Performances Magazine | LA Phil, April 2025

APRIL 2025

NICHOLAS M c GEGAN

CARLOS SIMON

RANDALL GOOSBY

RACHEL MAHON

YEOL EUM SON

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

YO-YO MA

BOOK I • APRIL 3–13

APR 3 & 4

JOHN WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHT

Los Angeles Philharmonic Yo-Yo Ma, Williams & Dudamel

APR 5 & 6

JOHN WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHT Los Angeles Philharmonic Celebrating John Williams

APR 10–13

Los Angeles Philharmonic Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Mozart & Haydn

BOOK II • APRIL 13–19

APR 13

ORGAN Rachel Mahon

APR 15

Chamber Music: Shostakovich and Ravel

APR 17 & 18

Los Angeles Philharmonic Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass with Dudamel

APR 19

SONGBOOK Cody Fry with Orchestra

BOOK III • APRIL 22–29

APR 22

Chamber Music: Mendelssohn’s

APR

COLBURN CELEBRITY

APR 25–27

Los Angeles Philharmonic Mozart & Nielsen

APR

GREEN

MARTIN CHALIFOUR

cover images: Kendall Bessent (CARLOS SIMON); Marco Borggreve (YEOL EUM SON); Jason Bell (YO-YO MA); Laura Barisonzi (NICHOLAS McGEGAN); Courtesy of RACHEL MAHON; Kaupo Kikkas (RANDALL GOOSBY); and Danny Clinch, LA Phil (GUSTAVO DUDAMEL)

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WELCOME!

After a challenging winter for our entire Los Angeles community, I imagine we all can use some good news. So it’s gratifying to present the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass at Walt Disney Concert Hall this month. Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel conducts this ambitious LA Phil commission, bringing together gospel and classical music traditions, spoken word, and film in a way that “... reminds us that music itself can be a vessel of healing, hope, and love,” writes annotator Alisha Lola Jones. The healing and compassionate qualities of music were on display as we kicked off the month with the We LA Concert at the Hollywood Bowl, a free event for first responders and those directly impacted by the wildfires, and they’re at the core of everything we do. From the always inspiring Yo-Yo Ma to the excitement of the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel’s highly anticipated Coachella performance—the first ever by a symphonic orchestra—to Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony, April demonstrates the power of live music to touch us deeply and connect us profoundly. And it’s something we are proudly carrying into our newly announced 2025/26 season celebrating Gustavo’s final year as Music & Artistic Director. Titled “Gracias Gustavo,” it is filled with the passion, humanity, and vision that have marked his incredible tenure here. I hope you’ll join us in thanking Gustavo for the magic he has brought to LA and all music lovers.

Warmly,

Kim Noltemy President & Chief Executive Officer

David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair Los Angeles Philharmonic Association

Board of Directors

CHAIR

Jason Subotky*

PRESIDENT & CEO

David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair

Kim Noltemy

VICE CHAIRS

Thomas L. Beckmen*

Reveta Bowers*

Jane B. Eisner*

David Meline*

Diane Paul*

Jay Rasulo*

DIRECTORS

Nancy L. Abell

Gregory A. Adams

Julie Andrews

Camilo Esteban

Becdach

Linda Brittan

Jennifer Broder

Kawanna Brown

Andrea Chao-Kharma*

R. Martin Chavez

Christian D. Chivaroli

Jonathan L. Congdon

Donald P. de Brier*

Louise D. Edgerton

Lisa Field

David A. Ford

Alfred Fraijo Jr.

Hilary Garland

Jennifer Miller Goff*

Tamara Golihew

David Greenbaum

Carol Colburn Grigor

Marian L. Hall

Antonia Hernández*

Jonathan Kagan*

Darioush Khaledi

Winnie Kho

In Memoriam

Joey Lee

Matt McIntyre

Francois Mobasser

Margaret Morgan

Leith O’Leary

Andy S. Park

Sandy Pressman

Geoff Rich*

Laura Rosenwald

Richard Schirtzer

John Sinnema

G. Gabrielle Starr

Jay Stein*

Christian Stracke*

Ronald D. Sugar*

Vikki Sung

Jack Suzar

Sue Tsao

Jon Vein

Megan Watanabe

Regina Weingarten

Jenny Williams

Alyce de Roulet Williamson

Irwin Winkler

Debra Wong Yang

HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS

David C. Bohnett

Frank Gehry

Lenore S. Greenberg

Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy

PAST CHAIRS**

Thomas L. Beckmen

Jay Rasulo

Diane B. Paul

David C. Bohnett

Jerrold L. Eberhardt

John F. Hotchkis†

Executive Committee Member as of December 10, 2024 ** From the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 24, 2003, to present

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Thank you for sharing the music with us tonight. Enjoy the show.

Gustavo Dudamel

Music & Artistic Director

Walt and Lilly Disney Chair

Gustavo Dudamel is committed to creating a better world through music. Guided by an unwavering belief in the power of art to inspire and transform lives, he has worked tirelessly to expand education and access for underserved communities around the world and to broaden the impact of classical music to new and ever-larger audiences. His rise, from humble beginnings as a child in Venezuela to an unparalleled career of artistic and social achievements, offers living proof that culture can bring meaning to the life of an individual and greater harmony to the world at large. He currently serves as the Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein. 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 fide pop-culture phenomenon and has worked tirelessly to ensure that music reaches an evergreater audience. He was the first classical artist to participate in the Super Bowl halftime show and the youngest conductor ever to lead the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day Concert. He has performed at global mainstream events from the Academy Awards to the Olympics, and has worked with musical icons like Billie Eilish, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Gwen Stefani, Coldplay, and Nas. Dudamel conducted the score to Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Side Story, and at John Williams’ personal request, he guest conducted the opening and closing credits of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. His film and television appearances include Sesame Street The Simpsons Mozart in the Jungle, Trolls World Tour, and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and in 2019 Dudamel was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Los Angeles Philharmonic

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

Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. The Ford,

situated in a 32-acre park and under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, presents an eclectic summer season of music, dance, film, and family events that are reflective of the communities that comprise Los Angeles.

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

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

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

The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy-winning 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), O tto Klemperer (1933-1939), Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956), Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959), Zubin Mehta (1962-1978), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984), André Previn (1985-1989), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009), and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel

Music & Artistic

Director

Walt and Lilly Disney Chair

Zubin Mehta

Conductor Emeritus

Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate

Rodolfo Barráez Assistant

Conductor

Ann Ronus Chair

John Adams

John and Samantha Williams

Creative Chair

Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz

FIRST VIOLINS

Martin Chalifour

Principal

Concertmaster

Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair

Nathan Cole First Associate

Concertmaster

Ernest Fleischmann Chair

Bing Wang

Associate

Concertmaster

Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair

Akiko Tarumoto

Assistant Concertmaster

Philharmonic Affiliates Chair

Rebecca Reale

Deanie and Jay Stein Chair

Rochelle Abramson

Minyoung Chang

I.H. Albert

Sutnick Chair

Tianyun Jia

Jordan Koransky

Ashley Park

Justin Woo

Katherine Woo

Melody Ye Yuan Weilu Zhang

SECOND VIOLINS

[Position vacant]

Principal

Mark Kashper

Associate Principal

Isabella Brown Assistant Principal

Kristine Whitson

Johnny Lee

Dale Breidenthal

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

Ingrid Chun

Jin-Shan Dai

Chao-Hua Jin

Jung Eun Kang

Vivian Kukiel

Nickolai Kurganov

Varty Manouelian

Emily Shehi

Michelle Tseng

VIOLAS

[Position vacant]

Principal

John Connell Chair

Ben Ullery

Associate Principal

Jenni Seo

Assistant Principal

Dana Lawson

Richard Elegino

John Hayhurst

Ingrid Hutman

Michael Larco

Hui Liu

Meredith Snow

Leticia Oaks Strong

Minor L. Wetzel+

Bradley Parrimore*

* Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen

L A Phil Resident Fellow

+ On sabbatical

CELLOS

Robert deMaine

Principal

Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair

Ben Hong

Associate Principal

Sadie and Norman Lee Chair

Dahae Kim

Assistant Principal

Jonathan Karoly

David Garrett

Barry Gold

Jason Lippmann

Gloria Lum

Linda and Maynard

Brittan Chair

Zachary Mowitz

Serge Oskotsky

Brent Samuel

Ismael Guerrero*

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 Eiffert

E-Flat Clarinet

Andrew Lowy

Bass Clarinet

Taylor Eiffert

BASSOONS

Whitney Crockett Principal

Shawn Mouser+

Associate Principal

Ann Ronus Chair

Michele Grego Evan Kuhlmann

Contrabassoon Evan Kuhlmann

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

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

Jeffrey Strong

TROMBONES

David Rejano Cantero

Principal Koni and Geoff Rich Chair

James Miller

Associate Principal

Judith and Thomas

L. Beckmen Chair

Paul Radke

Bass Trombone

John Lofton

Miller and Goff Family Chair

TUBA

Mason Soria

TIMPANI

Joseph Pereira

Principal

Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair

David Riccobono

Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Matthew Howard Principal

James Babor David Riccobono

KEYBOARDS

Joanne Pearce Martin Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair

HARP

Emmanuel Ceysson Principal Ann Ronus Chair

LIBRARIANS

Stephen Biagini

Benjamin Picard

KT Somero

CONDUCTING FELLOWS

Luis Castillo-Briceño

Holly Hyun Choe

Dayner Tafur-Díaz

Molly Turner

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

Last month the LA Phil announced the 2025/26 Walt Disney Concert Hall season, the last with Gustavo Dudamel as Music & Artistic Director. As his 17-year-long tenure comes to a close, he and the orchestra will revisit cherished performances, encounter beloved staples for the first time, and breathe life into new works. While each of these moments builds on an extraordinary legacy and opens up new horizons, the schedule is also peppered with specific memories, recalling previous moments in Gustavo’s career and the LA Phil’s history, and musical todos—all adding up to one spectacular and meaningful season.

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL LEADS THE LA PHIL DURING THE 2024 GALA CONCERT.

photo: FARAH SOSA

New Encounters with Old Friends

The season begins with a brand-new work by a familiar face: Ellen Reid. Gustavo led her work as part of 2022’s Power to the People! Festival and also conducted the 2023 world premiere of her West Coast Sky Eternal at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Reid’s new piece for orchestra and chorus is ingeniously constructed so that it can be tailored to suit its presenters. Following is the first performance of Richard Strauss’ vertiginous Alpine Symphony by the LA Phil with Dudamel. It’s certain to start things off on a high point! (SEPT 25-28)

A Mark on a Signature Piece

First performed by the LA Phil in 1928 at the Hollywood Bowl, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring has become a signature piece for the orchestra and is always a tour de force. Gustavo unleashes its visceral energy in a program with the composer’s The Firebird Suite and the US premiere of John Adams’ aptly titled Frenzy (OCT 2-5).

No Mahler Left Behind

The work of Gustav Mahler has been a constant source of fascination for Dudamel. He began his tenure performing Mahler’s First Symphony and oversaw 2012’s The Mahler Project, which presented all 10 symphonies plus the grand song cycle Das Lied von der Erde in three weeks. But he has never performed the composer’s Second Symphony, “Resurrection,” with the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall—until now. He completes the task OCT 9 THROUGH 12

Grammy Moments

The LA Phil’s most recent Grammy-winning albums—Thomas Adès’ Dante (2024) and Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolúcion diamantina (2025)—return in the winter in illuminating and vibrant performances. Dance troupe Grupo Corpo joins the LA Phil for Ortiz’s ballet, which follows Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in a dance-themed program (FEB 26-28 & MAR 1). And the “Inferno” section of Dante is devilishly juxtaposed with Beethoven’s bucolic Sixth Symphony, “Pastoral” (MAR 5, 6 & 8)

A Love Letter to LA

Judy Baca’s mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles tells the story of the Angelenos who made this city, from prehistoric times through the present. Gustavo leads the LA Phil New Music Group in a symphony inspired by the mural, fusing the music of LA-based composers, including Juhi Bansal, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Viet Cuong, Xavier Muzik, Estevan Olmos, and Nina Shekhar with a film component created by Oscarwinning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (MAR 7)

Getting the Band Back Together

In a highlight of 2023, Gustavo led a star-studded cast in Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold. Renowned architect and set designer Frank Gehry, director Alberto Arvelo, and breakout bassbaritone Ryan Speedo Green reunite with Gustavo for the next installment in Wagner’s saga, Die Walküre (MAY 19-24)

Coming Full Circle

The last concert of the season features a pair of poignant Easter eggs for longtime LA Phil fans: John Adams’ Harmonium and Antonio Estévez’s Cantata Criolla. The first is a tribute to the composer for whom Dudamel established the position of Creative Chair even before he officially began as Music Director and who then composed City Noir for Gustavo’s inaugural concert in LA. Cantata Criolla, a masterpiece of Venezuelan symphonic music, was also a highlight of Gustavo’s first season as Music Director and a pillar of the new Americas & Americans festival—a theme that would become a hallmark of his tenure. It’s a heartfelt return to where it all started (JUNE 5–7)

For more information about the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2025/26 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, visit laphil.com/2526season.

