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WELCOME FROM THE GALA COMMITTEE CHAIRS Judy and Tom Beckmen Georgia and Breck Eisner Lisa Field Robyn Field and Anthony O’Carroll Antonia Hernández Winnie Kho and Chris Testa Diane and David Paul Kristin and Jeff Worthe
As your Gala Committee Chairs, we are honored to extend our warmest greetings to each and every one of you gathered here this evening. Tonight, we celebrate Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 20 years of exceptional music-making in this venue unlike any other in the world! Walt Disney Concert Hall stands as a testament to the power of art to shape communities and transcend time. With its gleaming steel curves and breathtaking acoustics, the Hall symbolizes the harmonious blend of imagination and technical expertise that has come to define the LA Phil. It is a space where musical brilliance thrives and where artists and audiences alike can experience the transformative power of music. Through your support of this evening’s Gala, the LA Phil is able to extend its reach far beyond the stage of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Your support enables us to nurture the next generation of musicians, to create innovative educational initiatives, and to engage with communities throughout Los Angeles. From our youth music education programs to our community concerts that bring the joy of music to neighborhoods across Southern California, your kindness opens doors of opportunity and fosters a deeper appreciation for the arts among people of all ages and backgrounds. The philanthropic support of donors is the driving force behind these programs, making them a source of inspiration, empowerment, and hope for thousands of individuals who are touched by the magic of music. Your commitment and presence tonight are crucial to our mission of making music accessible to all and fostering a deeper appreciation for the arts in our community. Tonight, let us revel in the music, the art, and the company of kindred spirits as we set the stage for another momentous year ahead! Thank you. Your Gala Committee Chairs
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WELCOME FROM THE LA PHIL This month, the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall turns 20. Thanks to architect Frank Gehry and the generosity of Lillian Disney and the Disney family, the building we call home is one of the most beautiful and acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world. It has allowed us to take on even more ambitious projects, and its Yasuhisa Toyota–designed acoustics have allowed the LA Phil to be enjoyed by audiences with more clarity than ever before. The LA Phil’s creative relationship with Frank began in 1970, when the visionary architect was hired to solve some tricky acoustics at the Hollywood Bowl. In 1987, his design was chosen for Walt Disney Concert Hall, now an iconic landmark. Since then, Frank’s contributions have continued to elevate our city and the orchestra—from set design on Gustavo Dudamel’s production of Don Giovanni and other major operas to the creation of the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood and The Grand development, our neighbor across the street from Walt Disney Concert Hall. As we pay tribute to Frank and the special place he holds in our artistic family, please enjoy this wide-ranging program featuring LA Phil Creative Chair for Jazz Herbie Hancock, dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs, R&B singer H.E.R., and, of course, our Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil. All proceeds from the gala will support our work onstage and in our community, and for that we deeply thank our donors. As we strive to bring the transformational power of music to every corner of our city, it is your generosity that makes this work possible.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR Thomas L. Beckmen* VICE CHAIRS David C. Bohnett* Reveta Bowers* Jane B. Eisner* David Meline* Diane Paul* Jay Rasulo*
DIRECTORS Nancy Abell Gregory A. Adams Julie Andrews Camilo Esteban Becdach Linda Brittan Jennifer Broder Kawanna Brown Andrea Chao-Kharma* R. Martin Chavez Christian D. Chivaroli, JD Donald P. de Brier* Louise D. Edgerton Lisa Field David A. Ford Alfred Fraijo, Jr. Jennifer Miller Goff* Carol Colburn Grigor Marian L. Hall Suzanne Hart Antonia Hernández* Teena Hostovich Jonathan Kagan* Darioush Khaledi Winnie Kho Francois Mobasser
Margaret Morgan Leith O’Leary Andy Park Sandy Pressman Richard Raffetto Geoff Rich Laura Rosenwald G. Gabrielle Starr Jay Stein* Christian Stracke* Jason Subotky Ronald D. Sugar* Vikki Sung Jack Suzar Sue Tsao Jon Vein Megan Watanabe Regina Weingarten Alyce de Roulet Williamson Irwin Winkler Debra Wong Yang
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WELCOME FROM THE BOARD CHAIR It is with great excitement that I extend my warmest welcome to you all, as we gather to kick off the LA Phil’s 2023/24 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall. This evening marks not only a brilliant overture to the LA Phil’s artistic journey this year but also a special occasion of celebration. Tonight, we pay tribute to the visionary Frank Gehry and the illustrious 20-year anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel has curated a richly diverse concert program, which stands as a testament to the artistic spirit that has defined this remarkable venue for two decades. Yet this occasion holds a significance beyond the enchantment of the performance. Your presence and generosity here tonight provide essential support, enabling the LA Phil to further enrich our community through transformative music learning and engagement initiatives. Among them, the inspiring YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles) program, which continues to uplift countless young individuals and their families, nurturing not only musicianship but also life skills that will resonate for years to come. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for your support, which makes performances such as tonight’s and countless others possible. As we stand on the precipice of this season, and the dawn of the LA Phil’s third decade at Walt Disney Concert Hall, I could not be more hopeful for the future of music in Los Angeles. Here’s to an enchanting evening and a season that promises to be nothing short of extraordinary!
