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American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Combo
Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic logo.svg
Short name LA Phil
Founded 1919; 103 years ago  (1919)
Location Los Angeles, United States
Concert hall Walt Disney Concert Hall
Hollywood Bowl
Music director Gustavo Dudamel
Website world wide web.laphil.com

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, commonly referred to every bit the LA Phil, is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. Information technology has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer flavour at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September. Gustavo Dudamel is the current Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen is Conductor Laureate, Zubin Mehta is Usher Emeritus, and Susanna Mälkki is Chief Guest Conductor. John Adams is the orchestra'due south current Composer-in-Residence.

Music critics have described the orchestra as the near "gimmicky minded",[1] "frontward thinking",[2] "talked virtually and innovative",[3] and "venturesome and admired"[4] orchestra in America. According to Salonen, "We are interested in the futurity. We are non trying to re-create the glories of the past, like and then many other symphony orchestras."[1] "Particularly since nosotros moved into the new hall", continues Deborah Borda (erstwhile CEO), "our intention has been to integrate 21st-century music into the orchestra's everyday activity."[5] Since the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct 23, 2003, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has presented 57 world premieres, ane Due north American premiere, and 26 U.S. premieres, and has deputed or co-deputed 63 new works.

History [edit]

1919–1933: Founding the Combo [edit]

Walter H. Rothwell, first conductor, and W. A. Clark Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Combo

The orchestra was founded and single-handedly financed in 1919 past William Andrews Clark, Jr., a copper baron, arts enthusiast, and part-fourth dimension violinist. He originally asked Sergei Rachmaninoff to be the Philharmonic's first music managing director; even so, Rachmaninoff had only recently moved to New York, and he did non wish to move again. Clark and so selected Walter Henry Rothwell, former assistant to Gustav Mahler, as music director, and hired away several main musicians from East Coast orchestras and others from the competing and soonhoped-for defunct Los Angeles Symphony. The orchestra played its showtime concert in the Trinity Auditorium in the same yr,[6] eleven days after its get-go rehearsal. Clark himself would sometimes sit and play with the second violin section.[7]

Later Rothwell'southward death in 1927, subsequent Music Directors in the decade of the 1920s included Georg Schnéevoigt and Artur Rodziński.

1933–1950: Harvey Mudd rescues orchestra [edit]

Otto Klemperer became Music Director in 1933, part of the large group of German emigrants fleeing Nazi Germany. He conducted many LA Phil premieres, and introduced Los Angeles audiences to important new works by Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. The orchestra responded well to his leadership, simply Klemperer had a difficult time adjusting to Southern California, a state of affairs exacerbated by repeated manic-depressive episodes.

Things were further complicated when founder William Andrews Clark died without leaving the orchestra an endowment. The newly formed Southern California Symphony Association was created with the goal to stabilize the orchestra's funding, with the association'south president, Harvey Mudd, stepping upwards to personally guarantee Klemperer'due south salary. The Philharmonic's concerts at the Hollywood Bowl also brought in much needed revenue.[7] [8] With that, the orchestra managed to get in through the worst of the Great Depression years still intact.

Then, afterwards completing the 1939 summertime season at the Hollywood Basin, Klemperer was visiting Boston and was incorrectly diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the subsequent encephalon surgery left him partially paralyzed. He went into a depressive country and was institutionalized. When he escaped, The New York Times ran a cover story declaring him missing. After he was establish in New Bailiwick of jersey, a flick of him backside bars was printed in the New York Herald Tribune. He afterwards lost the post of Music Director, though he still would occasionally bear the Philharmonic. He led some of import concerts, such as the orchestra'due south premiere performance of Stravinsky'south Symphony in Three Movements in 1946.[7] [nine]

Sir John Barbirolli was offered the position of Music Manager later his contract with the New York Philharmonic expired in 1942. He declined the offer and chose to return to England instead.[10] The following twelvemonth, Alfred Wallenstein was chosen past Mudd to pb the orchestra. The former principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, he had been the youngest fellow member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic when it was founded in 1919. He turned to conducting at the proposition of Arturo Toscanini. He had conducted the Fifty.A. Combo at the Hollywood Bowl on a number of occasions and, in 1943, took over as Music Managing director.[11] Amidst the highlights of Wallenstein'south tenure were recordings of concertos with swain Angelenos, Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Rubinstein.[7]