The Moments That Move Me

with Andrew Lowy, clarinet & E-flat clarinet

WHICH PIECE OF MUSIC…

…GIVES YOU CHILLS?

The first time I played with the LA Phil, we were performing Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with Gustavo. It starts with this solo trumpet, and then the entire orchestra comes in on this huge, tutti entrance—just being enveloped in that sound gave me the chills. I could list off a piece every week that gives me the chills because when you’re onstage with 100 incredible musicians, it creates this amazing sonic force. To be part of that always, always moves me.

…MAKES YOU SMILE?

Mozart’s Serenade for Winds (Gran Partita). The last movement, especially, is a very boisterous, rollicking good time with all these woodwind players. It kind of reminds me of being a young band student—just enjoying the thrill of playing loud and fast. I don’t think anybody does joy and excitement as well as Mozart.

…BRINGS YOU TO TEARS?

I would say the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. They were written at the very end of his life, and they’re just some of the most profound, deep, and moving pieces I’ve ever heard. I think my all-time favorite recording is Jessye Norman singing it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Anytime I need a good cry, that’ll be the piece I turn to. She sings with such powerful expression, and the way her voice weaves in and out of the orchestra is really magical. —Piper Starnes

photo: DANNY CLINCH, LA PHIL

The Joy of Volunteering

Connecting with Music and Community at the LA Phil

For many Southern Californians, music is more than a pastime—it’s a passion, a source of inspiration, and, for some, a call to action. Volunteering with the LA Phil through one of its 11 Affiliate Committees offers an opportunity to be part of something bigger: a movement that brings music into the lives of young people and strengthens the cultural fabric of Los Angeles.

For Monica McAllister, joining the Peninsula Committee was a stroke of serendipity. A lifelong music lover and educator, she found herself drawn into the world of the LA Phil through friends. But it was a visit to a YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) site that sealed her commitment. “I was so sold,” she says. “I want to give all my time and money to the LA Phil and YOLA.”

Now the president of her Affiliate Committee, McAllister is leading efforts to revitalize membership by reaching younger philanthropists. “It’s about showing people the impact of their time and support,” she explains. “You see these young people arrive at Walt Disney Concert Hall, their eyes wide with excitement, stepping into a world they never imagined possible. That moment alone makes it all worth it.”

Ranjit Bhatia shares that same enthusiasm. Introduced to the LA Phil Affiliates by a close friend in 2013, she quickly became involved with programs like Symphonies for Schools.

“Seeing students experience live orchestral music for the first time is incredible,” she says. “They walk into the Hall in complete awe. You can see in their faces how special it is.”

Beyond supporting young audiences, volunteering offers personal enrichment and a sense of connection. “It’s collaborative,” Bhatia explains. “You’re working alongside other dedicated volunteers and even LA Phil staff who give their own time to these programs. It creates a real community.”

Both McAllister and Bhatia emphasize that you don’t need to be a musician or even a classical music expert to get involved. “You just need curiosity and a willingness to help,” McAllister says. Whether it’s assisting at a book fair, greeting students at a concert, or helping to plan a fundraising event, there’s a place for everyone. And for those on the fence about joining? “Come to an event,” Bhatia encourages. “See the joy firsthand. Once you do, you’ll want to be part of it.”

To learn more about volunteering with the LA Phil Affiliates, contact us at volunteer@laphil.org or 213 972 3530.

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A NOTE FROM JAIME MARTÍN ON LACO'S 2025/26 SEASON

Dear Listeners,

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to the 2025/26 season of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra—one that celebrates the timeless beauty of music. Together, we will explore the symphonic echoes of history and the evocative sounds of the future—notes that lead us into uncharted realms of musical wonder.

I look forward to sharing our season with you.

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Sep 13+14, 2025

Dec 14+16, 2025

Mar 28, 2026

Jaime Martín Music Director

Nicolas Altstaedt Cello

Margaret Batjer Director of Chamber Music

Richard Goode Piano

HARMONIC CONVERSATIONS

RICHARD GOODE PLAYS MOZART

Lara Downes Piano

CURRENT: INVENTIONS REIMAGINED

A MUSICAL GENESIS MARTÍN + ALTSTAEDT + SCHUMANN

CURRENT: REFLECTIONS IN SONG

Oct 4, 2025

John Holiday Countertenor

Lara Downes Piano

A GRAND BAROQUE SALON

ROMANTIC RESONANCE MARTÍN + HAMELIN + BRAHMS

Oct 25+26, 2025

Jaime Martín Music Director

Marc-André Hamelin Piano

Jan 17+18, 2026

Pierre Hantaï Leader

PASSION + MYSTERY MARTÍN + SAY + BEETHOVEN

TEMPORAL ECHOES MARTÍN + BANSAL + SHOSTAKOVICH

Apr 11+12, 2026

Jaime Martín Music Director

Anne Akiko Meyers Violin

Feb 14+15, 2026

Jaime Martín Music Director

Fazil Say Piano

RADIANCE + REVERIE MARTÍN + MARWOOD + MOZART

Nov 22+23, 2025

Margaret Batjer Director of Chamber Music A BRAHMSIAN AFFAIR

TURNING POINTS FAUST + SOUSA + MENDELSSOHN

Mar 14+15, 2026

Dinis Sousa Conductor

Isabelle Faust Violin

May 16+17, 2026

Jaime Martín Music Director

Anthony Marwood Violin, Coleman Itzkoff Cello

Margaret Batjer Leader Amanda Forsythe Soprano BAROQUE IN BLOOM

May 30+31, 2026

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John Williams Spotlight Yo-Yo Ma, Williams & Dudamel

Los Angeles Philharmonic

John Williams, curator

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Yo-Yo Ma, cello

John WILLIAMS Sound the Bells! (c. 3 minutes)

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (c. 30 minutes)

Theme and Cadenza

Blues

Scherzo

Song Yo-Yo Ma

INTERMISSION*

Olympic Fanfare and Theme* (c. 4 minutes)

Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (c. 7 minutes)

Three Selections from Indiana Jones (c. 12 minutes)

Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra

Marion’s Theme*

Raiders March*

Princess Leia’s Theme from Star Wars (c. 5 minutes)

Adventures on Earth from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (c. 10 minutes)

*thursday only

Programs and artists subject to change.

THURSDAY

APRIL 3, 2025 8PM

FRIDAY

APRIL 4 8PM

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

Thursday’s performance is generously supported by the Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Great Artists Fund.

Friday’s performance is generously supported by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

AT A GLANCE

This weekend marks the culmination of a multiyear spotlight on the work and legacy of John Williams. Throughout two seasons, the LA Phil has celebrated Williams’ unparalleled career. The most successful film composer in history (with 54 Oscar nominations and five wins), he also has received commissions by symphonic orchestras around

the world, in addition to being a conductor, curator, historian, and ardent advocate of film music.

This all-Williams program showcases the full range of the composer’s work. Alongside favorite selections from iconic movies such as Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we will hear Sound the Bells!, written for the Boston Pops,

SOUND THE BELLS!

John W illiams (b. 1932)

Composed: 1993

Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd=bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd=contrabassoon), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, glockenspiel, mark tree, tuned drum, and vibes), timpani, harp, piano, and strings

First LA Phil performance: September 8, 1995, John Williams conducting

John Williams composed the festive Sound the Bells! for the Boston Pops Orchestra’s 1993 tour of Japan, which happened to coincide with the wedding of Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada. Said the composer: “I thought our

concerts would present a good opportunity to celebrate the event by offering a fanfare written especially for them. I’ve always been fascinated by the huge Japanese temple bells, and while I made no attempt to emulate these, they were a kind of inspiration for the prominent use of percussion.”

Williams originally composed the piece as a fanfare for brass and percussion but later orchestrated it for full orchestra and recorded it for his 2002 American Journey album. This joyous, celebratory piece doesn’t suggest Japan but rather takes full advantage of the bright, sparkling sounds of Western symphonic tradition and serves as an ideal curtainraiser. —Jon Burlingame

and his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, commissioned for Yo-Yo Ma, who performs it in this pair of concerts. From the silver screen to the concert hall, John Williams’ music has a timeless quality that continues to move us. As the composer once said: “Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.”

CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA

John Williams

Composed: 1993–94

Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd=bass), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, timpani, percussion (bass drum, chimes, glockenspiel, marimba, mark tree, small triangle, suspended cymbal, tam-tam, triangle, tuned drums, vibraphone), harp, piano (=celesta), strings, and solo cello

First LA Phil performance: February 24, 2002, John Williams conducting

My cello concerto resulted from a suggestion by Seiji Ozawa that I write a piece for cello and orchestra expressly with Yo-Yo Ma in mind. Discussions on this project developed, and the Boston Symphony agreed to commission the work, requesting

that it be premiered at the opening of the new Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, MA, during the summer of 1994—I conducted the first performance with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist.

I had known Yo-Yo Ma for quite a few years before this event. Together we had performed concertos of Elgar, Dvořák, and Haydn, among others, and on several occasions I had accompanied him at the piano. Over the years we’ve become close friends, and I looked forward to writing for him with great pleasure. Given the broad technical and expressive arsenal available in Yo-Yo’s work, planning the concerto was a joy. I decided to have four fairly extensive movements that would offer as much variety and contrast as possible but that could be played continuously and without interruption.

The first movement, Theme and Cadenza, after an opening salvo of brass, immediately casts the cello in a kind of hero’s role, making it the unquestioned center of attention. It’s a movement that attempts to put the cello on display in the time-honored sense of “concerto,” and as the hero’s theme is developed, it “morphs” into a cadenza in which I tried to create an opportunity for exploration of the theme that would be both ruminative and virtuosic.

The second movement I call Blues.… In my mind, and without any conscious prodding on my part, the ghosts of Ellington and

Strayhorn seemed to waft through the atmosphere. Invited or not, this was for me very welcome company. I set up clusters in piano and percussion that form a frame within which the cello unveils its misty quasi-improvisations.

The Scherzo is about speed, deftness, and sleight of hand. The music romps along in triple time over a treacherous landscape where athletic exchanges are periodically and suddenly interrupted by a series of fermatas, as the orchestra and cello try to dominate and outdo each other. There’s a short tutti where it appears that the orchestra might prevail, but the cello outwits and outlasts it.

In thinking about the finale of the concerto, I was always aware of the fact that Yo-Yo’s ability to “connect” personally and even privately with every individual in his audience is perhaps the greatest of his abundant gifts. I therefore tried in Song, the concerto’s finale, to create long lyrical lines that would give the cello the opportunity to address the audience in the manner of a clear and direct soliloquy.