THOMAS L. BECKMEN
Board Chair Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
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C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S to the music center, la phil, and frank gehry on the 20th anniversary of walt disney concert hall. The Colburn School joins the LA Phil in celebrating Frank Gehry, whose vision, originality, and boundless imagination inspires Los Angeles—and the world. We are honored to be his partner in building a home for the next generation of musicians and dancers at Colburn, opening in the 2026-27 season.
colburnschool.edu/future Above: Colburn Dance Academy ballet dancers on the School’s Grand Avenue balcony.
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LA PHIL GALA CELEBRATING FRANK GEHRY LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, conductor FRANK GEHRY, honoree SPECIAL GUESTS: LUCINDA CHILDS, choreographer and performer HERBIE HANCOCK, LA Phil Creative Chair for Jazz H.E.R. GENEVA LEWIS, violin
J.S. BACH
Partita in E major, BWV 1006: Preludio (c. 4 minutes) Geneva Lewis, violin
Esa-Pekka SALONEN
Fog (c. 10 minutes) Choreographed and performed by Lucinda Childs
Herbie HANCOCK /Vince MENDOZA
Maiden Voyage (c. 10 minutes) Herbie Hancock H.E.R. with the LA Phil (c. 10 minutes)
DEBUSSY
La mer (c. 23 minutes)
De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) Jeux des vagues (Play of the Waves) Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea)
Tonight’s program will be presented without intermission.
Thursday October 5, 2023 7PM
This evening is made possible with the proud support of Rolex. Proceeds from the LA Phil Gala fundraiser will support our community programs, which bring the joy of music and music-making into the lives of 150,000 children and families each year.
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ABOUT THE MUSIC
THE PLAY OF WATER In ancient traditions around the world, water is the element associated with intuition and imagination, with emotion and feelings. It can be still or in motion, and with its ability to shift shapes from liquid to solid or gas, water is also identified with change and variation. Gustavo Dudamel has put all of these aspects into play in his curation of this gala program, designed to mark the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Not coincidentally, they also characterize the Hall itself and the work of its architect, Frank O. Gehry, whose creations at any scale can seem restless and serene at the same time. Gehry has a long-standing fascination with fish, which has found literal expression in designs ranging from table lamps to monumental sculptures. But the waterdefined form and function of fish can be manifested more metaphorically as well, as in the undulating curves of Walt Disney Concert Hall, clad in shimmering scales. Gehry is also an avid sailor, and he found inspiration for the elegantly dynamic view of the Hall from the corner of Grand Avenue and First Street in the “wing on wing” formation of two sails at a 180-degree angle. That sailing term became the
title of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s symphonic fantasy composed for the LA Phil’s first season in the Hall as “an homage to an extraordinary building by an extraordinary man.” Whatever its inspiration, architectural eloquence does not guarantee that music will speak in it with equal clarity and power. As the new building was nearing completion, Gehry called Salonen (then the LA Phil’s Music Director) with the desire to hear actual music in the room. Salonen asked Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour to join them on site. There, Gehry and Salonen in hard hats stood in the balcony area while Chalifour found a place in front of the gaping hole still waiting for its stage. “We were incredibly nervous because obviously that was the first critical moment— how does music sound in this place?” Salonen later recalled. “And then Martin started playing the E-major Prelude, and all these beautiful sounds floated in the air. We were so happy. It was a tearful moment for both of us.”
patterns. Bach’s distillation of contrapuntal techniques into basically single lines in the three sonatas and three partitas he wrote for solo violin in 1720 is astonishing for its expressive vigor even more than for the sheer technical mastery displayed. The memory of that Prelude, the first music heard in Walt Disney Concert Hall, returned to Salonen 16 years later as the inspiration for Fog, a 90th-birthday tribute to Gehry. “It is a fantasy around the Bach E-major Prelude (from the Partita in E, BWV 1006), whose harmonic and melodic structure is almost omnipresent, sometimes clearly identifiable, sometimes veiled or completely hidden,” the composer writes. The architect is well-represented symbolically in the work. “FOG” are the initials of his name, of course, but Foggy is the name of his sailboat and Salonen also found the pitches for much of the harmony in the letters of Gehry’s name.
