Upbeat Live
Get a guided tour of the evening’s music before your concert.
- WHEN: Select concerts listed below
- WHERE: BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall; main auditorium for Friday matinees
- COST: Free for ticketholders
- RUNNING TIME: 1 hour
- START TIME: 1 hour before the concert start time; 9:45am for Friday matinees
Upbeat Live brings you closer to the music through engaging pre-concert talks with scholars, guest artists, and LA Phil musicians. Explore the stories, ideas, history, and cultural context behind the program before the concert begins.
Upcoming talks
Friday Evenings 3 (Small Package), Sunday Matinees 1 (Small Package)
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony
Speaker: Marc Gaspard Bolin
Friday Middays (Small Package), Saturday Matinees (Small Package), Sunday Matinees 2 (Small Package)
Ravel, Falla & Ortiz
Speaker: Russell Steinberg
Friday Evenings 2 (FR2)
Simply Beethoven Festival
Simply Beethoven: “Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 1 with Dudamel
Speaker: Zach Neufeld
Saturday Evenings 1 (Small package)
Simply Beethoven Festival
Simply Beethoven: “Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 2 with Dudamel
Speaker: Tiffany Kuo
Sunday Matinees 1 (Small Package)
Simply Beethoven Festival
Simply Beethoven: “Eroica” and Piano Concerto No. 3 with Dudamel
Speaker: Kristi Brown-Montesano
Thursday Evenings 1 (Small package)
Simply Beethoven Festival
Simply Beethoven: Dudamel Conducts the Fifth Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 4
Speaker: Alan Chapman
The Otis Booth Foundation Series: Thursday Evenings 2 (Small package)
Simply Beethoven Festival
Simply Beethoven: The “Emperor” Concerto and Symphony No. 4
Speaker: Alan Chapman
Thursday Evenings 1 (Small package), Friday Middays (Small Package), Saturday Evenings 3 (Small package), Sunday Matinees 2 (Small Package)
Mitsuko Uchida & Esa-Pekka Salonen
Speaker: Tiffany Kuo
Green Umbrella
Rituals Festival
A Day in the Life
Green Umbrella New Music Series
Speaker: Ara Guzelimian
Friday Evenings 2 (Small package), Saturday Evenings 1 (Small package), Sunday Matinees 1 (Small Package)
Salonen Leads Smith & Sibelius
Speaker: Ara Guzelimian
Friday Evenings 3 (Small Package), Saturday Evenings 2 (Small package), Sunday Matinees 3 (Small package)
Rituals Festival
One Morning Turns Into an Eternity with Esa-Pekka Salonen
Speaker: Geoffrey Pope
The Otis Booth Foundation Series: Thursday Evenings 2 (Small package), Casual Fridays (FRC), Saturday Matinees (Small Package), Sunday Matinees 1 (Small Package)
Rituals Festival
Requiem
Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Mozart and Ligeti
Speaker: Celina Kintscher
Green Umbrella
Minimalist Icons Festival
Wolfe & Mattingly
Green Umbrella New Music Series
Speaker: Thomas Kotcheff
Friday Evenings 2 (Small package), Saturday Evenings 3 (Small package)
Minimalist Icons Festival
Vasks, Pärt & Górecki
Speaker: Veronika Krausas
Saturday Evenings 1 (Small package)
Minimalist Icons Festival
Anna Handler Conducts Philip Glass
Speaker: Tiffany Kuo
The Otis Booth Foundation Series: Thursday Evenings 2 (Small package), Friday Middays (Small Package), Saturday Evenings 2 (Small package)
Mozart & Brahms
Speaker: Christian Campos
Thursday Evenings 1 (Small package), Saturday Evenings 1 (Small package)
Dvořák’s “New World”
Speaker: Brian Lauritzen
Upbeat Live Podcast
Continue exploring the music with recordings of select Upbeat Live talks, available wherever you listen to podcasts and on our website.