Whatever virtues the concerto may have can never surpass, for me, the experience of knowing and working with Yo-Yo Ma. Happily, and with complete justice, the world loves and reveres this man, as do I, and working with him is always a joyous journey to be treasured. —John Williams

OLYMPIC FANFARE AND THEME

John Williams

Composed: 1984

Orchestration: 2 flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (snare drum, field drum, crash cymbals, bass drum, suspended cymbal, chimes, glockenspiel, vibraphone, triangle), harp, piano, optional organ, and strings

First LA Phil performance: September 30, 2014, Gustavo Dudamel conducting

John Williams has become an irreplaceable figure in American popular culture. He ranks as the best-known creator of movie music in Hollywood history, with themes and scores that are instantly recognizable to listeners around the world. And his growing body of music for the concert hall (including numerous concertos) has solidified his reputation as a major American composer of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. At the same time, he has had close relationships with music directors of the LA Philharmonic, including—and especially—the current one, Gustavo Dudamel. Dudamel told Variety: “I’ve admired John Williams all my life. As a kid, I was just crazy about movies and in love with all his music: Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones. Film composers are great musicians, great orchestrators, and for me, John is simply one of the greatest of our time. He is also a wonderful man and a wonderful friend.”

Williams has long been associated with the Olympic Games, beginning in 1984 when the Los Angeles Olympic Committee commissioned Olympic Fanfare and Theme for the Games of the XXIII Olympiad. Its regular use in television coverage of the international athletic competitions has made it the most renowned of the composer’s four Olympic fanfares.

As the composer wrote in 1984: “The Olympic Games continue to fascinate and inspire us. With every presentation of the Games, we experience that complete dedication and unshakable will to persevere that typifies the goal of each competitor. The human spirit soars, and we strive for the best within us.” —J.B.

EXCERPTS FROM CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

John Williams

Composed: 1977

Orchestration: 3 flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (snare drum, field drum, crash cymbals, bass drum, suspended cymbal, chimes, glockenspiel, vibraphone, triangle), harp, piano, optional organ, and strings

First LA Phil performance: April 1, 1978, Zubin Mehta conducting

As “Johnny” Williams, John Williams served a Hollywood apprenticeship as a pianist/ conductor. But after much television work and original scoring for lighter fare such as Diamond Head and Gidget Goes to Rome (both 1963) and a disaster cycle including Earthquake and The Towering Inferno (both 1974), Williams became one of the most adulated and analyzed composers in Hollywood history with three major blockbusters: Jaws (1975), Star Wars, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both 1977).

While Star Wars is well-known for its retro symphonic mode, Close Encounters posits a more complex musical structure. Music is presented as the key to communication between humans and benign aliens. A five-note motif serves as this nonverbal link and appears in various guises throughout both plot and score. At times, complex Ligeti/Pendereckiinfluenced sonorities represent the mysterious aspects of the visitors and underscore some of the more threatening moments (such as an eerie abduction of a child). But by the spectacular mothership finale the “alien” atonalities meld into (literally) uplifting lyricism that serves aptly as the climax of one of the most transcendent sequences encountered in films of any period.

—From the Los Angeles Philharmonic archive

THREE SELECTIONS FROM INDIANA JONES

John Williams

Composed: 1981–89

Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), piccolo, 3 oboes (3rd=English horn), English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd=bass clarinet), bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (3rd=contrabassoon), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, chimes, glockenspiel, marimba, piatti, side drum, snare drum, suspended cymbal, high suspended cymbal, small triangle, triangle, xylophone, vibraphone), harp, piano, celesta, and strings

First LA Phil performance: Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra: August 20, 1996, John Williams conducting Marion’s Theme: August 4, 2017, David Newman conducting (full film score)

Raiders March: September 9, 1983, John Williams conducting

Filmmaker pals Steven Spielberg and George Lucas created the archeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and it was so successful that sequels were inevitable. Happily for filmgoers (and music lovers), John Williams scored each of the Indiana Jones movies, starring Harrison Ford (who now complains, presumably tongue in cheek, “that music follows me everywhere”).

Three Selections from Indiana Jones offers a cross-section of music from the five films in the series, four of which earned Academy Award nominations. The “Raiders March” is the familiar Indiana Jones theme, a rambunctious march

suggesting the character’s headstrong and sometimes reckless determination.

“Marion’s Theme,” which originated in the first film, was the warm and alluring music for Marion Ravenwood, the feisty daughter of Indy’s mentor (played by Karen Allen) who accompanies him during his search for the Ark of the Covenant. Williams revisited and extended this theme when Allen resumed the role for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).

“Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” is the fun title for Williams’ lively music for the cross-country motorcycle chase in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), in which Indy and his distinguished dad (Sean Connery) outrun Nazis in 1938 Austria. —J.B.

PRINCESS LEIA’S THEME FROM STAR WARS

John Williams

Composed: 1977

Orchestration: 2 flutes, piccolo, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 percussion (1=glockenspiel, 2=vibraphone, piatti), harp, piano, celesta, and strings

First LA Phil performance: August 7, 2018, David Newman conducting

Steven Spielberg was instrumental in another of John Williams’ most important

artistic relationships when he introduced the composer to his friend George Lucas. The young filmmaker later showed Williams an early cut of Star Wars that used preexisting classical music as temporary score tracks. Williams would later write in the liner notes for the soundtrack album that those “temp tracks” showed that the otherworldly nature of the film’s setting could be grounded by familiar-sounding music, which in turn would bring home the film’s universal themes. He also tapped into the fantasy—rather than the sci-fi—nature of Star Wars, as he sought to write melodydriven Wagnerian leitmotifs for the film’s various characters and thematic concepts. “Princess Leia’s Theme” is a fairy-tale melody, beautifully orchestrated, which also showcases Williams’ affinity for the solo horn. David Cripps, who was principal horn with the London Symphony Orchestra when it recorded the original score, told the story of how this piece first came to life. As Cripps recalled, the brass players were thoroughly exhausted at the end of the session, and Williams asked them for another half hour to record just one more piece. The composer told the brass players not to worry, as this would be a “nice, quiet, gentle number,” Cripps said, “and then he looked at me with a smile and said, ‘David, I’ve written a little horn solo for you.’” —From the Los Angeles Philharmonic archive

ADVENTURES ON EARTH FROM E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

John Williams

Composed: 1982

Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd=piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd=English horn), 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons (3rd=contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, glockenspiel, gong, snare drum, suspended cymbal, triangle vibraphone, xylophone), harp, piano, and celesta

First LA Phil performance: July 31, 1985, John Williams conducting

The 1982 film E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial offered another seismic success in the relationship between John Williams and Steven Spielberg, and a decision the latter made during the recording process demonstrates the respect each man had for the contributions of the other. Williams was recording the lengthy and complex music for the finale of the film, and he was having difficulty synching the orchestra’s performance to the many precise cuts and beats of the picture edit. After several takes, Spielberg offered to turn off the film and allow Williams to record the music on its own, with exactly the tempos and phrasing he felt the music required. When it was recorded to Williams’ satisfaction, Spielberg then recut the end of the film to match this musical performance. The result was one of the most iconic sequences in movie history, and “Adventures on Earth.” —From the Los Angeles Philharmonic archive

JOHN WILLIAMS

In a career spanning more than six decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and the concert stage. He remains one of the nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music for more than 100 films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and the Indiana Jones films. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for 14 seasons and remains its Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage, including two symphonies and more than a dozen concertos commissioned by some of America’s most prominent orchestras. He has received five Academy Awards and 54 Oscar nominations, seven British Academy Awards, 26 Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. His

other honors include a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts, an honorary KBE from Queen Elizabeth II, the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, and the Gold Medal from the UK’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society.

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

To read about Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 9.

YO-YO MA

Yo-Yo Ma’s multifaceted career is testament to his belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding.

Whether performing new or familiar works for cello, bringing communities together to explore culture’s role in society, or engaging in unexpected musical forms, Ma strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.

Most recently, Ma began Our Common Nature, a cultural journey to celebrate the ways that nature can reunite us in pursuit of a shared future. Our Common Nature follows the Bach Project, a 36-community, six-continent tour of J.S. Bach’s cello suites paired with local cultural programming. Both endeavors reflect Ma’s lifelong commitment to stretching the boundaries of genre and tradition to understand how music helps us to imagine and build a stronger society.

Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris, where he began studying the cello with his father at age 4. When he was 7, he moved with his family to New York City, where he continued his cello studies before pursuing a liberal arts education.

Ma has recorded more than 120 albums, is the winner of 19 Grammy Awards, and has performed for nine American presidents, most recently on the occasion of President Biden’s inauguration. He has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006 and was recognized as one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

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John Williams Spotlight Celebrating John Williams

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

John Williams, curator

John WILLIAMS Olympic Fanfare and Theme (c. 4 minutes)

Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (c. 7 minutes)

Three Selections from Harry Potter (c. 14 minutes)

Hedwig’s Theme

Fawkes the Phoenix

Harry’s Wondrous World

Dear Basketball (c. 4 minutes)

Adventures on Earth from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (c. 10 minutes)

INTERMISSION

Superman March (c. 3 minutes)

Theme from Jurassic Park (c. 4 minutes)

Three Selections from Indiana Jones (c. 12 minutes)

Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra

Marion’s Theme

Raiders March

The Shark Cage Fugue/Out to Sea from Jaws (c. 5 minutes)

Two Selections from Star Wars (c. 13 minutes)

Princess Leia’s Theme

Throne Room and Finale

Programs and artists subject to change.

SATURDAY

APRIL 5, 2025 8PM

SUNDAY APRIL 6 2PM

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

John Williams, now 93, has long been recognized as an American treasure. Composer, arranger, pianist, conductor, and one of the most honored of contemporary music-makers, he is beloved the world over for his many popular compositions for film.

One of his less talked-about accomplishments has been the gradual acceptance of film music in the orchestral repertoire. Once frowned upon as “commercial” material lacking the sophistication of music written for the concert hall, film music is now welcomed everywhere—from New York to Vienna to Berlin as well as Los Angeles—largely due to Williams’ compositional and orchestrational skills, which are as admired by fellow composers as by the fans who simply love his memorable themes. This program, curated by the composer, draws upon his work from more than four decades in the movie business. Williams has scored 29 films for Steven Spielberg, winning an Oscar for their second project together, Jaws (1975). “The Shark Cage Fugue/Out to Sea” is drawn from the protagonists’ first encounter with the great white shark, conveying the fun nautical-adventure mood before they discover the real danger that awaits.

Two of Williams’ record 54 Oscar nominations were earned in the same year, 1977, for a pair of very different science-fiction films: George Lucas’ Star Wars and Spielberg’s Close

Encounters of the Third Kind. Williams saw the Lucas film as a fun romp that would probably play kiddie matinees and be quickly forgotten. Little did he, or anyone, realize that Lucas’ imaginative “space opera” with a young adventurer, a princess, a hotshot pilot, and two amusing robots would spawn a multibillion-dollar franchise lasting more than four decades. Williams’ swashbuckling symphonic score included “Princess Leia’s Theme,” a warm signature for Carrie Fisher’s character; “Throne Room and Finale,” for the closing ceremony honoring the victorious Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca; and the end titles reprising several of the original themes. This was the score that won the Oscar. Close Encounters, however, inspired one of Williams’ most musically diverse and impressive scores, from his creation of a five-note musical signal for the visiting spaceships to his use of modern tone clusters and one of his most majestic themes (Williams described the music as “abstract, impressionistic, and otherworldly”).

Spielberg and Lucas joined forces to make Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the first of five films featuring Harrison Ford as globe-trotting archeologist Indiana Jones and introducing the “Raiders March” that is now better known as Indy’s theme. “Marion’s Theme” originated as a leitmotif for the character played by Karen Allen in the first film, but it

was revisited and developed further in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). The exciting “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” was for Indy and his dad (a memorable turn by Sean Connery as Henry Jones, Sr.) outrunning Nazis in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Fanfares have long been a Williams specialty. Among his most memorable are the opening music for the greatest comic-book adventure ever filmed, Superman (1978), starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, and Olympic Fanfare and Theme, commissioned for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and used as signature music for the televised coverage of the Olympic Games since then.

From E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial (1982) comes “Adventures on Earth,” adapted from the final act of Spielberg’s masterpiece, as Elliott (Henry Thomas) and his pals race to save E.T. from government agents, reach a rendezvous point with his spaceship, and say a tearful goodbye. Perhaps the most emotional finale of the many WilliamsSpielberg collaborations, this score won the composer his fourth of five Oscars.