That Prelude from Bach’s E-major Partita for solo violin is very fish-like in its own way, all flashing scales and darting
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ABOUT THE MUSIC
A number of Salonen’s works have been choreographed, and tonight Fog gets its first dance treatment, courtesy of Lucinda Childs, a legend of American modern and postmodern dance noted for her investigations of space through patterned movement. Forty years ago, she collaborated with Gehry and composer John Adams in Available Light, a large-scale performance piece for which Gehry designed the set. When the work was revived at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2015, Gehry recalled the day he watched Childs in her studio. “I sat quietly in a corner, and she danced privately for me for an hour or so. It was probably one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life.” Jazz is another area of intense interest and joy for Gehry, and Herbie Hancock, the LA Phil’s Creative Chair for Jazz, has been part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall family since its inaugural season. “Maiden Voyage,” the title track from Hancock’s 1965 Blue Note album, continues the aquatic theme. “The sea has often stirred the imagination of creative minds involved in all spheres of art,” Hancock wrote. “This music attempts to capture its vastness and majesty, the splendor of a sea-going vessel on its maiden voyage, the graceful beauty of the playful dolphins, the constant struggle for survival of even the tiniest sea creatures, and the awesome destructive power of the hurricane, nemesis of seamen.” A much newer member of this circle of artistic collaborators is H.E.R., the Grammy- and Oscar-winning Bay Area R&B
singer-songwriter. She made her Hollywood Bowl debut in 2019, and in 2021 she joined Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil there for her first concerts ever with full orchestra. Her work is noted for its emotional power and social consciousness, which makes it a natural fit for this company of icons of inspiration. The play of water has seldom been expressed more, well, fluidly than in Debussy’s La mer. Indeed, the second of these three symphonic sketches is titled “Play of the Waves.” Not that Debussy tried any literal depiction of the sea through sound. It was the generalized character or spirit of the sea and the perception of it that interested him. “I have countless reminiscences,” Debussy wrote to a friend. “This matters more, in my opinion, than a reality.” Debussy composed the piece between August 1903 and March 1905. This was relatively quick work by his usual painstaking standards, and at a time of great personal turmoil. Debussy was very responsive to the mutability of the sea, to the quick changes of light and wind and the tensions between the bright surface and the deeper colors and currents beneath. Debussy evokes both the broad sway and the flickering spatter of the sea with original techniques that owe little or nothing to pictorial Romantic stereotypes. Instead, he shows that the characteristic tools we often associate in his music with sensuous exoticism—the wholetone scale and chords built on fourths and fifths, for example— can also create a sense of elemental space. —John Henken
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Gustavo Dudamel is driven by the belief that music has the power to transform lives, to inspire, and to change the world. Through his dynamic presence on the podium and his tireless advocacy for arts education, he has introduced classical music to new audiences around the globe and has helped provide access to the arts for countless people in underresourced communities. Dudamel currently serves as Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and in 2026, he becomes the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic, continuing a legacy that includes Gustav Mahler, Arturo Toscanini, and Leonard Bernstein. Dudamel is one of the few classical musicians to become a bona fide popculture phenomenon. His film credits include Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Simpsons, and he led the LA Phil with Billie Eilish in the concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles. He has performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, the Academy Awards, and the Nobel Prize concert, and has worked
with international superstars Christina Aguilera; Ricky Martin; Tyler, The Creator; Coldplay; and others. His extensive discography includes 67 releases and four Grammy Awards. Inspired by his transformative experience as a youth in Venezuela’s immersive musical training program El Sistema, he created the Dudamel Foundation in 2012, which he co-chairs with his wife, actress and director María Valverde, with the goal “to expand access to music and the arts for
young people by providing tools and opportunities to shape their creative futures.” In July and August 2022, the Dudamel Foundation brought its Encuentros initiative to the Hollywood Bowl as part of the 100thanniversary season, in a two-week intensive global leadership and orchestral training program for young musicians from around the world that culminated in a concert at the Hollywood Bowl and a tour with the Orquesta del Encuentro to the legendary Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
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FRANK GEHRY The designs of Frank Gehry—one of the most innovative architects working today—grace numerous metropolitan skylines around the world. Known for the creative use of materials and experimentation with sculptural forms, Gehry’s buildings incorporate a wealth of textures that lend a sense of movement to his dynamic structures. This innovation and interest in unexpected materials can be seen early in his career with Easy Edges (1969–73) and Experimental Edges (1979–82), a series of chairs and tables made of industrial corrugated cardboard, and the later Knoll furniture series (1989–92), which was made from pliable bentwood. Gehry was also commissioned by Formica Corp. to use ColorCore, a translucent plastic laminate product, in a series of lamps consisting of radiant snake and fish forms (1983–86). These first Fish Lamps were shown in Frank Gehry: Unique Lamps at the original Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles in 1984. Since then, the fish has been a recurring motif
am Rhein, Germany (2010); Frank Gehry, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2015); I Have an Idea, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo (2015); and Fondation Louis Vuitton Building in Paris by Frank Gehry, Espace Louis Vuitton, Venice, Italy (2016). Among Gehry’s most celebrated buildings are the Vitra International Manufacturing Facility and Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany in Gehry’s work, including (1989); Guggenheim Museum the Fish Sculpture at Vila Bilbao, Spain (1997); Walt Disney Olímpica in Barcelona, Spain Concert Hall, Los Angeles (1989–92), and the Standing (2003); Fondation Louis Glass Fish for the Minneapolis Vuitton, Paris (2014); University Sculpture Garden (1986). It of Technology Sydney Business can also be recognized in the School, Sydney, Australia (2015); undulating, curvilinear forms and the LUMA / Parc des of the Guggenheim Museum Ateliers in Arles, France (2021). in Bilbao, Spain (1991–97). Gehry has received numerous Gehry was born in 1929 in awards and honors, including Toronto, Canada. He received the Pritzker Architecture a Bachelor of Arts degree Prize (1989); Wolf Prize in Arts in 1954 from the University (1992); Praemium Imperiale of Southern California in Architecture, Japan Art and completed graduate Association (1992); Dorothy coursework in city planning and Lillian Gish Prize (1994); at Harvard University. Gehry’s Chrysler Design Award (1995); drawings, models, designs, US National Medal of Arts and sculptures have been (1998); Gold Medal, American exhibited in major museums Institute of Architects (1999); throughout the world. Solo Royal Gold Medal, Royal exhibitions include Frank Institute of British Architects Gehry: Architect, Solomon (2000); Lifetime Achievement R. Guggenheim Museum, Award, Americans for the Arts New York (2001); Frank (2000); Henry C. Turner Prize Gehry, Architect: Designs for Innovation in Construction for Museums, Weisman Art Technology (2007); and Museum, Minneapolis (2003, US Presidential Medal of traveled to Corcoran Gallery Freedom (2016). of Art, Washington, DC); Frank O. Gehry since 1997, Gehry lives and works in Vitra Design Museum, Weil Los Angeles.
