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Beethoven’s Fifth with Anna Handler

Name: Beethoven’s Fifth with Anna Handler
Start: 2026-08-26T03:00:00.000Z

Anna Handler conducts the most famous symphony of all time.

Gate open: 6:00pm

Anna Handler

Bing Wang

Robert deMaine

Joanne Pearce Martin, keyboards, Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair (Photography by Danny Clinch)

Beethoven’s Fifth with Anna Handler

Tue Aug 25, 2026 8pm Hollywood Bowl

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It only takes four notes to recognize Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony. It’s defiant, ferocious, and instantly unforgettable. Anna Handler, a former Dudamel Fellow, returns to the Hollywood Bowl to unleash its liberating forces, pairing one of classical music’s most legendary statements with one of Beethoven’s rarely heard gems: the Triple Concerto.

Acting Concertmaster Bing Wang, Principal Cello Robert deMaine, and keyboardist Joanne Pearce Martin—a triple threat that has spent a combined 71 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic—come together for the composer’s merging of symphonic and chamber music.

The program opens with a short, woodwind-rich piece by Grace-Evangeline Mason, an up-and-coming composer from the UK, that represents her impression of the moon as “a flower of gold hanging in a dark sky.”

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