More than a decade later, the composer tackled a different kind of science fiction for Spielberg: Jurassic Park (1993), author Michael Crichton’s fanciful notion of an island theme park where dinosaurs have been

re-created using ancient DNA. Sam Neill and Laura Dern played the astonished scientists. Williams created celebratory music for the park and music of awe and beauty for the gentle creatures they first see on the island.

And for the magic-filled world of J.K. Rowling, Williams penned the colorful music for the first three Harry Potter films, chronicling the adventures of an English boy (Daniel Radcliffe) studying wizardry with his friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and

Ron (Rupert Grint). “Hedwig’s Theme,” for Harry’s snowy owl, and the optimistic “Harry’s Wondrous World” emerged from the first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), and “Fawkes the Phoenix,” the soaring theme for Dumbledore’s red-plumed bird with regenerative powers, was from the second (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002).

The most recent Williams piece on the program, Dear Basketball (2017), came from veteran Disney animator Glen

Keane’s five-minute short film, based on basketball great Kobe Bryant’s farewell poem to his beloved sport. Bryant, a longtime fan, asked Williams to compose the score (his first for a hand-drawn animated short). Keane considers it “a visual poem. This was not about the glory of Kobe Bryant; this was more about the fulfillment of a 6-year-old boy’s dream.” Bryant made sure to thank the composer when accepting the Oscar for best animated short a few months later. —Jon Burlingame

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

JOHN WILLIAMS

To read about John Williams, please turn to page P6

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

To read about Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, please turn to page 9

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Mozart & Haydn

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Martin Chalifour, violin

VIVALDI

The Four Seasons, Op. 8, Nos. 1–4 (c. 40 minutes)

Concerto in E major, RV 269, “La primavera” Allegro Largo

Allegro

Concerto in G minor, RV 315, “L’estate”

Allegro non molto

Adagio e piano—Presto e forte

Presto

Concerto in F major, RV 293, “L’autunno” Allegro

Adagio molto

Allegro

Concerto in F minor, RV 297, “L’inverno”

Allegro non molto

Largo

Allegro Martin Chalifour

INTERMISSION

MOZART Chaconne from Idomeneo (c. 5 minutes)

HAYDN Symphony No. 94 in G major, “Surprise” (c. 23 minutes)

Adagio cantabile—Vivace assai

Andante

Menuetto: Allegro molto

Allegro di molto

Programs and artists subject to change.

THURSDAY

APRIL 10, 2025 8PM

FRIDAY

APRIL 11 11AM

SATURDAY APRIL 12 8PM

SUNDAY APRIL 13 2PM

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

Concerts in the Thursday 2 subscription series are generously supported by The Otis Booth Foundation.

These performances are generously supported in part by the Kohl Virtuoso Violin Fund

AT A GLANCE

To Everything There Is a Season

We often bemoan the rate of change in our times, but the 18th century was no sluggard in that regard, musically at least. Contemporary performances of Vivaldi’s brilliantly descriptive Four Seasons concertos (published in 1725 and probably composed c. 1718) would have been more like upperclass home entertainment than public concerts. Haydn was a 9-year-old choirboy in Vienna at the time of Vivaldi’s death there in 1741. When Haydn premiered his “Surprise” Symphony in London in 1792, it

was at something much closer to what we would recognize as an orchestral concert (no conductor, however; Haydn led the performance seated at a piano), and the symphony was twice as long as one of Vivaldi’s concertos. And that is to say nothing about the sea change in style that had been led by Haydn and his younger Austrian compatriot Mozart. Socially, Mozart’s opera Idomeneo (1780) was very much an aristocratic entertainment of the old regime; musically, it was a brave new world. —John Henken

THE FOUR SEASONS, OP. 8, NOS. 1–4

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Composed: 1718

Orchestration: keyboard, strings, and solo violin

First LA Phil performance: July 6, 1978, Calvin Simmons conducting

The 18th century admired, studied, imitated, and vilified Vivaldi as the 19th century did Beethoven and Wagner. His music was in such demand that he eventually stopped publishing it because the published editions interfered with the fabulous prices he could command for his manuscripts. As a performer, he became a major celebrity. An ordained priest, he nonetheless toured all of Europe with a large retinue that included women of the

stage (who were considered per se indecent), causing such a scandal that the bishop of Parma once banned him from that city. Though his income would have made a prudent person wealthy, he spent lavishly and died virtually broke while on tour in Vienna.

Vivaldi published his Opus 8, a set of 12 concertos titled Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The contest between harmony and invention), in 1725, although it had been circulating in manuscript for some years, particularly the first four—“Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter.”

The title “Four Seasons” appears nowhere in the 1725 publication, and the notion that the four concertos are an integrated work that must be played in sequence without interruption, like the four movements of a symphony, is

one that would have eluded Vivaldi’s contemporaries. What would have struck them, but often eludes modern listeners, is the fact that these four works are program music (as are Nos. 5 and 10 of the set, “The Storm at Sea” and “The Hunt,” respectively), with virtually every note describing some specific event that is set out in a sonnet accompanying each of the concertos. Vivaldi likely wrote these poems himself: They seem to be the work of a non-poet, containing few lyrical devices and lacking the mythological allusions that characterize much poetry of that era. The lines of the sonnets are printed not only as prefaces to each concerto, but also in all the instrumental parts, amid the tempo and dynamic markings. As if this were not enough, there are also descriptive directions to the players

independent of the sonnets. For example, in the middle movement of “Spring,” the second-violin part is labeled as “the murmuring branches and leaves” and the viola’s repeated notes represent “the barking dog.”

Of course, this verbal description is largely lost on anyone not reading from the score. In an era before public concerts, to say nothing of television, a large portion of the middle and upper classes played instruments, and a set of published concertos was intended to be enjoyed by players in their parlor, not by people who bought tickets to sit down and listen. Serious music was not the sober pseudo-religion then that it is now, and great music could be an evening’s social entertainment, even a party game.

Others did not agree. The violinist-composer Francesco Geminiani, a disciple of Corelli, a conservative in violinistic matters, and one of the leading musical stars in London, likely had The Four Seasons in mind when he wrote: “Imitating the Cock, Cuckoo, Owl, and other birds, and also sudden Shifts of the Hand from one extremity of the Fingerboard to the other, accompanied with contortions of the Head and Body, and all other such Tricks rather belong to the Professors of Legerdemain and Posture-makers than to the art of Musick.”

Geminiani was not the first to complain that some crass virtuoso was turning music into a circus act with gimmicks and flash, and he would not be the last. Vivaldi, like Farina, Biber, and Corelli before him, and Locatelli and Paganini after him, pushed the violin to new limits of style and technique and antagonized more than a few of the people who heard him. But as the title of Opus 8 indicates, he understood the potential clash between solid musical substance (“Harmony”) and novelty (“Invention”) and the need to strike a balance between them. —Howard Posner and disappointments in job searches abroad.

CHACONNE FROM IDOMENEO

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Composed: 1781

Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings

First LA Phil performance: September 11, 1976, Calvin Simmons conducting

Although Mozart was not pleased with his fee, the commission he received in 1780 for a new opera for the Bavarian electoral court in Munich was nonetheless a major coup for the young composer in terms of prestige. It came at a welcome moment, after years of increasing frustration at home in Salzburg

Mozart arrived in Munich early in November, with some of the opera already drafted. The subject of Idomeneo (a Cretan king returns home from the Trojan War, with a fatal vow) undoubtedly came from the court, but it was probably Mozart or his father who chose their Salzburg colleague Giambattista Varesco to write the libretto. He based it on earlier French sources, and it quickly became clear that there was way too much of it. Cuts and revisions ensued throughout rehearsals, and the last music to be completed was a dance sequence. “Till now I’ve been kept busy with those cursed dances—Laus Deo (Praise be to God)—I have survived it all,” Mozart wrote to his father on January 18, 1781. The work opened 11 days later.

One of the main attractions of this commission was the chance to write for a large and accomplished orchestra, the famous Mannheim band now in residence in Munich with its patron. Mozart deployed those forces with characteristic invention and brio in the Chaconne that is the main part of the ballet music. This is not a chaconne in the Baroque sense, but rather in the rondo-like French style, with a brilliant, ceremonial principal theme (borrowed from an opera by Gluck) danced by the whole company alternating with softer, more sensuous sections danced by soloists or pairs. —John Henken

SYMPHONY NO. 94 IN G MAJOR, “SURPRISE”

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)

Composed: 1791

Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings

First LA Phil performance: March 9, 1928, Georg Schnéevoigt conducting

In observing that some 29 of Haydn’s 104 symphonies have names affixed to them, one is moved to paraphrase Shakespeare by saying that “a Haydn symphony by no name at all would sound as sweet.” Whether aptly or gratuitously titled, the named works stand on their own remarkable merit, needing no extramusical suggestion to enhance, define, justify, or distinguish them. Perhaps the least wellconsidered title is “Surprise,” appended by English audiences to the Symphony No. 94 simply because of the single loud chord occurring at the end of the quiet second sentence of the Andante movement. After all, dynamic contrast was a thoroughly established musical element long before Haydn closed a soft string passage with a loud, full orchestra (including timpani) exclamation point. A more appropriate name for the work, if one were really needed, is that adopted by German audiences: Mit dem Paukenschlag—with the drum stroke.

For his part, Haydn was not inclined to quarrel with the naming of his work, since the entire symphony, and particularly the second movement, was the large success he wanted. In fact, his anxiety to please the London public had been stimulated by the presence of his student lgnaz Pleyel, who was in the British capital for a series of concerts in direct competition with those of his illustrious teacher. We know from our vantage point that the older, infinitely more gifted composer had nothing to fear from the facile but modestly endowed Pleyel, destined to be remembered as the founder of a famous piano factory.

Along with Haydn’s musical maturity came widespread celebrity. In 1791 he was in London for the first time, turning out splendid pieces for concerts organized by the violinist/impresario Johann Peter Salomon; the last dozen of Haydn’s symphonies—even though a few have particular names affixed to them—are known in total either as the London or Salomon Symphonies.

The present symphony, like all of the Salomon set except No. 95, begins with a slow, atmospheric introduction. It is a brief, patrician prelude having a passing gray cloud to darken the horizon with sudden contrast. (A surprise? Not yet.) The movement

proper has a varied cast of characters. The charming and slightly whimsical first theme begins mischievously outside the home key. (Surprise? Not yet.) The second theme is a lilting waltz tune, restrained and pure, and the third is a warm and ingratiating melody containing distinctive downward leaps. The remainder of the movement unfolds with the unsurprising sureness that characterized Haydn’s superior craftsmanship.

The Andante theme of the second movement, of nursery-tune simplicity, is presented by gentle strings, repeated by them even more softly, and then punctuated by The Chord. (Surprise!) The four ensuing variations on the theme emerge so naturally they require no description. One cannot, however, fail to mention the amazing coda, where the simple theme in the winds takes on a wonderfully Romantic hue through the provocative and misty harmonies in the strings. (A lovely surprise!)

The third-movement Minuet is a true Austrian peasant dance, but with a delightfully subtle and dignified Trio. The finale is 100 percent Haydn, in turn witty, brilliant, songful, and filled with those turns, twists, and, yes, supremely logical surprises that only Haydn’s genius could supply. —Orrin Howard

NICHOLAS McGEGAN

In his sixth decade on the podium, Nicholas McGegan— long hailed as “one of the finest Baroque conductors of his generation” (The Independent) and “an expert in 18th-century style” (The New Yorker)—is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. Following a 34-year tenure as Music Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, he is now Music Director Laureate. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of Hungary’s Capella Savaria. At home in opera houses, McGegan shone new light on close to 20 Handel operas as the Artistic Director and conductor at Germany’s International Handel Festival Göttingen for 20 years (1991–2011), and the Mozart canon as Principal Guest Conductor at the Scottish Opera in the 1990s. He was

also Principal Conductor of Sweden’s Drottningholm Palace Theatre from 1993 to 1996. Best known as a Baroque and Classical specialist, McGegan takes an approach— intelligent, infused with joy, and never dogmatic, along with an ability to engage players and audiences alike— that has made him a pioneer in broadening the reach of historically informed practice beyond the world of period ensembles to conventional symphonic forces. His guestconducting appearances with major orchestras—including the New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong philharmonics; the Chicago, Dallas, Milwaukee, Toronto, Sydney, and New Zealand symphonies; The Philadelphia Orchestra; the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Scottish Chamber orchestras; and the orchestras of London’s Royal Opera House and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw—often feature Baroque repertoire alongside Classical, Romantic, 20th-century, and even brand-new works. He collaborates frequently with the Mark Morris Dance Group, including the premiere productions of Rameau’s Platée and Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and has led performances at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival.