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LUCINDA CHILDS Lucinda Childs began her career as choreographer in the early 1960s as a member of the seminal Judson Dance Theater. She formed her own company in 1973 and three years later was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. In 1977, she and Wilson co-directed and performed in I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating. They revived the work for the Festival d’Automne in Paris in 2021, where they also created an evening-length work titled Bach 6 Solo with the violinist Jennifer Koh.
In addition to work for her own group, Childs has choreographed more than 30 works for major ballet companies. She has also directed and choreographed a number of contemporary and 18th-century operas, most recently Philip Glass’ Akhnaten for l’Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur with Childs’ role as the narrator on film. The premiere was In 1979, Childs choreographed streamed in November 2020 one of her most enduring works, and live performances took Dance, with music by Philip Glass place in Nice in November 2021. and film decor by Sol LeWitt, for which she was awarded a Childs’ other collaborations with Guggenheim fellowship. Dance Robert Wilson include H—100 toured internationally and has seconds to midnight and Letter been added to the repertory of to a Man, the latter based on the Lyon Opera Ballet. In 2015, Nijinsky’s diaries and performed she revived Available Light, by Mikhail Baryshnikov. She created in 1983 with music by has also appeared as an actor John Adams and a split-level set in Wilson’s productions of designed by Frank Gehry, for Heiner Müller’s Quartett and the Festival d’Automne in Paris. Marguerite Duras’ La maladie Available Light was presented de la mort with Michel Piccoli at the Mostly Mozart Festival in as well as Adam’s Passion New York in 2018, and that same with music by Arvo Pärt. year Childs’ company performed Childs’ opera productions some of her early work as include Gluck’s Orfeo ed part of the exhibition Judson Euridice for the Los Angeles Dance Theater: The Work Is Opera; Mozart’s Zaide, Never Done at the Museum Stravinsky’s Le rossignol and of Modern Art in New York.
Oedipus rex, Vivaldi’s Farnace, and John Adams’ Dr. Atomic for the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg; Handel’s Alessandro at the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens; and Lully’s Atys and Leclair’s Scylla and Glaucus for the Theater Kiel in Germany. In 2016, in an exhibit titled Nothing Personal, Childs’ choreographic scores were shown at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery in Paris in collaboration with the Centre Nationale de la Danse, to which she has donated her archive. Childs holds the rank of Commandeur in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017, she received the Golden Lion award from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival award for lifetime achievement. She has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, NY, and received an honorary doctorate from the Université Côte d’Azur in 2021. She received the Dance Magazine award in December 2022. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 23
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HERBIE HANCOCK Now in the sixth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business, and music. Herbie Hancock has been
an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960s. As a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered a groundbreaking sound in jazz, he also developed new approaches on his own recordings, followed by his work in the ’70s—with record-breaking albums such as Headhunters—
that combined electric jazz with funk and rock in an innovative style that continues to influence contemporary music. “Rockit” and “Future Shock” marked Hancock’s foray into electronic dance sounds; during the same period he also continued to work in an acoustic setting with V.S.O.P. Hancock received an Academy Award for his ’Round Midnight film score and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters and two 2011 Grammy Awards for the globally collaborative album The Imagine Project. Hancock serves as Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and as Institute Chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. In 2011, Hancock was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and in December 2013 received a Kennedy Center Honor. His memoir, Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, was published by Viking in 2014, and in February 2016, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.
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GENEVA LEWIS New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. She is the recipient of a 2022 BorlettiBuitoni Trust Award and a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and is Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Additional accolades include Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize and being named a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, as well as Musical America’s New Artist of the Month. Most recently, Lewis was named one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists.
Wigmore Hall, Tippet Rise, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Washington Performing Arts, Merkin Hall, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. Deeply passionate about collaboration, Lewis has had the pleasure of performing with such prominent musicians as Jonathan Biss, Glenn Dicterow, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Marcy Rosen, Sir András Schiff, and Mitsuko Uchida. She is also a founding member of the Callisto Trio, Artists-in-Residence at the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles. An advocate of community engagement and music education, Lewis was selected for the New England Conservatory’s Community
Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble Fellowship, through which her string quartet created interactive educational programs for audiences throughout Boston. Lewis received her Artist Diploma and Bachelor of Music as the recipient of the Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory, studying with Miriam Fried. Prior to that, she studied with Aimée Kreston at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. Lewis is currently performing on a violin by Zosimo Bergonzi of Cremona, c. 1770, courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.
