2019/20 Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thursday 1 (TH1)
With half these concerts conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, this wide-ranging series features numerous highlights – including Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George – and major guest artists, such as pianists Yuja Wang, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Emanuel Ax.
Dudamel Conducts Gershwin & Copland
Beauty and bravura by American masters.
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- BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- GERSHWIN Concerto in F
- Intermission
- PREVIN Can Spring be Far Behind?
- COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
- Julia Bullock, soprano
Dudamel & Yuja Wang
A program of high energy and invention comes alive with Gustavo and Yuja.
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- GINASTERA Variaciones concertantes
- John ADAMS Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (LA Phil commission)
- Intermission
- STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Yuja Wang, piano
Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins
Vibrant musical theater from the Weimar Republic.
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- HINDEMITH Murderer, Hope of Women
- WEILL/BRECHT The Berlin Requiem
- WEILL/BRECHT The Seven Deadly Sins
- No Intermission
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Simon McBurney, director
- Gerard McBurney, music consultant/dramaturge
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Grant Gershon, artistic director
- Anna Fleischle, production designer
- Will Duke, video designer
- Paul Anderson, lighting designer
- Frederick Vogler, sound designer
- Leah Hausman, movement director/choreographer
- Sasha Milavic Davies, associate director
- Hannah Whitley, text and image consultant
- Sharon Zhu, executive producer
- Nora Fischer, soprano
- Madeleine Bradbury Rance, soprano
- Alaysha Fox, soprano
- Lacey Jo Benter, soprano
- Sarah Beaty, mezzo-soprano
- Peter Hoare, tenor
- Simon Bode, tenor
- Christopher Purves, baritone
- Jarrett Ott, baritone
- Jorge Arbert, actor
- Scott Rad Brown, actor
- Jay Dunn, actor
- Chihiro Kawasaki, actor
- Brandon Mathis, actor
- Jobel Medina, actor
- Maxime Nourissat, actor
- Gabriella Schmidt, actor
Dvořák 9 & Ives 3
Dudamel shows us two musical views of America through this unexpected pairing.
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- IVES The Unanswered Question
- IVES Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting”
- Intermission
- DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
(Canceled) Adès Conducts Adès
Thomas Adès leads Stravinsky’s Petrushka, plus the West Coast premiere of his own Piano Concerto.
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- STRAVINSKY Petrushka
- Intermission
- Thomas ADÈS Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (West Coast premiere)
- JANÁČEK Sinfonietta
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Thomas Adès, conductor
- Kirill Gerstein, piano
(Canceled) Sunday in the Park with George
Dudamel delves into the life of an artist via a magnificent American musical.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Book by James Lapine • Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Zack Winokur, director
(Canceled) Dudamel Conducts Norman & Prokofiev
With Dudamel, a beloved pianist sets out a recent fantasy for piano and orchestra.
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- Andrew NORMAN Unstuck
- Andrew NORMAN Suspend (LA Phil commission)
- Intermission
- PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Emanuel Ax, piano