Upbeat Live

About the Performance:
Organist Clark Wilson provides chills and thrills to accompany the silent classic Nosferatu, the first film adaptation of Dracula.

Program:
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror

Artists:
Clark Wilson organ

WED / OCT 31, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Don’t miss the iconic energy and inexorable power of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, preceded by the extraordinary Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing Saint-Saëns’ elegantly glittering Fifth Piano Concerto.

Program:
KNUSSEN: O Hototogisu! fragment of a Japonisme(U.S. premiere)
SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Egyptian”
Intermission
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Paolo Bortolameolli conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
Kiera Duffy soprano
Denis Bouriakov flute

SAT / OCT 27, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
Innovative choreographer and L.A. Dance Project Artistic Director Benjamin Millepied joins Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil, bringing to vivid life the famous balcony scene from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet - one of dance’s most evocative and vibrant scores – in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project.

Program:
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, complete ballet, Op. 64

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Benjamin Millepied choreographer
L.A. Dance Project

SUN / OCT 21, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
Dudamel takes the podium on the first night of our new-music series to showcase our own virtuosos and leading lights of Southern California’s living music scene, including a new Garden installation by composer and sound artist Ellen Reid.

(*World premiere, LA Phil commission)

Program:
Ethan BRAUN: The Lost Ones*
Natacha DIELS: Laughing to Forget* (with generous support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation)
Daniel ALLAS: to be tender* (with generous support from Nancy S. and Barry Sanders)
Intermission
Tina TALLON: …for we who keep our lives in our throats…* (with generous support from the Hillenburg Family)
Carolyn CHEN: The Sleeper and the Drinker* (with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)

Artists:
LA Phil New Music Group
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Paolo Bortolameolli conductor
Nuno Coelho conductor
Boris Allakhverdyan clarinet
Denis Bouriakov flute
Nathan Cole violin
Andrew Norman curator

TUE / OCT 9, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
We kick off the LA Fest festival with the ultimate L.A.-centric piece, Salonen’s breakthrough work. Soloists for the Beethoven are our own Philharmonic principals, and Dudamel concludes the evening with a major new work by L.A.- based composer Andrew Norman, already a winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.

Program:
Esa-Pekka SALONEN: LA Variations
BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56
Intermission
Andrew NORMAN: Sustain(World premiere, LA Phil co-commission with generous support from Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg)

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Martin Chalifour violin
Robert deMaine cello
Joanne Pearce Martin piano

SUN / OCT 7, 2018 - 2:00PM

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About the Performance:
We kick off the LA Fest festival with the ultimate L.A.-centric piece, Salonen’s breakthrough work. Soloists for the Beethoven are our own Philharmonic principals, and Dudamel concludes the evening with a major new work by L.A.- based composer Andrew Norman, already a winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award.

Program:
Esa-Pekka SALONEN: LA Variations
BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56
Intermission
Andrew NORMAN: Sustain(World premiere, LA Phil co-commission with generous support from Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg)

Artists:
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Martin Chalifour violin
Robert deMaine cello
Joanne Pearce Martin piano

THU / OCT 4, 2018 - 8:00PM

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About the Performance:
One of the world’s most honored orchestras and its revered Music Director delight the Brahms lover with the two warm, buoyant middle symphonies.

Program:
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Artists:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra musician
Riccardo Muti conductor

SUN / OCT 22, 2017 - 7:30PM

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Concert: Mirga Conducts Mahler

Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive

About the Speaker:

Eric Bromberger received his Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA and taught literature and writing courses at Bates College (Lewiston, ME) and San Diego State University. A violinist, he joined the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra in 1980 and began writing the orchestra’s program notes the following year. Those notes drew the attention of presenters and performers, and soon he was able to quit his day job and devote himself to his first love, music. He is presently program annotator for the Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Washington Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 92nd Street Y in New York City, San Francisco Performances, University of Chicago Presents, La Jolla Music Society, and others. He wrote the liner notes for the Alexander String Quartet’s recent recordings of the quartet cycles of Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Bartók.

Concert: CDMX: New Music from Mexico (Contemporary Mexico)

Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive

About the Speaker:

Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes “her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature’s frozen objects are springing to life.”

She was one of 6 composers involved in the acclaimed mobile opera Hopscotch. Alex Ross of the New Yorker called Hopscotch, “a remarkable experimental opera.” Her first opera, The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth, based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, was premiered at the New York City Opera’s VOX 2008 festival. A full production was mounted in Los Angeles in August 2010 to sold-out audiences. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said of her chamber opera, “Something novel this way comes.”

Her newest opera Ghost Opera, a dramma giocoso with libretto by André Alexis and The Old Trout Puppet Company, will première with Calgary Opera at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in May 2019.

Commissions and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Industry, New York City Opera, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Ensemble musikFabrik, Chicago Architecture Biennial (2016), Piano Spheres for Gloria Cheng, The Vancouver Symphony, ERGO Projects, Esprit Orchestra, Fort Worth Opera, Jacaranda Music, Motion Music, and the Penderecki String Quartet.

Krausas has music composition degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at USC in Los Angeles, where she is a faculty member in the Composition Department. She serves on the advisory boards of Jacaranda Music and People Inside Electronics.

Concert: Jean-Baptiste Robin in Recital

Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive

About the Speaker:

Thomas Neenan is Lecturer in Music History and Music Theory at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena where he teaches a full range of courses devoted to history, theory, music appreciation, jazz history, opera, and special topics.

Neenan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organ Performance from Cal-State Northridge and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Organ Performance Practices and Conducting from UCLA where he was named an Outstanding Graduate Student. He studied organ with David Britton and Thomas Harmon in the U.S. and Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke and Jean Langlais in Europe.

As a recital organist, he has performed in the United States, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Japan and Switzerland. In 2004 he performed a solo recital on the newly restored 1746 Hilldebrandt “Bach Organ” in Naumburg, Germany.

As a conductor, he has led a variety of instrumental and choral ensembles throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He was a conducting fellow under Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival where he conducted baritone Thomas Quasthoff and the Festival Chorus in portions of Haydn’s “Creation” and he has led performances by the Choir of St. Matthew’s Parish (Pacific Palisades) in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany and throughout the British Isles.

Neenan has contributed scholarly essays to a variety of professional journals on topics ranging from Gregorian chant to the organ music of Gyorgy Ligeti. He has received research grants to study and write on performance practices in the organ music of Dietrich Buxtehude, music and culture in the Dutch communities of colonial New York, and music in the monastic community of Taizé, France.

In 2017 he retired after 36 years as Music Director at The Parish of St. Matthew (Episcopal), Pacific Palisades, and 33 years as Music Director and Conductor of The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s. He currently serves as President of St. Matthew’s Music Guild which presents a concert series by the chamber orchestra and guest artists and ensembles (MusicGuildOnline.org) and offers multi-faceted music outreach activities in area schools and retirement communities.