Since her solo debut at age 11 with the Pasadena POPS, Lewis has gone on to perform with orchestras including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Pasadena Symphony, and with conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Michael Feinstein, and Sameer Patel. The 2022/23 season included performances with the Auckland Philharmonia, North Carolina Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Austin Symphony. In recital, recent and upcoming highlights include performances at
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H.E.R. In a short period of time, H.E.R. has accrued over 8 billion combined audio and video streams worldwide— and counting—of the breakthrough projects H.E.R. (RIAA-certified Platinum), I Used To Know Her, and hit singles including “Slide,” the powerful track and MTV Video Music Award-winning video “I Can’t Breathe,” and her latest, “Damage.” Accumulating 13 Grammy nominations and 4 wins in just three years, H.E.R. has proven herself an R&B force to be reckoned with. In 2019, the singer/songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist won two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album (H.E.R.) and Best R&B Performance (“Best Part” featuring Daniel Caesar) and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist, among additional awards and accolades. H.E.R. has captivated audiences with stellar live performances at Super Bowl LV, on Saturday Night Live, Grammy Awards, the Today show, Good Morning America, Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince, A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort special,
Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, and all the late-night television shows: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. She has also participated in fundraising activities to benefit various charity efforts including COVID relief and Black Lives Matter. H.E.R. and producer partner Live Nation Urban introduced Lights On Festival, the first female-owned and -curated R&B festival in decades. In addition to starring in
Pepsi’s 2020 “Zero Sugar. Done Right” Super Bowl LIV commercial alongside Missy Elliott, she launched her own eyewear partnership with Diff with a charitable component, a Tommy Hilfiger Capsule collaboration with Lewis Hamilton, and her own signature guitar line with Fender. H.E.R. won an Academy Award for “Fight for You,” and her powerful single “I Can’t Breathe” won Song of the Year at the 2021 Grammy Awards. She also performed a soulstirring rendition of “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl to glowing reviews.
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an eclectic summer LOS ANGELES presents season of music, dance, film, family events that are PHILHARMONIC and reflective of the communities
and New York. The LA Phil’s first tour was in 1921, and the orchestra has made annual tours since the 1969/70 season.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. Both at home and abroad, the LA Phil—recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras—is leading the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming, onstage and in the community, that reflects the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrates its vision. The 2023/24 season is the orchestra’s 105th.
The LA Phil has released an array of critically acclaimed recordings, including world premieres of the music of John Adams and Louis Andriessen, along with Grammy Award-winning recordings featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, and Andrew Norman. Deutsche Grammophon released a comprehensive box set in honor of the orchestra’s centennial.
Nearly 300 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its three iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Ford, and the Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the worldfamous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. Situated in a 32-acre park and under the stewardship of the LA Phil since December 2019, The Ford
that comprise Los Angeles.
The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond its venues. Among its influential and multifaceted learning initiatives is YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles). Through YOLA, inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s own training as a young musician, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over 1,700 young musicians, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change. In the fall of 2021, YOLA opened its own permanent, purposebuilt facility: the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood, designed by Frank Gehry. The orchestra also undertakes tours, both domestically and internationally, including regular visits to New York, London (where the orchestra is the Barbican Centre’s International Orchestral Partner), Paris, and Tokyo. As part of its global Centennial activities, the orchestra visited Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Boston,
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a wealthy amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity. Their names are Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929), Artur Rodziński (1929-1933), Otto Klemperer (1933-1939), Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956), Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959), Zubin Mehta (1962-1978), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984), André Previn (1985-1989), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009), and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Zubin Mehta Conductor Emeritus Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate John Adams
John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair
Herbie Hancock Creative Chair for Jazz
Rodolfo Barráez Assistant Conductor
Ann Ronus Chair
FIRST VIOLINS Martin Chalifour Principal Concertmaster
Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair
Nathan Cole First Associate Concertmaster
Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang Associate Concertmaster
Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair
Akiko Tarumoto Assistant Concertmaster Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Rebecca Reale Michele Bovyer Deanie and Jay Stein Chair
Rochelle Abramson Camille Avellano Margaret and Jerrold L. Eberhardt Chair
Minyoung Chang I.H. Albert Sutnick Chair
Tianyun Jia Jordan Koransky Edith Markman
Ashley Park Stacy Wetzel Justin Woo
