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About the Performance:
Brahms’ last completed orchestral work, his magnificent Double Concerto – featuring Pinchas Zukerman and his wife Amanda Forsyth – is followed on this program by Brahms’ tragic and noble final symphony, from which Mehta will extract every iota of Romantic fervor.

Mehta's Brahms: Symphony No. 4 is supported by an Edgerton Foundation grant.

Program:
BRAHMS : Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 
Intermission
BRAHMS : Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta conductor
Pinchas Zukerman violin
Amanda Forsyth cello

SUN / JAN 6, 2019 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
In this program of Brahms contrasts, the epic, many layered four-movement Second Piano Concerto is paired with the delightful and lyrical Second Symphony. Bronfman and Mehta will revel in this music.

Program:
BRAHMS : Piano Concerto No. 2 
Intermission
BRAHMS : Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano

SAT / DEC 15, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Zubin Mehta launches his Brahms Cycle with the rich, roiling waves of power that are the First Piano Concerto and First Symphony. Joining in is enduring Philharmonic friend and pianistic dynamo Yefim Bronfman.

Program:
BRAHMS : Piano Concerto No. 1 
Intermission
BRAHMS : Symphony No. 1

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano

FRI / DEC 14, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Music by composers near to Michael Tilson Thomas’ heart make up this program, beginning with the Romantic beauties of Tchaikovsky in his extremely popular tribute to Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. The Russian composer displayed his abiding love for the music of Mozart with his Variations on a Rococo Theme – a brief, elegant concerto for cello and orchestra. One of the world’s leading cellists, French virtuoso Gautier Capuçon, will dispatch its challenges with utter charm and grace.

American maverick Charles Ives’ rarely performed, mighty and massive Holidays Symphony contains four movements – Washington’s Birthday; Decoration Day; The Fourth of July; and Thanksgiving & Forefathers’ Day – that coincide with the seasons, starting with winter. Composed over 16 years, the piece mashes up familiar hymn tunes, marches, and songs from the composer’s New England childhood, creating moody, unexpected atmospheres in the extraordinary, visionary way that is pure Ives.

Program:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme 
Intermission
IVES: A Symphony: New England Holidays

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Gautier Capuçon cello
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon Artistic Director

SUN / DEC 9, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
L.A.’s own Michael Tilson Thomas partners with the orchestra for his own latest work, followed by the passionate emotional depths of Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique.”

Program:
Michael TILSON THOMAS : Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
Intermission
TCHAIKOVSKY : Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
Measha Brueggergosman mezzo-soprano

SUN / DEC 2, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
Combining film clips with live performances of the scores, we bring to life the iconic music chosen by late legendary director Stanley Kubrick – from Beethoven to Penderecki.

By Arrangement with Warner Bros. Pictures

Program:
Various composers : Selections from 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, and Eyes Wide Shut

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jessica Cottis conductor
Malcolm McDowell host
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon Artistic Director

SUN / NOV 25, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
The colorful, iconoclastic Cameron Carpenter shows off Walt Disney Concert Hall’s awe-inspiring pipe organ with the crushing power chords of Poulenc’s idiosyncratic Concerto and Saint-Saëns’ beloved, melody-rich Third Symphony.

Program:
Christopher CERRONE : The Insects Became Magnetic (World premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting)
POULENC : Organ Concerto
Intermission
SAINT-SAËNS : Symphony No. 3, “Organ”

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Roderick Cox conductor
Cameron Carpenter organ

SUN / NOV 18, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
One of the wonders of the world, Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra brings together young musicians from Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Spain to make music at the highest level.

Program:
STRAUSS: Don Quixote
Intermission
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Artists:
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Kian Soltani cello
Miriam Manasherov viola

SUN / NOV 11, 2018 - 7:30PM

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About the Performance:
For this major production with director Barry Edelstein and The Old Globe – featuring a cast of 27 actors, singers, and dancers – Susanna Mälkki conducts Sibelius’ evocative music for Shakespeare’s mysterious masterpiece about a shipwreck on a magical island.

Program:
SIBELIUS and SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Old Globe
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Barry Edelstein Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon artistic director

Patrick McCollum choreographer
Mark Wendland set designer
Judith Dolan costume designer
Japhy Weideman lighting designer
Jonathan Burke sound designer
Jeff Sugg video designer
Tracy Lilienfield C.S.A, casting director
Joshua Pilote production stage manager
Lindsay Lowy assistant stage manager
Michelle Blair assistant stage manager

Lior Ashkenazi Prospero
Kevin Cahoon Trinculo
Grantham Coleman Ferdinand
Audrey Corsa Miranda
Michael Genet Alonso
Ruy Iskander Sebastian
Zarif Kabier Francisco & Boatswain
Peter MacNicol Stephano
Beth Malone Ariel
Tom McGowan Caliban
Mark Pinter Gonzalo
Cornell Womack Antonio

Elizabeth DeShong Ariel (mezzo-soprano)
Ying Fang Juno (soprano)
Timothy Mix Caliban (baritone)
Jarrett Ott Stephano (baritone)
Joshua Wheeker Trinculo (tenor)

Jessica Gadzinski dancer
Courtney Ozovek dancer
Dani Maloney dancer
Carolina Beachwood dancer/Goddess
Nichol Mason Lazenby dancer/Goddess
Kar Will dancer
Derek Schiesel dancer
Bradford Chin dancer
Spencer Jensen dancer
Anthony Gabriel dancer

FRI / NOV 9, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
One of music’s towering figures, Steve Reich has composed a new work for our Centennial that is sure to be unforgettable under Principal Guest Conductor Susanna Mälkki. To complete the program, she reveals the vast emotional landscape that is Mahler’s Fifth.

Program:
Steve REICH: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (world premiere, LA Phil co-commission with generous support from Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg)
Intermission
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Susanna Mälkki conductor

SUN / NOV 4, 2018 - 2:00PM

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