March 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, the Los Angeles Times staff writer Chris Pasles reports on the 40th anniversary season, “Jeffrey Kahane has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra through the 2011-12 season and will appear as the soloist Sept. 27 in the 40th anniversary season opening gala with the orchestra’s first music director, Neville Marriner, on the podium.
Another highlight of the new season, which will run through May 30, 2009, at the orchestra’s traditional homes at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and at Royce Hall, UCLA, will be cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing the West Coast premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s “Azul” on Jan. 11 at Royce Hall.”