SECOND VIOLINS Lyndon Johnston Taylor Principal Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Mark Kashper Associate Principal Kristine Whitson Johnny Lee Dale Breidenthal
Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell Chair for Artistic Service to the Community
Ingrid Chun Jin-Shan Dai Chao-Hua Jin Jung Eun Kang Nickolai Kurganov Varty Manouelian Michelle Tseng Suli Xue Ayrton Pisco* Nebyu Samuel*
Ben Hong Associate Principal
Sadie and Norman Lee Chair
Dahae Kim Assistant Principal Jonathan Karoly David Garrett Barry Gold Jason Lippmann Gloria Lum
Linda and Maynard Brittan Chair
Serge Oskotsky Brent Samuel+ Ismael Guerrero*
BASSES Christopher Hanulik Principal
Diane Disney Miller and Ron Miller Chair
Kaelan Decman Associate Principal Oscar M. Meza Assistant Principal David Allen Moore
VIOLAS
Ted Botsford Jack Cousin Teng Li Jory Herman Principal Brian Johnson John Connell Chair Peter Rofé Ben Ullery Nicholas Assistant Principal Arredondo* Jenni Seo Dana Lawson Richard Elegino John Hayhurst Ingrid Hutman Michael Larco Hui Liu Meredith Snow Leticia Oaks Strong Minor L. Wetzel Jarrett Threadgill* Nancy and Leslie Abell LA Phil Resident Fellow Chair
CELLOS Robert deMaine Principal Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair
FLUTES Denis Bouriakov Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Gregory Roosa
OBOES
Alan Scott Klee Chair
Marc Lachat Principal
Amy Jo Rhine
Carol Colburn Grigor Chair
Loring Charitable Trust Chair
Marion Arthur Kuszyk Associate Principal
Elyse Lauzon
Elise Shope Henry Mari L. Danihel Chair
Sarah Jackson
Piccolo
Sarah Jackson
Matthew Howard Principal James Babor Perry Dreiman David Riccobono
Reese and Doris Gothie Chair
KEYBOARDS
Ethan Bearman Assistant
Joanne Pearce Martin
English Horn Carolyn Hove
Elizabeth Linares Montero*
HARP
CLARINETS
TRUMPETS
Boris Allakhverdyan Principal
Thomas Hooten Principal
Emmanuel Ceysson Principal
Anne Marie Gabriele Carolyn Hove
Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair
Burt Hara Associate Principal
M. David and Diane Paul Chair
Ann Ronus Chair
LIBRARIANS
de Brier Chair
Andrew Lowy Michael Taylor Eiffert
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair
E-Flat Clarinet Andrew Lowy
Jeffrey Strong
TROMBONES
Bass Clarinet Michael Taylor Eiffert
BASSOONS Whitney Crockett Principal
David Rejano Cantero Principal James Miller Associate Principal
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair
Paul Radke
Shawn Mouser Associate Principal
Bass Trombone
Ann Ronus Chair ++
Michele Grego Evan Kuhlmann
John Lofton
Miller and Goff Family Chair
TUBA Mason Soria
HORNS
TIMPANI
Andrew Bain Principal
Joseph Pereira Principal
David Cooper Associate Principal
David Riccobono Assistant Principal
John Cecil Bessell Chair
Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
James Wilt Stephen Biagini Associate Principal Benjamin Picard Nancy and Donald KT Somero Christopher Still
Catherine Contrabassoon Ransom Karoly Associate Principal Evan Kuhlmann Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair
PERCUSSION
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair
CONDUCTING FELLOWS Carlos Ágreda Ross Jamie Collins Michelle Di Russo Anna Handler * Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen LA Phil Resident Fellow +
On sabbatical
The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically. The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC STAFF Daniel Song
INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair
Paula Michea
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO
EXECUTIVE TEAM Summer Bjork CHIEF OF STAFF
Nora Brady
CHIEF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Glenn Briffa
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Margie Kim
CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER
Emanuel Maxwell
Sean Pinto
Miguel A. Ponce, Jr. Christopher Prince
Donella Coffey
HUMAN RESOURCES
Mark Quinto
Christy Galasso
Amber Blanco
Meredith Reese
Veronika Garcia
SYSTEM SUPPORT I
TESSITURA SUPPORT
DIRECTOR, IT SERVICES SENIOR MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Aly Zacharias DIRECTOR, LEGAL
ARTISTIC PLANNING & PRESENTATIONS Emily Davis ARTIST LIAISON
Mona Patel
Kristen Flock-Ritchie
Meghan Umber
Brian Grohl
CHIEF TALENT & EQUITY OFFICER
GENERAL COUNSEL
CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER
SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM Laura Connelly GENERAL MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL; VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCTION
Cynthia Fuentes DIRECTOR, THE FORD
Elsje Kibler-Vermaas VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING
Sara Kim
VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY
Johanna Rees VICE PRESIDENT, PRESENTATIONS
Carlos Singer
PROGRAMMING MANAGER PROGRAM MANAGER, POPS/ MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
Ljiljana Grubisic ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Daniel Mallampalli SENIOR PROGRAMMING MANAGER
Rebeca Zepeda
ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR, HUMANITIES
Denise Alfred
ADMINISTRATION
REPRESENTATIVE
Vilma Alvarez SUPERVISOR
Stephanie Bates
Brendan Broms
Michael Chang
Diego De La Torre
Linda Diaz
Jacquie Ferger
COVID MONITOR
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR OFFICE MANAGER/ RECEPTIONIST
Sarita Eldridge
DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY
Kevin Higa
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
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SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR
REPRESENTATIVE
Linda Holloway PATRON SERVICES MANAGER
Jennifer Hugus PATRON SERVICES
Bernie Keating REPRESENTATIVE
William Minor
Jordan Kauffman
SENIOR COORDINATOR, GIFT PLANNING
Amy Lackow
Bryan Namba
Jediah McCourt
DATABASE MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS
TICKET SELLER
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Elia Luna
TICKET SELLER
Page Messerly
Carolina Orellana
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Cathy Ramos TICKET SELLER
SENIOR MANAGER, YOLA
TICKET SELLER
Carlie Tomasulo FINANCE
PROGRAM MANAGER, YOLA AT INGLEWOOD
CONTROLLER
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Katherine Franklin VENUE ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR
Lisa Hernandez
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER
LaTonya Lindsey ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR
PATRON SERVICES
Kristine Nichols
PAYROLL COORDINATOR
Yuri Park
FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Nina Phay