Highlights of his 2024/25 orchestral bookings include a return to Walt Disney Concert Hall, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic; performances of Handel with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; and conducting the Indianapolis Symphony, Cantata Collective, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. McGegan’s prolific discography includes more than 100 releases spanning five decades. Having recorded over 50 albums of Handel—two of which received the prestigious Gramophone Award—McGegan has explored the depths of the composer’s output with a dozen oratorios and close to 20 of his operas. His extensive discography with Philharmonia Baroque includes two Grammy nominations (Handel’s Susanna and Haydn’s Symphonies 104, 88, and 101). With Cantata Collective, McGegan released the first volume in an ongoing initiative to record all of Bach’s cantatas, receiving critical praise. McGegan and Cantata Collective have also announced a new partnership with Avie Records to record Bach’s six choral

masterpieces—the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, Mass in B Minor, Christmas and Ascension Oratorios, and the Magnificat—over five years.

McGegan is committed to the next generation of musicians, frequently conducting and coaching students in residencies and engagements at Yale University, The Juilliard School, Harvard University, the Colburn School, Aspen Music Festival and School, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West. He has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an honorary professorship at Georg August University, Göttingen. In 2016 he was the Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Harvard. English-born, McGegan was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to music overseas.” Other awards include the Halle Handel Prize, the Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony (Germany), the Medal of Honour of the City of Göttingen and a declaration of Nicholas McGegan Day by the mayor of San Francisco in recognition of his work with Philharmonia Baroque.

MARTIN CHALIFOUR

Martin Chalifour has been Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1995. He graduated with honors from the Montreal Conservatory at the age of 18 and then moved to the United States to continue studies at the famed Curtis Institute of Music.

Chalifour received a Certificate of Honor at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and is also a laureate of the prestigious Montreal International Competition. Apart from his LA Phil duties, he maintains an active solo career, playing a diverse repertoire of more than 60 concertos. Chalifour has appeared as soloist with conductors Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Neville Marriner, and EsaPekka Salonen. Outside the US, he has played solos with

the Auckland Philharmonia, the Montreal Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, and the Malaysian Philharmonic, among others.

Chalifour began his orchestral career with the late Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, playing as Associate Concertmaster for six years. Subsequently, for five years he occupied the same position in The Cleveland Orchestra, where he also served as Acting Concertmaster under Christoph von Dohnányi. While in Cleveland, Chalifour taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a founding member of the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio.

Chalifour is a frequent guest at summer music festivals, including the Mainly Mozart Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.

Maintaining close ties with his native country, he has returned there often to teach and perform as soloist with various Canadian orchestras, most recently in Vancouver and in Hamilton.

Chalifour has recorded solo and chamber music for the Telarc, Northstar, and Yarlung labels. He teaches at Caltech and at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.

LA Phil Radio Broadcasts on KUSC

This month, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Classical California KUSC continue their annual radio broadcast partnership, reaching listeners across Southern California every Sunday through June.

Recorded during the LA Phil’s 2024/25 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the series includes a diverse roster of guest artists and conductors performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Hosted by KUSC’s Brian Lauritzen as part of KUSC’s SoCal Sunday Night program, it also includes interviews with soloists and orchestra members offering listeners insight into each performance.

The first concert in the 2025 broadcast series airs on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 7pm, and features LA Phil Conductor Emeritus Zubin Mehta leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic and violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Brahms’ Violin Concerto followed by his Second Symphony. The following April broadcasts showcase conductor Philippe Jordan with pianist Yefim Bronfman, Eun Sun Kim leading two Rachmaninoff pieces alongside a Nico Muhly world premiere, and Susanna Mälkki conducting a deeply personal program of Schubert, Strauss, and Saariaho, featuring trumpeter Verneri Pohjola. Future broadcasts will also highlight concerts from the Mahler Grooves festival, led by Gustavo Dudamel, and several world premieres.

Through the organizations’ ongoing partnership with WFMT and the WFMT Radio Network, the 2025 broadcast series will also be syndicated nationwide. Programs are also available for on-demand streaming at kusc.org for seven days following each of the broadcasts.

UPCOMING BROADCASTS

SoCal Sundays at 7pm on Classical California KUSC

APRIL 6

Zubin Mehta, conductor Leonidas Kavakos*, violin

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

*Leonidas Kavakos appears courtesy of Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment.

APRIL 13

Philippe Jordan, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano BACH Air

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

APRIL 20

Eun Sun Kim, conductor

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

Denis Bouriakov, flute

David Rejano Cantero, trombone

Matthew Howard, percussion

Robert deMaine, cello

RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3

Nico MUHLY Concerto Grosso (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

APRIL 27

Susanna Mälkki, conductor Verneri Pohjola, trumpet

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”

SAARIAHO HUSH (US premiere, LA Phil commission)

For more information, please visit laphil.com/radio

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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 (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), which provides free after-school music instruction to children in culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse communities across LA County. Let your passion be your guide, and join us as a member of the Friends and Patrons of the LA Phil. For more information, or to learn about membership benefits, please call 213 972 7557 or email friends@laphil.org.

PHILHARMONIC COUNCIL

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa, Co-Chairs Christian and Tiffany Chivaroli, Co-Chairs

The Philharmonic Council is a vital leadership group whose members provide critical resources in support of the LA Phil’s general operations. Their vision and generosity enable the LA Phil to recruit the best musicians, invest in groundbreaking learning initiatives, and stage innovative artistic programs, heralded worldwide for the quality of their artistry and imagination. We invite you to consider joining the Philharmonic Council as a major donor. For more information, please call 213 972 7209 or email patrons@laphil.org.

SPRING ‘ 25 SEASON

Make 2025 a year filled with the art of performance.

Experience work by visionary artists, including:

> Andy Akiho Trio > Eiko Otake and Wen Hui

> Miguel Gutierrez > Elevator Repair Service

> Cécile McLorin Salvant > Quetzal > Rianto

RIANTO

Photo by Bernie Ng, courtesy of Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay

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 January 31, 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

Affiliates

Diane and Ron Miller

Charitable Fund

M. David and Diane Paul

Ann and Robert Ronus

Ronus Foundation

John and Samantha Williams

$2,500,000 TO $4,999,999

Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann

Lynn Booth/Otis Booth Foundation

Elaine and Bram Goldsmith

Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Karl H. Loring

Alfred E. Mann

Elise Mudd

Marvin Trust

Barbara and Jay Rasulo

Flora L. Thornton

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

Linda and Robert Attiyeh

Judith and Thomas Beckmen

Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty

Helen and Peter Bing

William H. Brady, III

Linda and Maynard Brittan

Richard and Norma Camp

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Connell

Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell

Mari L. Danihel

Nancy and Donald de Brier

The Rafael & Luisa de Marchena-Huyke Foundation

The Walt Disney Company

Fairchild-Martindale Foundation

Eris and Larry Field

Max H. Gluck Foundation

Reese and Doris Gothie

Joan and John Hotchkis

Janeway Foundation

Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey

Carrie and Stuart Ketchum

Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee

B. Allen and Dorothy Lay

Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee

Estate of Judith Lynne

Maddocks-Brown Foundation

Ginny Mancini

Raulee Marcus

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Merle and Peter Mullin

William Powers and Carolyn Powers

Koni and Geoff Rich

H. Russell Smith Foundation

Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust

Ronald and Valerie Sugar

I.H. Sutnick

$500,000 TO $999,999

Ann and Martin Albert

Abbott Brown

Mr. George L. Cassat

Kathleen and Jerrold L. Eberhardt

Valerie Franklin

Yvonne and Gordon Hessler

Barbara Leidenfrost

Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis

Mr. and Mrs. David Meline

Sandy and Barry D. Pressman

Earl and Victoria Pushee

William and Sally Rutter

Nancy and Barry Sanders

Richard and Bradley Seeley

Christian Stracke

Donna Swayze

Judy Ungar and Adrienne Fritz

Lee and Hope

Landis Warner

YOLA Student Fund

Edna Weiss

$250,000 TO $499,999

Nancy and Leslie Abell

Mr. Gregory A. Adams

Baker Family Trust

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

Kenneth D. Sanson

Katharine and Thomas Stoever

Sue Tsao

Alyce and Warren Williamson

$100,000 TO $249,999

Mr. Robert J. Abernethy

William A. Allison

Rachel and Lee Ault

W. Lee Bailey, M.D.

Angela Bardowell

Deborah Borda

The Eli and Edythe

Broad Foundation

Jane Carruthers

Pei-yuan Chia and Katherine Shen

James and Paula Coburn Foundation

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

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox

Silvia and Kevin Dretzka

Allan and Diane Eisenman

Christine and Daniel Ewell

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

David and Paige Glickman

Nicholas T. Goldsborough

Gonda Family Foundation

Margaret Grauman

Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green

Freya and Mark Ivener

Ruth Jacobson

Estate of Mary Calfas Janos

Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.

Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan

Yates Keir

Susanne and Paul Kester

Vicki King

Sylvia Kunin

Ann and Edward Leibon

Ellen and Mark Lipson

Ms. Gloria Lothrop

Vicki and Kerry McCluggage

Heidi and Steve McLean in memory of Katharine Lamb

David and Margaret Mgrublian

Diane and Leon Morton

Mary Pickford Foundation

Sally and Frank Raab

Mr. David Sanders

Malcolm Schneer and Cathy Liu

David and Linda Shaheen Foundation

William E.B. and Laura K. Siart

Magda and Frederick R. Waingrow

Wasserman Foundation

Robert Wood

Syham Yohanna and James W. Manns

$25,000 TO $99,999

Marie Baier Foundation

Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.

Jacqueline Briskin

Dona Burrell

Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation

Ann and Tony Cannon

Dee and Robert E. Cody

The Colburn Fund

Margaret Sheehy Collins

Mr. Allen Don Cornelsen

Ginny and John Cushman

Marilyn J. Dale

Mrs. Barbara A. Davis

Dr. and Mrs. Roger DeBard

Jennifer and Royce Diener

Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner

The Englekirk Family

Claudia and Mark Foster

Lillian and Stephen Frank

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

Tom and Janet Unterman

Rhio H. Weir

Mrs. Joseph F. Westheimer

Jean Willingham

Winnick Family Foundation

Cheryl and Peter Ziegler

Lynn and Roger Zino

LA PHIL MUSICIANS

Anonymous Kenneth Bonebrake

Nancy and Martin Chalifour

Brian Drake

Perry Dreiman

Barry Gold

Christopher Hanulik

John Hayhurst

Jory and Selina Herman

Ingrid Hutman

Andrew Lowy

Gloria Lum

Joanne Pearce Martin

Kazue Asawa McGregor

Oscar and Diane Meza

Mitchell Newman

Peter Rofé

Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski

Barry Socher

Paul Stein

Leticia Oaks Strong

Lyndon and Beth Johnston Taylor

Dennis Trembly

Allison and Jim Wilt

Suli Xue

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

Annual Donors

The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank our generous donors. The following list includes donors who have contributed $3,500 or more to the LA Phil, including special event fundraisers (LA Phil Gala and Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl) between February 1, 2024, and January 31, 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 (3)

Mr. Gregory A. Adams

Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen

R. Martin Chavez

Colburn Foundation Dunard Fund USA

Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner

$100,000 TO $199,999

Anonymous (4)

Nancy and Leslie Abell

Regina Weingarten and Gregory Annenberg

Weingarten

The Blue Ribbon

Kawanna and Jay Brown

Becca and Jonathan Congdon

Michael J. Connell Foundation

Donelle Dadigan

Louise and Brad Edgerton/Edgerton Foundation

The Eisner Foundation

Ms. Erika J. Glazer

$50,000 TO $99,999

Anonymous (2)

Ms. Kate Angelo and Mr. Francois Mobasser

Antonieta Arango, In memory of Javier Arango

Susan and Adam Berger

David Bohnett Foundation

Linda and Maynard Brittan

Thy Bui

Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation

Canon Insurance Service

Andrea Chao-Kharma and Kenneth Kharma

Dan Clivner

Mr. Richard W. Colburn

Nancy and Donald de Brier

De Marchena-Huyke Foundation

The Walt Disney Company

Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

Mr. James Gleason

Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jon Vein

Madeleine Heil and Sean Petersen

Yvonne Hessler

Marion and Tod Hindin

$25,000 TO $49,999

Anonymous (9)

The Herb Alpert Foundation

Dr. William Benbassat

Samuel and Erin Biggs

Mr. and Mrs.