1951–1968: Dorothy Buffum Chandler's influence [edit]

Past the mid-1950s, department store heiress and wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy Buffum Chandler became the de facto leader of the orchestra's board of directors. Besides leading efforts to create a performing arts eye for the metropolis that would serve equally the Philharmonic's new home, and would somewhen atomic number 82 to the Los Angeles Music Heart, she and others wanted a more prominent conductor to atomic number 82 the orchestra; after Wallenstein's divergence, Chandler led efforts to rent and so Concertgebouw Orchestra principal conductor, Eduard van Beinum as the LAPO music manager. The Philharmonic's musicians, management and audience all loved Beinum, but in 1959, he suffered a massive heart attack while on the podium during a rehearsal of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and died.[eight]

In 1960, the orchestra, led again by Chandler, signed Georg Solti to a three-year contract to exist music director afterwards he had guest conducted the orchestra in winter concerts downtown, at the Hollywood Bowl, and in other Southern California locations including CAMA concerts in Santa Barbara.[12] Solti was to officially brainstorm his tenure in 1962, and the Combo had hoped that he would atomic number 82 the orchestra when it moved into its new dwelling at the then yet-to-be-completed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; he even began to appoint musicians to the orchestra.[13] However, Solti abruptly resigned the position in 1961 without officially taking the post afterwards learning that the Philharmonic board of directors failed to consult him before naming then 26-year-sometime Zubin Mehta to exist assistant conductor of the orchestra.[14] Mehta was subsequently named to supervene upon Solti.

1969–1997: Ernest Fleischmann's tenure [edit]

In 1969, the orchestra hired Ernest Fleischmann to exist Executive Vice President and General Manager. During his tenure, the Philharmonic instituted a number of and then-revolutionary ideas, including the creation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bedchamber Music Society and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and its "Light-green Umbrella" concerts; both of these adjunct groups were composed of the orchestra'southward musicians simply offered performance series which were dissever and singled-out from traditional Philharmonic concerts. They were somewhen imitated by other orchestras throughout the world. This concept was ahead of its fourth dimension, and was an outgrowth of Fleischmann's philosophy, near famously laid out in his xvi May 1987 commencement address at the Cleveland Plant of Music entitled, "The Orchestra is Dead. Long Live the Community of Musicians."

When Zubin Mehta left for the New York Philharmonic in 1978, Fleischmann convinced Carlo Maria Giulini to have over equally Music Director. Giulini's time with the orchestra was well regarded, however, he resigned the position subsequently his wife became ill, and returned to Italy.

In 1985, Fleischmann turned to André Previn with the hopes that his conducting credentials and time spent at Hollywood Studios would add together a local flair and enhance the connection between usher, orchestra, and city. While Previn'due south tenure was musically satisfactory, other conductors including Kurt Sanderling, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, fared better at the box function. Previn clashed oft with Fleischmann; one such conflict occurred over Fleischmann's failure to consult Previn over the decision to name Salonen every bit "Master Guest Conductor", a move mirroring the prior Solti/Mehta controversy. Considering of Previn's objections, the position and Japan bout offer made to Salonen were withdrawn; nevertheless, shortly thereafter in April 1989, Previn resigned, and 4 months subsequently, Salonen was named Music Manager Designate, officially taking the mail service in Oct 1992.[15] Salonen'south U.S. conducting debut with the orchestra had been in 1984.

