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About the Performance:
The astounding Yuja Wang collaborates with Dudamel to give the first-ever performances of John Adams’ newest piano concerto, paired with Mahler’s beloved song-filled symphony, rife with quintessential Mahlerian touches: nature-inspired lyricism, a funeral march, and explosive crescendos.

Program:
John ADAMS : Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund)
Intermission
MAHLER : Symphony No. 1

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Yuja Wang piano

SUN / MAR 10, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
This production contains extreme sexually explicit images from the Robert Mapplethorpe collection that may be inappropriate for attendees under 18. Discretion is advised.

Thirty years after the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, we still cannot turn away from what his photos reveal. Composer Bryce Dessner, Librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle, and director Kaneza Schaal in collaboration with Roomful of Teeth and a musical ensemble of 12 players explore the ways Mapplethorpe’s works compel an audience’s complicity and characterizes them in the act of attention. As a young man growing up in Cincinnati, Dessner’s own exposure to the protests surrounding this galvanizing artist rooted a lifelong kinship to his pivotal body of work. Mapplethorpe’s pictures both unite and divide viewers, provoking a consideration of perceived opposites–their literal as well emotional and cultural meanings – Black/White, Male/Female, Gay/Straight, Art/Porn, Classical/Contemporary. His pictures seduce, shock, offend, excite, intrigue and scare us all at once.  Single images take our breath away through the classic capture of everyday acts of nature and the beauty of their composition. On the other hand, a single image has the power to reveal our fears and our desires and the razor-thin line between the two. We confront this work privately, flipping through coffee table books or seeing the work in a museum gallery. But in Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), Dessner, Tuttle & Schaal ask an audience to experience these reactions collectively. Through music, projection of Mapplethorpe’s images, and the poetry of Tuttle, Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith, the work puts the audience inside the artist’s view finder, inside his beautiful, bold, voracious view of how nature and humans look, touch, feel, hurt and love one another.

Co-produced by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Music and Artistic Director. Produced in Residency with and Commissioned by University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. TRIPTYCH was co-commissioned by BAM; Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH; Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Stanford Live, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Adelaide Festival, Australia; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for performance as part of DirectCurrent 2019; ArtsEmerson: World on Stage, Emerson College, Boston, MA; Texas Performing Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Barbican Centre, London; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and Celebrity Series, Boston, MA. Residency development through MassMOCA, North Adams, MA.

Photo credits:
Alistair Butler, 1980 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
Bryce Dressner photo by Shervin Lainez
Korde Arrington Tuttle photo courtesy of the artist
Roomful of Teeth photo by Bonica Ayala

Produced in cooperation with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Program:
Bryce DESSNER : Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Artists:
LA Phil New Music Group
Sara Jobin conductor
Bryce Dessner composer
Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith librettist
Roomful of Teeth
Kaneza Schaal director
Simon Harding video
Yuki Nakase lighting design
Carlos Soto costume design
Talvin Wilks dramaturgy
ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann co-producers

TUE / MAR 5, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Although Mahler did begin composing yet another symphony, his Ninth feels like a valedictory piece, filled as it is with sighing gestures and a time-stopping finale of rumination and resignation. It's hard to overstate the emotions it engenders.

Program:
MAHLER : Symphony No. 9

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor

SUN / MAR 3, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
Although Mahler did begin composing yet another symphony, his Ninth feels like a valedictory piece, filled as it is with sighing gestures and a time-stopping finale of rumination and resignation. It's hard to overstate the emotions it engenders.

Program:
MAHLER : Symphony No. 9

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor

THU / FEB 28, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Back in the 1930s, the LA Phil performed William Grant Still’s music conducted by the composer. Now, Thomas Wilkins leads a program combining jazz and orchestral music, including Still’s Fourth Symphony and a new tribute to Still.

Program:
ELLINGTON : Three Black Kings
GERSHWIN : Second Rhapsody
Intermission
Adolphus HAILSTORK : Still Holding On (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
STILL : Symphony No. 4, "Autochthonous"

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thomas Wilkins conductor
Aaron Diehl piano

SUN / FEB 17, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Following on the stunning success of his Water Passion after St. Matthew, Tan Dun (composer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has created another evening-length oratorio, this time based on stories inspired by the Dunhuang Cave paintings.

Program:
Tan DUN : Buddha Passion (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission*)

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Sen Guo soprano
Huiling Zhu mezzo-soprano
Kang Wang tenor
Shenyang bass-baritone
Tan Weiwei Female Indigenous Singer
Batubagen Male Indigenous Singer
Chen Yining Fantan Pipa Soloist and Dancer
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon Artistic Director
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Fernando Malvar-Ruiz Artistic Director

SAT / FEB 9, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
The first organist to ever receive a Grammy® Award, Paul Jacobs has been a frequent and welcome guest at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Known for playing demanding programs without scores, he has memorized the complete works of Messiaen, Bach, Brahms, and Franck.

Program:
John WEAVER : Fantasia for Organ
BACH : Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208
BACH : Trio Sonata in E minor, BWV 528
MOZART : Fantasia in F minor, K. 594
IVES : Variations on “America”
Intermission
LISZT : Fantasy and Fugue on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”

Artists:
Paul Jacobs organ

SUN / FEB 3, 2019 - 7:30PM

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About the Performance:
Britten’s masterful Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings spotlights the brilliance of our own Principal Horn, Australian Andrew Bain, a world-leading horn player. The monumental fanfare that begins Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra was made famous by its role in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Program:
BRITTEN : Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 
BRITTEN : Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. Op. 31
Intermission
STRAUSS : Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Simone Young conductor
Michael Slattery tenor
Andrew Bain horn

FRI / FEB 1, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Anyone who appreciates the iconic film scores of John Williams will be transported when Gustavo leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in this emblematic sampling of Williams’ unforgettable themes, augmented by a selection of film clips.

Program:
John WILLIAMS : Olympic Fanfare and Theme
John WILLIAMS : Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John WILLIAMS : Out to Sea/Shark Cage Fugue fromJaws
John WILLIAMS : Three Selections from Harry Potter
John WILLIAMS : Theme from Schindler’s List
John WILLIAMS : Adventures on Earth from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Intermission
John WILLIAMS : Flight to Neverland from Hook
John WILLIAMS : Theme from Jurassic Park 
John WILLIAMS : Three Selections from Indiana Jones­
John WILLIAMS : Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha
John WILLIAMS : Three Selections from Star Wars

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Simone Porter violin

THU / JAN 24, 2019 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Every detail of Olivier Messiaen's sensual and opulent orchestral lovefest will be delineated by Susanna Mälkki – an unforgettable and overwhelming sonic experience.

Program:
Kaija SAARIAHO : Trans for harp and orchestra (U.S. premiere)
Intermission
MESSIAEN : Turangalîla Symphony 

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Xavier de Maistre harp
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
Cynthia Millar ondes martenot

FRI / JAN 18, 2019 - 8:00PM

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