Norris J. Bishton, Jr.

Jill Black Zalben

Michele Brustin

Gail Buchalter and Warren Breslow

Steven and Lori Bush

California Arts Council

Chevron Products Company

Esther S.M. Chui

Chao and Andrea Chao-Kharma

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook

Orna and David Delrahim

Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Dr. LuAnn Wilkerson

Michael Dreyer

Mike Dreyer

Joseph Drown Foundation

East West Bank

Kathleen and Jerry L. Eberhardt

Edison International

Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg

Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky

Jennifer Miller Goff Terri and Jerry M. Kohl

Lisa Field/ Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll

Gordon P. Getty

Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore

Tamara Golihew

The Hillenburg Family

Kaiser Permanente

Winnie Kho and Chris Testa

Los Angeles County Department of Arts

David Z. & Young

O. Hong Family

Foundation

Cindy and Alan Horn

Barbara and Amos Hostetter

Frank Hu and Vikki Sung

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

Marianna J. Fisher and David Fisher

Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation

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

The Hearthland Foundation

Tylie Jones

The Music Man Foundation

and Culture

Ms. Irene Mecchi

John Mohme Foundation

Maureen and Stanley Moore

M. David and Diane Paul

Peninsula Committee

Sandy and

Mr. and Mrs.

Keith Landenberger

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Live Nation-Hewitt

Silva Concerts, LLC

Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen

Alfred E. Mann

Charities

Linda May and Jack Suzar

Barbara and Buzz McCoy

Heidi and Steve McLean

Mr. and Mrs.

David Meline

Lori Greene Gordon and Neil Gordon

The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency

Liz and Peter Goulds

The Green Foundation

Faye Greenberg and David Lawrence

Renée and Paul Haas

Harman Family Foundation

Lynette Maria

Carlucci Hayde

Walter and Donna Helm

Mr. Philip Hettema

Fritz Hoelscher

Mr. Tyler Holcomb

Music Center Foundation

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

The Rauch Family Foundation

Rolex Watch USA, Inc.

Barry D. Pressman

Barbara and Jay Rasulo

Koni and Geoff Rich

Rosenthal Family Foundation

James and Laura Rosenwald/Orinoco Foundation

Maria Seferian

Jay and Deanie Stein

Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Ms. Linda L. Pierce

James D. Rigler/Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Wendy and Ken Ruby

Richard and Diane Schirtzer

Howard and Stephanie Sherwood

Smidt Family Foundation Trust

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Thomas Dubois Hormel Foundation

Ms. 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

Robin and Gary Jacobs

Estate of

Mary Calfas Janos

Julia Kalmus

Terri and Michael Kaplan

Elizabeth Kolawa

Linda and David Shaheen

Foundation Trust

Alyce de Roulet

Williamson

Margo and Irwin Winkler

Ellen and Arnold Zetcher

Marilyn and Eugene Stein

Ronald and Valerie Sugar

Cecilia Terasaki

David William Upham Foundation

Mr. Alex Weingarten

John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation

Estate of Ronald Wilkniss

Jenny Williams

Debra Wong Yang and John W. Spiegel

Lynn and Roger Zino

Delores M. Komar and Susan M. Wolford

David Lee

Mr. and Mrs. Simon K.C. Li

Charlene and Vinny Lingham

Ms. Judith W. Locke

The Seth MacFarlane Foundation

Mrs. Beverly C. Marksbury

Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew W. Marlowe

Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker

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

$15,000 TO $24,999

Anonymous (4)

Mrs. Lisette Ackerberg

Drew and Susan Adams

Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler

The Aversano Family Trust

Mrs. Stella Balesh

Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli

Camilo Esteban

Becdach

Miles and Joni Benickes

Mark and Pat Benjamin

Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs.

Geoff C. Bland

Mr. Ronald H. Bloom

Otis Booth Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick

Mr. and Mrs.

Steven Bristing

Business and Professional Committee

California Community Foundation Campagna Family Trust

Dominic Chan

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

Michael Dillon

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

Bonnie and Ronald Fein

Evelyn and Norman Feintech Family Foundation

Max Factor Family Foundation

E. Mark Fishman and Carrie N. Feldman

Foothill Philharmonic Committee

Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra-Fraijo

Tony and Elisabeth Freinberg

Joan Friedman, Ph.D. and Robert N. Braun, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman

Gary and Cindy Frischling

Jane Fujishige

Beth Gertmenian

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Gertz

$10,000 TO $14,999

Anonymous (3)

Affiliates of the Desert

B. Allen and Dorothy Lay

Tichina Arnold

Ms. Lisette Arsuaga and Mr.

Gilbert Davila

Dr. Richard Bardowell, M.D.

Judy and Leigh Bardugo

Stephanie Barron

Mr. Joseph A. Bartush

Catherine and Joseph Battaglia

Susan Baumgarten

Sondra Behrens

Phyllis and Sandy Beim

Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Benenson

Bill and Amy Roth

Katy and

Michael S. Saei

Mr. Lee C. Samson

San MarinoPasadena

Philharmonic Committee

Ellen and Richard Sandler

Miguel Santana

Carrie and Rob Glicksteen

Greg and Etty Goetzman

Goldman Sachs Co.

LLC

Goodman Family Foundation

Robert and Lori Goodman

Rob and Jan Graner

Mr. Bill Grubman

Marnie and Dan Gruen

Michael Haefliger and Andrea Lötscher

Ms. Marian L. Hall

Laurie and Chris Harbert and Family

Lyndsay Harding

Diane Henderson MD

Jackson N. Henry

Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray

Stephen F. Hinchliffe

Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin

Arlene Hirschkowitz

Elizabeth HofertDailey Trust

K. Hohman Family

Deedie and Tom Hudnut

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

Sandi and Kevin Kayse

Vicki King

Larry and Lisa Kohorn

Naomi and Fred Kurata

Suzette and Monroe Berkman

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

CBS Entertainment

Ms. Jessica Chen

Chien Family

Arthur and Katheryn Chinski

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

John Sinnema and Laura Sinnema

Melanie and Harold Snedcof

Randy and Susan Snyder

Jeremy and Luanne Stark

Lisa and Wayne Stelmar

Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine

Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr. Donna Richey

Ms. Agnes Lew

Marie and Edward Lewis

Karen and Clark Linstone

Anita Lorber

Los Angeles

Philharmonic Committee

Bethany Lukitsch and Bart Nelson

The Mailman Foundation

Raulee Marcus

Vilma S. Martinez, Esq.

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

Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero

Christine M. Ofiesh

Laura Owens

Chivaroli and Associates

Insurance Services

Dr. and Mrs.

Lawrence J. Cohen

Jay and Nadege Conger

Hillary and Weston Cookler

Alison Moore Cotter

Katie Danois

Dr. and Mrs. Nazareth

E. Darakjian

Lynette and Michael C. Davis

Nancy and Patrick Dennis

Sean Dugan and Joe Custer

Emil Ellis Farrar and Bill Ramackers

Tom Strickler

Dwight Stuart Youth Fund

Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer

Michael Frazier

Thompson

Michael Tyler

Charles Urban

Jennifer and Dr. Ken Waltzer

Melissa Papp-Green and Jeff Green

Andy S. Park

Gregory Pickert and

Beth Price

Nancy and Glenn Pittson

Cathleen and Scott Richland

Ms. Anne Rimer

John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson

Linda and Tony Rubin

The SahanDaywi Foundation

Ron and Melissa Sanders

Santa Monica-Westside

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

Jane Semel

Mr. James J. Sepe

Julie and Bradley Shames

Mr. Steven Shapiro

Nina Shaw and Wallace Little

Jill and Neil Sheffield

Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang

Ella Fitzgerald

Charitable Foundation

Daniel and Maryann Fong

Mr. Michael Fox

Bernard H. Friedman and Lesley Hyatt

Roberta and Conrad Furlong

Dr. and Mrs.

Bruce Gainsley

Mr. Peter A. Gelles and Mrs.

Eve Steele Gelles

Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler

Mr. and Mrs.

Louis L. Gonda

Walter and Shirley Wang

Debra and John Warfel

Megan Watanabe and Hideya Terashima

Mindy and

David Weiner

Zolla Family Foundation

Manuela Cerri Goren

Mr. and Mrs.

Daniel M. Gottlieb

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gouw

Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund

Tricia and Richard Grey

Beverly and Felix Grossman

Roberta L. Haft and

Howard L. Rosoff

Beth Fishbein Hansen

Ms. Deborah Harkness

Mr. Sam Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin

Helford and Family

Andrew Hewitt

Liz Levitt Hirsch

Jessica and Elliot Hirsch

Arnold Urquidez and Martha Shen-Urquidez

Lauren Shuler Donner

Grady and Shelley Smith

Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Sondheimer

Terry and Karey Spidell

Stein Family FundJudie Stein

Zenia Stept and Lee Hutcherson

Eva and Marc Stern

Akio Tagawa

Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin

Sue Tsao

Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker

Elinor and Rubin Turner

Charles Edward Uhlmann

Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Unger

Tom and Janet Unterman

Nancy Valentine

Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott

Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn

Wagner

Warner Bros.

Discovery

Stasia and Michael Washington

Mr. and Mrs. Steven White

Libby Wilson, MD

Alana L. Wray

Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi

Karl and Dian Zeile

Kevork and Elizabeth Zoryan

Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth

Joyce and Fredric Horowitz

Mr. Frank J. Intiso

James Jackoway

Kristi Jackson and William Newby

Mr. and Mrs. Steaven

K. Jones, Jr.

Dr. William B. Jones

Marilee and Fred Karlsen

Rizwan and Hollee Kassim

Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen Keller

Leigha Kemmett and Jacob Goldstein

Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee

The Soraya proudly showcases Los Angeles’ rising local talent while celebrating the ongoing contributions of the region’s beloved artists with LA SEEN—our first monthlong series dedicated to the performing arts in Los Angeles.

Terence Blanchard

Champion and Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Terence Blanchard

Promotional Partner:

Featuring The E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet

Visuals by Andrew F. Scott

Justin Austin, baritone

Adrienne Danrich, soprano

The Colburn Orchestra Stéphane Denève, conductor

The Soraya & ArtDontSleep present Jazz Is Dead with Adrian Younge

LA Dances Graham100

Martha Graham Dance Company, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, CSUN Dance, and Los Angeles County

LA Dances Graham100

Jay T. Kinn and Jules B. Vogel

Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth N. Klee

Mr. and Mrs.

Scott Krivis

Nickie and Marc Kubasak

Craig Kwiatkowski and Oren Rosenthal

Dr. and Mrs.

Kihong Kwon

Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine

Mr. and Mrs.

Norman A. Levin

Randi Levine

Lydia and Charles Levy

Maria and Matthew Lichtenberg

Lynn Loeb

Los Angeles

Philharmonic Affiliates

Kyle Lott

Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro

Law Firm

Mona and Frank Mapel

Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson

Leslie and Ray Mathiasen

Liliane Quon McCain

Cathy McMullen

Ms. Marlane Meyer

Mr. Alexander Moradi

Wendy Stark Morrissey

Carrie Nery

$5,500 TO $9,999

Anonymous (6)

Bobken and Hasmik Amirian

Debra and Benjamin Ansell

Art and Pat Antin

Javi Arango

Dr. Mehrdad Ariani

Sandra Aronberg, M.D.