Salonen's tenure with the orchestra beginning began with a residency at the 1992 Salzburg Festival in concert performances and as the pit orchestra in a production of the opera Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen; it was the commencement time an American orchestra was given that opportunity. Salonen after took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez. Information technology was during the Paris residency that key Philharmonic lath members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were reinvigorated to lead fundraising efforts for the soon-to-be-built Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Nether Salonen's leadership, the Philharmonic has become an extremely progressive and well-regarded orchestra. Alex Ross of The New Yorker said:

The Salonen era in 50.A. may marking a turning point in the recent history of classical music in America. It is a story not of an individual magically imprinting his personality on an institution—what Salonen has called the "empty hype" of usher worship—only of an individual and an institution bringing out unforeseen capabilities in each other, and thereby proving how much life remains in the orchestra itself, at once the most conservative and the most powerful of musical organisms. ... no American orchestra matches the L.A. Philharmonic in its ability to assimilate a huge range of music on a moment's discover. [Thomas] Adès, who kickoff conducted his ain music in L.A. [in 2005] and has go an almanac visitor, told me, "They always seem to brainstorm past finding exactly the correct playing manner for each piece of music—the kind of audio, the kind of phrasing, animate, attacks, colors, the indefinable whole. That shouldn't be unusual, simply it is." John Adams calls the Philharmonic "the nigh Amurrican [sic] of orchestras. They don't hold back and they don't put on airs. If you met them in twos or threes, you'd accept no thought they were playing in an orchestra, that they were classical-music people."[1]

1998–2009 [edit]

When Fleischmann decided to retire in 1998 later 28 years at the helm, the orchestra named Willem Wijnbergen as its new Executive Director. Wijnbergen, a Dutch pianist and arts administrator, was the managing director of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Initially, his appointment was hailed as a major coup for the orchestra.

One of his virtually important decisions was to modify Hollywood Bowl programming: he increased the number of jazz concerts and appointed John Clayton serving equally the orchestra'southward outset Jazz Chair; in add-on, he established a new World Music series with Tom Schnabel as programming director[16] Despite some successes, Wijnbergen left the orchestra in 1999 after only one controversy-filled year, and information technology is unclear whether he resigned or was fired past the Philharmonic'southward board of directors.[17]

Later that aforementioned twelvemonth, Deborah Borda, then the Executive Director of the New York Philharmonic, was hired to accept over executive direction of the orchestra. She began her tenure in January 2000, and was later given the championship of President and Chief Executive Officeholder. After financial problems experienced during Wijnbergen'south brusk tenure, Borda — "a formidable executive who runs the orchestra similar a lean visitor, not like a flabby non-profit" — "put the organization on solid financial footing."[ane] She is widely credited (along with Salonen, Frank Gehry, and Yasuhisa Toyota) for the orchestra's very successful move to Walt Disney Concert Hall, and for wholeheartedly supporting and complementing Salonen's artistic vision. 1 example cited by Alex Ross:

Peradventure Borda'due south boldest notion is to give visiting composers such as [John] Adams and Thomas Adès the aforementioned royal treatment that is extended to the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bong; Borda talks about "hero composers." A recent performance of Adams's monumental California symphony "Naïve and Sentimental Music" in the orchestra'due south Coincidental Fridays series ... drew a nearly full business firm. Borda's big-guns approach has invigorated the orchestra'due south long-running new-music series, chosen Light-green Umbrella, which Fleischmann established in 1982. In the early days, information technology drew modest audiences, just in recent years attendance has risen to the bespeak where equally many as sixteen hundred people bear witness upwardly for a concert that in other cities might draw 30 or twoscore. The Australian composer Brett Dean recently walked onstage for a Green Umbrella concert and did a double-accept, saying that information technology was the largest new-music audience he'd ever seen.[1]

On July 13, 2005, a immature Venezuelan conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, made his debut with the LA Phil at the orchestra's summertime habitation, the Hollywood Bowl. In his U.S. debut Tuesday nighttime, a 24-year-erstwhile usher from Venezuela with curly pilus, long sideburns and a baby face up accomplished something increasingly rare and hard at the Hollywood Basin. He got a usually restive audition's full, firsthand and rapt attention. And he kept it.[18]

On January 4, 2007, Dudamel made his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut with the LA Phil prompting Los Angeles Times critic Marking Swed to write, "Greatness like this doesn't come up around oftentimes."[19] A few months afterwards, on April 9, 2007, the symphony board announced that Esa-Pekka Salonen would step downward every bit the LAP's music managing director at the end of the 2008–2009 season, and Gustavo Dudamel would succeed him.[thirteen] [14] [xv] In 2007, two years before Dudamel's official kickoff every bit music director, the LA Phil established YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). "The model for YOLA – a nonprofit initiative that supplies underprivileged children with gratuitous instruments, instruction, and profound lessons about pride, community, and commitment – is El Sistema, Venezuela's national music training program which, 27 years agone, nurtured the talents of a five-year-old violin prodigy named Gustavo."[xx] Simply before the beginning of his countdown season with the LA Phil, Dudamel, on May 11, 2009, was included as a finalist in Time'due south "The Time 100: The Globe'due south About Influential People."[21]