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR
Lisa Renteria
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SPECIALIST
Sierra Shultz
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Robert Siegel
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
IT SUPPORT ENG I
EVENT MANAGER
COORDINATOR, THE FORD PARKING & TRAFFIC MANAGER
Mark Ladd
Michelle Sov REPRESENTATIVE
Marius Olteanu
OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR
OPERATIONS MANAGER, THE FORD
TESSITURA SUPPORT
Angela Morrell
TRANSIT MANAGER
DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS/ HOLLYWOOD BOWL
ASSISTANT, OFFICE SERVICES
DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING
Gina Leoni
Megan Ly-Lim
OPERATIONS COORDINATOR, HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Ricky O’Bannon Erin Puckett
MARKETING COORDINATOR, PROMOTIONS & PARTNERSHIPS
Andrew Radden
DIRECTOR, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
Anna Ress
SENIOR DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS
Sadie Sartini Garner CREATIVE COPYWRITER
Mary Smudde
Joel Fernandez
SENIOR RESEARCH ANALYST
Elan Fields
GIFT & DATA SPECIALIST
Clara Fuhrman
SENIOR COORDINATOR, MAJOR GIFTS
Freyja Glover
ASSISTANT MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND
Genevieve Goetz
GIFT PLANNING OFFICER
Angelina Grego
SENIOR COORDINATOR OF AFFILIATES/ANNUAL FUND
Gerry Heise
Sarah Little
CREATIVE COPYWRITER
Ashley Helm
Diana Melgar
SENIOR CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Crystal K. Jones
Michael Salas
VIDEO PRODUCER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LEARNING ASSISTANT MANAGER, YOLA MANAGER, YOLA NATIONAL
Gaudy Sanchez YOLA ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATOR
Micaela Accardi-Krown
PAYROLL MANAGER
Julia Cole
ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
MANAGER, LEARNING
Wade Mueller
FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER
Christopher Selland PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
Ino Mercado
Nancy Baxter
Mariam Kaddoura
Debbie Marcelo
Edward Mesina Andrew Moreno
Lorenzo Johnson
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Norm Kinard
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Julie Hernandez
FACILITIES MANAGER, BECKMEN YOLA CENTER
REPRESENTATIVE
Diana Salazar
Fabian Fuertes
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
SUPERVISOR
Richard Ponce
Camille Delaney-McNeil
John Tadena
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Sergio Menendez SYSTEM SUPPORT I
PROGRAM MANAGER YOLA EAST LA
Elias Santos
Gaby Hernandez
Teresa Phillips
HR MANAGER
DIRECTOR, YOLA & BECKMEN YOLA CENTER
REPRESENTATIVE
DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Frank Patano
MANAGER, CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
DIRECTOR, CONTENT
Charee Heard
Jeff Matchan
Eden Palomino
Michelle Carrasquillo
HR BUSINESS PARTNER
Manuel Aybar
Dreima Flores
Karen O’Sullivan
MANAGER, AUDIENCE GROWTH & ENGAGEMENT
HR COORDINATOR
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Ariana Morales
REPRESENTATIVE
SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Taylor Burrows
LEARNING
Steve Arredondo
Kevin Ma
HR REPRESENTATIVE
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
TREASURER
AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Rosa Ochoa
HR BUSINESS PARTNER
DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS
RETAIL MANAGER, MERCHANDISING
HOLLYWOOD BOWL & THE FORD
Charles Koo
Joshua Alvarenga
Melissa Magdaleno
REPRESENTATIVE
SYSTEM SUPPORT III
DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS
Alex Hennich
Ayrten Rodriguez ARTIST SERVICES MANAGER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING
DIRECTOR OF GIFT PLANNING
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Steven Cao
Stephanie Yoon
Jennifer Hoffner
PHILANTHROPY Robert Albini
Alexis Kaneshiro
Adriana Aguilar
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER
SENIOR MANAGER, PROMOTIONS & PARTNERSHIPS
Monica Ly
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Mark McNeill
CREATIVE PRODUCER
Annisha Hinkle
SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Jyoti Aaron
PROGRAM MANAGER
OPERATIONS MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Sophie Jefferies
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Rafael Mariño
AUDIENCE SERVICES
Julia Ward
Tom Waldron
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE
DATABASE APPLICATIONS MANAGER
MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA
Mary Allen
SENIOR MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA
Lushia Anson
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS MANAGER
Scott Arenstein
SENIOR DIRECTOR, BRAND
Janice Bartczak
DIRECTOR, RETAIL SERVICES
Lisa Burlingham SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS
Charles Carroll
MANAGER, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Joe Carter
SENIOR DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Elias Feghali
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE STRATEGIES & ANALYTICS
Justin Foo
Piper Starnes
SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Natalie Suarez
ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS
Kahler Suzuki
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS
Jonathan Thomas MARKETING DATABASE SPECIALIST
Lauren Winn
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES
Julian Kehs
MANAGER, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING
Emily Lair
MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Christina Magaña DONOR RELATIONS ASSOCIATE
ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT & MEDIA INITIATIVES
Allison Mitchell
Shana Bey
Ryan Murphy
DIRECTOR, ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT
Jessica Farber
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MEDIA INITIATIVES
Raymond Horwitz PROJECT MANAGER, MEDIA INITIATIVES
Maren Slaughter
MANAGER, ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
PRODUCTION Alex Grossman
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Tina Kane
SCHEDULING MANAGER
Taylor Lockwood PRODUCTION MANAGER
Kimberly Mitchell PRODUCTION MANAGER
Christopher Slaughter
DIRECTOR, BOARD RELATIONS
Gisela Morales
MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER ASSISTANT MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS
Sophie Nelson DONOR RELATIONS ASSISTANT
Ragan Reviere
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, SPECIAL EVENTS
Carina Sanchez
SENIOR MANAGER, RESEARCH & PROSPECT DEVELOPMENT
Dustin Seo