Ms. Judith A. Avery

Mr. Mustapha Baha

Pamela and Jeffrey Balton

Howard Banchik

Mrs. Linda E. Barnes

Reed Baumgarten

Logan Beitler

Maria and Bill Bell

Mr. Alan N. Berro

Richard Birnholz

Mitchell Bloom

Thomas J. Blumenthal

Joan N. Borinstein

Greg Borrud

Ms. Leslie Botnick

Mr. Ray Boucher

Dr. and Mrs. Hans Bozler

Ms. Marie Brazil

Lynne Brickner and Gerald Gallard

Drs. Maryam and Iman Brivanlou

Jennifer Broder and Soham Patel

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

Robert J. Posek, M.D.

Ronald Brot

Mrs. Linda L. Brown

Mary Lou Byrne and Gary W. Kearney

Tanille Carter

Dr. Kirk Y. Chang

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

Mark Proksch and Amelie Gillette

William “Mito” Rafert

Lee Ramer

Eduardo Repetto and Carla Figueroa

Risk Placement

Services

Hon. Ernest M. Robles

Murphy and Ed Romano and Family

Ms. Rita Rothman

Mimi Rotter

Mr. and Mrs.

Stanford Rubin

Mr. David Rudy

Jesse Russo and Alicia Hirsch

Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Rutter

Ann M. Ryder

Mr. James Davidson and Mr.

Michael Nunez

Ms. Rosette Delug

Elizabeth and Kenneth M. Doran

Julie and Stan Dorobek

Bob Ducsay and Marina Pires

de Souza

Steven Duffy

Mr. and Mrs.

Brack W. Duker

Anna Sanders Eigler

Alex Elias

Dr. and Mrs.

Bernard Salick

Dr. and Mrs.

Heinrich Schelbert

Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann

Ruth and Mitchell Shapiro

Gloria Sherwood

The Sikand Foundation

Jennifer Speers

Joseph and Suzanne Sposato

Mr. and Mrs.

Mark Stern

James C. Stewart

Charitable Foundation

Rose and Mark Sturza

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

Linda and James Freund

Ms. Kimberly Friedman

Mrs. Diane Futterman

Ruchika Garga

Dr. Tim A. Gault, Sr.

Marcie Polier Swartz and David Swartz

Jennifer Taguchi

Christine Upton

Kathy Valentino

Rachel Wagman

Bob and Dorothy Webb

Robert Weingarten

Sheila and Wally Weisman

Abby and Ray Weiss

Bryan D. Weissman and Jennifer Resnik

Doris Weitz and Alexander Williams

Karen and Rick Wolfen

Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Zelikow

Bobbi and Walter Zifkin

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Jon M. Gibson

Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie

Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Glaser

Glendale

Philharmonic Committee

Jory Goldman

Carol Goldsmith

Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Goldsmith

Edith Gould

Lee Graff Foundation

Diane and Peter H. Gray

Los Angeles Jewish Health...Energizing Senior Life!

County of Los Angeles

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

Leticia Buckley

President

Randi Tahara

Vice President

Rogerio V. Carvalheiro

Secretary

Sandra P. Hahn

Executive Committee

Member

Liane Weintraub

Immediate Past President

Pamela Bright-Moon

Patrice Cullors

Diana Diaz

Eric R. Eisenberg

Brad Gluckstein

Helen Hernandez

Constance Jolcuvar

Alis Clausen Odenthal

Anita Ortiz

Jennifer Price-Letscher

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

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Mr. and Mrs.

Paul E. Griffin III

Rita and William Griffin

Rod Hagenbuch

Mr. William Hair

Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma

Drs. Susan Hammar and Rick Harrison

Myrna and Uri Herscher Family Foundation

William Hewes

Tina and Ivan Hindshaw

David and Martha Ho

Janice and Laurence Hoffmann

Eugene and Katinka Holt

Jill Hopper

Dr. and Mrs.

Mel Hoshiko

Michael Insalago

International Committee of the LA Philharmonic Association

Libby and Arthur Jacobson

Mrs. Leonard Jaffe

Gordon M. Johnson and Barbara A. Schnell

Doug and Minda Johnstone

Barbara A. Jones

Randi and Richard B. Jones

Mr. William Jordan

Meredith Jury

Robin and Craig Justice

Hun and Jee Kang

Judith and Russell Kantor

Marty and Cari Kavinoky

Ms. Sharon Kerson

Daisietta Kim and Rudolf Marloth

Remembering Lynn

Wheeler Kinikin

Phyllis H. Klein, M.D.

Michael and Patricia Klowden

Alan S. Koenigsberg and John A. Dotto

Lee Kolodny

Lori Kunkel

Lena and Mark Labowe

Mr. Richard W. Labowe

Katherine Lance

Mr. and Mrs.

Jack D. Lantz

Joan and Chris Larkin

$3,500 TO $5,499

Anonymous (7)

Mr. Robert A. Ahdoot

Ty Ahmad-Taylor

Ms. Rose Ahrens

Cary Albertsone

Adrienne S. Alpert

Edna R.S. Alvarez

Mr. Peter Anderson and Ms. Valerie Goo

Mr. Robert C. Anderson

Dr. Philip Anthony

Betsy and Harold E. Applebaum

Carlo and Amy Baghoomian

Tawney Bains and Zachary Roberts

Terence Balagia

Clare Baren and David Dwiggins

Ken and Lisa Baronsky

Kay and Joe Baumbach

Mr. Richard Bayer

George andKaren Bayz

Newton and Rochelle Becker

Charitable Trust

Ms. Nettie Becker

Ellis N. Beesley, Jr. M.D.

Garrett Bell and Catherine Simms

Ms. Karen S. Bell and Mr. Robert Cox

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bellomy

Benjamin Family

Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Berke

Mr. and Mrs. Gregg and Dara Bernstein

Vince Bertoni and Damon Hein

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Biles

Lisa Biscaichipy

Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh Lindsey

Michael Blake

Mr. Larry Blivas and Ms. Julie Blivas

Mrs. Grace E. Latt

Ms. Jeanne Lawson

Mr. George Lee

Mr. Stephen Leidner

Mr. Benjamin Lench

Lennox Foundation

David and

Rebecca Lindberg

Mr. Greg Lipstone

Ms. Diana Longarzo

Scott Lord

Mr. Joseph Lund and Mr. James Kelley

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

Gretl and Arnold Mulder

Sheila Muller

Loretta Munoz

Ms. Judith Blumenthal

Leni I. Boorstin

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

Diana Buckhantz

Mrs. Lupe P. Burson

Michael Chait

Mr. Jon C. Chambers

Adam Chase

Dr. Hai S. Chen

Mr. Louis Chertkow

Dr. Stephanie Cho and Jacob Green

Carla Christofferson

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

Mrs. Nancy A. Cypert

Ms. Laurie Dahlerbruch

Mr. and Mrs. Leo David

Mrs. Judi Davidson

Mr. Howard M. Davine

Gloria De Olarte

Ms. Mary Denove

Wanda Denson-Low and Ronald Low

Tim and Neda Disney

R. Stephen Doan and Donna E. Doan

Mr. Anthony Dominici and Ms.

Georgia Archer

Mr. Gregory C. Drapac

Victoria Dummer and Brion Allen

Dr. David Eisenberg

Mrs. Eva Elkins

Craig and Lisa Murray

Ms. Yvonne Nam and Mr. David Sands

Rachel Nass

Mrs. Cynthia Nelson

Ms. Kimberly Nicholas

Ms. Mary D. Nichols

Steven A. Nissen

Mr. Michael B. Nissman

Amelia and Joe Norris

Kim and P.F.

James Overton

Cynthia Patton

Alyssa Phaneuf

Peggy Phillips

Lorena and R. Joseph Plascencia

Lyle and Lisi Poncher

Mrs. Ruth S. Popkin

James S. Pratty, M.D.

Joyce and David Primes

Maria Rodriguez and Victoria Bullock

Mr. and Mrs.

William C. Roen

Peter and Marla Rosen

Mr. Steven F. Roth

Bill Rowland

Mr. Andrew E. Rubin

Dr. Michael Rudolph

Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner

Susan Entin

Douglas D Erenberg

Bob Estrin

Richard and Sara Evans

Jen and Ted Fentin

Lyn and Bruce Ferber

Dr. Walter Fierson and Dr. Carolyn Fierson

A.B. Fischer

Steven Fishman

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael M. Flynn

Mrs. Diane Forester

Bruce Fortune and Elodie Keene

Lynn Franklin

Ian and Meredith Fried

Steven Friednam

David Fury

Mr. and Mrs.

Alan M. Gasmer

Sara and Derek Geissler

Dr. and Mrs.

Anthony Gerber

Susan and David Gersh

Susan and Jaime Gesundheit

Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Gibbs

Jason Gilbert

Mr. and Mrs.

David A. Gill

The Gillis Family

Stephen Gingold

Tina Gittelson

William and Phyllis Glantz

Madelyn and Bruce S. Glickfeld

Dr. and Mrs.

Steven Goldberg

Sheila Golden

Dr. Patricia Goldring

The Honorable and Mrs. Allan J.

Goodman

Elliot Gordon and Carol Schwartz

Mr. James Granger

Thomas Safran

Ms. Maryanne Sawoski

Dr. Marlene M. Schultz and Philip M. Walent

Sue and Don Schuster

Michael Sedrak

John L. Segal

Dr. and Mrs.

Hervey Segall

Laurie Selik

Mr. Chris Sheridan

Pamela and Russ Shimizu

Scott Silver

Loraine Sinskey

Mr. and Mrs.

Peter R. Skinner

Cynthia and John Smet

Mr. Douglas H. Smith

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael G. Smooke

SouthWest Heights Philharmonic Committee

Shondell and Ed Spiegel

William Spiller

Lael Stabler and Jerone English

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stein

Fran Sweeney

Dr. Stuart and Adrienne Green

Mr. and Mrs.

Carl C. Gregory

Barrie Grobstein

Mr. Frank Gruber and Ms. Janet Levin

Mr. Gary M. Gugelchuk

Dr. and Mrs.

Charles Gustafson

Judith and Robert D. Hall

Mr. Robert T. Harkins

Mr. and Mrs.

Brian L. Harvey

Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis K. Hashimoto

Kaitlin and Jonathan Hawk

Mr. Donald V. Hayes

Peter and Nicolette Hebert

Mr. Rex Heinke and Judge Margaret Nagle

Gail and Murray E. Heltzer

Betsydiane and Larry Hendrickson

Mr. and Mrs. Enrique

Hernandez, Jr.

Ms. Gail Herring

Jim Herzfeld

The Hill Family

Dr. and Mrs. Hank Hilty

Glenn Hogan

Mrs. Cathy Hong

In Hong

Douglas and Carolyn Honig

Jonathan Howard

Dr. Timothy Howard and Jerry Beale

Francis Hung Jr.

Mrs. Carole Innes

Harry and Judy Isaacs

Jackie and Warren Jackson

Mr. Channing Johnson

Mr. Sean Johnson

Mireya Asturias Jones and Lawrence Jones

Mr. Marc A. Tamaroff

Mr. and Mrs.

Randall Tamura

Andrew Tapper and Mary Ann Weyman

Judith Taylor

Mr. Stephen S. Taylor

Mrs. Elayne Techentin

Ms. Evangeline M. Thomson

Jeremy Thurswell

Richard Turkanis and Wendy Kirshner

Kathleen and Louis Victorino

Terry and Ann Marie Volk

Mr. Nate Walker

Lisa and Tim Wallender

Kathy S. Walton

Jeffrey Westheimer

Ms. Jill Wickert

Mr. Robert E. Willett

David and Michele Wilson

Mr. Steve Winfield

Bill Wishner

Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Wynne

Mr. Nabih Youssef

Rudolf H. Ziesenhenne

Mr. Ken Kahan

Lawrence Kalantari

Catherine and Harry Kane

Karen and Don Karl

Mr. and Mrs.