2009–present [edit]

Gustavo Dudamel began his official tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009 with concerts at both the Hollywood Bowl (¡Bienvenido Gustavo!) on October iii, 2009[22] and the Inaugural Gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall on October eight, 2009.[23] In 2010 and 2011 Dudamel and the LA Phil received the Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming by the American Lodge of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).[13] [24] [25] In 2012, Dudamel and the orchestra won the showtime identify Accolade for Programming Contemporary Music by ASCAP.[26] In 2012, Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela performed all ix of Mahler's symphonies over the form of three weeks in Los Angeles and one week in Caracas, "a mammoth tribute to the composer," and "an unprecedented conducting feat for the conductor."[27] That aforementioned year, the orchestra launched a three-year project to present the Mozart/Da Ponte operas, each designed in collaboration with famous architects (sets) and habiliment designers (costumes).[28] The serial launched in 2012 with Frank Gehry and Rodarte designing Don Giovanni [28] and continued in 2013 with Jean Nouvel and Azzedine Alaïa designing Le Nozze di Figaro.[29] In October 2011, Dudamel was named Gramophone Artist of the Year.[30] In 2012, Dudamel and the LA Phil were awarded a Grammy accolade for Best Orchestral Performance for their recording of Brahms' Fourth Symphony.[31] Dudamel was too named Musical America's 2013 Musician of the Year.[32] The LA Phil's continued commitment to innovation and new music nether the direction of Dudamel and Borda prompted New Yorker critic Alex Ross to name the LA Phil "the most creative, and, therefore, the best orchestra in America."[33] In 2017, Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor at the New York Times called the Los Angeles Philharmonic "the almost important orchestra in America. Period."[34] In 2020 and 2021, Dudamel and the LA Phil were awarded sequent Grammy awards for Best Orchestral Performance for their recordings of Andrew Norman'south Sustain (2020),[35] and for the collected symphonies of Charles Ives (2021).[36]

Performance venues [edit]

The orchestra played its first flavor at Trinity Auditorium at 1000 Ave and Ninth Street. In 1920, it moved to Fifth Street and Olive Ave, in a venue that had previously been known as Clune'south Auditorium, but was renamed Philharmonic Auditorium.[37] From 1964 to 2003, the orchestra played its main subscription concerts in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. In 2003, it moved to the new Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry adjacent to the Chandler. Its current "wintertime season" runs from October through late May or early on June.

Since 1922, the orchestra has played outdoor concerts during the summer at the Hollywood Basin, with the official "summer season" running from July through September.

The LA Philharmonic has played at least i concert a twelvemonth in its sister city, Santa Barbara, presented by the Customs Arts Music Association (CAMA), forth with other regular concerts throughout various Southern California cities such equally Costa Mesa as office of the Orange County Philharmonic Society's series, San Diego, Palm Springs, amid many others. In add-on, the orchestra plays a number of free community concerts throughout Los Angeles County.

Conductors [edit]

Music Directors [edit]

Georg Solti accepted the mail in 1960, but resigned in 1961 without officially beginning his tenure.

Conductor Laureate [edit]

  • 2009–present Esa-Pekka Salonen

Before Salonen'due south last concert as Music Manager of the Los Angeles Combo on April xix, 2009, the orchestra announced his engagement equally its kickoff e'er Conductor Laureate "as acknowledgement of our profound gratitude to him and to signify our continuing connexion."[38] In response, Salonen said:

When the Board asked me if I would accept the position of Conductor Laureate I was overwhelmed. This organization has been at the very center of my musical life for 17 years. I am very proud and honored that they would even consider me for such a prestigious title and it gives me great pleasance to accept. The Los Angeles Combo volition always play an important role in my life and this is a symbol of our standing relationship.[38]

