Each year since its founding in 1919, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has been hailed as Southern California’s leading performing arts institution. Today, under the dynamic leadership of 35-year-old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, who in 2009 became the orchestra’s eleventh music director, the Philharmonic is still recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras. When he inaugurated his Philharmonic tenure at the Hollywood Bowl, a crowd of eighteen thousand people greeted him with a hollering and stamping pop-star ovation.

 
  Oct 14:      
                    Ellen REID: Earth Between Oceans (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
                    Richard STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony, Op.64

  Oct 21:       
                    John ADAMS: Frenzy: a short symphony (US premiere)
                    Igor STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919 version); The Rite of Spring

  Oct 28:       
                    Gustav MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"

  Nov 4:      
                    Maurice RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite; La valse
                    Matthias PINTSCHER: Neharot (LA Phil commission)
                    Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
                    Frédéric CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 (encore)

  Nov 11:     
                    Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD: Theme and Variations, Op. 42
                    Edmund FINNIS: Cello Concerto (world premiere)
                    Edward ELGAR: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

  Nov 18:     
                    György LIGETI: Concert Românesc
                    Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216
                    Jean SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

  Nov 25:      
                    Carlos SIMON: Four Black American Dances
                    Duke ELLINGTON: The Nutcracker Suite
                    Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, "Winter Daydreams"; “Waltz of the Flowers” (from The Nutcracker)

  Dec 2:       
                    Ferruccio BUSONI: Piano Concerto, Op. 39, BV 247