David S. Karton

Aleksey Katmissky

Jonathan Kaunitz

Dr. and Mrs. David Kawanishi

Kayne, Anderson & Rudnick

John Keith

Mr. and Mrs.

Michael C. Kelley

Richard Kelton

Jason King

Lauren King

Mr. and Mrs. Jon Kirchner

Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald

Sharon and Joel Krischer

Brett Kroha and Ryan Bean

Mr. and Mrs.

Howard A. Kroll

James Laur and Peter Kongkasem

Craig Lawson and Terry Peters

Mr. Les Lazar

Ms. Leerae Leaver

Mr. Robert Leevan

Dr. Bob Leibowitz

Mr. Donald S. Levin

Mr. and Mrs.

Edward B. Levine

Benjamin Bear Levy

David and Meghan Licata

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

Areva Martin

Paul Martin

Mr. Gary J. Matus

Dr. and Mrs. Gene Matzkin

Kathleen McCarthy and Frank Kostlan

Michael and Jan Meisel

Robert L. Mendow

Mr. Robert Merz

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

Toni Hollander Morse and Lawrence Morse

William Morton

Munger, Tolles & Olson

Mr. and Mrs.

Jeff Nathan

Bruce Needleman

Robert and Sally Neely

Mr. Liron Nelik

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

Mumsey and Allan Nemiroff

Ms. Beatrice H. Nemlaha

Mr. Jerold B. Neuman

Bill and Mary Newbold

Mr. John M. Nisley

Blüthner Pianos (since 1853)

Neupert Harpsichords (since 1868)

Schiedmayer Celesta (since 1890)

Ms. Jeri L. Nowlen

Deborah Nucatola

Mr. and Mrs. Oberfeld

Ms. Margo Leonetti O’Connell

Ms. Margaret R. O’Donnell

Mr. John O’Keefe

Mr. Dale Okuno

Sarah and Steven Olsen

David Olson and Ruth Stevens

Michael Olson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Orkand

John C. Orr

Adriana Ortiz

Sharon Osbourne

Alicyn Packard and Jason Friedman

January Parkos-Arnall

Mrs. Ethel Phipps

Mr. Jeff Polak and Mrs. Lauren Reisman Polak

Ms. Virginia Pollack

Ms. Eleanor Pott

Mr. Joseph S. Powe

Debbie and Rick Powell

Mr. Albert Praw

John R. Privitelli

Ms. Marci Proietto

Q-Mark Manufacturing, Inc.

Ms. Miriam Rain

Bradley Ramberg

Marcia and Roger Rashman

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ratkovich

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ray

Susan Erburu Reardon and George D. Reardon

Gay and Ronald Redcay

David and Mary Beth Redding

Diana Reid and Marc Chazaud

Dr. Susan F. Rice

Mr. Ronald Ridgeway

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Riley

Natalie Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Roberts

Robinson Family Foundation

Rock River

Mrs. Laura H. Rockwell

Ms. Kristina Rodgers

In memory of RJ and JK Roe

Mr. Lee N. Rosenbaum and Mrs. Corinna Cotsen

Michelle and Mark Rosenblatt

Mr. Richard Rosenthal and Ms. Katherine Spillar

Joshua Roth and Amy Klimek

Nancy and Michael Rouse

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Rowland

Ms. Karen Roxborough

Betty J Saidel

Valerie Salkin

Ms. Allison Sampson

Curtis Sanchez

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sanders

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Sarff

Ms. Maxine Savitz

Mr. Alan Scolamieri

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Segal

Dr. and Mrs. Hooshang Semnani

Mr. Majid M. Seyedi-Rezvani

Ms. Amy J. Shadur-Stein

Ms. Avantika Shahi

Dr. Ava Shamban

Emmanuel Sharef

Hope and Richard N. Shaw

Dr. Alexis M. Sheehy

Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas

Muriel and Neil Sherman

Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Janet Sherman

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Shoenman

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Shore

Mr. Murray Siegel

June Simmons

Jenine Singh

Leah R. Sklar

Donna Slavik

Mr. Steven Smith

Virginia Sogomonian and Rich Weiss

Michael Soloman and Steven Good

Michael and Mildred Sondermann

Dr. Michael Sopher and Dr. Debra Vilinsky

Mr. Hamid Soroudi

James and Tammy Spertus

Ian and Pamela Spiszman

Ms. Angelika Stauffer

Jeff and Peg Stephens

Hilde Stephens-Levonian

Mr. Adrian B. Stern

Ms. Margaret Stevens and Mr. Robin Meadow

The Sugimoto Family

Deborah May and Ted Suzuki

Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Swanson

Mr. Nick Teeter

Lauren Tempest

Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Thanos

Suzanne Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. Harlan H. Thompson

Tichenor & Thorp Architects, Inc.

John Tootle

Bonnie K. Trapp

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Van Haften

Jack VanAken

Vargo Physical Therapy

Dorrit Vered and Jerome Vered

Jenny Vogel

Elliott and Felise Wachtel

Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Waldman

Christopher V. Walker

Mr. Eldridge Walker

Mr. Darryl Wash

Mr. Robert Waters and

Ms. Catherine Waters

J. Leslie Waxman

Ms. Diane C. Weil and Mr. Leslie R. Horowitz

Mr. and Mrs. Doug M. Weitman

Robert and Penny White

Ms. Iris Whiting

Mr. Kirk Wickstrom and Mrs. Shannon Hearst Wickstrom

Renae Williams Niles

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams

Tom and Lisa Williams

Susan Wolf

Ms. Eileen Wong

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Wong

Linda and John Woodall

Paul and Betty Woolls

Robert Wyman

Ms. Stacie Yee

Mr. Kevin Yoder

Yust Family Trust

Mrs. Lillian Zacky

Edward and Terrilyn Zaelke

Mr. William Zak

Mr. Sanford Zisman and Ms. Janis Frame

David Zuckerman and Ellie Kanner

Rachel and Michael Zugsmith

Friends of the LA Phil at the $500 level and above are recognized on our website. Please visit laphil.com

If your name has been misspelled or omitted from the list in error, please contact the Philanthropy Department at contributions@laphil.org Thank you.

Beethoven “Pastoral” Symphony

Welcome to The Music Center!

Thank you for joining us.

The Music Center is your place to experience the joy, solace and transformative power of the arts. Here you can express yourself, connect with others and enjoy incredible live performances and events in our four beautiful theatres, at Jerry Moss Plaza and in Gloria Molina Grand Park.

We promise to provide you with the best experience possible on our campus. Please do your part to help us create a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment by reviewing The Music Center Guest Agreement at musiccenter.org/guestagreement

Visit musiccenter.org to learn about upcoming events and performances.

Enjoy the show!

#BeAPartOfIt

@musiccenterla

General Information (213) 972-7211 | musiccenter.org

Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 | musiccenter.org/support

TAKE A TOUR OF THE MUSIC CENTER

Free 90-minute docent-led tours take you through the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall, along with Jerry Moss Plaza. You’ll learn about the history and architecture of the theatres along with The Music Center’s beautiful outdoor spaces as well as the incredible selection of artwork located throughout the campus.

Tours are offered daily. Check the schedule to plan a fun-filled day in Downtown L.A.!

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information.

OFFICERS

Cindy Miscikowski

Chair

Robert J. Abernethy

Vice Chair

Rachel S. Moore

President & CEO

Diane G. Medina

Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner

Treasurer

William Taylor

Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Charlene Achki-Repko

Charles F. Adams

William H. Ahmanson

Romesh Anketell

Jill C. Baldauf

Susan Baumgarten

Phoebe Beasley

Kristin Burr

Dannielle Campos

Alberto M. Carvalho

Elizabeth Khuri Chandler

Riley Etheridge, Jr.

Amy R. Forbes

Greg T. Geyer

Joan E. Herman

Jeffrey M. Hill

Jonathan B. Hodge

Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen

Carl Jordan

Richard B. Kendall

Terri M. Kohl

Lily Lee

Cary J. Lefton

Keith R. Leonard, Jr.

Kelsey N. Martin

Susan M. Matt

Elizabeth Michelson

Darrell D. Miller

Teresita Notkin

Michael J. Pagano

Karen Kay Platt

Susan Erburu Reardon

Joseph J. Rice

Melissa Romain

Beverly P. Ryder

Maria S. Salinas

Corinne Jessie

Sanchez

Mimi Song

Johnese Spisso

Michael Stockton

Jason Subotky

Timothy S. Wahl

Jennifer M. Walske

Jay S. Wintrob

GENERAL COUNSEL

Rollin A. Ransom

DIRECTORS

EMERITI

Wallis Annenberg

Peter K. Barker

Judith Beckmen

Darrell R. Brown

Ronald W. Burkle

John B. Emerson **

Richard M. Ferry

Bernard A. Greenberg

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Kent Kresa

Mattie McFaddenLawson

Fredric M. Roberts

Richard K. Roeder

Claire L. Rothman

Joni J. Smith

Lisa Specht **

Cynthia A. Telles

James A. Thomas

Andrea L. Van de Kamp **

Thomas R. Weinberger

Alyce de Roulet

Williamson

** Chair Emeritus

Current as of 2/20/25

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Yannick Lebrun. Photo by Dario Calmese.

Will Yang for The Music Center.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

Janice Hahn Supervisor, Fourth District

Lindsey P. Horvath Supervisor, Third District

Kathryn Barger Chair, Fifth District

Holly J. Mitchell Supervisor, Second District

Hilda L. Solis

Chair Pro Tem, First District

(From left to right)

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

As a steward of The Music Center of Los Angeles County, we recognize that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh and Chumash Peoples. We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants — past, present and emerging — as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters. We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide and multigenerational trauma. This acknowledgment demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing and reconciliation and to elevating the stories, culture and community of the original inhabitants of Los Angeles County.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands. We are dedicated to growing and sustaining relationships with Native peoples and local tribal governments, including (in no particular order) the:

• Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California Tribal Council

• Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians

• Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation

• San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

• San Fernando Band of Mission Indians

To learn more about the First Peoples of Los Angeles County, please visit the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission website at lanaic.lacounty.go

Photo Credit: David Franco, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Photographer.

APRIL 2025 Happening at The Music Center

WED 2 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

THE MUSIC CENTER

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 4/6/25

THU 3 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Yo-Yo Ma, Williams & Dudamel

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 4/4/2025

SAT 5 APR /8:00 p.m.

Celebrating John Williams

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 4/6/2025

TUE 8 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Shostakovich and Ravel

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 10 APR / 8:00 p.m.

McGegan Conducts Vivaldi, Mozart & Haydn

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/13/2025

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. @musiccenterla

SUN 13 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Rachel Mahon

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 17 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Carlos Simon's Good News

Mass with Dudamel

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 4/18/2025

SAT 19 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Cody Fry with Orchestra

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUE 22 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Mendelssohn's Octet

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 24 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Evgeny Kissin

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 25 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Mozart & Nielsen

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Thru 4/27/2025

SAT 26 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Ainadamar

LA OPERA

@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Thru 5/18/2025

TUE 29 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Vocal Dimensions

LA PHIL

@ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Will Yang for The Music Center.

May 2–4, 2025

Grupo Corpo, one of Brazil’s premier dance companies, blends vibrant Afro-Brazilian rhythms, classical technique and cultural tradition in two powerful works—21 and Gira. Experience the sheer physical virtuosity and mesmerizing movement that have captivated audiences worldwide.

The Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre musiccenter.org/grupocorpo | (213) 972-0711

BRING A GROUP AND SAVE! Contact marketing@musiccenter.org for more information.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Grupo Corpo. Photo by José Luiz Pederneiras.

VERY IMPORTANT DATES IN April!

April 1: April Fools' Day

April 2: Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

April 5: Deep Dish Pizza Day

April 10: National Hug Your Dog Day

April 12: Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day

April 13: Peach Cobbler Day

April 14: National Pecan Day

April 19: Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day

April 23: Take Your Kids to Work Day

April 24: Pigs in a Blanket Day

April 25: National Hairstylist Day

April 29: Shrimp Scampi Day

April 30: National Honesty Day

I’m going to have a busy month . . .