Usher Emeritus [edit]

  • 2019–present Zubin Mehta

During intermission of a concert on January 3, 2019, Simon Woods (CEO of the orchestra) announced that Zubin Mehta was beingness given the title of Conductor Emeritus, saying: "Zubin Mehta is one of the treasures of the classical world. He was responsible for hiring over fourscore musicians during his tenure at the LA Phil, and it was during this remarkable era that the orchestra rose to a position of international prominence and launched a commitment to deep community engagement that was truly alee of its time. Today's appointment is an acknowledgment of that incredible past and rich present, and a signal of our profound gratitude for the role he has played in shaping this orchestra."[39]

Mehta commented: "This is indeed a dandy honor and I'm very pleased to accept. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has e'er held a very special identify in my heart; they took a chance and accepted me as a very young conductor. I remain grateful to the orchestra and I'm happy to proceed our relationship in this way."[39]

Principal Guest Conductors [edit]

  • 1981–1985 Michael Tilson Thomas
  • 1981–1994 Simon Rattle
  • 2005–2007 Leonard Slatkin (Hollywood Bowl)
  • 2008–2010 Bramwell Tovey (Hollywood Bowl)
  • 2017– Susanna Mälkki

Rattle and Tilson Thomas were named Principal Guest Conductor concurrently under Carlo Maria Giulini, though Tilson Thomas's tenure ended much earlier. Until 2016, they were the only two conductors to officially hold the championship every bit such (though every bit stated above, Esa-Pekka Salonen was initially offered the position under Previn before having the offering withdrawn).

Beginning in the Summer of 2005, the Combo created the new position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Leonard Slatkin was initially given a ii-year contract, and in 2007 he was given a one-year extension. In March 2008, Bramwell Tovey was named to the post for an initial two-year contract outset Summertime of 2008; he later on received a one-twelvemonth extension. After Tovey's term ended, no conductor has since held the position at the Hollywood Bowl.[40] [41]

In April 2016, the LA Phil appear that Susanna Mälkki would be the orchestra'southward third-ever Principal Guest Conductor beginning with the 2017-xviii flavor. Her initial contract is for three years.[42]

Other notable conductors [edit]

Other conductors with whom the orchestra has had close ties include Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and Erich Leinsdorf;[43] more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

Many composers take conducted the Combo in concerts and/or earth premieres of their works, including Igor Stravinsky, William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Adams, Thomas Adès, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

A number of the Combo's Assistant/Acquaintance Conductors have gone on to have notable careers in their own rights. These include Lawrence Foster, Calvin Eastward. Simmons, and William Kraft under Mehta, Sidney Harth and Myung-whun Chung nether Giulini, Heiichiro Ohyama and David Alan Miller under Previn, and Grant Gershon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Kristjan Järvi, and Alexander Mickelthwate nether Salonen. Lionel Bringuier was originally named Assistant Conductor under Salonen before existence promoted to Associate Usher and, finally, Resident Conductor under Dudamel; since so, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has served as Assistant Conductor and Associate Conductor under Dudamel.

Other resident artists [edit]

Composers [edit]

  • 1981–1985: William Kraft
  • 1985–1988: John Harbison
  • 1987–1989: Rand Steiger
  • 1988–2009: Steven Stucky
  • 2009–present: John Adams

Kraft and Harbison held the title "Composer-in-Residence" equally office of a Meet the Composer (MTC) sponsorship. Steiger was given the title "Composer-Swain", serving as an assistant to both Harbison and Stucky.[44]

Stucky was also a MTC "Composer-in-Residence" from 1988–1992, but was kept on as "New Music Advisor" after his official MTC-sponsored tenure ended; in 2000, his championship was again inverse to "Consulting Composer for New Music." In the end, his 21-year residency with the orchestra was the longest such relationship of any composer with an American orchestra.[44] [45]

Adams has been named the orchestra's "Creative Chair" beginning in Fall 2009.

