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Come as you are to Casual Fridays. These shorter concerts begin with a musician introducing the program. After the concert, you can stay in your seat for the Q&A onstage or go straight to the after-party for drinks with orchestra members.

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Cameron Carpenter Plays Saint-Saëns

The iconoclastic organist takes on the famed composer’s crushing power chords.

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Program

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

Artists

  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Roderick Cox, conductor
  • Cameron Carpenter, organ
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Adams & Glass

Conductor John Adams leads a world premiere by his fellow composer Philip Glass to celebrate our Centennial.

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Program

    • John ADAMS
    Grand Pianola Music
    • Philip GLASS
    Symphony No. 12, Lodger, lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg)

Artists

  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • John Adams, conductor
  • Marc-André Hamelin, piano
  • Orli Shaham, piano
  • Angélique Kidjo, vocalist
  • James McVinnie, organ
  • Zanaida Robles, soprano
  • Holly Sedillos, soprano
  • Kristen Toedtman, mezzo-soprano
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Gershwin & Ravel

It’s a meeting of the masters: two extraordinary composers, brought together by two brilliant French artists and the LA Phil.

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Program

    • GERSHWIN
    Cuban Overture
    • RAVEL
    Piano Concerto in G
    • GERSHWIN
    An American in Paris

Artists

  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Lionel Bringuier, conductor
  • Hélène Grimaud, piano
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Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart

Feel the propulsive energy of musical masterpieces by Mozart and Beethoven.

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Program

    • MOZART
    Piano Concerto No. 22, in E-flat, K. 482
    • BEETHOVEN
    Symphony No. 1

Artists

  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
  • Emanuel Ax, piano