ASSISTANT MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND
Erica Sitko
DIRECTOR, STEWARDSHIP & PRINCIPAL GIFT STRATEGY
Peter Szumlas
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS
Tyler Teich
SENIOR GIFT AND DATA SPECIALIST
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Derek Traub
Caila Gale
ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER
Kevin Tsao
Tara Gardner
DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SALES & CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT DIGITAL PRODUCER MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING
Karin Haule
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Jon Thompson
MANAGER, PHILANTHROPY COMMUNICATIONS
Michael Vitale
ANNUAL GIVING OFFICER
Kelvin Vu
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EVENTS AND AFFILIATES
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Bill Williams PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR
Morgan Walton
Richard T. Watkins ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PHILANTHROPY
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FEATURE
FRANK GEHRY ON WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL Walt Disney Concert Hall opened its doors 20 years ago, but the process of conceiving the shapes and form of the iconic venue began in 1987. From initial sketches for the international architectural competition, which led to the selection of Frank Gehry, to construction and the final opening, the hall evolved as Gehry refined his ideas. In honor of the 20th anniversary of his accomplishment, the Getty Research Institute, which holds the Frank Gehry archive, has curated an exhibition called Modeling Sound that showcases Gehry’s work with six architectural models documenting the design process. Modeling Sound is on view in BP Hall throughout the month of October. The Getty Research Institute also interviewed Gehry about the history of his work on Walt Disney Concert Hall for the digital exhibition Sculpting Harmony, which features more than 150 models, sketches, and archival photographs tracing the concert hall’s development. Sculpting Harmony is available at gehry.getty.edu. Selections from the interview can be read below.
“THE MUSICIANS TELL ME ALL THE TIME THAT THEY FEEL THE AUDIENCE, AND THE AUDIENCE TELLS ME THEY FEEL SO CONNECTED TO THE MUSICIANS.” On connecting the audience with the musicians… I’ve talked to actors about this, and they always say that [feeling the audience in the room] is important. Musicians also feel that. They can feel it when the audience is disconnected, when there’s no rapport. And so that’s what I was trying to do. The concert hall before this had Continental seating, which meant the audience was spread out on the aisle so people could [more easily] walk by. Walt Disney Concert Hall’s [layout] is harder to get in and out of but feels more intimate. The payoff is incredible. The musicians tell me all the time that they feel the audience, and the audience tells me they feel
so connected to the musicians. It makes a big difference. The space connecting the audience and the performer is the most important part of it. When we were roughly 90% complete with the building, the actress Annette Bening happened to visit with Warren Beatty, her husband. I’ll never forget this. She walked out on stage and stood there for about five minutes, and she turned to me and said, “This is it. This works. I get it. Thank you.” On other halls that inspired him… The architect of the Berlin Philharmonie concert hall was Hans Scharoun. When I was
appointed the architect for Walt Disney Concert Hall, the first thing I did was go to Berlin and stay there for a week. I attended all of the concerts in the Scharoun hall and experienced the intimacy that he achieved. He was a master of people-feeling architecture. If you go to his library, which is across the road from the Philharmonie, you sit down and you feel like you’re at home. People try to copy this. It’s more subtle than just surrounding the artist with seating. So we ended up [adjusting that idea] to still place seats around the stage but balance for acoustics. It starts to break down the shoe box model that was the paradigm of concert halls for many years. I decided to play with that idea, to not do the fan-shaped concert hall like Scharoun but go more to a hybrid shoe box like Concertgebouw [in Amsterdam]. On using wood inside the concert hall… There are concert halls in Germany that are plaster and are beautiful. I’m not against that. We looked at that here and decided that the wood had a warmth to it that brought people feeling closer together.
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On building the organ… It was quite a saga. Ernest Fleischmann, who was the executive director of the LA Phil, didn’t want any distractions from the music. And it became clear to me that since there was going to be an organ in the hall, that it was the one opportunity to make a musical instrument that had some movement to it, some excitement architecturally that would be a centerpiece kind of sculpture.
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The simplest thing we could do without getting ourselves in trouble was to break the pipes out and make a kind of a cluster, almost like a floral arrangement where the pipes are flowers. We worked with the organ builder [Manuel Rosales] to [develop] a sense of movement, something as a focal point. That led to this design. On knowing the acoustics worked… When the hall was nearly completed, I called [then Music Director] Esa-Pekka Salonen one night and said, “Esa-Pekka, I have calculated in my head the amount of absorptive material and reflective material, and my gut tells me it’s close.” I know it’s all under construction and that we’re going to be standing
on poles in the floor. But I said, “Could you bring a musical instrument with you?” He brought a musical instrument, all right. He brought Martin Chalifour, the concertmaster of the LA Phil. I brought my son Sam, and the four of us [stood in the hall]. The stage wasn’t quite finished, so it was wobbly. Martin stood where the conductor would be and played his violin. He did unaccompanied Bach. And it was so beautiful. I realized that Esa-Pekka, Sam, and I were holding hands, and we started to cry. It was so beautiful because we knew the sound was there. Modeling Sound is part of the LA Phil Insight initiative generously supported by Linda and David Shaheen.
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