Artistic director and creative chairs for Jazz [edit]

  • 2002–2006: Dianne Reeves
  • 2006–2010: Christian McBride
  • 2010–nowadays: Herbie Hancock

Reeves was named the showtime "Creative Chair for Jazz" in March 2002. Instead of simply focusing on summer programming, the new position involved the scheduling of jazz programming and educational workshops year round; as such, she led the development of the subscription jazz serial the orchestra offered when information technology moved into Walt Disney Concert Hall. In add-on, she was the first performer at the 2003 inaugural gala at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her contract was initially for two years, and was subsequently renewed for an boosted two years.[46]

McBride took over the position in 2006 for an initial two-year position that was afterward renewed for an additional two years through to the start of the 2010 summertime season at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2009, the orchestra introduced Hancock equally McBride's eventual replacement.

In 1998, prior to the establishment of the Creative Chair for Jazz, John Clayton was given the title "Artistic Director of Jazz" at the Hollywood Bowl for a 3-year term start with the 1999 summer flavour. His ring, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, acted as the resident jazz ensemble.[15]

Recordings [edit]

The orchestra occasionally fabricated 78-rpm recordings and LPs in the early years with Alfred Wallenstein and Leopold Stokowski for Capitol Records, and began recording regularly in the 1960s, for London/Decca, during the tenure of Zubin Mehta as music manager. A healthy discography continued to grow with Carlo Maria Giulini on Deutsche Grammophon and André Previn on both Philips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, and Sir Simon Rattle also made several recordings with the orchestra in the 1980s, adding to their rising international profile. In recent years, Esa-Pekka Salonen has led recording sessions for Sony and Deutsche Grammophon. A recording of the Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2007 was the first recording by Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has performed music for motion pictures, such as the 1963 Stanley Kramer film It'due south a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Earth (composed by Ernest Gold), the pilot movie of the original Battlestar Galactica TV bear witness (composed by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson), and the most recent 2021 pic version of the Broadway musical West Side Story (equanimous by Leonard Bernstein). The LA Philharmonic besides performed the first North American concert for the popular Final Fantasy franchise game music, Dear Friends: Music From Concluding Fantasy by Nobuo Uematsu. The orchestra has most recently recorded the sound track for the video game: BioShock 2 as composed by Garry Schyman.

World premieres [edit]

Season Date Composer Composition Conductor
2011–12 [47] 2011–10–20 Enrico Chapela Concerto for Electric Guitar Gustavo Dudamel
2011–11–11 Richard Dubugnon Battlefield Semyon Bychkov
2011–11–25 Anders Hillborg Sirens Esa-Pekka Salonen
2011–12–02 Dmitri Shostakovich (posth.) Prologue to Orango (reconstructed by Gerard McBurney) Esa-Pekka Salonen
2012–04–x Oscar Bettison New York John Adams
2012–05–08 Joseph Pereira Percussion Concerto Gustavo Dudamel
2012–05–31 John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary Gustavo Dudamel
2012–thirteen [48] 2012–09–28 Steven Stucky Symphony Gustavo Dudamel
2012–ten–16 Daníel Bjarnason Over Calorie-free Globe John Adams
2013–01–18 Peter Eötvös DoReMi Pablo Heras-Casado
2013–02–26 Unsuk Chin Graffiti Gustavo Dudamel
2013–02–26 Joseph Pereira Concerto for Percussion and Chamber Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel
2013–04–sixteen Matt Marks TBD Alan Pierson
2013–04–18 Ted Hearne But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm Joshua Weilerstein
2014-fifteen [49] 2014-11-twenty Stephen Hartke Symphony No. 4 "Organ" Gustavo Dudamel
2015-05-xiv Kaija Saariaho Truthful Fire Gustavo Dudamel
2015-05-26 Christopher Cerrone
Sean Friar
Dylan Mattingly		 The Pieces That Fall to World
Finding Time
Seasickness and Existence (in love)		 John Adams
2015-05-28 Bryce Dessner
Philip Glass		 Quilting
Concerto for Two Pianos		 Gustavo Dudamel
2015-05-29 Steven Mackey Mnemosyne'south Puddle Gustavo Dudamel
2015-16 2016-02-25 Andrew Norman Play: Level one Gustavo Dudamel
2016-05-06 Louis Andriessen Theatre of the Earth Reinbert de Leeuw
2016-05-28 Arvo Pärt Greater Antiphons Gustavo Dudamel
2016-17 2017-02-24 James Matheson Unchained James Gaffigan
2017-04-xv María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir Aequora Esa-Pekka Salonen
2017-18 2017-10-12 Gabriela Ortiz Téenek - Invenciones de territorio Gustavo Dudamel
2017-10-15 Arturo Marquez Danzón No. 9 Gustavo Dudamel
2017-12-02 Tania Leon Ser (Being) Miguel Harth-Bedoya
2018-01-25 Joseph Pereira Concerto for timpani and two percussion Gustavo Dudamel
2018-02-23 Nico Muhly Organ Concerto James Conlon
2018-03-31 Isaac Pross

