LA Phil Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour Performs Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010, AT 8 PM

The Concert is Generously Sponsored by the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts; Media Sponsor: KUSC

WHAT:

Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returns to the Hollywood Bowl stage for the first time since 2003 to lead the LA Phil in an all-French program, Tuesday, July 13, at 8 p.m. The program features LA Phil Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour performing Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3, and also includes Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 and Debussy’s epic La Mer.


Each season Frühbeck de Burgos returns to North America as guest conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Music Festival. He last led the LA Phil in February of this year, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.


Chalifour began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995, and is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music.



Complete Program:



SAINT-SAENS Violin Concerto No. 3

DEBUSSY La mer

RAVEL Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2

WHO:

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor

MARTIN CHALIFOUR, violin

WHEN:

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8 PM