STÉPHANE DENÈVE RETURNS TO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL FOR TWO CONCERTS WITH THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

LA Phil Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour Performs the Conus Violin Concerto

Thursday’s Concert Features Jean-Yves Thibaudet Performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012, AT 8 PM

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012, AT 8 PM

July 24 Media Sponsor: KUSC

The July 26 Concert is Generously Sponsored by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

WHAT:  French conductor Stéphane Denève returns to the Hollywood Bowl to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Classical Tuesday and Classical Thursday series concerts, Tuesday, July 24, at 8 pm, and Thursday, July 26, at 8 pm. The Tuesday concert offers a program of Romantic Russian works including the rarely heard Conus Violin Concerto, played by LA Phil Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. The program also features Stokowski’s Symphonic Synthesis of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Denève continues the week leading the LA Phil in a program of quintessentially American music by Bernstein and Gershwin paired with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2 and his jazzy Piano Concerto played by the formidable Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Denève, who is on the shortlist for the Gramophone “Artist of the Year Award” 2012, last worked with the LA Phil in December of 2010. Thibaudet, who was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2010, toured with the LA Phil in May of 2010, and most recently performed with the orchestra in January of this year, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Complete programs:

Tuesday, July 24

MUSSORGSKY (arr. Stokowski)    Symphonic Synthesis of Boris Godunov

CONUS                                      Violin Concerto

RACHMANINOFF                        Symphonic Dances

Thursday, July 26

BERNSTEIN                                Candide Overture

BERNSTEIN                                Three Dance Episodes from On the Town

RAVEL                                       Piano Concerto in G

GERSHWIN                                An American in Paris

RAVEL                                       Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2

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WHEN/WHO:    Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 8 PM    

                        LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

STÉPHANE DENÈVE, conductor

MARTIN CHALIFOUR, violin

                        Thursday, July 26, 2012, 8 PM

                        LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

STÉPHANE DENÈVE, conductor

JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano

WHERE:            HOLLYWOOD BOWL

                        2301 N Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90068

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