Kahane's Last Season at LA Chamber Orchestra

Jeffrey Kahane goes out with a season any music director should be proud of -- although I wish there were more than one work on the season that was composed by a woman.


LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
2016-17 SEASON

ORCHESTRAL SERIES 

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, September 25, 2016, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
David Washburn, trumpet
Movses Pogossian violin
BACH                                                 Cantata No. 51, “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”
MOZART                                           Exsultate, jubilate: “Alleluia”
TIGRAN MANSURIAN                   Violin Concerto No. 2, “Four Serious Songs”
BEETHOVEN                                   Symphony No. 7

Saturday, October 29, 2016, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, October 30, 2016, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Henning Kraggerud, violin
ALBERT SCHNELZER                   A Freak in Burbank (West Coast premiere)
SIBELIUS                                          Six Humoresques
BEETHOVEN                                   Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

Saturday, November 12, 2016, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, November 13, 2016, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Alexandre Bloch, conductor
Project Trio, ensemble
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
ADAM SCHOENBERG                   Scatter (West Coast premiere)
MENDELSSOHN                             Symphony No. 3, “Scottish

Saturday, January 21, 2017, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, January 22, 2017, 7 pm, Royce Hall
This concert is also a feature of LACO’s Lift Every Voice project 
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Daniel Hope violin
Storm Large vocalist
Hudson Shad vocal quartet
WEILL (arr. Paul Bateman)          Suite for Violin and Orchestra (US premiere)
BRUCE ADOLPHE                          Violin Concerto “I Will Not Remain Silent” (West Coast premiere)
WEILL                                               The Seven Deadly Sins

Saturday, February 25, 2017, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, February 25, 2017, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Brian Mulligan, baritone 
LUTOSLAWSKI                               Musique funèbre  
JOHN ADAMS                                 The Wound-Dresser
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 98
ROSSINI                                            The Italian Girl in Algiers Overture

Saturday, March 18, 2017, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, March 19, 2017, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
JULIA ADOLPHE                            Sound Investment commission (world premiere)
MAHLER                                           Selections from Rückert Lieder
MOZART                                           “Deh, per questo istante solo” from La clemenza di Tito
HANDEL                                           “As with rosy steps the morn” from Theodora
BRAHMS                                           Piano Concerto No. 2

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 8 pm, Ambassador Auditorium
Sunday, April 23, 2017, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Kathryn Mueller, soprano
Suzanna Guzman, mezzo-soprano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Justin Hopkins, bass
Los Angeles Master Chorale
BEETHOVEN                                   Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

Saturday, May 20, 2017, 8 pm, Alex Theatre
Sunday, May 21, 2017, 7 pm, Royce Hall
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano
CHRISTOPHER CERRONE                           LACO commission (world premiere)
MOZART                                                          Piano Concerto No. 27
SCHUBERT                                                      Symphony No. 9, “The Great C-major”



BAROQUE CONVERSATIONS
Thursdays, October 6 & November 3, 2016; February 9, March 2, April 13, 2017, 7:30 pm, Zipper Hall, downtown Los Angeles

WESTSIDE CONNECTIONS
Thursdays, February 23, April 6, May 4, 2017, 7:30 pm, Ann and Jerry Moss Theater
at The Herb Alpert Educational Village at New Roads School, Santa Monica

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

“BEETHOVEN TRIPLE”
Sunday, October 16, 2016, 7:30 pm, USC’s Bovard Auditorium 
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano
Pamela Frank, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Margaret Batjer, violin
Andrew Shulman, cello
Co-presentation of LACO and USC Thornton School of Music
HAYDN                                                Piano Trio in G major, “Gypsy”
BRAHMS                                              Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major
BEETHOVEN                                       “Triple” Concerto

“LIFT EVERY VOICE”
Saturday, January 28, 2017, 8 pm, UCLA’s Royce Hall
Sunday, January 29, 2017, 7 pm, UCLA’s Royce Hall
“Lost in the Stars”
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Anne Bogart, director
co-presentation of LACO and CAP UCLA
WEILL                                                  Lost in the Stars