Adam Karelin

Benjamin Beckman

Under the Table

Constructs

a(de)scendance

Ruth Reinhardt
2018-04-xiii Esa-Pekka Salonen Pollux Gustavo Dudamel
2018-19 2018-09-27 Julia Adolphe Underneath the Sheen Gustavo Dudamel
2018-09-30 Paul Desenne Guasamacabra Gustavo Dudamel
2018-10-04 Andrew Norman Sustain Gustavo Dudamel
2018-11-01 Steve Reich Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Susanna Malkki
2018-eleven-xviii Christopher Cerrone The Insects Became Magnetic Roderick Cox
2019-01-10 Philip Drinking glass Symphony No. 12 Lodger John Adams
2019-02-07 Du Yun Thirst Elim Chan
2019-02-17 Adolphus Hailstork Still Holding On Thomas Wilkins
2019-03-07 John Adams Must the Devil Take All the Good Tunes? Gustavo Dudamel
2019-04-05 Unsuk Mentum SPIRA Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
2019-05-02 Louis Andriesson The only one Esa-Pekka Salonen
2019-05-10 Thomas Ades Inferno Gustavo Dudamel
2019-20 2019-10-03 André Previn Tin Bound be Far Backside? Gustavo Dudamel
2019-10-10 Esteban Benzecry Piano Concerto "Universos infinitos" Gustavo Dudamel
2019-x-19 Esa-Pekka Salonen Brush Esa-Pekka Salonen
2019-x-24 Daníel Bjarnason From Space I saw Earth for three conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen
2019-10-26 Esa-Pekka Salonen Castor and Pollux (Gemini) Esa-Pekka Salonen
2019-10-27 Gabriela Ortiz Yanga Gustavo Dudamel
2020-01-18 Julia Wolfe Blossom Power John Adams
2020-03-22 Julia Adolphe Cello Concerto (Postponed) Karen Kamensek
2020-21
2021-22 2021-12-03 Julia Adolphe Woven Loom, Silver Spindle Xian Zhang

Management [edit]

Funding [edit]

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has seen its endowment booming in contempo years, to around $255 one thousand thousand in 2017. In 2002, information technology received its largest-always souvenir when the Walt and Lilly Disney family donated $25 million to endow the music directorship. David Bohnett donated $xx million in 2014 to endow the orchestra'due south tiptop administrative post and create a fund for technology and innovation.[l]

Every bit of 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's annual budget is at approximately $125 million.[51]

Chief executives [edit]

  • 1969–1997: Ernest Fleischmann
  • 1998–2000: Willem Wijnbergen
  • 2000–2017: Deborah Borda
  • 2017–2019: Simon Woods[52] [51]
  • 2019–present: Chad Smith[53]

Run across also [edit]

  • Hollywood Basin Orchestra
  • Los Angeles Inferior Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Los Angeles Combo discography
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic Plant

References [edit]

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  2. ^ Ross, Alex (January 7, 2008). "Maestra; Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Patner, Andrew (April 10, 2007). "'Say it own't so,' music fans lament; Triumphant CSO debut makes pain of losing him worse". Chicago Sunday-Times.
  4. ^ Folio, Tim (April x, 2007). "Dudamel, 26, to Lead L.A. Orchestra". The Washington Post.
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External links [edit]

  • Official Los Angeles Combo website
  • Official Hollywood Bowl website
  • Gustavo Dudamel LA Phil Information and Functioning Schedule
  • Legendary LA Phil executive director Ernest Fleischmann in Conversation
  • LA Phil Alive

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