leevan

Dr. Bob Leibowitz

Mr. and Mrs.

Russ Lesser

Mr. Donald S. Levin

Mr. and Mrs.

Edward B. Levine

Dr. and Mrs.

Mark Lipian

Ms. Elisabeth Lipsman

Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis Lipstone

Ms. Bonnie Lockrem and Mr.

Steven Ravaglioli

Robert and Susan Long

Jasmine Lord

Susan Disney Lord and Scott Lord

Mr. and Mrs.

Boutie Lucas

Crystal and Elwood Lui

Dr. Jamshid Maddahi

Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald Manzani

Mr. Allan Marks and Dr. Mara Cohen

Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley Maron

Samantha

Grant Marsh

Areva Martin

Paul Martin

Phillip and Stephanie Martineau

Mr. Gary J. Matus

Dr. and Mrs.

Gene Matzkin

Ms. Paula Meichtry

Michael and Jan Meisel

Robert L. Mendow

Marcia Bonner

Meudell and Mike Merrigan

Linda and David Michaelson

MA Mielke

Dr. Gary Milan

Mr. and Mrs.

Simon Mills

Janet Minami

Mr. and Mrs.

William Mingst

Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch

Maria and Marzi Mistry

Robert and Claudia Modlin

Katherine Molloy

Linda and John Moore

Alexander Moradi

Lon Morse and Toni

Hollander-Morse

William Morton

Gretl and Arnold Mulder

Munger, Tolles & Olson

Mr. James A. Nadal and Amelia Nadal

Mr. and Mrs.

Jeff Nathan

Bruce Needleman

Robert and Sally Neely

Mr. Liron Nelik

Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff

Ms. Beatrice

H. Nemlaha

Mr. Jerold

B. Neuman

Sabraj Nijjar

Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen

Deborah Nucatola

Mr. and Mrs. Oberfeld

Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur J. Ochoa

Ms. Margo Leonetti

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Sept 27

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Bernstein West Side Story

Nov 1

Martinů Concerto for Two Piano Beethoven Symphony No 6 “Pastorale”

Jan 31

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Strauss Don Quixote

Feb 14 Endless Love on Valentine’s Day!

Mar 21 Sounds of Laurel Canyon -60s & 70s Rock May 9 Earth Wind & Fire Dance Party

Feb 28 Pepe Romero Returns! Gabriela Lena Frank Elegía Andina Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Handel Water Music Suites 1 & 2

June 6

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik Mahler Symphony No 5

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PRESIDENT & CEO

David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO

FINANCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Finance

Jyoti Aaron

CONTROLLER

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PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

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ACCOUNTING MANAGER

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VENUE OPERATIONS ACCOUNTANT

Lisa Hernandez

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER

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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR

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FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER

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PAYROLL MANAGER

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PAYROLL COORDINATOR

Yuri Park

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

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PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR

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ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST

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STAFF ACCOUNTANT

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SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Information Technology

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DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

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CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

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SYSTEM SUPPORT III

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INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

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DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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SYSTEM SUPPORT I

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INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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TESSITURA SUPPORT

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IT SUPPORT ENG I, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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DATABASE APPLICATIONS MANAGER

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SYSTEM SUPPORT I

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SENIOR MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HUMAN RESOURCES

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CHIEF TALENT AND EQUITY OFFICER

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HR BUSINESS PARTNER

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HR BUSINESS PARTNER

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OFFICE MANAGER/RECEPTIONIST

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HR BUSINESS PARTNER

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HR BUSINESS & EDI PARTNER

LEGAL

Mona Patel GENERAL COUNSEL

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CONTRACTS & RISK MANAGEMENT

ADMINISTRATOR

Aly Zacharias

DIRECTOR, LEGAL

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, AND SALES

Nora Brady

CHIEF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER

Brand

Scott Arenstein

SENIOR DIRECTOR, BRAND

Jacob Cooper

DIGITAL PRODUCER

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SENIOR DIGITAL PRODUCER

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SENIOR MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING

