LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Dudamel conducts “Harry Potter”

LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Dudamel conducts “Harry Potter”

As a Harry Potter fan, of course I put my name in the Sorting Hat for a chance to introduce this concert, the final installment of LA Phil’s John Williams Spotlight series. Opening with the renowned composers’ Flight to Neverland (from Peter-Pan redux Hook, 1991), the...
LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

Maestro Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic in a program featuring three creative artists of the Iberian Peninsula: composer Andreia Pinto Correia, beloved piano virtuoso Maria João Pires, and Miguel Cervantes, whose enduring work, Don Quixote, provided...
LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

Maestro Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic in a program featuring three creative artists of the Iberian Peninsula: composer Andreia Pinto Correia, beloved piano virtuoso Maria João Pires, and Miguel Cervantes, whose enduring work, Don Quixote, provided...
LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

LA Phil’s Upbeat Live Lecture: Correia, Beethoven, and Strauss

Maestro Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic in a program featuring beloved piano virtuoso Maria João Pires, playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in a double bill with Strauss’s celebrated tone poem Don Quixote. LA Phil prinicipals Robert Demaine...