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Take a trip to the leading edge of music with our Green Umbrella series. For our Centennial season, every single piece at every Green Umbrella concert is a world premiere commissioned by the LA Phil, with concerts curated by Andrew Norman, Susanna Mälkki, Herbie Hancock, and John Adams.

 

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LA Fest: LA’s Newest Music

Gustavo Dudamel leads a night centered around Southern California’s leading lights.

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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, Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
  • Nathan Cole, violin
  • Andrew Norman, curator
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European Avant-Garde

Our Principal Guest Conductor highlights the pioneering sounds of modern Europe.

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Program

    • Francesco FILIDEI

    Lamento (world premiere, LA Phil commission)*

    • Arnulf HERRMANN

    The Call (world premiere, LA Phil commission)*

    • Lotta WENNÄKOSKI

    Hele (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Janis B. McEldowney)*

  • Intermission

    • Miroslav SRNKA

    Overheating (world premiere, LA Phil commission)*

    • Yann ROBIN

    Übergang II (world premiere, LA Phil commission)*

Artists

  • LA Phil New Music Group
  • Susanna Mälkki, conductor
  • Sean Michael Plumb, baritone
  • Francesco Filidei, organ
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The Edge of Jazz

The perceived borders between jazz, classical, and improvised music disappear in a night powered by the imagination of Herbie Hancock, our Creative Chair for Jazz.

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Program

    • Hitomi OBA

    Aina (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commission Fund)

    • Vijay IYER

    Crisis Modes (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

    • Billy CHILDS

    of Darkness and Light (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Sandi and Kevin Kayse)

    • Kamasi WASHINGTON

    Struggle from Within (world premiere, LA Phil commission, with generous support from Lisa Field and the Field Family Foundation)

    • Tyshawn SOREY

    For Fred Lerdahl (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

    • Hermeto PASCOAL (ORCH. JOVINO SANTOS NETO)

    Suite Universal (Universal Suite) (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Artists

  • LA Phil New Music Group
  • Paolo Bortolameolli, conductor
  • Hitomi Oba, saxophone
  • Billy Childs, piano
  • Jovino Santos Neto, piano
  • Herbie Hancock, curator
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Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Composer Bryce Dessner explores the formative impact of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work in this coming-together of music and photography.

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Program

    • Bryce DESSNER

    Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)

Artists

  • LA Phil New Music Group
  • Sara Jobin, conductor
  • Bryce Dessner, composer
  • Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith, librettist
  • Roomful of Teeth
  • Kaneza Schaal, director
  • Simon Harding, video
  • Yuki Nakase, lighting design
  • Carlos Soto, costume design
  • Talvin Wilks, dramaturgy
  • ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann, co-producers
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Adams Conducts on Noon to Midnight

Our renowned Creative Chair excites with four astounding world premieres.

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Program

    • Freya WALEY-COHEN

    Changeling (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

    • Donnacha DENNEHY

    Overcasting (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

    • Jeffrey MUMFORD

    ...amid still and floating depths (world premiere, LA Phil co-commission)

    • Christopher STARK

    Cascade (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from Pacific Harmony Foundation)

Artists

  • John Adams, conductor
  • LA Phil New Music Group
  • Mivos String Quartet