Karin Haule

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

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SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR

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SENIOR VIDEO PRODUCER

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SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES Communications

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DIRECTOR, EDITORIAL

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PUBLICIST

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DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS

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SENIOR DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS

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CREATIVE COPYWRITER

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CREATIVE COPYWRITER

Marketing and Partnerships

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SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

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SENIOR MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA

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SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS

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MANAGER, DIRECT MARKETING

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MARKETING COORDINATOR, PROMOTIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

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SENIOR MANAGER, PROMOTIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING

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MANAGER, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

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MARKETING MANAGER

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DIRECTOR, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

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SENIOR MANAGER, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Sales and Customer

Experience

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OPERATIONS MANAGER, RETAIL

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DIRECTOR, RETAIL SERVICES

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SENIOR DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE

STRATEGIES AND ANALYTICS

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DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT

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PATRON SERVICES MANAGER

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RETAIL MANAGER, MERCHANDISING

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AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

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MARKETING DATABASE SPECIALIST

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AUDIENCE SERVICES SUPERVISOR

ORCHESTRA, OPERATIONS, AND PRODUCTION

Daniel Song

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Laura Connelly

GENERAL MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL; VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION

The Ford

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COORDINATOR, THE FORD

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS

Hollywood Bowl

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TRANSIT/TRAFFIC MANAGER

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OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR

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PARKING AND TRAFFIC ASSISTANT

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EVENT MANAGER

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PARKING MANAGER

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DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL

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EVENT MANAGER

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS

Hollywood Bowl / Ford Summer Sta

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CUSTODIAL MANAGER

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FACILITY SERVICES MANAGER

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LOT MANAGER

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LOT MANAGER

Janette Cuevas

LOT MANAGER

Michael Forrest

BOWL SECURITY

Pierre Gamble

BOWL SECURITY

Tamir Gilboa

VALET PARKING MANAGER

Lucy King

FORD HOUSE MANAGER

Gabriel Maceo

HOUSE MANAGER

Ruben Reyes

ASSOCIATE HOUSE MANAGER

Thao Tran

LOT MANAGER

Frank Varela

FORD FACILITY MANAGER

Fred Vogler

SOUND DESIGNER

Orchestra Management

Lila Atchison

MANAGER, ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Shana Bey

DIRECTOR, ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

Maren Slaughter

MANAGER, ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Production

Alex Grossman

SENIOR PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tina Kane

SCHEDULING MANAGER

Taylor Lockwood

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Kimberly Mitchell

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION

Cameron Pieratt

ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Christopher Slaughter

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION

Jon Thompson

ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER

Michael Vitale

DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION

Kelvin Vu

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Bill Williams

PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR

Safety and Security

Sarita Eldridge

DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

PHILANTHROPY

Mitch Bassion

CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER

Sara Kim

VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY

Annalise Aguirre

MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Robert Albini

DIRECTOR OF MAJOR GIFTS

Joshua Alvarenga

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Jennifer Berger BOARD LIAISON

Taylor Burrows

MANAGER, GIFT PLANNING

Scott Busiel

DIRECTOR, STEWARDSHIP

Abigail Butts

SENIOR GIFT PLANNING OFFICER

Michelle Carrasquillo

DATABASE MANAGER

Julia Cole

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Joel Fernandez

SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST

Elan Fields

ASSISTANT MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS

Fabian Fuertes

GIFT PLANNING OFFICER

Genevieve Goetz

DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING

Freyja Glover MANAGER, ANNUAL GIVING

Angelina Grego MANAGER, AFFILIATES & VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT

Gerry Heise

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Julian Kehs MANAGER, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

