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By juxtaposing Ives’ and Dvořák’s symphonies, Dudamel reveals new ways to hear each composer. Here, Ives’ compact Third draws on memories of songs, hymns, children’s games, and dances to create music of wondrous complexity. Dvořák’s final symphony was composed from Native-American and African-American source materials, from which he drew unforgettable melodies and dramatic harmonies that gelled into his most popular creation.

Program

IVES - The Unanswered Question
IVES - Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting”
Intermission
DVOŘÁK - Symphony No. 9, “New World”

Artists

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

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British-born Wayne Marshall is a triple threat, appearing around the world as an organist, pianist, and conductor. His abilities in jazz as well as classical music make him particularly well suited for the glittering improvisations on Bernstein and Beethoven that will bookend his Disney Hall recital. “…sheer technical bravado… breathtaking speeds…stunning virtuosity…such brilliant playing.” (Gramophone)

 

Artists:

Wayne Marshall, organ

 

Program:

Wayne MARSHALL Improvisation on themes of Bernstein, “Homage à Lenny”

DUPRÉ Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23

George C. BAKER Deux Evocations

WIDOR Organ Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42 No. 2

Andrew AGER Toccata & Fugue

MESSIAEN Les mages & Dieu parmi nous from La Nativité du Seigneur

Wayne MARSHALL Improvisation on themes of Beethoven

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Revealing unpredictable connections between the two composers, Dudamel’s unexpected pairing of symphonies by Ives and Dvořák begins here with each man showing us new ways to view vernacular music in a symphonic context.

 

Artists

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

 

Program

IVES Symphony No. 1

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

Widely acclaimed English actor/writer/director Simon McBurney and his equally accomplished brother, composer/writer/scholar Gerard McBurney, collaborate with Salonen to present darkly satirical musical-theater works from the heyday of German Expressionism. The music is inflected with 1920s jazz and popular song, along with an edge of cynicism.

Program:

HINDEMITH Murderer, Hope of Women
WEILL/BRECHT The Berlin Requiem
WEILL/BRECHT The Seven Deadly Sins

 

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Two of the biggest stars of our 2017 Reykjavík Festival, conductor/composer Daníel Bjarnason and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, have put together a fascinating program that includes a world premiere.

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One of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, Swiss musician Philippe Jordan returns with two prime examples of tone poems by Richard Strauss, one about the legendary Spanish knight – featuring one of the world’s leading cellists as the irrepressible dreamer – and, though Strauss denied it, the other work about the composer himself!

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Beloved pianist Emanuel Ax will apply his consummate artistry to Beethoven’s mighty and heroic C-minor concerto, his only one in a minor key. Celebrated contralto Nathalie Stutzmann, who has transitioned into an acclaimed conductor, will lead this all-Beethoven program, unleashing the unrelenting power of the most recognizable symphony in the world.

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York’s electric Bang on a Can All-Stars join forces for Julia Wolfe’s new Flower Power, in which she addresses the radical societal upheaval of the 1960s, presented with suitably psychedelic visuals. Adams also leads the Grammy®-nominated symphonic work he composed for the LA Phil in 1998, when Esa-Pekka led the premiere.

Conductor Emmanuelle Haïm sits down with Christian Campos to discuss the night's Baroque-focused program.

Christopher Russell provides historical and musical context for the concert's program, which takes us through a journey that chronicles a tumultuous time in Germany from 1874-1934.

 

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Mehta leads an adventurous look at German Romanticism as it develops into the birth of 20th-century music, from the lushness of the full orchestra in Wagner’s final Ring opera to the concentrated brevity of Webern’s nine-instrument concerto.

 

Program:

WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Rhine Journey

WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Funeral Music

WAGNER Götterdämmerung: Immolation Scene

SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony

WEBERN Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6

WEBERN Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24

 

Artists:

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Christine Goerke, soprano