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 29:       
                    Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 3
                    Nico MUHLY: Concerto Grosso (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
                    Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

  Nov 5:       
                    Franz SCHUBERT:Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
                    Kaija SAARIAHO: HUSH (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)
                    Richard STRAUSS:Death and Transfiguration
 
Nov 12:      
                    Gustav MAHLER:Blumine; Symphony No. 10: Adagio; Selections from Lieder und Gesänge and Des Knaben Wunderhorn
 
Nov 19:      
                    Alma MAHLER:Five Songs: “Die stille Stadt”; “In meines Vaters Garten”; “Laue Sommernacht”; “Bei dir ist es traut”; “Ich wandle unter Blumen”
                    Gustav MAHLER:Symphony No. 5
 
Nov 26:      
                    Marko NIKODIJEVIC:GHB/tanzaggregat
                    Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY:Violin Concerto
                    Franz SCHUBERT:: Symphony No. 9, “The Great”