Emily Lair

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Shannon Larner

DIRECTOR, ANNUAL GIVING

Christina Magaña

MANAGER, DONOR RELATIONS

Allison Mitchell

DIRECTOR OF BOARD RELATIONS

Gisela Morales

SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

Michelle Mountain

DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS

Ryan Murphy

ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS

Sophie Nelson

SENIOR COORDINATOR, MAJOR GIFTS

Andrea Perez-Rulfo

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ANNUAL GIVING

Claire Pomeroy

DONOR RELATIONS ASSOCIATE

Soﬁa Rosenberg

SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR

Carina Sanchez

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, RESEARCH

Marie Santana

ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS

Dustin Seo

ANNUAL GIVING OFFICER

Rochelle Siegrist

SENIOR COORDINATOR, ANNUAL GIVING

Peter Szumlas

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS

Tyler Teich

SENIOR GIFT AND DATA SPECIALIST

Derek Traub MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY COMMUNICATIONS

Morgan Walton

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AFFILIATES & VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT

PROGRAMMING

Meghan Umber

CHIEF PROGRAMMING OFFICER

Johanna Rees

VICE PRESIDENT, PRESENTATIONS

Alan J. Benson

DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING

Courtney Bowling

PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR

Linda Diaz

ARTIST LIAISON

Kristen Flock-Ritchie

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR

Brian Grohl

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING

Ljiljana Grubisic

ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Rafael Marino

PROGRAM MANAGER

Mark McNeill

CREATIVE PRODUCER

Ray Melencio

PROGRAM MANAGER

Julia Ward

SENIOR DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMING

Stephanie Yoon MANAGER, ARTIST SERVICES

Rebeca Zepeda

ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Media Initiatives

Jessica Farber

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MEDIA INITIATIVES

Raymond Horwitz

PROJECT MANAGER, MEDIA INITIATIVES

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND ENGAGEMENT

Summer Bjork

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Elsje Kibler-Vermaas

HEAD, LEARNING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Kevin Ma

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Community and Government Engagement

Cynthia Fuentes

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT

Learning Camille

Delaney-McNeil

VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING

Jermaine Banks

ASSOCIATE OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, YOLA

DuMarkus Davis

PROGRAM MANAGER, YOLA AT TORRES

Lorenzo Johnson

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS, YOLA

Mariam Kaddoura MANAGER, LEARNING

Sarah Little

DIRECTOR, LEARNING

Diana Melgar

MANAGER, STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND COLLEGE ACCESS, YOLA

Karla Melgar

SENIOR PROGRAM COORDINATOR, YOLA AT TORRES

Michael Salas

MANAGER, YOLA NATIONAL

Gaudy Sanchez

YOLA ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Julie West

FACILITIES MANAGER, BECKMEN YOLA CENTER

Miles Williams

SENIOR PROGRAM COORDINATOR, YOLA AT INGLEWOOD

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

CONCERT CONDUCT

If the behavior of a patron or patrons near you becomes disruptive, the incident should be reported to the nearest usher or security person. To report an incident discreetly during an event, a text can be placed to the Customer Courtesy Line using the keyword BOWL sent to 69050. For the full Code of Conduct, visit hollywoodbowl.com/houserules

SMOKING POLICY

By law (LACC 17.04.645), smoking is not permitted on the Hollywood Bowl grounds, except in designated areas. Violators are subject to removal. Smoking in any other areas could lead to arrest and would be considered a misdemeanor.

FIRST AID

In case of illness or injury, please see an usher, who will escort you to the First Aid Station.

LOST AND FOUND

Any lost articles found on concert nights may be claimed at the Operations O ce the next morning. Unclaimed articles are kept for 30 days from the date they are found. For information, call 323 850 2060

PHOTOGRAPHS

Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgment of willingness to appear in photographs taken in public areas of the Hollywood Bowl and releases the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, its lessees, and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs.

PATRONS

WITH DISABILITIES

For information detailing accessible seating, restrooms, dining, onsite transportation, assistive listening devices, or any further information, visit hollywoodbowl.com/access For additional information, call Accessibility Services at 323 850 2125

LEGEND

Zev Yaroslavsky Main Gate / Lawrence N. Field Gate / Monique & Jonathan Kagan Patio Norman & Sadie Lee Foundation Pool Circle / Margo & Irwin Winkler Promenade